Former Fed chair and Nobel laureate Ben Bernanke is the newest member of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust — the independent body meant to hold the company to its mission. An unusual name for an unusual structure.
As of July 9, 'Reflect' is live in beta — a kind of 'Claude Wrapped' that shows you when and what you use Claude for. It comes with quiet hours, break nudges, and one question that sticks: what do you want to keep doing yourself, even if Claude could do it faster?
Before 1.128, every parallel topic opened its own top-level session, and the pile grew fast. Now related threads stay bundled inside one session: refactor, bug hunt and tests side by side.
Two fresh case studies put Claude Cowork to work in the real world: Anthropic's own marketing team automates weekly reporting, and Thomson Reuters builds 'fiduciary-grade AI' for lawyers. Both rely on a checker agent that verifies every number.
The new Claude Code version closes a tricky gap: in auto mode, tampering with session transcripts is now blocked. Plus fixes for Windows worktrees and background agents.
Anthropic brings Claude Code and Claude Cowork to the public beta of Claude for Government Desktop — in a FedRAMP High environment, with local history storage and hard spending caps.
SpaceXAI unveiled Grok 4.5, its first coding model co-trained with Cursor. Musk calls it 'roughly comparable to Opus 4.7, but much faster' — at half the price. That puts real pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI.
GPT-5.6 is now public — weeks after the Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit the launch to a few vetted partners. And the timing lines up exactly with Fable 5 leaving Anthropic's subscription plans.