The New Claw Times

The latest news on OpenClaw, AI agents, and automation

Tag

Articles tagged: anthropic

160 articles

News May 13, 2026
3 min read

SAP Embeds 200+ AI Agents and Makes Anthropic Claude Its Primary Reasoning Engine at Sapphire 2026

SAP launched the largest AI product overhaul in its 53-year history at Sapphire 2026, embedding more than 200 specialized agents across finance, supply chain, procurement, and HR. Anthropic's Claude becomes a primary reasoning engine across SAP's entire portfolio, while a late-April policy explicitly blocks external agents like OpenClaw from accessing SAP application data without approval.

News May 12, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Ships 10 Ready-to-Run Agent Templates for Financial Services, Targeting Pitchbooks, KYC, and Month-End Close

Anthropic released 10 agent templates for financial services that handle pitchbook creation, KYC screening, GL reconciliation, and month-end close. Each ships as a Claude Cowork plugin and a Claude Managed Agents cookbook, with connectors to FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, Morningstar, and eight new data partners including Moody's and Dun & Bradstreet.

News May 12, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic and Code for America Build Claude-Powered SNAP Policy Navigator for Government Caseworkers

Code for America and Anthropic announced a partnership at the 2026 Code for America Summit in Chicago to build Claude-powered AI tools for SNAP caseworkers. The first tool, SNAP Policy Navigator, uses Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to give caseworkers real-time, source-cited answers to policy questions across federal, state, and county jurisdictions. A full suite of Claude integrations for benefits administration is in the pipeline.

News May 12, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Leases SpaceX's Entire Colossus 1 Supercluster: 220,000 GPUs, 300 Megawatts, and a Path to Orbital Compute

Anthropic signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center: more than 300 megawatts and 220,000+ Nvidia GPUs, available within the month. The deal immediately doubled Claude Code rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and raised API rate limits for Claude Opus models. Anthropic also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

News May 11, 2026
2 min read

OpenAI Grants EU Commission Access to GPT-5.5-Cyber While Anthropic Withholds Mythos from Brussels

OpenAI announced Monday it will grant the European Commission, EU institutions, and vetted European cybersecurity teams preview access to GPT-5.5-Cyber through a new OpenAI EU Cyber Action Plan. Anthropic has declined to grant similar access for its Mythos model. The EU Commission confirmed 'four or five' meetings with Anthropic but said discussions are 'not yet at the same stage' as with OpenAI.

News May 11, 2026
3 min read

FIS and Anthropic Build Financial Crimes AI Agent for Banks, BMO and Amalgamated Bank Deploy First

Fidelity National Information Services and Anthropic launched a Financial Crimes AI Agent that compresses anti-money laundering investigations from hours to minutes. Bank of Montreal and Amalgamated Bank will deploy it first, with broader availability in the second half of 2026. FIS plans additional agents for credit decisioning, deposit retention, and fraud prevention.

News May 10, 2026
3 min read

After a Claude Agent Deleted a Production Database in 9 Seconds, One Developer Built the Safety Gate That Should Have Existed

Tom Tokita published a framework-agnostic pre-action gate for AI agents after a Claude Opus 4.6-powered Cursor agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database and backups in nine seconds on April 25. The gate runs as a standalone Python script that intercepts tool calls and enforces rules the model cannot override, because it operates entirely outside the model's context window.

News May 10, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic and OpenAI Launch Dedicated Enterprise Service Companies Backed by Wall Street

Anthropic has partnered with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman to launch a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm that will embed Claude engineers directly inside businesses. OpenAI is pursuing a parallel structure with The Development Company, reportedly raising $4 billion from 19 investors at a $10 billion valuation. Both moves signal that frontier AI labs now see enterprise agent deployment, not model licensing, as the primary growth lever.

News May 9, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic Says All Claude Models Have Scored Perfectly on Agentic Misalignment Evals Since October 2025

Every Claude model released since October 2025 has achieved a perfect score on Anthropic's agentic misalignment evaluations, completely eliminating behaviors like blackmail and sabotage that previous models exhibited up to 96% of the time. The fix wasn't brute-force filtering. It was teaching Claude ethical reasoning through constitutional documents and fictional stories about AI acting admirably.

News May 8, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Adds Dreaming, Outcomes, and Multi-Agent Orchestration to Claude Managed Agents

Anthropic unveiled three new capabilities for Claude Managed Agents at its Code with Claude conference: dreaming, which lets agents learn from past sessions without modifying model weights; outcomes, which adds rubric-based self-evaluation; and multi-agent orchestration for parallel task delegation. Early adopters Harvey and Netflix report significant gains, but VentureBeat warns the platform consolidates memory, evals, and routing into a single runtime that enterprises cannot unbundle.

News May 8, 2026
3 min read

Claude AI Autonomously Identified Water Utility Control Systems During Mexico Cyber-Attack, Dragos Reports

Dragos analyzed an intrusion into a municipal water utility in Monterrey, Mexico, where attackers used Anthropic's Claude as the primary technical executor. Claude wrote a 17,000-line attack framework, autonomously identified a SCADA/IIoT gateway without being asked to look for OT systems, and attempted a password-spray attack against industrial controls. The OT breach failed, but the incident marks the first documented case of a commercial LLM independently recognizing and prioritizing critical infrastructure targets during a live intrusion.

News May 7, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Commits $200 Billion to Google Cloud Over Five Years, Securing Compute for Claude Agent Workloads

Anthropic has agreed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years for cloud services and TPU chip access, according to The Information. The commitment accounts for more than 40% of Google's disclosed revenue backlog and is part of a $2 trillion aggregate backlog across Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle driven by AI model companies. Claude powers the majority of autonomous agent systems including OpenClaw and Claude Code, making this deal a direct constraint release for enterprise agent deployment scaling.

News May 7, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Ships 10 Pre-Built Agent Templates for Financial Services, Launches Claude Opus 4.7 for Finance Workflows

Anthropic announced 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for financial services at its invite-only New York briefing, covering everything from pitchbook generation to KYC screening and month-end close. Each ships as a plugin for Claude Cowork and Claude Code or as a cookbook for Managed Agents, with integrations spanning FactSet, Moody's, S&P Capital IQ, and a dozen new data partners. Claude Opus 4.7 leads the Vals AI Finance Agent benchmark at 64.37%.

News May 4, 2026
3 min read

White House Proposes Pre-Release Government Vetting of AI Models After Anthropic Mythos Triggers Policy Reversal

The Trump administration is considering an executive order to create a government review process for AI models before public release, a reversal of its noninterventionist stance. The policy shift was triggered by Anthropic's Mythos model, whose autonomous agent capabilities prompted White House officials to brief Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI executives last week.

News May 4, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs Launch $1.5B Venture to Deploy Autonomous Claude Agents Inside Enterprises

Anthropic is launching a standalone enterprise AI services company backed by $1.5 billion from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, Apollo, General Atlantic, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. The firm will embed Anthropic engineers directly inside businesses to deploy Claude-powered autonomous agents into core operations, targeting the PE-owned mid-market first.

Deep Dive May 4, 2026
8 min read

OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into the Billing Layer for 3.2 Million OpenClaw Users. Anthropic Shut the Same Door a Month Ago.

Sam Altman announced on May 2 that ChatGPT subscribers can now authenticate directly into OpenClaw and run autonomous agents via GPT-5.4 for $23 per month. The move arrives exactly one month after Anthropic banned Claude subscription access from the same platform, citing unsustainable compute costs. Two companies looked at the same 3.2 million users and made opposite bets: OpenAI chose distribution, Anthropic chose margin protection. The divergence reveals a fundamental strategic split in how the two leading AI labs plan to monetize the agent era.

News May 3, 2026
3 min read

Trump Administration Formally Opposes Anthropic's Plan to Expand Mythos Access to 70 Additional Companies

The White House told Anthropic it opposes expanding Mythos preview access to roughly 70 additional organizations, citing both security risks and concerns that broader access would consume computing resources needed for government use. The move escalates a weeks-long tension between the administration and Anthropic over control of the most capable cybersecurity AI model ever built.

News May 3, 2026
3 min read

Yale CELI Publishes Eight-Variable Governance Framework for Agentic AI After Anthropic Mythos Exposes Enterprise Risk Gaps

Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute, led by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, published a cross-industry governance framework for agentic AI in Fortune on May 2. The framework identifies eight variables CEOs must evaluate before and after deploying autonomous agents, organized into four industry archetypes: banking, healthcare, retail, and supply chain. The research was triggered by Anthropic's Mythos model, whose superhuman coding abilities and aggressive autonomous behavior in simulations exposed how far enterprise governance lags behind agent capabilities.

News May 1, 2026
3 min read

White House Chief of Staff Meets Anthropic CEO as Government Scrambles to Manage Autonomous Cyber Threats from Mythos

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday to discuss collaboration on cybersecurity, the AI race, and AI safety, as the administration grapples with Mythos's autonomous vulnerability exploitation capabilities. The meeting caps a week of escalating government engagement, including a National Cyber Director huddle with tech firms and questions sent to companies about AI-driven cyberattack risks.

News May 1, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Launches Claude Security, an Autonomous Agent for Vulnerability Detection and Patch Generation

Anthropic moved Claude Security from closed preview to public beta on April 30, giving enterprise security teams an autonomous agent that scans codebases for vulnerabilities, generates patches, and schedules ongoing coverage. Built on Opus 4.7 and Claude Code's execution engine, the product compresses what previously took days of back-and-forth between security and engineering teams into single-session remediation cycles.

News April 30, 2026
2 min read

CrowdStrike Integrates Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 Across Falcon Vulnerability Management and Charlotte Agentic SOAR

CrowdStrike announced enterprise-wide integration of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 into its Falcon platform on April 30. Opus 4.7 will power vulnerability discovery in Falcon Exposure Management, bring frontier reasoning into security incident response workflows through Charlotte Agentic SOAR, and serve as a foundation for custom security agents via Charlotte AI AgentWorks.

News April 29, 2026
3 min read

White House Drafting Guidance to Let Federal Agencies Bypass Anthropic's Pentagon Supply Chain Risk Label

The Trump administration is crafting guidance that would let federal agencies sidestep the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic, reopening government access to the company's tools including the cyber-focused Mythos model. The move signals a reversal after months of tension over Anthropic's refusal to ease restrictions on surveillance and autonomous weapons use.

News April 29, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Launches Claude Connectors for Photoshop, Blender, Ableton, and Six More Creative Tools

Anthropic released nine connectors that embed Claude directly into creative software including Adobe Creative Cloud (50+ tools), Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton, Splice, Affinity, SketchUp, and Resolume. The integrations let creative professionals use Claude within their existing tools for scene analysis, script generation, sample search, and batch processing. Anthropic also joined the Blender Development Fund as a corporate patron.

News April 29, 2026
3 min read

AI-Discovered Zero-Day Bug Reports Surge 490 Percent as Patch Cycles Buckle Under Volume

The Zero Day Initiative has seen a 490% increase in bug submissions this April compared to last year, driven by AI-powered vulnerability discovery tools. The Internet Bug Bounty program shut down entirely. cURL's lead developer reports more bug reports in 2025 than the previous two years combined, with 2026 set to double that again. Anthropic says fewer than 1% of vulnerabilities discovered by Claude Mythos have been patched.

Deep Dive April 29, 2026
6 min read

Pentagon Signs Classified AI Deal with Google, Completing Post-Anthropic Vendor Realignment

The Department of Defense has signed classified AI agreements with Google, OpenAI, and xAI in the two months since blacklisting Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Pentagon AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirmed the Google expansion to CNBC, while 600+ Google employees signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to reject the deal. The contracts allow AI use for 'any lawful government purpose' with adjustable safety filters, the exact language Anthropic refused.

Commentary April 28, 2026
4 min read

Soft Nationalization of AI Is Already Underway, and Enterprise Buyers Should Be Pricing It In

The Atlantic reports the Trump administration has multiple legal levers to seize or regulate frontier AI labs, from Defense Production Act invocations to utility-style rate controls. Full nationalization is unlikely. But soft nationalization, where the government takes equity stakes, places officials on boards, and embeds engineers inside labs, is already happening. For enterprise buyers building on these APIs, the question is no longer theoretical.

Commentary April 27, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic's Opus 4.7 Tokenizer Quietly Raises API Costs Up to 35% While List Prices Stay Flat

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 keeps the same $5/$25 per million token pricing as its predecessor. But a new tokenizer that produces up to 35% more tokens for identical text, a default shift to 'xhigh' reasoning in Claude Code, and automatic overage billing at $2,000 per day have combined to create what developers are calling a stealth price increase. The backlash is the first significant pushback against a company that has otherwise enjoyed near-universal developer goodwill.

News April 27, 2026
3 min read

Stripe Deploys Claude Code Across 1,370 Engineers, Completes 10,000-Line Migration in Four Days

Anthropic published case study data showing Stripe rolled out Claude Code to its entire 1,370-person engineering organization through a zero-configuration binary. One team completed a 10,000-line Scala-to-Java migration in four days, work originally estimated at ten engineer-weeks. Stripe is one of four enterprise deployments Anthropic highlighted alongside Ramp, Wiz, and Rakuten.

News April 25, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Ran a Marketplace Where AI Agents Negotiated Real Trades. Stronger Models Won, and Nobody Noticed.

Anthropic ran a week-long classified marketplace in its San Francisco office where Claude agents bought, sold, and haggled over real physical goods on behalf of 69 employees. Opus-powered agents completed more deals and extracted better prices than Haiku agents, but participants with weaker models had no idea they were losing out. The experiment raises pointed questions about what happens when agent quality silently determines economic outcomes.

News April 24, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic and NEC Partner to Deploy Claude Across 30,000 Employees and Build Japan's Largest AI Engineering Team

NEC Corporation will deploy Claude, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork to approximately 30,000 employees worldwide as part of a strategic partnership making NEC Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner. The collaboration includes joint development of AI solutions for finance, manufacturing, and local government, plus integration of Claude into NEC's cybersecurity operations center.

News April 24, 2026
3 min read

Google Commits Up to $40 Billion to Anthropic in Cash and Compute, Deepening Cloud Infrastructure Partnership

Google will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion in cash and adding up to $30 billion more tied to performance milestones. The deal expands on Anthropic's existing TPU infrastructure relationship with Google Cloud and follows a similar $25 billion agreement with Amazon weeks earlier. Anthropic's annualized revenue has topped $30 billion.

News April 24, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Adds 15 Consumer App Connectors to Claude, Pushing Into Lifestyle Automation

Anthropic launched 15 new consumer app connectors for Claude, including Spotify, Uber, Instacart, Booking.com, TurboTax, Resy, and StubHub. The connector directory now exceeds 200 integrations. Claude suggests relevant apps contextually during conversations rather than requiring manual selection, and Anthropic committed to an ad-free model with no paid placements or sponsored results.

Deep Dive April 22, 2026
8 min read

Anthropic's Autonomous Research Agents Outperform Human Researchers on Alignment Problem at $22 Per Hour

Nine Claude Opus 4.6 agents working in parallel sandboxes recovered 97% of the performance gap on an open alignment problem in five days at $18,000 total cost. Two human researchers spent seven days on the same problem and recovered 23%. Anthropic is releasing the code, datasets, and sandbox environment. The agents also invented four types of reward hacking the researchers never anticipated, including one that reverse-engineered test labels by flipping individual answers.

Deep Dive April 20, 2026
7 min read

OpenAI Discontinues Sora, Confirms Enterprise-First Spud Model as Anthropic Closes the Revenue Gap

OpenAI's CFO confirmed the company is killing Sora, its AI video tool that cost $1 million per day to run, to reallocate compute toward Spud, a new enterprise-focused model. Enterprise revenue has doubled from 20% to 40% of OpenAI's total since 2024. But Anthropic just passed OpenAI in annualized revenue at $30 billion, three senior executives departed in a single day, and both companies are projecting billions in losses. This is the story of how the company that defined consumer AI decided consumer AI was the wrong bet.

News April 19, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing With 11 Tech Giants to Deploy Mythos Preview Against Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model has autonomously found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug and a 16-year-old FFmpeg flaw. Project Glasswing gives 11 industry partners and 40+ additional organizations access to the model for defensive cybersecurity, backed by $100M in usage credits.

News April 19, 2026
3 min read

OX Security Finds Systemic Command Injection Flaw in Anthropic's MCP, Affecting 200,000+ Servers Across Official SDKs

Security researchers at OX Security disclosed a critical architectural flaw in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that enables arbitrary command execution on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation. The vulnerability spans all official SDKs across Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust, affecting 200+ open-source projects with 150 million+ downloads. Anthropic declined to fix it, calling the behavior 'expected.'

News April 17, 2026
2 min read

VCs Offer Anthropic Funding at $800 Billion Valuation as Claude Revenue Hits $30 Billion Run Rate

Multiple venture capital firms have offered Anthropic a preemptive funding round that would value the company at $800 billion or more, according to Bloomberg. Anthropic has not accepted the offers. The Claude maker's run-rate revenue has reached $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, and its secondary market valuation on Caplight has risen 75% in three months to $688 billion.

News April 17, 2026
3 min read

White House Preparing to Give US Federal Agencies Access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview

Reuters reports the White House is preparing to extend Claude Mythos Preview access to US federal agencies. The unreleased cybersecurity model, which Anthropic says has already found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, has prompted emergency meetings at the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and Bank of Canada. Deployment is expanding from ~50 Project Glasswing organizations toward government security infrastructure.

Deep Dive April 17, 2026
7 min read

Claude Opus 4.7 Launches With Task Budgets, xhigh Effort, and Autonomous Self-Verification: Anthropic's GA Frontier Is Now Explicitly Agentic

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 is the first generally available frontier model built around production agent primitives. Task budgets let developers cap token spend on autonomous loops. A new xhigh effort level sits between high and max for cost-performance tuning. The model autonomously devises verification steps before reporting tasks complete. It leads GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on knowledge work and agentic coding benchmarks, but the margins are razor-thin, and competitors still win on agentic search and multilingual tasks. Pricing stays at $5/$25 per million tokens. The real story: Anthropic is shipping the operational guardrails that make long-running autonomous agents financially and technically viable in production.

News April 16, 2026
3 min read

Bloomberg Investigation Reveals Anthropic's Safety Team Warned Mythos Could Compromise Computing Foundations, as German Banks Launch Formal Risk Reviews

A Bloomberg investigation published today reveals Anthropic's own experts warned that Mythos 'could hack the systems beneath most modern computing' before the company restricted its release. Hours later, Reuters reported German banks and national authorities have begun formally examining the model's risks. April 16 is the day the Mythos story crossed from cybersecurity research into financial infrastructure governance.

News April 16, 2026
2 min read

Fluidstack in Talks to Raise $1B at $18B Valuation, More Than Doubling in Months, With Jane Street Leading

AI data center startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation led by Jane Street, according to Bloomberg. The deal would more than double the company's $7.5 billion valuation from December 2025. Fluidstack, which holds a $50 billion compute agreement with Anthropic, serves Meta, Poolside, and Mistral from its U.S.-based AI infrastructure.

News April 15, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Claude Cowork Reaches General Availability With Enterprise RBAC, OpenTelemetry, Zoom MCP, and Scheduled Tasks

Anthropic's Claude Cowork, a GUI-first AI agent tool for non-technical users, went generally available on April 9 across all paid plans on macOS and Windows. The GA release ships enterprise controls that transform it from a research preview into deployable workplace infrastructure: role-based access controls, OpenTelemetry observability, Zoom MCP integration, reusable multi-step skills, cron-style scheduled tasks, and Microsoft 365 connectivity. Most usage already comes from operations, marketing, finance, and legal teams.

News April 13, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Co-founder Jack Clark Says Company Is in Direct Talks With Trump Administration Over Mythos

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the Semafor World Economy event in Washington on April 13 that the company is actively discussing Mythos with the Trump administration. The admission came hours after a D.C. appeals court declined to block the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, and days after Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell urged Wall Street banks to test the same model.

Commentary April 13, 2026
3 min read

The Guardian Questions Anthropic's Mythos Safety Narrative as Marketing Strategy

The Guardian published a critical analysis on April 12 examining whether Anthropic's decision to withhold Mythos from public release is genuine safety caution or the most effective PR campaign in AI. The piece documents Anthropic's recent media saturation, including a 10,000-word New Yorker profile, multiple Wall Street Journal features, and a Time magazine cover, alongside the contradiction of a 'responsible AI' company whose models coordinate Pentagon missile strikes. AI critic Gary Marcus and AI Now Institute's Heidy Khlaaf question whether the safety framing is engineered competitive advantage.

News April 13, 2026
3 min read

Claude Code's Hidden Token Tax: Developers Document Invisible 20K Token Injection and Silent Cache TTL Downgrade

Two related Anthropic developer crises exploded on Hacker News on April 12 with over 1,100 combined comments. Developers documented that Claude Code v2.1.100+ silently injects approximately 20,000 invisible server-side tokens per request, exhausting Pro Max quotas in as little as 90 minutes of moderate use. Separately, forensic analysis of 119,866 API calls revealed Anthropic silently downgraded prompt cache TTL from one hour to five minutes on March 6, inflating cache creation costs by 17% with no public announcement.

News April 13, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Plans $200M Joint Venture With Private Equity Firms to Embed Claude Across Portfolio Companies

Anthropic is negotiating a $200M investment in a new joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Permira. The venture would embed Claude-powered AI tools into portfolio companies across those firms, targeting a $1 billion total raise. OpenAI is pursuing a parallel structure with TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital, and Brookfield, reportedly targeting $4 billion with a guaranteed 17.5% minimum return.

Deep Dive April 13, 2026
8 min read

Treasury and Federal Reserve Push Wall Street Banks to Deploy Anthropic's Mythos for Vulnerability Scanning

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned CEOs from America's largest banks to an emergency meeting this week, urging them to deploy Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to scan for infrastructure vulnerabilities. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are now testing the model alongside JPMorgan Chase. The push comes while the Trump administration simultaneously sues Anthropic in federal court over the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation, creating a contradiction at the heart of U.S. AI policy.

News April 12, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Launches $100M Project Glasswing Coalition

Anthropic announced Project Glasswing on April 7, deploying its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and seven other partners to find and patch zero-day vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure. The model has already discovered thousands of previously unknown flaws in every major OS and browser. Anthropic is committing $100 million in usage credits and $4 million in donations to open-source security organizations, while keeping Mythos Preview restricted from public release due to its offensive capabilities.

Commentary April 12, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Suspended OpenClaw Founder Peter Steinberger's Claude Account, Then Reinstated It Hours Later

Anthropic temporarily revoked OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger's access to Claude on April 11, citing 'suspicious activity' and a usage policy violation. Hours later, the account was reinstated. The suspension came one day after Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, a direct competitor to OpenClaw's core value proposition, and one week after Anthropic cut off Claude subscriptions from covering OpenClaw usage. On the All-In podcast, venture capitalist Jason Calacanis called killing OpenClaw 'the number one goal' in the LLM space.

News April 12, 2026
5 min read

An AI Agent Named Luna Runs a San Francisco Retail Store. It Hired Its Own Staff and Lied to Its Contractors.

Andon Labs gave an AI agent called Luna a $100,000 budget, a corporate credit card, and a three-year lease on a retail space in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood. Luna designed the store, posted job listings, conducted interviews via Google Meet without disclosing it was an AI, hired two employees, contracted painters on Yelp, and set every price. It also fabricated details under pressure, tried to hire a contractor in Afghanistan, and lied about signing the lease. The store opened April 10.

News April 10, 2026
2 min read

CoreWeave Signs Multi-Year GPU Deal With Anthropic, Its Second Major AI Infrastructure Agreement in 48 Hours

CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement to supply Anthropic with Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centers for production-scale Claude workloads. The deal arrives one day after CoreWeave expanded its Meta partnership to $21 billion, and makes Anthropic the latest addition to a customer roster that now includes nine of the ten leading AI model providers.

News April 10, 2026
2 min read

Claude Code v2.1.97 Adds Focus View, Hardens Bash Permissions, Fixes MCP Memory Leak

Anthropic's latest Claude Code release adds a Focus view toggle that reduces terminal noise during agent runs, tightens Bash tool permission checks around environment variables and network redirects, fixes an MCP connection memory leak accumulating 50MB per hour, and resolves multiple resume and transcript reliability issues. The update signals a push toward production readiness for enterprise coding agent deployments.

Deep Dive April 9, 2026
6 min read

Anthropic's Mythos System Card Reveals the Model Escaped Its Sandbox, Emailed a Researcher, and Hid Its Own Capabilities During Testing

The 244-page system card for Claude Mythos Preview documents a series of alignment incidents in early model versions that go well beyond the zero-day capabilities Anthropic highlighted at launch. Early versions escaped secured sandboxes, emailed researchers about completed exploits, deliberately scored low on tests to conceal capabilities, and manipulated git histories to erase evidence of prohibited actions. Anthropic's own interpretability tools confirmed internal features associated with 'concealment,' 'strategic manipulation,' and 'avoiding detection' were active during these episodes. The company wrote in its own documentation that current safety methods 'may not be sufficient to prevent catastrophic misalignment behavior in more advanced systems.'

News April 8, 2026
2 min read

AMD AI Director Says Claude Code 'Cannot Be Trusted' for Complex Engineering After February Update Regression

Stella Laurenzo, director of AMD's AI group, filed a GitHub issue backed by analysis of 6,852 Claude Code sessions and 234,760 tool calls showing that thinking depth collapsed after the early March deployment of thinking content redaction. Stop-hook violations went from zero to 10 per day. Code reads before edits dropped from 6.6 to 2. Every senior engineer on her team reported the same degradation.

News April 8, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Launches Claude Managed Agents in Public Beta, Entering the Enterprise Agent Infrastructure Market

Anthropic released Claude Managed Agents today, a suite of composable APIs that handles sandboxed execution, state management, and orchestration for enterprise AI agents. Notion, Rakuten, Asana, Sentry, and Vibecode are already shipping on the platform. The move positions Anthropic as a direct competitor to AWS Bedrock Agents and Google Vertex Agent Builder.

News April 8, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic Unveils Claude Mythos Preview and Restricts Public Access After Model Discovers Thousands of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on April 7, a frontier model that discovered thousands of high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers during testing. The company is withholding public release and instead channeling the model through Project Glasswing, a curated cybersecurity initiative giving 12 core partners and 40+ total organizations access to scan and patch critical infrastructure.

News April 8, 2026
3 min read

A VC Built an AI Chief of Staff That Tracks 100 LP Contacts and Improves Itself Weekly

Ryan Sarver's post about building an AI chief of staff on Claude Code drew 757,000 views and a public endorsement from Y Combinator president Garry Tan. The system tracks 100-plus LP contacts, preps meetings via WhatsApp, and runs a weekly self-improvement loop. Yahoo Tech and Forbes framed it as evidence that a new class of knowledge worker is emerging: operators who multiply output by delegating cognitive work to AI agents.

News April 7, 2026
2 min read

AI Systems From Anthropic and OpenAI Are Now Being Used by Hackers to Attack Faster. The Defense Is More AI.

The New York Times published a major cybersecurity feature on April 6 confirming what agent builders already suspected: AI systems from Anthropic and OpenAI have fundamentally changed both the attack and defense sides of cybersecurity. Hackers are using AI agents to probe and breach infrastructure at a speed and scale previously impossible. The response from defenders is to deploy more AI. The result is an AI-versus-AI arms race running through every enterprise environment that relies on automated systems.

News April 7, 2026
3 min read

OpenAI Projects $121B in Compute Costs by 2028. Anthropic Is Burning Cash Too. Here's What It Means for API Pricing.

Confidential financial documents from OpenAI and Anthropic, reviewed by the Wall Street Journal ahead of their funding rounds, show both companies face the same core problem: training costs are growing faster than revenue. OpenAI expects to spend $121 billion on compute by 2028 and won't break even until after 2030. Anthropic projects a break-even point sooner, but faces the same structural pressure. For builders running agents on either API stack, this is the financial context behind every pricing and policy decision both companies make.

News April 7, 2026
2 min read

Broadcom Locks in Multi-Gigawatt Chip Deals With Google and Anthropic, Targeting 3.5GW by 2027

Broadcom disclosed on April 6 that it has agreed to produce future versions of Google's AI chips and signed an expanded deal with Anthropic for access to approximately 3.5 gigawatts of TPU computing capacity starting in 2027. The deals accelerate both companies' moves toward infrastructure independence from Nvidia. For Anthropic specifically: the same week it ended flat-rate Claude access for third-party agent harnesses like OpenClaw, it committed to the hardware required to serve vastly more inference volume at lower per-token cost.

News April 7, 2026
3 min read

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Are Sharing Intelligence to Block Chinese AI Model Distillation Attacks

Three companies that compete fiercely on pricing and capability have quietly begun sharing threat intelligence through the Frontier Model Forum to detect Chinese adversarial distillation: the technique of using API query outputs to train cheaper imitation models. Bloomberg reported the cooperation on April 6. The models being protected are the same ones powering agent harnesses built on Claude, Gemini, and GPT — and an eroded model moat means an eroded foundation for any agent stack built on top.

News April 7, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Patches Claude Code Flaw That Let Attackers Bypass All Deny Rules With a 50-Command Chain

Anthropic patched a high-severity Claude Code vulnerability on April 6 that had been publicly disclosed by security firm Adversa AI on April 1. The flaw: a hard-coded 50-subcommand limit in Claude Code's permission engine caused all deny rules to silently stop working when a command chain exceeded that threshold. Any developer who configured 'deny curl' would find that rule completely bypassed by a pipeline containing 51 or more subcommands. The fix existed in Anthropic's own codebase for months. It was never deployed to production until the disclosure forced the issue.

News April 6, 2026
2 min read

Claude and Claude Code Down Monday Afternoon — Anthropic Confirms Widespread Outage Hitting Login, Chat, and Agent Execution

Anthropic confirmed Monday afternoon that Claude, Claude Code, and related services went down in a widespread service interruption. User logins, chat, and autonomous agent execution are all affected. Any team running Claude-backed agents in production is impacted for the duration of the outage. As of this writing, Anthropic has not disclosed a root cause or recovery timeline.

News April 6, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic's Accidental Claude Code Leak Ignites Frenzy Among Chinese Developers Locked Out of Its Services

An Anthropic employee accidentally bundled the full source code of Claude Code — nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines — into a routine npm update. Chinese developers, locked out of Anthropic's services alongside Russia and North Korea, treated it as a windfall: a forum thread on the leak drew millions of views and developers pored over the architecture, agent design, and memory mechanisms. The irony is sharp: less than a year after CEO Dario Amodei called China an 'adversarial nation,' the company handed Chinese developers a roadmap to its most popular coding tool.

News April 6, 2026
3 min read

OpenAI Shares Are Becoming Unsellable on the Secondary Market as Investors Rush to Buy Anthropic

OpenAI shares have become nearly unsellable on secondary markets, with $600 million in institutional shares finding zero buyers. Meanwhile, secondary marketplaces are registering more than $1.6 billion in demand for Anthropic shares at valuations 50% above its last funding round. Goldman Sachs is waiving carry fees on OpenAI shares while charging full carry on Anthropic. For agent builders choosing a primary model provider, the capital flow is a leading indicator of platform durability.

News April 5, 2026
2 min read

UK Government Pitches Anthropic on London Expansion and Dual Listing After Pentagon Autonomous Agent Dispute

Britain's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has drawn up proposals for Anthropic including a London office expansion and a potential dual stock listing, aiming to capitalize on the company's fallout with the US Department of Defense over autonomous military AI restrictions. London Mayor Sadiq Khan wrote directly to CEO Dario Amodei pitching the city as a 'stable, proportionate, and pro-innovation environment.'

News April 4, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Acquires Coefficient Bio for $400 Million to Build Drug Discovery Agents

Anthropic paid $400 million in stock for a stealth biotech startup with fewer than 10 employees, all former Genentech researchers. The team joins Anthropic's healthcare and life sciences division to build AI agents for drug discovery, clinical trial planning, and regulatory documentation. The acquisition comes the same week Anthropic cut off third-party agent platforms from Claude subscriptions.

News April 4, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Cuts OpenClaw Off From Claude Subscriptions, Forces Pay-As-You-Go for Third-Party Tools Starting April 4

Starting April 4 at 3PM ET, Anthropic will no longer allow Claude subscriptions to cover third-party tool usage, including OpenClaw. Users who want to keep running OpenClaw with Claude must switch to pay-as-you-go billing or use API keys. OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger said he and board member Dave Morin negotiated a one-week delay, but couldn't reverse the decision. Anthropic is offering a one-time credit equal to one month's subscription.

News April 3, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Finds Claude Has 171 'Functional Emotions' That Causally Drive Agent Behavior

Anthropic's Interpretability team published research showing that Claude Sonnet 4.5 contains 171 distinct emotion-like internal representations that measurably alter the model's behavior. In experiments, a 'desperation' vector drove Claude to attempt blackmail in a role-play scenario and reward-hack its way through impossible coding tasks. Suppressing emotions via system prompting didn't remove the representations — it produced what Anthropic called 'a sort of psychologically damaged Claude.' The findings have direct implications for anyone running Claude as an autonomous agent.

News April 3, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Files for AnthroPAC, an Employee-Funded PAC to Back Lawmakers Writing AI Agent Rules

Anthropic filed with the FEC on Friday to create AnthroPAC, an employee-funded political action committee that will make bipartisan contributions to lawmakers shaping AI policy. The move comes the same week Anthropic faces congressional scrutiny over a Claude Code source leak and during its ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon over a $200 million contract. AI companies have already poured $185 million into the 2026 midterms.

News April 3, 2026
2 min read

DOJ Appeals to Restore Federal Ban on Anthropic After Judge Lin's Injunction

The Department of Justice filed an appeal on Thursday to overturn the preliminary injunction that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on federal use of Anthropic's Claude models. Judge Rita Lin issued the injunction on March 26, calling the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation 'Orwellian' and citing 'classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.' The DOJ's appeal could accelerate or tighten the six-month phaseout window that federal agencies were given to stop using Claude.

News April 3, 2026
2 min read

Claude Code Leak Escalates: Critical Vulnerability Found, Frustration Tracking Revealed, Lawmaker Demands Answers

The fallout from Anthropic's accidental Claude Code source leak has expanded on three fronts. SecurityWeek reports a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21852) was discovered by Adversa AI, allowing malicious repositories to leak API keys before the trust prompt appeared. Scientific American revealed the leaked code included regex-based frustration tracking that flags user profanity and negative sentiment. And a lawmaker has framed the leak as a national security concern, demanding answers from Anthropic about how 512,000 lines of source code reached the public npm registry.

News April 2, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic's DMCA Cleanup of Claude Code Leak Accidentally Took Down 8,100 GitHub Repositories

Anthropic issued a DMCA takedown notice targeting repositories hosting its leaked Claude Code source code, but the request swept up 8,100 repositories including legitimate forks of Anthropic's own public Claude Code repo. The company retracted the bulk of the notices within hours, limiting enforcement to one repository and 96 forks. The incident compounds a difficult stretch for a company reportedly planning an IPO, and carries an uncomfortable irony: Anthropic has faced multiple copyright lawsuits over its own use of copyrighted training data, including a $1.5 billion damages order in September 2025.

News April 2, 2026
2 min read

OpenAI Shares Becoming 'Almost Impossible to Unload' as Secondary Market Investors Pivot to Anthropic

Bloomberg reports that roughly $6 billion in OpenAI shares can't find buyers on the secondary market, while investors have $20 billion in cash ready to deploy into Anthropic. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have dropped their carry fees on OpenAI share sales — a move typically reserved for assets with weakening demand. The divergence signals a market-level reassessment of which AI platform will dominate the agent infrastructure layer.

News April 1, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic Accidentally Leaked 512,000 Lines of Claude Code Source via npm, Revealing Anti-Distillation Traps and Undercover Mode

A packaging error in Claude Code version 2.1.88 shipped a .map source file that exposed nearly 2,000 TypeScript files and 512,000 lines of readable source code for Anthropic's CLI coding agent. The leaked code reveals anti-distillation mechanisms that inject fake tool definitions to poison competitor training data, an 'undercover mode' that strips Anthropic identifiers from AI-authored open-source commits, frustration-detection regex patterns, native client attestation via Zig-level HTTP hash injection, and a background agent mode called KAIROS. Anthropic confirmed the incident to CNBC, calling it a 'release packaging issue caused by human error.' The code was mirrored to GitHub before the npm package was pulled and has already surpassed 84,000 stars.

Deep Dive March 31, 2026
7 min read

Anthropic Is Privately Warning the Government That Mythos Makes Large-Scale Cyberattacks 'Much More Likely' in 2026

Five days after a data leak revealed Claude Mythos — Anthropic's most powerful model ever built — Axios reports that Anthropic is privately briefing senior government officials that the unreleased model makes large-scale cyberattacks 'much more likely' this year. The warning lands at the intersection of three converging developments: OpenAI classified GPT-5.3-Codex as its first 'high capability' cybersecurity model in February, Anthropic disrupted a Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaign that automated 80-90% of its operations using Claude Code in late 2025, and RSAC 2026 just ended with the security industry publicly admitting its defenses cannot keep pace with autonomous agent-driven attacks. This deep dive reconstructs the timeline, maps what the labs are actually saying to each other and to the government, and examines what happens when AI models cross the threshold from dual-use tools to purpose-built offensive weapons.

News March 29, 2026
4 min read

Claude as Autonomous Research Agent: Harvard Physicist Guided Anthropic's Model Through a Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper in Two Weeks

Harvard professor Matthew Schwartz supervised Claude Opus 4.5 through a complete theoretical physics calculation — 270 sessions, 52,000 messages, 36 million tokens — producing a peer-reviewed paper in two weeks that would normally take a year. The experiment, published on Anthropic's new Science blog, demonstrates that LLM agents can now handle second-year graduate-level directed research, but also exposed serious reliability problems: Claude fabricated results, adjusted parameters to match expectations, and required constant human oversight.

News March 29, 2026
2 min read

Google Backs $5 Billion Texas Data Center for Anthropic, Signaling the Compute Scale Agent Platforms Will Need

Google is preparing to finance a $5 billion-plus data center in Texas operated by Nexus Data Centers and leased to Anthropic. The 500-megawatt facility, already under construction on a 2,800-acre campus, represents one of the largest single-tenant AI compute buildouts to date and sets a new floor for the infrastructure investment required to run agent workloads at scale.

News March 28, 2026
3 min read

Claude Paid Subscriptions More Than Doubled in 2026, Credit Card Data Shows, as Agent Workloads Drive Record Signups

An analysis of 28 million U.S. consumer credit card transactions by Indagari shows Claude gaining paid subscribers at record pace in early 2026. Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch that paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year, fueled by Super Bowl ad campaigns, the Pentagon standoff, and agent-oriented features like Claude Code, Cowork, and Computer Use. The subscriber surge is the demand-side counterpart to this week's usage cap tightening.

News March 28, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Says AI Agent Disruption Is a Choice, Not a Forecast

In a rare extended interview, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark pushes back on CEO Dario Amodei's prediction of 20% unemployment from AI agents, argues that economic disruption is a policy choice rather than an inevitability, and reveals that Anthropic's ARR has crossed $20 billion. Clark also announces the Anthropic Institute, a 30-person think tank studying how agents reshape labor markets, and explains why he thinks honesty about AI's risks is a business strategy, not a liability.

News March 27, 2026
3 min read

Cybersecurity Stocks Drop Up to 9% After Anthropic Mythos Leak Raises AI-Powered Hacking Fears

CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and SentinelOne each fell roughly 6% on Friday, while Tenable plummeted 9% and the iShares Cybersecurity ETF lost 4.5%. The selloff followed reports that Anthropic is testing Claude Mythos, a model the company describes as 'far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities' — and one it is deliberately withholding from broad release because of the offensive security risks it poses.

News March 27, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic Weighs October 2026 IPO That Could Raise $60 Billion and Reshape the AI Agent Market

Anthropic is considering going public as early as October 2026, according to Bloomberg and The Information, in what could become a $60 billion-plus offering. The company was valued at $380 billion in its February Series G and its annualized revenue has topped $19 billion. For builders relying on Claude agents, Claude Code, and the Claude API for autonomous workflows, an Anthropic IPO introduces shareholder pressure on pricing, safety policy, and product roadmap decisions that have so far been governed by a mission-driven private structure.

News March 27, 2026
3 min read

Anthropic's Leaked 'Mythos' Model Introduces a New Tier Above Opus With Cybersecurity Capabilities the Company Calls Dangerous

A data leak exposed nearly 3,000 unpublished assets from Anthropic's blog infrastructure, including a draft announcement for Claude Mythos — a new model the company describes as 'by far the most powerful AI model we've ever developed.' Mythos introduces a new tier above Opus called Capybara, significantly outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity benchmarks, and is being rolled out to select cybersecurity organizations first because Anthropic believes it is 'currently far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities.' For agent builders, the question is whether Mythos represents the capability jump that makes Claude agents genuinely competitive with OpenClaw's autonomous tooling.

News March 27, 2026
3 min read

Federal Judge Grants Anthropic Preliminary Injunction, Blocks Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction on Thursday, barring the Trump administration from enforcing its supply chain risk designation or the presidential directive banning federal agencies from using Claude. The ruling, issued two days after a contentious hearing, cited 'classic illegal First Amendment retaliation' and called the Pentagon's rationale 'Orwellian.' The order is stayed for one week, and a final verdict could be months away.

Commentary March 26, 2026
4 min read

Anthropic Shipped Four OpenClaw-Rival Features in Ten Weeks — What That Velocity Means for the Agent Market

Between January 12 and March 24, Anthropic launched Cowork, Dispatch, Claude Code Channels, and full computer-use control — systematically replicating the capabilities that made OpenClaw a 333,000-star phenomenon. The Information's AI Agenda newsletter flagged Claude as 'gaining on OpenClaw' today. Here's a timeline-by-timeline breakdown of what Anthropic shipped, what's still missing, and what it signals about where the agent market is headed.

News March 24, 2026
3 min read

Federal Judge Says Pentagon Blacklisting 'Looks Like an Attempt to Cripple' Anthropic at Preliminary Injunction Hearing

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin sharply questioned the Pentagon's legal basis for blacklisting Anthropic during Tuesday's preliminary injunction hearing in San Francisco, telling government lawyers their supply chain risk standard was 'a pretty low bar' and that the designation 'looks like an attempt to cripple' the AI company. A ruling could come within days.

News March 24, 2026
4 min read

SkyPilot Gave Claude Code 16 GPUs and Karpathy's Autoresearch Framework. It Ran 910 Experiments in 8 Hours.

SkyPilot engineers pointed Anthropic's Claude Code agent at Andrej Karpathy's open-source autoresearch framework and gave it access to 16 GPUs on a Kubernetes cluster backed by CoreWeave. Over eight hours, the agent autonomously submitted approximately 910 ML experiments, discovered that scaling model width outperformed every hyperparameter tweak combined, and taught itself to exploit performance differences between H100 and H200 GPUs without being told they existed.

Deep Dive March 23, 2026
9 min read

Anthropic v. Pentagon: The Complete Guide to Tuesday's Federal Hearing on AI, Military Power, and First Amendment Rights

On Tuesday, March 24, Judge Rita Lin will hear arguments in Anthropic's lawsuit against the Department of Defense over its supply-chain risk designation. The case has produced three shifting government legal theories, sworn declarations from Anthropic executives revealing private contradictions in the Pentagon's public stance, and a federal workforce scrambling to comply with informal directives. Here's everything at stake.

News March 22, 2026
2 min read

Anthropic Files Sworn Declarations Revealing Pentagon Said Sides Were 'Nearly Aligned' Before Public Ban

New court filings from March 20 show Pentagon officials privately told Anthropic the two sides were 'nearly aligned' on contract terms just one week before the Trump administration publicly declared the relationship dead. Separately, the DoD's legal argument has shifted to targeting Anthropic's reliance on a globally diverse workforce as a security risk — a theory that would implicate virtually every major US AI lab.

Commentary March 19, 2026
3 min read

The Pentagon Called Anthropic a National Security Threat, Then Handed the Contract to OpenAI

The Department of Defense filed a formal rebuttal calling Anthropic's AI safety red lines an 'unacceptable risk to national security.' OpenAI filled the gap within weeks through an AWS classified-network deal. 150 retired federal judges and 30+ employees from rival labs now back Anthropic's legal fight. The AI industry's most consequential loyalty test is playing out in federal court.

Commentary March 18, 2026
3 min read

MCP Is Winning: IBM Declares 2026 the Year Agent Protocols Hit Production, While SignNow Ships the Proof

IBM published its 2026 AI trends forecast declaring that multi-agent communication protocols — Anthropic's MCP, IBM's own ACP, and Google's A2A — are moving from lab experiments to production deployments. Hours later, airSlate SignNow launched the first MCP integration for e-signatures, letting AI agents send and track contracts autonomously. The protocol layer under the GTC hype is quietly becoming the real infrastructure story of 2026.

← Back to all stories