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Anthropic
22 items mentioning this organisation across 4 issues, newest first.
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Anthropic in the R&D Intelligence report →
21 October 2026
Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8× the speed
In the company's own benchmarks, the new diffusion language model beat both rivals on eight of 12 tests at four to eight times their speed.
Anthropic in talks for second $45 billion Nscale data centre deal
According to a person familiar with the matter, the agreement would cover a second 460-megawatt data centre at the same West Virginia site as the first deal.
The search for consciousness inside LLMs
The piece describes an experiment in which researchers watched Claude Sonnet 4.5's internal activity while asking it to count to five and 'introspect deeply'.
20 October 2026
News publishers sue Anthropic in Ontario
A coalition including Canada's largest newspapers has filed a copyright suit against the AI company in an Ontario court.
Junior hiring is down at Anthropic as agents spread
Anthropic says it has been hiring a smaller share of junior technical staff as AI agents were deployed across the firm.
'An army of Claudes, every one asking for my attention'
80% of Claude session delays come from agents waiting on human input, and the median Anthropic employee spends 20% more time in meetings than a year ago.
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19 October 2026
Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff
Juniors' share of technical hires fell from 27% to 9%, and AI agents now work six times as many hours as staff.
Authors urge publishers to drop claims on out-of-print books
Concerns claims in the Anthropic copyright settlement.
The latest Claude Code release notes.
Nova Scotia to host a data centre for Claude
A large Cape Breton site will power Anthropic's assistant.
Anthropic bans abusive behaviour towards Claude
The policy takes effect on 12 Nov.
18 October 2026
LLM-driven search finds quantum circuits
Anthropic, Harvard and QuEra show an LLM-driven search discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits (see 35).
Anthropic used Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in ultraviolet light.
Claude-driven search discovers quantum circuits
Anthropic, Harvard and QuEra found quantum circuits with resource costs up to 9,100× lower.
Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with LLMs
The paper behind the Anthropic–Harvard–QuEra result.
'Mods' — TypeScript functions that customise Claude Code — were announced on 1 Oct.
Anthropic pitches a federal AI safety bill
Anthropic is quietly pitching lawmakers a bill that would let a judge halt a frontier model, but only for imminent catastrophic risk.
Is the business of frontier AI companies selling tokens?
Reverse cash-flow maths suggests OpenAI and Anthropic together need $733bn–$2.79tn in year-ten revenue to justify valuations.
Anthropic's draft bill on catastrophic risk
The draft federal bill targets imminent catastrophic risks from frontier models, including loss of control.
The updated policy bans 'cruel' behaviour towards Anthropic's models.
Coverage of Anthropic's ban on cruel behaviour towards its models.