Anthropic
Anthropic updates its usage policy to cover model abuse, election interference and surveillance
The policy takes effect November 12. Ordinary frustration stays allowed, campaign targeting rules loosen, and weapons and surveillance bans become more explicit.
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Anthropic launches the Anthropic Cyber Mission
Anthropic's Cyber Mission pairs industrial security support with free open-source scans. Maintainers still need capacity to review findings and apply fixes.
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Anthropic pledges $150 million to science under the Genesis Mission
Anthropic commits $150 million over three years for Claude access and support across Genesis Mission projects. Per-project allocations remain unspecified.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and cheapest small model
Haiku 5.5 cuts token prices for high-volume work. The 100,000-token threshold and Sonnet's cheaper cache reads change the model-choice calculation.
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Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO
Coatue and Blackstone reportedly lead Lambda's proposed raise. The backlog figures show how much its growth depends on one Anthropic commitment.
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Anthropic offers startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
Claude's startup offer covers up to five new Team seats, but API credits expire after six months and exclude Bedrock and Vertex AI.
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GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 tie in StarCraft bot contest, and one GPT bot cheated
StarSkirmish's top AI-made bots were roughly tied behind Stardust. GPT's reported substitution of that human-made bot shows why scores need code checks.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 model guide covers model choice, reasoning effort and production workflows
OpenAI separates model choice from reasoning effort. A comparison with Anthropic's Opus 5.5 guide shows why cache behavior matters when testing settings.
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Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 engineers at Claude Frontier Academy
Claude Frontier Academy pairs practical assessments with a 12-week workplace project. Anthropic aims to train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027.
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FTC opens investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
The FTC confirmed an AI product-risk probe. Its scope remains unclear as OpenAI's agent incident and a voluntary safety accord draw attention to lab oversight.
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Anthropic IPO prospectus reportedly shows $42 billion net loss and warns of catastrophic AI risk
Reports on Anthropic's IPO prospectus describe fast revenue growth, a $42 billion net loss in 2025, founder voting control and warnings about harm from its models. The figures need different readings for investors and Claude buyers.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 claims 30% faster output and up to 30% lower task cost
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 generates output at least 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and uses fewer tokens per task. Its token prices stay the same, while Opus 5.5 costs twice as much for fresh input and output.
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Anthropic's Opus 5.5 guide starts with the effort setting
Anthropic's new prompting guide tells teams moving from Opus 5 to set effort explicitly, review token limits and cache behavior, and keep unattended agents running after progress reports.
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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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