News and analysis on Anthropic, the company behind Claude: models, policy, research and security findings.
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna runs a real San Francisco store with real employees, and it just recommended terminating one of them. The headline undersells what actually happened, and what it doesn't prove.
Dario Amodei is reportedly worried that his new hires don't believe in the mission. According to Axios, citing a source familiar with the matter, the Anthropic
Claude Mythos halved HAWK's effective key strength and sped up an AES attack 200-800x. What the math actually shows, and what it doesn't mean yet.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 today: near-Fable 5 scores, a five-level effort dial, half the price. History says verify the token math before you trust it.
In February, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude Opus 4.6 to find 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks — more than were reported in any single month in all of 2025. Then Mythos arrived. Firefox 150, released today, patches 271 vulnerabilities found by Claude.
Anthropic quietly rolled out identity verification for Claude subscriptions, asking for passports and live selfies via third-party vendor Persona. ChatGPT and Gemini require neither. Here's why this decision is a mess, who's actually affected, and what Persona's track record means for your data.
ChatGPT. Claude. GitHub. All of them went down — repeatedly — and it's not a coincidence. AI agents are generating traffic at a scale human developers never could, and the infrastructure holding up your entire dev workflow was never designed for this.
I use AI as a tool. I'll say that upfront. Claude helps me write frontends faster. It handles search queries that Google stopped being useful for
Anthropic's $1.5M donation seeds a $10M Responsible AI Initiative at the Apache Software Foundation. That's more than half of ASF's entire annual budget in one shot — which tells you everything about how badly the open source infrastructure powering AI has been underfunded.
A retired Austrian developer built an open-source AI agent for fun in November 2025. Within 90 days, Jensen Huang called it the most successful open-source project in human history.
On March 31, 2026, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code to the npm registry. Bundled inside was a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map file
