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Anthropic news: new Claude models, safety research, products and partnerships from one of the leading AI labs, with sources linked.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds the Claude family of AI models and assistants for consumers, businesses and developers. It is organized as a public benefit corporation.
Sources: Anthropic: Leadership, Anthropic: Company, Wikipedia: Anthropic · Checked September 24, 2026
Barclays is scaling Anthropic's Claude across its global operations, with 16,000 colleagues already using it to help 20 million retail customers and a goal of half its developers using Claude Code by the end of 2026.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows Broadcom has agreed to lend the AI company up to $42 billion to help finance a $125.2 billion, five-year commitment to lease AI chip computing capacity, alongside an $8 billion operating loss in 2025.
A new Atlantic excerpt from Kevin Roose's book says a 2017 plan to sell AGI access to governments, not just safety worries, drove Dario Amodei and his team out of OpenAI to found Anthropic.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar co-led the study behind California's landmark AI safety law. Now he's Anthropic's first chief global affairs officer, doing diplomacy for the company that law regulates.
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, a faster, cheaper model that runs 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and comes close to Opus 5.5's benchmarks, its second release since CEO Dario Amodei called for an industry-wide slowdown.
Plain-English explainers for the ideas behind Anthropic news, each built from linked sources.
MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets AI apps like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini connect to outside tools and data in one common way. Anthropic created it in 2024, and it's now run under the Linux Foundation. Full explainer →
