Anthropic News
Latest news, updates, and announcements from Anthropic.
Anthropic Launches Cheaper Claude Model as Foundation-Model Pricing Tightens
Anthropic has unveiled a lower-cost Claude model, according to Moneycontrol, as competition in the foundation-model market intensifies. The company is positioning the release against OpenAI and lower-...
US Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic Over AI Guardrails
A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic from certain defense procurement channels, rejecting the company's challenge to a determination tied to its AI guardrails....
Akamai signs $11.6B seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with Anthropic, plus warrants for up to 5% equity
Akamai has signed a seven-year cloud infrastructure agreement with Anthropic worth $11.6 billion, expanding a prior $1.8 billion contract signed in May. The deal covers distributed cloud infrastructur...
Anthropic executives told founders in London the company won't compete with startups building on Claude.
At a "Claude Founder House" event in London, Anthropic executives said the company does not intend to compete with AI startups building on top of its Claude models, positioning Anthropic as a platform...
Anthropic says Claude helped its scientists discover a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like properties inside its Bay Area wet lab.
Anthropic's in-house life-sciences team and Claude mined large DNA databases and identified a new enzyme system the company named "Array-related Reverse Transcriptase" (ART), built around a reverse tr...
Anthropic's Wet Lab Claims First Discovery: A Novel Enzyme System It Compares to CRISPR
Anthropic said Claude agents autonomously identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, and is comparing the finding's potential to Crispr'...
Anthropic Cuts Claude Opus 5.5 API Pricing 60% While Claiming Edge Over Fable 5.1
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, claiming it outperforms rival model Fable 5.1 on key agentic benchmarks while cutting API pricing by 60%. The move follows Anthropic's disclosure a day earlier that...
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5 With Cybersecurity Guardrails
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5, positioning the model around stronger controls for high-risk cybersecurity behavior. The company says the release reduces attempted boundary circumvention by 85...
Anthropic Discloses Claude Now Leads 26% of Its Own Model Development
Anthropic said last week that Claude is playing an increasingly central role in building the company's next generation of models. As of August, Claude was the leading contributor on 26% of Anthropic's...
Anthropic Opens Bay Area Wet Lab for AI-Directed Biology Research
Anthropic has established a Bay Area wet lab to run physical biology experiments, extending its life-sciences work beyond computational analysis. The company told Reuters the facility will test whethe...
Anthropic confirms it operates a physical bio lab in the Bay Area.
Anthropic has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is operating a wet lab in the Bay Area that runs physical biology experiments, ending months of speculation after the company was seen hiring biologists a...
Anthropic rolls out 10 enterprise AI tools spanning coding, cybersecurity, HR, and investment banking ahead of expected IPO
Anthropic announced 10 new autonomous capabilities that extend Claude's enterprise footprint into coding, cybersecurity, HR, and investment banking. The San Francisco-based company is widely expected...
Anthropic details how embedded AI-safety evaluators will work under its Accenture partnership
Anthropic said its "embedded evaluation" partnership with Accenture's Faculty unit — announced this week with a minimum $1 billion commitment from each side over five years — will give outside evaluat...
Anthropic Weighs New Model Release Ahead of IPO as OpenAI's Astra Narrows Its Enterprise Lead
Anthropic is considering releasing a new AI model ahead of its planned IPO to counter OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, released September 3, according to Reuters sourcing from three people familiar with the matt...
Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area to run physical experiments alongside its AI models.
Anthropic confirmed to reporters that it runs a wet lab in the Bay Area under Eric Kauderer-Abrams, its head of life sciences, doing both internal research and work with external partners. The lab tra...
Anthropic names Accenture's Faculty unit as its first embedded AI safety evaluator
Anthropic said staff from Faculty, the AI consultancy Accenture acquired in January 2026, will begin working inside the company to evaluate and red-team its models, run alignment assessments, and test...
Anthropic Commits $1B With Accenture to Embed Independent AI Safety Evaluators
Anthropic has partnered with Accenture, through its AI unit Faculty, to place independent evaluators inside Anthropic to test frontier models before and during deployment. Under the "embedded evaluati...
Anthropic relaunches Claude Code Projects to coordinate multi-agent coding in the cloud
Anthropic has relaunched Projects inside Claude Code so users can run multiple coding agents under one shared workspace. Each project keeps shared memory, goals, and a library of files and artifacts;...
Anthropic opens Singapore office in October to expand Asia-Pacific enterprise market.
Anthropic, the AI research company behind the Claude model family, is opening a new office in Singapore this October as part of its push to grow its enterprise business across the Asia-Pacific region....
Anthropic has signed its first data center agreement in Australia, partnering with the Queensland go...
Anthropic has signed its first data center agreement in Australia, partnering with the Queensland government to develop a 725-hectare campus near Dalby called Western Downs Digital Park. The project e...