Anthropic

Aug 9, 2026

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.

Aug 6, 2026

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.

Aug 2, 2026

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.

Jul 28, 2026

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.

Jul 28, 2026

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.

Jul 7, 2026

Alberta used Claude Code to scan 466 million lines of government code

Anthropic says Alberta used Claude Code agents to review legacy government systems, find vulnerabilities, generate fixes, and build continuous security-review agents.

Jul 2, 2026

Claude Science puts scientific AI inside a traceable workbench

Anthropic's Claude Science beta gives researchers a workbench with curated scientific skills, compute access, auditable artifacts, and reviewer agents.

Jul 1, 2026

Anthropic restores Fable 5 and proposes a jailbreak severity framework

Fable 5 returns after US export controls were lifted, but the bigger change is Anthropic's push for a common way to score AI jailbreak risk.

Jul 1, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 turns Anthropic's default model into an agent model

Anthropic made Sonnet 5 the default for Free and Pro users while positioning it as a lower-cost agentic model close to Opus 4.8.

Jun 30, 2026

Claude reaches Microsoft Foundry with Azure governance and GB300 compute

Anthropic made Claude generally available in Microsoft Foundry, while NVIDIA framed the Azure deployment as a GB300 Blackwell Ultra agent platform.

Jun 25, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Tag for shared Slack agent work

Claude Tag puts a shared Claude inside Slack channels for Team and Enterprise customers, with scoped memory, admin controls, tool access, and asynchronous task work.

Jun 17, 2026

AI-policy money enters a New York House primary

AP reports millions in AI-linked political spending around Alex Bores, the New York lawmaker associated with the RAISE Act for frontier AI models.