Anthropic Wants Some Slack

Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta. Tag @Claude inside a Slack channel and Claude can join the workstream, follow the thread, take assignments, remember relevant channel context, and (with admin-granted access) pull from connected tools, data sources, codebases, and other approved channels. It is available now to Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Continue Reading →

The G7’s AI Coalition is the Cartel Now

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door G7 working lunch in Évian-les-Bains asking President Trump to lead an international AI coalition. Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman were also in the room, along with about a dozen tech executives and the heads of state of the world's wealthiest democracies. OpenAI's global affairs chief Chris Lehane, who also attended Wednesday's meeting, said non-U.S. leaders in the room acknowledged that the U.S. "certainly could play the lead role in working to establish" standards around AI. Continue Reading →

When AI Builds Itself

Anthropic published a remarkable paper this week called "When AI Builds Itself." Their engineers now ship roughly eight times more code per quarter than they did in 2024. More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s codebase is written by Claude, up from low single digits before Claude Code launched in February 2025. Continue Reading →

Claude 4.8 is Here

Anthropic yesterday released Claude Opus 4.8, which the company calls it "a modest but tangible improvement" over Opus 4.7. When a vendor undersells its own launch, pay attention to which number it is quietly proud of. Continue Reading →

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic. He'll work on the pre-training team under team lead Nick Joseph, where he will start a new initiative focused on using Claude to accelerate Claude's own pre-training research. In his announcement, he said "the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative" and that he was getting "back to R&D." Continue Reading →

Work With Codex From Anywhere

OpenAI put Codex on your phone yesterday. The mobile app (iOS and Android) now connects to your running desktop Codex session through a secure relay layer. You can review diffs, approve commits, and monitor agent progress from anywhere. No SSH, no VPN, no laptop required. During the preview period, it's available on every plan, including Free. Continue Reading →

Claude Just Showed Up on Your AWS Bill

Anthropic launched Claude Platform on AWS on Sunday, two weeks after OpenAI put GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 on Amazon Bedrock. AWS now hosts both frontier model families on a single bill with IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and consumption-based pricing. Continue Reading →