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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 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.
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.
Anthropic confirmed to Reuters that a Bay Area wet lab is running physical biology experiments, taking its Claude models beyond simulations into drug science.
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.
