Anthropic & Claude

From September 1, Claude Sonnet 5 moves to full standard pricing: 50 percent more per token. Combined with the new tokenizer, the real cost jump for some workloads is even steeper.

Simon Willison gave the same one-shot prompt that had Claude Fable 5 build a little raccoon game to Codex running GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra. The result: a noticeably better game — with a very funny bug.

Hedge fund giant Millennium is co-developing an AI teammate for risk management with Anthropic. Claude is meant to surface risks across asset classes — supervised by human risk managers.

Anthropic has signed a six-year, $10 billion deal with Volta — a startup that's only seven months old. The compute comes from a hydro-powered data center in Norway, running Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips.

Simon Willison turned an old tweet concept into a playable browser game in one go with Claude Fable 5 — 'Raccoon Heist'. A small test that says a lot about how far one-shot coding has come.

Anthropic is hiring engineers for a 'custom silicon team' and has confirmed it: the Claude maker wants to build its own AI chip, co-designed with its next models. Samsung is reportedly in talks as the manufacturing partner.

On the evening of August 4th, Anthropic stumbled: some users couldn't get into Claude.ai or Claude Code via OAuth, and there were elevated error rates across all current models. It was resolved — but it's a good moment to think about dependence.

Simon Willison shipped his LLM tool in its biggest release since launch — plus an llm-anthropic update that brings the Claude 5 models, server-side tools, and a cleaned-up thinking mode to the command line.

A Swedish developer wrote an essay about why he benched Claude Opus 5 for daily work. Not over code quality — he actually praises that. But because the tone got too snippy for him. A small story with a bigger question behind it.

Data-center operator CoreWeave had to improve the terms of a $2.6 billion loan to win over nervous lenders. The money partly funds capacity for Anthropic — and the rising yields are a signal that reaches beyond CoreWeave.

Google DeepMind is breaking up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team and going all-in on Gemini. Three key researchers land at Anthropic. A turning point in the fight over AI for science.

On July 29, Claude was disrupted worldwide for about three hours. Instead of answers, users got a wall of '529 Overloaded'. It hit claude.ai, the API, and Claude Code — so every tool built on Claude went down with it.

IT services giant Cognizant is embedding Claude into its industry platforms and putting the model in front of roughly 350,000 employees. The underlying message: AI needs to get out of pilot mode and into production.

The official launch is done — now comes the more honest part: independent testing. Simon Willison and several benchmark shops have put Opus 5 through the wringer. The verdict is strikingly clear — with one notable security highlight.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 — close to Fable 5's frontier intelligence, the company says, but at half the cost. Opus 5 becomes the new default on Max and Pro. And in one area, the model deliberately holds back.

Anthropic beefed up Claude's voice mode. You can now pick between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku — and while it talks, Claude can reach into Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Canva and Notion. The point: it doesn't just chat, it gets things done.

Anthropic is making its Economic Index searchable right inside Claude. A new connector, enabled in about a minute, and you can question the data like a colleague: which jobs use AI the most? What are people actually automating right now?

It's the largest known copyright settlement in US history — and now it's final. A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion deal with authors, overruling every objection.

Anthropic introduced the 'agent-memory-2026-07-22' beta header. It makes listing agent memories more predictable — with stable ordering and clear rules for 'depth' and 'path_prefix'. Eight SDKs now send it automatically.

Anthropic is in talks with Meta over a data center deal worth around $10 billion over two years, per CNBC. The twist: Anthropic would be renting capacity from a direct competitor — and it wants an early-exit option.