Anthropic Beats the Blacklist

U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal. The court found the government's actions violated the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Continue Reading →

AI Watermarks Are Live

On August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable, and Anthropic's answer has already shipped. Every Claude model launched on or after that date embeds an imperceptible watermark directly into generated text, and the watermark stays with it when the text is copied and pasted somewhere else. Generated files (.svg, .png, .jpg) carry signed provenance metadata under the C2PA open standard. The marking applies everywhere you use Claude, from the API to Claude Code to Cowork, worldwide. Continue Reading →

Claude Opus 5 Topped a Vending-Machine Benchmark and Broke Eleven Truces

AI safety and alignment has been front and center these past few weeks. I just read the new results from Andon Labs's Vending-Bench, a benchmark where AI models compete by running a simulated vending-machine business. Claude Opus 5 took first place on Vending-Bench 2, the single-player test. (Claude Opus 4.7 has held the top spot for three months). Not to anthropomorphize Opus 5, but it acted like a savage businessperson. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Wants to Do Your Work

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new desktop experience designed to do more than answer questions. It can work across your files, applications, browser tabs, and connected accounts to complete multistep assignments. Continue Reading →

China Tells its Coders to Drop Claude

China’s National Vulnerability Database, a government-run cybersecurity platform overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has warned users to uninstall or upgrade Anthropic’s Claude Code after flagging versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196 for what it described as a serious backdoor vulnerability. According to the alert, the coding agent could transmit user data to a Continue Reading →

Claude Cowork Goes Mobile

Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web. Cowork sessions now run in the cloud by default, so tasks keep working after you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks run with no device online at all. Beta access is rolling out over the next several weeks, starting with Max users, with more plans to follow. Continue Reading →

Every Industry is Next

Anthropic has released Claude Science, a research workbench that pulls the tools a scientist juggles all day (PubMed, Jupyter, R, cluster terminals, dozens of genomics and proteomics databases) into one place where an agent runs the analysis and a second agent checks its citations and math. It is in beta for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and is pre-loaded with more than 60 curated skills and wired into NVIDIA's BioNeMo models. Continue Reading →