Anthropic Claude

AI did not just dominate the product headlines in the first half of 2026. It became the defining force in global stock issuance, and one banker is already invoking the crashes of 2000 and 2021.

An 18-day blackout of Anthropic's most advanced models just ended. The lesson for anyone building on frontier AI is that access is now a policy decision, not only a technical one.

Anthropic just made its most agentic mid-tier model the default for every free Claude user. The pitch is blunt, near-flagship autonomy at roughly a third of the price of its flagship.

The first global, fully independent scientific body on AI has one blunt message for governments. The world cannot govern what it cannot understand, and the evidence often arrives too late to act on.

Microsoft's June 30 deadline to end Claude Code access across its Experiences and Devices division has arrived, forcing thousands of engineers onto GitHub Copilot CLI.

Gartner forecasts that AI coding token costs will overtake the average developer's salary by 2028, and the evidence is already arriving from Slash, Uber, and Microsoft.

A US export order pulled Anthropic's top models offline worldwide. Austria's answer: invite the company to set up shop inside the European Union.

Six senior Google DeepMind researchers have left for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta in five months, wiping roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market value.

Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb launched RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon seeking $1 billion to retrain American workers displaced by AI.

Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab ran 28.8 million Claude interactions through 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2026.

Anthropic just put a virtual coworker inside Slack. Tag it in a channel, hand it a task, and it breaks the work into steps and finishes it on its own.

The free Fable 5 window closed after subscribers got barely four working days of it. Starting today, the most capable Claude costs real money, and at double the price of Opus.