# Anthropic

[https://timesof.ai/platform/anthropic](https://timesof.ai/platform/anthropic)

Anthropic builds safe and reliable AI systems with a focus on constitutional AI and enterprise use.

Anthropic emphasizes AI safety research alongside high-capability model development.

## Coverage

- [Claude Haiku 5.5 Matches GPT-6 Luna's Price on Short Prompts — and Sonnet 5.5's Cache Reads Get Halved](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-sonnet-cache-cut) — Haiku 5.5: $0.10/$0.50 under 100k tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna. AA index 43 vs Luna 38 at max effort. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads halved to $0.10.
- [Musk Says Grok Bot Will Route Tasks to Rival Models, Including Claude](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/xai-grok-bot-routes-to-claude) — Musk says xAI's Grok Bot will pick the best back-end model per task, naming Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. Direction, not a deal.
- [Nippan Confirms Book Sales to Anthropic — Japan's Publishers Enter Project Panama Fight](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/nippan-confirms-book-sales-to-anthropic-project-panama) — Nippan IPS sold books to Anthropic Dec 2024–Dec 2025, per letter to Japan's publishers. Project Panama link in US suit. Consent, not purchase legality.
- [Lambda Targeting Up to $4B at $14.5B Pre-Money Ahead of Planned 2027 IPO, WSJ Says](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/lambda-4b-pre-ipo-round-14-5b) — WSJ: Lambda targeting up to $4B at $14.5B pre-money, Blackstone and Coatue leading, 2027 IPO aim. Backlog $50B. Single-origin; not yet raised.
- [Anthropic Opens Three Cyber Tiers — Red Team Hits Near-Unguarded Opus Rates](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-cyber-verification-program-three-tiers) — Anthropic expands CVP into Defense, Red Team and Specialized tiers. Red Team Opus 5.5 completed 34/50 CyScenarioBench runs — near its unguarded rate.
- [Anthropic Puts Claude in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides — Marketplace Beta, Not a Partnership](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-claude-for-google-workspace-beta) — Anthropic’s Claude sidebar lands in Docs, Sheets and Slides via Marketplace beta. Not a Google partnership; Gemini stays native. Enterprise CMEK/OTel apply.
- [OpenAI Apologises to Australia’s Parliament Over Its Agent Breach — and Both Labs Say They’d Accept Mandatory Disclosure](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/australia-inquiry-openai-apology-mandatory-disclosure) — Kwon apologises for the Medicare agent breach and backs mandatory disclosure; Anthropic open to the same. Anthropic says it is finalising independent AISI evaluations. Not binding.
- [NYC Council Puts Labs Under Oath — No Catastrophic-Risk Number, No Release-Gate Promise; xAI Skips Subpoena](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/nyc-council-ai-hearing-labs-under-oath) — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta under oath at NYC Council: no catastrophic-risk number, no release-gate vow. xAI skipped a subpoena. Bills are still proposals.
- [The Information: Microsoft Cuts Planned Internal Claude Spend by More Than a Third; Meta Halves Claude Code Users](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/meta-microsoft-cut-internal-claude-use) — The Information: Microsoft cuts projected ≥$1B internal Claude spend by >1/3; Meta halves Claude Code seats ~60k→30k. Internal use only; single paywalled origin.
- [Anthropic Sells India on In-Country Claude Inference — Without Its Newest Models](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-india-in-country-inference) — Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5 now process inside India via Bedrock’s Mumbai/Hyderabad profile. Anthropic says India is Claude.ai’s No. 2 market. 5.5 models not included.
- [Update: Insurers Weigh D&O Exposure for Altman and Amodei, FT Reports — EU MEPs Cite His Liability-Framework Call](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/altman-politico-daylight-anthropic) — FT via relays: insurers weigh D&O exposure for Altman and Amodei. Politico EU: MEPs cite his training-harm liability-framework call. Nothing filed yet.
- [Anthropic Could Start IPO Marketing the Week of Nov. 9 — Bloomberg via ET](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-ipo-marketing-mid-november) — Bloomberg via Economic Times: people familiar say Anthropic could start IPO marketing the week of Nov. 9, trade before Thanksgiving. $1.8–2T investor talk — not a filing.
- [Banks Assembling $60B Broadcom Chip-Financing Stack — Not Closed, Bloomberg via Quartz](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/broadcom-60b-chip-financing-syndication) — Bloomberg via Quartz: banks prepping $42B Class A letters; Blackstone leads $18B Class B ($9B). ~$60B Broadcom stack for Anthropic and others — not closed.
- [Anthropic Puts $100 Million Into Claude Frontier Academy for 10,000 Deployers](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-claude-frontier-academy) — Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027 via a graded residency. First cohorts include McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, and Accenture.
- [Barclays Scales Claude Bank-Wide; Claude Code Aimed at 50% of Devs by End-2026](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-barclays-claude-scale) — Barclays expands Claude bank-wide; Claude Code to 50% of developers by end-2026. Knowledge Assistant 16k users; Markets ~120k emails/day.
- [Hours After a Voluntary Accord, the FTC Escalates a Probe of Anthropic, OpenAI — and METR](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/ftc-probe-anthropic-openai-metr-agents) — NY Post exclusive and Reuters: FTC drafting CIDs and exec testimony for Anthropic, OpenAI, and METR over rogue-agent consumer risks — after Tuesday’s voluntary White House accord.
- [Trump and Frontier CEOs Sign a Voluntary ‘Morally Binding’ Accord — No Legal Force](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/white-house-frontier-responsibilities-accord) — Trump and frontier CEOs signed a voluntary Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities: four-layer self-audits, no legal force, company-chosen auditors.
- [Anthropic Red Team: Open-Weight GLM-5.3 Nearly Matches Mythos Preview on Exploit Building; Safeguards Fall to Simple Bypasses](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/anthropic-glm-5-3-open-weight-cyber-safeguards) — Anthropic: GLM-5.3 50/410 ExploitBench vs Mythos 56; safeguard bypasses 64–100%. NIST CAISI: most cyber-capable open weight, ~4 months behind U.S. frontier — different harnesses.
- [Anthropic’s Prospectus Asks for a $2 Trillion Story on a $42 Billion 2025 Loss](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/anthropic-ipo-prospectus) — Reuters says Anthropic’s prospectus shows ~$4.6B 2025 revenue, a ~$42B net loss, and $518B of forward infra obligations. Not a public filing.
- [Sonnet 5.5 Matches Opus on the Index — and Burns the Most Tokens AA Has Measured](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/anthropic-claude-sonnet-55) — Sonnet 5.5 hits AA Intelligence Index 56, behind Opus 5.5 at 58, at the same $2/$10 sticker. AA’s max-effort cost per task is higher, not lower.
- [Politico Says Washington Asked Labs to Hold Models From UK Testers — Unconfirmed](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/white-house-hold-models-uk-testers) — Politico reports the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to hold models from British testers. White House and labs did not comment.
- [Claude Flagged a Phage Enzyme System; Its Function Is Still Open](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/anthropic-claude-art-enzyme-discovery) — Claude flagged ART, a phage reverse-transcriptase system with CRISPR-like repeats. Function unknown; Feng Zhang calls it intriguing, not confirmed.
- [Altman and Amodei Ask the Security Council for Standards — The Council Left With None](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/altman-amodei-un-security-council) — Altman and Amodei briefed the UN Security Council on frontier AI standards and human control. No resolution; Australia’s disclosure landed the same day.
- [Opus 5.5 Is Anthropic’s Defaultable Fable-Class Model — Andon Cash Does Not Agree](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/anthropic-claude-opus-5-5) — Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s defaultable Fable-class model at lower cache-read rates. Artificial Analysis agrees ahead of Sol; Andon vending cash does not.