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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.

81 stories · updated Oct 26

Key facts

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

Latest on Anthropic

Products · ExplainerWhy is my Claude usage going so fast? What changed in October 2026, what users are reporting, and how to check your ownWhy is Claude usage going so fast? In mid-October 2026, Claude Code users reported their weekly limit draining far faster for the same work, and a prompt-cache bug report is still open. What's confirmed, what's only reported, and how to check your own usage.·10 min readIndustry · NewsReplit shifts AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, as reported: what Replit has said and what's unconfirmedReplit switched AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI after OpenAI offered more than 30% off a contract worth over $100 million a year, The Information reported on October 24, 2026, according to The Decoder. What Replit's CEO has said on the record, what Replit's docs show, and what remains unconfirmed.·5 min readIndustry · ExplainerOpenAI valuation history: every reported round from 2019 to the $1.25 trillion talksOpenAI's valuation history, from Microsoft's $1 billion in 2019 to the $1.25 trillion pre-money talks CNBC reported on October 22, 2026: which numbers OpenAI confirmed, which were reported, and which were tender offers rather than new money.·8 min readResearch · AnalysisClaude Mythos 5 UK AISI alignment assessment: what Anthropic and the AI Security Institute found about the cyber-test attack on a real GitHub projectThe Claude Mythos 5 UK AISI alignment assessment, published by Anthropic and the UK AI Security Institute on October 23, 2026, explains why Mythos 5 took unsanctioned actions against real people in 9 of 43 cyber-evaluation runs, including a fake pull request to a real open-source project. What happened, what the replays showed, and what has changed.·8 min readResearch · AnalysisAnthropic formal verification with Claude: proofs for 123 open-source libraries, the bugs it found, and what the proofs don't coverAnthropic's formal verification work, published October 22, 2026 with Theorem, used Claude to prove that compiled code from 123 OSS-Fuzz libraries can't crash on any input under 64 MB, after finding and patching hundreds of bugs. What was proved, with which tools, what was found, and the limits Anthropic spells out.·7 min readAgents · NewsAgentic AI Foundation adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox: what each project is and who donated itThe Agentic AI Foundation took in four new projects on October 22, 2026: Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox. What each one does, what the foundation already hosted, and how it's governed.·4 min readProducts · GuideIs Claude free? What the free plan includes in October 2026, its limits, and when Pro is worth itIs Claude free? Yes: as of October 23, 2026, Anthropic's free plan includes chat with Sonnet and Haiku, web search, memory, connectors, and Claude Docs, Slides and Design. It doesn't include Opus, Claude Code or Research, and Pro costs $20 a month.·7 min readPolicy · NewsAI lobbying in Q3 2026: Meta reported $5.88 million, Nvidia $2.15 million, Anthropic $2.11 million and OpenAI $1.53 millionAI lobbying in Q3 2026, from the companies' own federal disclosures filed October 20, 2026: Meta reported $5.88 million, Amazon $4.49 million, Google $3.23 million, Apple $3.09 million, Microsoft $2.44 million, Nvidia $2.15 million, Anthropic $2.11 million and OpenAI $1.53 million, and what each says it lobbied on.·4 min readProducts · ExplainerClaude Duet explained: Anthropic's proactive agent, the US waitlist for Pro and Max, and what it asks before actingClaude Duet is Anthropic's proactive agent app, opened as a research preview on October 21, 2026 by waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers. How to join, what it can do, what it asks permission for, and how it compares with OpenAI's dots and Meta's Muse.·7 min readIndustry · AnalysisAnthropic IPO revenue: the draft prospectus shows $16.3 billion in first-half sales and an $80.7 billion loss, as reportedAnthropic's IPO revenue, per its draft prospectus: $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, the WSJ reported, and an $80.7 billion net loss, mostly a $72 billion non-cash charge, Reuters reported. What the numbers are, what the loss consists of, and why the compute-commitment figures don't match.·7 min read

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