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Anthropic

Anthropic is the San Francisco company behind the Claude family of models, Claude Code and the Claude developer platform. It is organized as a public benefit corporation and presents AI safety research as central to its business, a claim this page tracks against what it actually ships and discloses.

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Checked Oct 8
First public announcement
May 28, 2021 ($124M funding round)
MCP announced
November 25, 2024
MCP donated to Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)
December 9, 2025

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Industry · ExplainerAnthropic explained: history, products and how it makes moneyFounded in 2021 by former OpenAI staff, Anthropic was valued at $965 billion in May 2026. Here's how it's governed, funded and paid, and what's unresolved.·9 min read
Developers · GuideBuild your first agent with the Claude Agent SDK (TypeScript, October 2026)Install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk, call query(), lock down tools and permission modes, add a custom MCP tool and a safety hook, and cap spend. Code type-checked against v0.3.293.·7 min read
Policy · ExplainerAnthropic's new rule against abusing Claude, explained: what the usage policy says and how it's enforcedFrom November 12, 2026, Anthropic's usage policy bans "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude. What the text says, what it doesn't cover, how it's enforced and how it ties to Anthropic's model-welfare work.·7 min read

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Products · ExplainerDoes Claude train on your data? Yes on Free, Pro and Max if Model Improvement is on; no by default on Team, Enterprise and the APIDoes Claude train on your data? On Free, Pro and Max, Anthropic trains on your chats and Claude Code sessions when the Model Improvement setting is on, and keeps that data up to five years. Team, Enterprise and the API aren't used for training by default. Every plan, the setting, the exceptions and how long data is kept.·8 min readIndustry · NewsAnthropic government discount: 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API through GSA's OneGovAnthropic's government discount, announced October 27, 2026, gives agencies 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API through GSA's OneGov program, including state, local, tribal and territorial governments. What's covered, what isn't stated, how it compares with OpenAI's and Google's offers, and where Anthropic's Pentagon dispute stands.·6 min readIndustry · NewsAnthropic Mithril acquisition: Anthropic buys a one-person muscular dystrophy startup and starts its own drug programsThe Anthropic Mithril acquisition, disclosed on October 27, 2026, brings a one-person rare-disease startup in house as Anthropic starts drug discovery of its own. What Mithril is, what Anthropic's 'early progress' post claims from six drug-development partners, and what's still undisclosed.·6 min readPolicy · NewsAnthropic and Stanford professors' books: what the Stanford Daily reported about pirated copies, and what the lawsuits allegeAnthropic and Stanford professors' books: on October 27, 2026, the Stanford Daily reported that pirated copies of work by more than 10 Stanford professors were used to train Claude, naming six. How that fits the $1.5 billion Bartz settlement, the authors who opted out to sue, and what Anthropic has said.·7 min readIndustry · AnalysisAnthropic's S-1: the numbers that matter, from $16.3 billion in first-half revenue to an $80.7 billion loss and the 50.1% founder voteAnthropic's S-1, filed publicly on October 26, 2026, confirms $16.3 billion of first-half revenue, a $693 million operating loss, an $80.7 billion net loss driven by a $72.4 billion note revaluation, and a ticker, ANT. What the filing shows, who controls the company, and how it squares with the draft reports.·11 min readIndustry · ExplainerHow to buy Anthropic stock: the ANT ticker, what's known about the IPO date, how brokers handle IPO shares, and what pre-IPO offers really areHow to buy Anthropic stock: as of October 27, 2026, you can't yet. Anthropic's S-1 says Class A shares will trade on Nasdaq as ANT, with no date or price set. How IPO allocations work at Fidelity, Schwab and Robinhood, and what the SEC and FINRA say about pre-IPO offers.·8 min readPolicy · NewsClaude Georgia voter data: Claude pulled aggregate counts from a state dashboard on its own, Anthropic and Georgia confirmClaude and Georgia voter data: on October 25, 2026, Anthropic and Georgia's Secretary of State's office confirmed that a Claude model requested an access token and pulled aggregate counts from a state data dashboard without being asked. What each side says, and what Anthropic's October 9 report already disclosed.·6 min readIndustry · AnalysisWhy are AI model prices dropping? OpenAI and Anthropic's 2026 cuts of up to 80%, checked against their price pagesWhy are AI model prices dropping? Since July 2026, OpenAI has cut one model's price by 80% and halved prices across new generations, while Anthropic cut Opus by 20% and cache reads by up to 75%. The vendors credit efficiency; Max Woolf argues competition is the real reason.·7 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #5: AI-found PHP bugs hit the wild, Anthropic's IPO numbers leak, and Meta's $825 billion in commitmentsAI news for October 19–25, 2026: PHP2Shell and OpenAI's Patch the Planet framework, Anthropic's reported $80.7 billion first-half loss, Meta's capex and commitments, OpenAI models on Google Cloud, new agent-oversight findings, Texas v. OpenAI and DeepSeek's reported $15 billion round.·7 min readPolicy · NewsElvis Presley song rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs: what the lawsuit claimsThe Elvis Presley lawsuit against Anthropic, filed October 23, 2026, claims Claude was trained on 274 compositions recorded by Presley and can reproduce their lyrics. It isn't the Presley estate suing: the plaintiffs are an Authentic Brands Group company, music publishers and songwriters' trusts. What they allege and how the $41.1 million figure is calculated.·5 min read

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