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Claude Code mods, announced October 1, are plugin-delivered TypeScript functions that can rewrite prompts and block tool calls, and Anthropic says they are not sandboxed.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan a self-regulatory body for frontier AI covering pre-release testing, incident reporting and auditor certification, targeting a launch by year-end or early 2027.

Claude Code 2.1.284 starts interactive terminal and VS Code sessions in auto mode on every plan and provider, extending a default that began on Pro, Max and Team plans.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over consumer risks, with formal demands for documents and executive testimony expected within weeks.

Sonnet 5.5 arrives in Claude Code at unchanged $2/$10 token pricing; Anthropic reports 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 10.3% for Sonnet 5.

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.