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A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk blacklist over the company's refusal to unlock Claude for autonomous weapons and surveillance.

Two independent researchers used OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to decrypt German Army Enigma messages that had resisted cryptanalysis for decades.

Anthropic's new Bay Area wet lab says Claude autonomously spotted a previously uncharacterized DNA-repeat enzyme system in bacteriophages, a find CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called intriguing.

Claude Opus 5.5 becomes Claude Code's default model and lands in GitHub Copilot the same day, at roughly 40% lower cost than Opus 5.

Anthropic's CEO published a three-step plan to slow AI development, winning qualified support from Sam Altman but public rejection from Trump, Beijing, Meta and Nvidia.

Anthropic added CarPlay integration to its Claude iOS app, letting drivers hold hands-free voice conversations, following ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Meta AI.

Anthropic's new coding-focused Claude Fable 5.1 became selectable in GitHub Copilot the day it launched, but the model requires data retention by default and stays off until administrators enable it.

A U.S. district judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk label against Anthropic was unlawful retaliation that violated the First and Fifth Amendments, months after Anthropic refused to loosen AI guardrails on autonomous weapons.

Thomson Reuters spent $40 million building an in-house legal AI model on a reworked Alibaba Qwen base, aiming to reduce dependence on Anthropic and other outside AI labs.

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents read and write to lab and factory hardware through standardized drivers, cutting integration from weeks to hours in early tests.

Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion, then walked away; the two sides are now said to be exploring a supply partnership instead.

UK inference-chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise about $600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, driven by an initial $250M chip deal with Anthropic.