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Anthropic News

Claude, the research, and Anthropic's product moves — the lab whose models power much of what builders ship, this site included.

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GLM-5.2 puts top-tier coding within four points of Claude for a sixth the cost

GLM-5.2 ships open MIT weights with coding scores four points behind Claude Opus and a sixth the cost, 48 hours after US export controls pulled a frontier model.

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LAUNCHESvia @testingcatalog18h ago

Anthropic builds scheduled triggers for upcoming Claude agent

Recurrent triggers that wake an agent on a schedule and survive container restarts would unblock cron-style autonomous workflows.

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AIvia @SemiAnalysis_19h ago

Claude tokenization charges Hindi speakers up to 3x more

Non-Latin scripts tokenize less efficiently, so the same prompt costs multiples more in some languages.

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DEVvia @Saboo_Shubham_17h ago

Visual Plan skill lets Claude Code and Codex plan before coding

An agent-native planning step that sketches a solution shape before writing any code, aimed at reducing wasted generation.

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DEVHacker NewsYesterday

John Jumper to join Anthropic

113 points, 83 comments on HN

AIvia @scaling0116h ago

Anthropic eval predicts 61-hour task horizons

A projection that next-gen models could sustain 100-hour autonomous task horizons on METR, if it holds.

AIvia @TechCrunch15h ago

Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic

The AlphaFold lead joins Anthropic amid a broader exodus from Google DeepMind, a signal of where research talent is concentrating.

SECURITYvia @TechCrunchYesterday

TechCrunch revisits why cyber export controls keep failing

History from PGP to spyware suggests new controls on Anthropic-linked tools won't stop determined actors.

AIvia @testingcatalog18h ago

Anthropic builds always-on 'Conway' agent with Chrome and webhook support

Surfaced code points to a standalone Claude environment that runs Claude Code and persists, going well past the current desktop chat.

DEVHacker News4d ago

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

67 points, 34 comments on HN

AIvia @semaforYesterday

White House blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic's top models

JPMorgan cuts Hong Kong staff off Claude, a sign export-style controls now reach into who can call frontier APIs.

AIvia @kimmonismusYesterday

AlphaFold's John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

Nobel-winning protein researcher's move signals Anthropic's push into scientific reasoning and a talent drain at DeepMind.

AIvia @mreflowYesterday

DeepMind loses Shazeer and Jumper to OpenAI and Anthropic

Commentary on two senior departures days apart, framing it as a talent blow without new figures or terms.

COMPUTEvia @ClementDelangue2d ago

Benchmark shows 800x cost gap per task across frontier models

Claude Fable 5 tops the eval at $31 per task while DeepSeek V4 Flash runs ~$0.04, so model choice can swing inference spend three orders of magnitude.

AIvia @theinformationYesterday

Google, Microsoft, Salesforce back enterprise AI software standard

The standard aims to keep existing enterprise apps central, blunting OpenAI and Anthropic's drive to make agents the control layer.

DEVvia @svpinoYesterday

Claude Code becomes a Jira assignee

Coding agents move into the ticket queue, so work can route to Claude from the assignee dropdown or a comment.

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