Anthropic

Yesterday, Anthropic quietly dropped a bombshell. Unless users explicitly opt out by September 28, it will use consumer chat data to train future AI models. This is a stunning reversal from Anthropic's previous position as the privacy-first alternative to ChatGPT. Continue Reading →

Anthropic just announced that Claude Code, its command-line coding assistant, is now bundled with Team and Enterprise plans. The announcement includes the predictable enterprise features: administrative controls, usage analytics, spend limits, and a new Compliance API for audit trails. Continue Reading →

On July 17, 2025, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that three authors (Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson) can represent all U.S. writers whose works Anthropic allegedly downloaded from pirate libraries LibGen and PiLiMi. According to Reuters, Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as seven million books, exposing the Amazon‑ and Alphabet‑backed startup to over a trillion dollars in damages. Continue Reading →

Anthropic on Monday announced on-demand chat recall for Claude. Ask it to "find what we discussed about _____," and it will search your previous conversations and pull relevant context into a new thread. No persistent memory profile quietly building in the background. Just explicit search when you need it. Continue Reading →

Both OpenAI and Google DeepMind announced gold-medal performances at the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO) this week, correctly answering five out of six questions in one of the world's most challenging high school math competitions. The achievement marks a significant leap from Google's silver-medal performance last year and represents the first time AI systems competed using "informal" methods (processing questions in natural language) rather than requiring human translation into machine-readable code. Continue Reading →

Meta scored a decisive victory in federal court this week. A lawsuit filed by thirteen authors – including Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden – accusing Meta of copyright infringement was largely dismissed by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. Continue Reading →

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude, qualifies as fair use. This decision addresses the lawsuit filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, who alleged that Anthropic infringed their copyrights by using pirated versions of their books for AI training. Continue Reading →

When an AI model fears for its own survival, what does it do? According to Anthropic’s latest research, it blackmails. Continue Reading →

Yesterday at Anthropic’s first “Code with Claude” conference in San Francisco, the company introduced Claude Opus 4 and its companion, Claude Sonnet 4. The headline is clear: Opus 4 can pursue a complex coding task for about seven consecutive hours without losing context. That leap takes us from last year’s five-minute attention span to what feels like a full work shift at silicon speed. Continue Reading →

In a surprising move, OpenAI announced yesterday it will adopt rival Anthropic's MCP across its product line. CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that OpenAI will integrate MCP support into its Agents SDK immediately, with the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API following soon. Continue Reading →