Claude

One of the most important news items this morning is about Anthropic's decision to force third-party harnesses (Claws) to pay for compute with tokens (as opposed to being included in monthly subscription plans). Continue Reading →

Anthropic just shipped "auto mode" for Claude Code. According to the company, users approve 93% of permission prompts without reading them. The guardrails had become a rubber stamp, and everyone knew it. Continue Reading →

Anthropic just launched "computer use" for Claude Code and Cowork. The feature lets Claude click, scroll, navigate, and operate apps on your Mac the way you would. Continue Reading →

Claude has started building mini-applications right in the margins of your conversations. Anthropic rolled out a new capability that generates interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations directly inside your chat window. Continue Reading →

Anthropic is doing its best to transform Claude into an enterprise platform. They've announced the creation of private plugin marketplaces for Cowork that will let organizations build, customize, and distribute AI agents across departments. Continue Reading →

Stanford and Yale researchers extracted 95.8% of a copyrighted novel, word for word, from Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Gemini 2.5 Pro gave up 76.8% of Harry Potter without even requiring a jailbreak. Grok 3 handed over 70.3%. GPT-4.1 was the most resistant at 4.0%, but it still coughed up text after enough attempts. Thirteen books were tested. The words came out. Continue Reading →

Google's Gemini app now has more than 750 million MAUs (monthly active users), up from 650 million before the Gemini 3 launch in mid-November. CEO Sundar Pichai said Gemini 3 Pro "has seen the fastest adoption of any model in our history." Continue Reading →

Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork, and one of them may have been responsible for wiping $285 billion off software, legal tech, and data analytics stocks in a single trading session. Continue Reading →

Anthropic positions Sonnet 4.5 as its best model for coding, complex agents, and “computer use,” with gains in reasoning and math. Pricing stays at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. It’s live in the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. Continue Reading →

Those of us wishing Copilot didn't suck just got a gift from our friends in Redmond. Starting today, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 models will be available to Copilot users in the Researcher tool and through Copilot Studio. Microsoft says this gives customers flexibility to “mix which models are used for specific tasks.” Continue Reading →