Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team
Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team

Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most va…

Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate
Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate

The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork. Whether it ever ships may come down to Elon Musk. Cursor made its name as a tool for people who write code. Now it is b…

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI
Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI

Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and workers say it is costing them promotions and raises. Aubrey spent more than a year on a project to speed up a costly medical ma…

Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag
Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag

The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to train on the country’s books, music and journalism. Australia has become the latest test of a question every government now f…

Anthropic is giving away Claude Fable 5 at no extra cost for a limited time

Anthropic is offering paid Claude subscribers free access to Claude Fable 5 until July 19, after which continued use will require separate usage credits.

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place
Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place

Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Post. China’s National Vulnerability Database, overseen b…

Claude Code can now browse the web without opening Chrome

Anthropic has added an in-app browser to Claude Code on desktop, allowing the AI coding assistant to browse websites, read documentation, and interact with web pages directly inside the app.

Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming
Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming

Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and an unsettling party trick. Anthropic researchers now have the clearest view yet of what a large language model does while…

A 23-year-old’s AI startup wants a $20bn valuation, months after a breach cost it Meta
A 23-year-old’s AI startup wants a $20bn valuation, months after a breach cost it Meta

A three-year-old startup run by a 23-year-old is in talks to double its worth to $20bn. The numbers are dazzling. Read the footnotes. Mercor, the AI training marketplace, has told investors it can raise at a $20bn valuation. It says it already holds at…