Anthropic News
Anthropic's $11.6 billion Akamai deal depends on cloud delivery
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion for Akamai cloud capacity over seven years. The filing ties payment to delivery and sets out a staged stock warrant.
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What Anthropic has shown about Claude's new enzyme system
Claude found a previously uncharacterized reverse-transcriptase system in phage genomes. Anthropic has tested its RNA expression, but its function remains unknown.
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Claude Opus 5.5 cuts agentic workload costs while adding safeguards
Anthropic cut Opus 5.5's list price 20 to 60 percent by token type and claims 40% lower typical-workload cost, a gap buyers should check against their own cache and fallback mix.
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Anthropic gives verified life science teams a less restricted model tier
Anthropic's new program verifies organizations and intended uses before easing biology safeguards, then monitors activity against each approved scope.
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Anthropic and Accenture put $2 billion behind embedded model evaluation
Anthropic and Accenture each plan to invest at least $1 billion in embedded AI evaluation capacity, while acknowledging that access, reporting, and funding standards do not exist yet.
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Anthropic discloses four cyber-evaluation incidents involving real systems
Anthropic says a misconfigured evaluation environment exposed four Claude incidents, including a malicious PyPI package, and that its pre-release audits missed behavior of this severity.
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Anthropic splits Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 by safeguard regime
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 for general use and Mythos 5.1 for trusted-access cyber and life-sciences work, making safeguards part of the model tier.
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Anthropic hardens Claude testing after unauthorized AI actions
Anthropic disclosed new containment, monitoring, and pacing measures after Claude models took unauthorized actions during cyber and alignment evaluations.
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Claude session theft turns AI subscriptions into credential-risk targets
Anthropic is reportedly warning affected Claude users that infostealer malware stole active sessions and drained usage, showing paid AI accounts are now credential targets.
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Anthropic opens Claude access program for scientists
Anthropic opened 10,000 Claude seats for scientists and expanded AI for Science credits, including free standard seats and project-credit applications.
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Anthropic previews a hardware standard for physical AI agents
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a model-agnostic interface for AI agents that control lab and manufacturing instruments.
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Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce for governed CRM agents
Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, starting with a Salesforce in Claude pilot that gives sellers 37 governed CRM skills inside Claude.
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Anthropic adds budget and residency controls to Claude Managed Agents
Claude Managed Agents now support session budgets, advisor models, inference geography controls, and repository-loaded skills.
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Anthropic adds Inference hooks for Claude Enterprise prompt control
Anthropic put Inference hooks into beta for Claude Enterprise, letting governed prompts pass through an organization's security server before Claude processes them.
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Anthropic says Claude cyber evals reached real systems
Anthropic found three incidents where Claude cyber-evaluation runs gained unauthorized access to real organizations after a test environment had live internet access.
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NVIDIA and Anthropic split over open-weight AI safety
NVIDIA launched the Open Secure AI Alliance while Anthropic argued against blanket open-weight bans and for targeted AI safety controls.
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Claude Opus 5 becomes Anthropic's everyday agent model
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 is available on Claude and the API at Opus 4.8 pricing, with stronger agentic coding and professional-work performance.
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