New research is causing quite some controversy on Reddit — but it makes some very interesting points.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 update lets you control how hard Claude thinks before it answers.
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup’s final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.
The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.
I used Claude to build myself a fully offline, and locally processed alternative to Grammarly. The first build took me less than 30 seconds and I didn’t even have to see or write a line of code.
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy is now part of Anthropic’s AI team and will helm a team that handles pre-training research.
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Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it.
Mythos presents a threat to the global economic system, so the world’s financial experts and banking officials want to know what it can do.
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A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.