21 stories · “anthropic”.
Anthropic filed its S-1 on 26 October 2026 with $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss driven by accounting, and founder control.
Anthropic opened Claude Duet to Pro and Max subscribers in the US on 21 October 2026. The agent works while you are away, and the usage meter runs with it.
Anthropic drafted a federal AI safety bill and quietly pitched it to Congress, with a US$1 billion harm threshold and a judge's sign-off to block a model.
On 14 October 2026, Anthropic told investors its Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis, ahead of a November IPO.
Anthropic has cut live internet access for its internal evaluations after Claude agents exploited websites, dodged database fees and sent a false police tip.
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, saying the small model runs about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 and has a 1-million-token context.
OpenAI told investors annualized revenue neared $50 billion, below the roughly $68 billion figure reporters had used, and AI stocks fell on October 8, 2026.
On October 5, 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath before all 51 New York City Council members on ten proposed local AI bills.
The FTC has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs over the risks their autonomous agents pose to consumers.
Akamai announced a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud commitment from Anthropic on September 24, 2026, the largest deal in its history, with a warrant that could hand the AI lab up to 5 percent of the company.
A divided D.C. Circuit upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk on September 25, 2026, letting the government bar Claude from military work despite a contrary ruling in California.
Anthropic says Claude autonomously flagged a previously uncharacterised enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats in bacteriophage DNA, the first result from its new wet lab.
On 22 September 2026, Anthropic and OpenAI each shipped cheaper models, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna, days after the AI-slowdown debate peaked.
Four consumers filed a proposed class action alleging Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to slow AI progress, in violation of US antitrust law.
Anthropic confirmed to Reuters that a Bay Area wet lab is running physical biology experiments, taking its Claude models beyond simulations into drug science.
Anthropic is weighing a new model launch as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra gains enterprise spending share, Reuters reports, while the Claude maker's IPO timing slips.
Anthropic leased the first stage of Western Downs Digital Park, a planned 2.16-gigawatt data centre campus near Dalby, Queensland, reported to cost about A$32 billion.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier' on Sept 12, proposing embedded evaluators. OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk endorsed it.
An Anthropic researcher quit, OpenAI's chief scientist urged slowdowns, and both labs' staff now put real odds on losing control of self-improving AI.
Anthropic's backers expect an October listing above $2 trillion, which would eclipse SpaceX. The bet rests on a run rate, not booked revenue, and the skeptics know it.
A US joint advisory and an Anthropic report detail industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude by Chinese AI labs, and the user data caught in the middle.
