Anthropic has released a major update to Claude Design, its AI-powered design tool that attracted more than one million users in its first week after launching in April. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the overhaul targets three problems that limited the tool’s usefulness: excessive token consumption, a lack of brand control, and a disconnect …
ChatGPT is still the world’s most popular AI assistant, but its grip on the market is loosening. For the first time since its launch, OpenAI’s chatbot has fallen below 50% market share, as rivals like Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude attract a growing share of users. Ivan Mehta reports for TechCrunch, citing data from analytics …
The US government has ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to US citizens only. Anthropic, unable to verify the citizenship of its users, responded by taking both models offline entirely. The move marks the first time the US government has issued an export control …
Claude is the best AI for writing. This has been true since its humble beginnings in 2023. I’ve used Claude as soon as it was available and felt the difference immediately. I would have loved to pay for it, but there was no paid plan in the first few months. When Anthropic added Claude Pro …
Anthropic has released two new AI models: Claude Fable 5, available to the general public, and Claude Mythos 5, reserved for a small group of vetted partners. Both share the same underlying model, but Fable 5 comes with safety restrictions that block responses in high-risk areas. The launch marks the first time Anthropic has made …
OpenAI and Anthropic appear to have crossed a critical threshold: their AI coding agents are generating substantial revenue, and both companies have quietly restructured their pricing to capture it. Simon Willison writes for his weblog that the two leading AI labs have found product-market fit, driven by a shift toward enterprise customers paying full API …
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced on Monday. The filing gives Anthropic the option to pursue an initial public offering once the SEC completes its review. The move puts Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI, which has not yet filed its …
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion. The San Francisco company has now surpassed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup. OpenAI’s last valuation stood at $730 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. A broad …
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, a new version of its most advanced publicly available AI model. The update arrives just 41 days after its predecessor, Opus 4.7, and brings measurable improvements in coding performance, agentic tasks, and — notably — honesty. The model is available immediately at the same price as before. Standard pricing …
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, is joining Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X (formerly Twitter), writing that he is “very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” At Anthropic, Karpathy will join the pretraining team, which handles the large-scale training runs …