Anthropic News

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.

Anthropic releases part of AI tool source code in 'error'

Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant Claude Code due to human error, the company said Tuesday.

[AINews] The Claude Code Source Leak

The accidental "open sourcing" of Claude Code brings a ton of insights.

Anthropic is having a month

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

Build a FinOps agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you learn how to build a FinOps agent usingnbsp;Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps your finance team manage AWS costs across multiple accounts. This conversational agent consolidates data fromnbsp;AWS Cost Explorer,nbsp;AWS Budgets, andnbsp;AWS Compute Optimizernbsp;into a single interface, so your team can ask questions like "What are my top cost drivers this month?" and receive immediate answers.

AWS launches frontier agents for security testing and cloud operations

I'm excited to announce that AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing and AWS DevOps Agent are now generally available, representing a new class of AI capabilities we announced at re:Invent called frontier agents. These autonomous systems work independently to achieve goals, scale massively to tackle concurrent tasks, and run persistently for hours or days without constant human oversight. Together, these agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. In preview, customers and partners report that AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from weeks to hours and the AWS DevOps Agent supports 3–5x faster incident resolution.

There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days earlier, Amazon had announced that Health AI, an LLM-based tool previously restricted to members of its One Medical service, would…

The Pentagon’s “culture war” tactic against Anthropic has backfired

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Thursday, a California judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and ordering government agencies to stop using its AI. It’s the latest development in the month-long…

Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing

Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.

[AINews] H100 prices are melting *UP*

a quiet day lets us report an important GPU trend

Claude rate limit chaos

Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga

A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.

Run Generative AI inference with Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)

Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6). Customers in New Zealand can now access Anthropic Claude models (Claude Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5) and Amazon (Nova 2 Lite) models directly in the Auckland Region with cross region inference. In this post, we explore how cross-Region inference works from the New Zealand Region, the models available through geographic and global routing, and how to get started with your first API call. We

[AINews] The Biggest Claude Launch of All Time

We thought about this carefully before choosing hyperbole; but it is warranted.

The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date. If you’re keeping score, Anthropic—the company founded…

[AINews] Apple's War on Slop

a quiet day lets us reflect on the End of Sora, LiteLLM, AI2, and other not so happy news.