Anthropic & Claude

Anthropic is opening Claude for Teachers to U.S. schools and entire districts – as a free Enterprise offering with central management. Plus new skills for the back-to-school rush.

Just ahead of its planned IPO, the backlash against AI is catching up with Anthropic. Per CNBC, more than 75 percent of young respondents don't trust Dario Amodei – and the discontent even shows up in the prospectus.

Anthropic is said to be filing its public S-1 as soon as the end of August. The New York Times reports an IPO could value the company at up to $2 trillion — the largest in history.

With the Model Hardware Standard, Claude gets a way to operate robotic arms, microscopes and liquid handlers directly. The research preview is running in the first labs now – and a Genentech example shows how far it already reaches.

Anthropic is handing 10,000 seats to researchers worldwide – free or heavily discounted. On top of that, the AI for Science program is opening beyond biology. A clear push to get Claude deeper into research.

Salesforce and Anthropic are expanding their partnership. With Claudeforce, sellers work with their CRM data right inside Claude — 37 ready-made sales skills, without opening the Salesforce interface once.

For years the rule was: just wait for the next model, it'll be cheaper and better. Developer Drew Breunig says Fable ended that era. And the numbers back him up.

Fresh numbers from around Anthropic show a big jump in revenue. The more telling part is what companies actually pay for: the Ramp index reveals that pricey Opus 5 barely gets used – while a model from May tops the list.

Errors have been piling up since morning: claude.ai, the API, Claude Code and Cowork are all affected, across the models. It's not the first outage this August – and that's the real story here.

The official Python SDK has reached version 1.0. The most interesting change is under the hood: the HTTP layer moves from httpx to httpx2. Old baggage gets dropped too – and Python 3.10 is now required.

Anthropic makes Computer Use generally available on the Claude Platform. What's new is a browser tool that no longer aims blindly at pixels but reads the structure of the page. One customer reports going from 32 to 13 minutes per workflow.

The old Workbench is history, and its replacement is called Playground. It handles every Messages API parameter, ships with ready-made templates, and shows the full SDK request and response for each run.

On the Claude Developer Platform, three features drop their beta headers. Files API, Agent Skills, and admin user management are now generally available – plus a few new controls for Managed Agents.

Anthropic launched a free learning hub – built on the same playbook it uses to onboard its own people. Courses, badges, and a focus on mindset over prompt tricks.

Two weeks ago the message was clear: the intro price ends August 31. Now Anthropic has reversed course - 2 dollars in, 10 dollars out per million tokens stays the standard. Plus the Files API and Admin API go GA.

On the evening of August 16, a lot of people couldn't get into Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork – the API was hit too. After a good half hour everything was back. Anthropic hasn't named a cause.

An investor accuses Dario Amodei of fueling the backlash against AI with his warnings. Amodei fires back: the problem isn't his messaging, but a distrust that's been building for decades.

Anthropic is showing prospective investors its numbers: more than $11.5 billion in second-quarter revenue, a 14-fold jump in a single year. The autumn IPO is getting closer.

As of today it's over: the legacy Workbench in the Claude Console is gone, and the experimental prompt endpoints for generating, improving, and templatizing now return nothing but an error. If you still use them, it's moving day.

Anthropic barely started marking Claude's text before the outrage boiled over on Reddit. The complaint: the watermark catches the wrong people. The replies from other users are sharp — and pretty much on point.