Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.

I connected Claude to Gmail, and it got to know me scarily well — as well as saving me time

If you don’t mind Claude having a shuffle around your inbox, it can quickly get up to speed with your way of working.
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You can now choose how hard Claude thinks before answering your queries

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 update lets you control how hard Claude thinks before it answers.

Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup’s final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.

I built an offline Grammarly alternative and turned it into a Mac app without any coding

I used Claude to build myself a fully offline, and locally processed alternative to Grammarly. The first build took me less than 30 seconds and I didn’t even have to see or write a line of code.

A founding member of OpenAI has joined Anthropic to boost Claude’s research capabilities

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy is now part of Anthropic’s AI team and will helm a team that handles pre-training research.
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Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it.