Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports
Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per…

Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’
Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in…

Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn
Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn

Anthropic’s planned stock market debut is “an unprecedented test of investor gullibility,” independent research firm New Constructs said in a report titled “Anthropic Is The Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026.” The firm puts the AI company’s equity at as litt…

Anthropic makes Code Review generally available, with $50,000 in credits attached
Anthropic makes Code Review generally available, with $50,000 in credits attached

Anthropic has moved Code Review, its automated pull-request reviewer for Claude Code, out of research preview for Team and Enterprise customers, with up to $50,000 in free credits for eligible enterprises. Organisations running GitHub Enterprise Cloud …

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8bn, FT reports
Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8bn, FT reports

On October 14, Anthropic told potential investors that its third-quarter 2026 revenue reached $16.8 billion. The company also reported an adjusted profit for that period. Moreover, the company shared these figures at an investor event held at its San F…

The AI race is back on
The AI race is back on

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest […]

Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu
Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu

Are legions of smart devices – fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs – conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, […]

Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government
Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government

Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. The memorandum covers AI safety, security and model evaluation, research o…

Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon case
Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon case

Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety. Anthropic has asked th…