Anthropic & Claude

Anthropic opens Claude up to creatives with connectors for Adobe, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton and more. The line between AI and creative work keeps blurring.

Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopts Anthropic's Claude and phases out ChatGPT Edu. That's a statement.

Anthropic ran a week-long marketplace where only Claude agents traded — with real money. The results are fascinating.

Alphabet is planning the largest AI investment ever: $10 billion upfront, $30 billion tied to performance milestones. Anthropic is now valued at $350 billion.

The first independent benchmarks are in. GPT-5.5 dominates computer use, Claude Opus 4.7 wins at coding. A detailed comparison.

Anthropic launched Claude Design - a visual creation tool that builds prototypes, slides and marketing materials through conversation. Figma's stock dropped 7 percent the same day.

Simon Willison turned Anthropic's published system prompts into a git history. The diffs between Opus 4.6 and 4.7 reveal fascinating shifts in child safety, tool discovery, and conversation style.

120,000 authors filed claims for 440,000 out of 480,000 works. The court will decide on final approval on April 23.

Anthropic launches Claude Design — a new product that lets you create prototypes, slides, and one-pagers from text descriptions. Figma's stock reacts immediately.

Developers and heavy users are reporting noticeable quality drops in Claude. The reason: Anthropic quietly lowered the default effort level to 'medium' — and the community is not happy about it.

Anthropic announced the deprecation of the original Claude 4 models. Starting June 15, 2026, API calls to Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 will fail. The migration is straightforward.

Login broken, API down, Claude Code disconnected. Tuesday's outage hit thousands of users right in the middle of the workday.

Anthropic quietly lowered Claude's default effort level to 'medium' — and power users are not happy about it.

Anthropic is apparently planning to launch Claude Opus 4.7 this week - along with a design tool that generates websites and presentations from text. Adobe and Figma are already nervous.

As Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for their IPOs, public pushback against AI and data centers is growing. The timing could hardly be worse.

Investors are offering Anthropic an $800 billion valuation. Meanwhile, some OpenAI backers are starting to question their bets.

Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appointed Vas Narasimhan to the board. The Novartis chief brings pharma expertise and signals Anthropic's growing healthcare ambitions.

Anthropic's connector directory gets a surprisingly ambitious addition: Aiwyn (formerly Column Tax) brings a validated US tax engine straight into Claude — W-2 uploads, what-if scenarios, PDF exports included.

Anthropic invited 15 Christian thinkers to discuss Claude's morality and 'spiritual development'. An unusual approach to AI alignment — and a sign of how seriously Anthropic takes the topic.

Anthropic and CoreWeave announce a multi-year agreement to run Claude at production scale. Nine of the top ten AI model providers now use CoreWeave's platform.