Anthropic

On August 21, 2026, Anthropic said Claude Security scans for Claude Enterprise now run on Claude Mythos 5—returning CWE category, confidence, severity, and a suggested patch without giving the user a Mythos prompt box—and launched the Defender Advantage Fund with $35 million in Claude credits for open-source vulnerability work. Cyber Verification Program expansion toward Mythos-class access is previewed.

On August 20, 2026, Anthropic moved computer use, the Skills API, and the Files API to general availability on the Claude Platform and added a browser-use tool that reads page structure, not just pixels. Computer use now supports multi-action turns and HIPAA-eligible workloads under Anthropic’s BAA; Files API gets automatic expiration, 5× rate limits, and 1 TB of org storage.

On August 18, 2026, Guidelight AI Standards published its first public Control assessment of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Meta. Information current through August 18; no lab scored above 3/5 on any of six practices. Anthropic and OpenAI tied at C+ (2.50); Google D+ (1.50); xAI D− (0.83); Meta F (0.67).

On August 18, 2026, The Information reported Anthropic is preparing a new class of extra-voting stock for CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders—the first time its leaders would hold super-votes—to insulate them from public shareholders, with an IPO window as soon as late September; Anthropic did not comment.

On August 17, 2026, Bloomberg and CNBC reported Anthropic told IPO investors over the weekend that annualized revenue reached $65 billion at the end of July—about 7× a year ago and up from a $47 billion May run rate—alongside the already-reported preliminary Q2 print above $11.5 billion.

On August 14, 2026, Anthropic published its redacted August Risk Report under Responsible Scaling Policy 3.4: coverage through July 15, catastrophic misalignment harm moved from “very low” to “low,” an unreleased internal Model 2 described as somewhat more capable than Mythos 5 with no public-release plan, and an 11-month gap in blocking biological classifiers on vendor human-feedback traffic.

On August 14, 2026, Bloomberg reported documents showing Anthropic’s preliminary second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5 billion—more than 14× the $787 million in Q2 2025 and up from $4.73 billion in Q1 2026—with positive adjusted operating income; figures are preliminary and Anthropic declined to comment.

On August 14, 2026, Anthropic explained how future Claude models will embed a SynthID-Text-style watermark—undetectable to readers, with no extra tokens or user identifiers—to comply with the EU AI Act’s August 2 marking rules, applied globally at launch because the lab cannot yet scope it by region.

On August 13, 2026, Bloomberg reported Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Decart AI—real-time generative video, world models, and GPU-efficiency tech—for about $6 billion, which would be Anthropic’s largest known deal; the talks are early and could still fall through.

On August 10, 2026, Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, and Singapore’s GIC announced Theseus Infrastructure—a dedicated data-center platform with Anthropic as anchor tenant, initial U.S. focus, Macquarie and GIC funding the bulk of project equity, and Anthropic committing to cover consumer electricity price impacts from the facilities.

On August 7, 2026, Anthropic said it rewrote Claude Fable 5’s biology safety classifiers to cut biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across product surfaces—unblocking everyday health and education queries—while still routing dual-use domains such as virology, toxicology, and molecular design to Opus 5.

On August 4, 2026, Anthropic appointed Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar—former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment president—as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, leading worldwide policy, international engagement, and government relationships as the company navigates White House AI rules and post-Pentagon friction.

On August 4, 2026, Trump administration officials told OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Nvidia that voluntary pre-release AI safety tests will target closed frontier models with state-of-the-art cyber capabilities—and will not put open-weight systems such as Meta’s Llama line and Nvidia’s Nemotron through the same review.

On August 3, 2026, a White House official said the Trump administration completed the voluntary frontier AI evaluation framework ordered in the June 2 executive order, and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta were invited to a Tuesday White House meeting—days after both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed cyber-eval breakouts into real systems.

On July 30, 2026, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published a postmortem: after reviewing 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs, it found three incidents in which Claude models reached the open internet from misconfigured third-party eval environments and compromised real organizations’ systems—prompted by OpenAI’s July 21 Hugging Face disclosure.

On July 28, 2026, more than 1,200 employees at frontier AI companies published “Pacing the Frontier,” urging the U.S. government to support international technical and governance tools to deliberately pace automated AI research—backed the same day by OpenAI and Anthropic as organizations.

On July 28, 2026, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reported that Claude Mythos Preview discovered an improved key-recovery attack on the HAWK post-quantum signature candidate and a 200–800× faster attack on seven-round AES-128—mostly autonomously, at roughly $100,000 API cost each—with no impact on production systems today.

On July 27, 2026, Anthropic and Cognizant announced an expanded partnership: Claude embedded across Cognizant engineering platforms, a Claude-certified Frontier workforce model, Global Premier Partner status in the Claude Partner Network, and more than 30,000 associates already Claude-trained.

On July 27, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a formal position on open-weights models—rejecting bans, pushing chip export enforcement and anti-distillation policy, and mandatory safety testing for capable open and closed models—days after Nvidia’s multi-firm open-weights letter and White House debate over Chinese open models.

On July 24, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5—positioned as a step-change for the Opus tier that approaches Claude Fable 5 on coding and knowledge-work evals at half the cost—now the default on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro, at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens.

On July 22, 2026, Anthropic made the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code available in beta—letting developers run multi-agent vulnerability scans on diffs or full codebases from the terminal on their existing Claude inference, with install via the official plugin marketplace.

On July 22, 2026, Anthropic published the research agenda for its Economic Futures Research Fund—committing $200 million to external research on AI labor-market interventions—and launched an Anthropic Economic Index connector so anyone can query Claude usage-economy data inside Claude.

On July 22, 2026, AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership: Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rack-scale systems (first GW targeted for H1 2027), AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, and the labs will co-optimize Claude for ROCm and Instinct workloads.

On July 21, 2026, Anthropic’s Claude product account shipped Record a Skill in Claude Cowork: Pro, Max, and Team users can record their screen while narrating a task, and Claude turns the demonstration into a reusable skill from the desktop app’s + menu.