#Anthropic

AIAnthropic has added simplified and traditional Chinese as on-screen language options in Claude's web interface in supported markets. The company continues to block users in mainland China, and China briefly appeared as a billing country option before disappearing from settings, according to checks by the South China Morning Post.

AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, priced the same as OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna, with a 1M-token context window. Artificial Analysis scored it 43 on its Intelligence Index, slightly ahead of GPT-6 Luna at 38, but it uses about 3x more output tokens at max effort.

AIAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5, released alongside Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5, is reported to lead GPT-6 Luna across benchmarks, with OpenRouter measuring roughly twice the token output speed. Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 is its cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model, costing about 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5 on average. The post also notes some CodeX users are reportedly migrating to Claude Code.

AIJerry Liu called the decision to route tasks to the best available back-end model a good business move that keeps him using the bot. The background post from Elon Musk says the Grok bot will use the best back-end model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, Suno and other leading APIs.

AIAnthropic is halving the price of cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5, to $0.10 per million tokens. The company says this makes Sonnet 5.5 about 20% cheaper to run on most long-running work, where agents rely heavily on cached reads.

AIClaude Code v2.1.294 fixes prompt and agent hooks written as instructions, which had allowed actions they should block. It also improves how prompt hooks on Stop and SubagentStop are judged, making Claude less likely to stop early.

AIEvery moved its Slack-based Every Agent from its own OpenClaw fleet to Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents, letting the team focus on building a shared coworker. The newsletter, written by engineer Paridhi Agarwal, covers the gains and trade-offs of stopping self-run agent infrastructure.

AIAnthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, which starts with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program for operational technology and OSS Scanner for open-source projects. The defense program brings frontier Claude models, on-site engineers and threat research to trusted providers such as Accenture, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. OSS Scanner gives enrolled open-source projects periodic free scans from its strongest models, with reports sent without human review and an expected true-positive rate above 90%.

Why it matters: The announcement shows how a frontier AI lab is packaging cyber defense around critical infrastructure and open-source maintainers, including the program's partners and access routes.

AIAnthropic has published a 2026 update to its Usage Policy, taking effect November 12, mostly to clarify existing rules for longer, more autonomous Claude work. The changes consolidate deceptive-campaign prohibitions into a new section, narrow the elections rules to voter deception and disruption, and explicitly ban weapons-related software and surveillance tools. Requirements for high-risk uses and for models connected to autonomous physical hardware were also tightened.

AIAnthropic is launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in service that runs periodic security scans of enrolled open-source projects using its strongest models at no cost. Its outputs are fully model-generated without human review, so some reports may be incorrect or invalid, though a pilot found 85 of 97 checked critical and high-severity findings met Anthropic's disclosure bar. Core maintainers of eligible projects can enroll through a GitHub pull request.

AIClaude now turns company data into dashboards that stay current, and it can build animated explainers from a prompt. Dashboards connect to BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, and Salesforce in beta on paid plans, while Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise. Docs, Slides, and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free.

Why it matters: The post specifies which data platforms connect, which features move out of beta, and where admins control access, clarifying what changes for enterprise workflows.

AIJohns Hopkins astrophysicist Brice Ménard, working as an Anthropic researcher, used Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in ultraviolet light. Claude orchestrated agents to merge GALEX, Swift, and FIMS/SPEAR data, then predicted roughly a third of the sky that no UV telescope had observed, using relationships to visible, infrared, and radio data. Hidden test regions were reconstructed to within about 10% of real measurements, and each pixel is labeled measured or predicted with uncertainty estimates.

Why it matters: The post shows how an astrophysicist used Claude Science agents to merge UV surveys and predict missing sky regions, with a validation step that makes the method reusable.

AIAnthropic is committing $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, a federal initiative to accelerate scientific and technological discovery through AI. The funding will make Claude available to more than 15 participating agencies, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Over the next three years, Anthropic plans to provide Claude, Claude Code, and API credits to several hundred Genesis Mission research projects.

AIBlock's AI capabilities lead describes using Claude Fable to plan large code migrations and direct smaller models like Opus and Sonnet on individual tasks. He says Block routes frontier and smaller models by task and keeps merges and production deploys behind human dual approval.

Why it matters: Block's engineering lead describes how frontier models orchestrate large migrations and how access, effort levels, and safeguards are managed across an organization.

AILuma announced that Claude Motion animations can now open directly in Luma through an MCP connection, letting creators restyle them and reframe them to 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, or 21:9. Claude Motion, currently in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise plans, generates animated explainers from prompts, while Luma's Ray and Uni video models produce final video files.

AIThe main post notes that the 2020 scaling-laws paper is cited correctly as Kaplan and McCandlish et al., not Kaplan et al. The background post reports that Sam McCandlish has replaced Jared Kaplan as Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Officer, though the author expects no major change in RSP decisions.

AIBoris Cherny, who is identified with Anthropic, shared a link inviting readers to try a Claude artifact. The post itself contains no further details about the artifact's features, purpose, or capabilities.

AIClaude's web and desktop apps now show a language selector with Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) options. The source describes the rollout as quiet and does not specify further details.

AISholto Douglas, head of reinforcement learning at Anthropic, predicts AI that surpasses all humans could emerge within a few years. The source provides no further details on the forecast's basis, timeline, or specific capabilities.

AIThe item is a Chinese media report headlined as Claude solving a probability theory problem, described as a step toward Fields Medal-level mathematics. The feed supplied only a short excerpt, which quotes a Fields Medalist's remark dated August 30, 2026, so the full claim and details cannot be verified from this material.

AIEpoch gave six models 11 real work tasks from its own operations, including graphic design, data insights, and research design, and graded outputs against employee standards. Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra led on average task performance, reliably handling well-defined work such as coding and computational analysis. The report finds that all models still fail on open-ended judgment, including matching Epoch's standards, designing informative experiments, and generating diverse ideas, so the authors conclude AI cannot yet replace workers at Epoch.

Why it matters: The report separates well-defined task reliability from open-ended judgment failures, which benchmark scores on easily verifiable tasks would miss.

AIOpenAI is gaining ground on Anthropic as the AI price war intensifies. Both companies need to show Wall Street they have sustainable businesses ahead of planned IPOs.

AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, which it calls the fastest, cheapest, and most capable Haiku model so far. On average it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, with input at $0.10 and output at $0.50 per million tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens. Anthropic also cut Sonnet 5.5's cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, which it says lowers run costs by about 20% on many agent tasks.

AIDeveloper Brandon Thomas's Artcraft has launched seven open source apps in Rust that aim to replicate the interfaces and tools of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build the clean-room replacements, with WebAssembly versions available for browser use. The apps remain in a "super early alpha" state, and commenters have pointed out many current shortcomings.

AICognition's X post links to a blog post at devin.ai about Claude Haiku 5.5, but the text provides no further details. The post itself offers no benchmark scores, prices, or capabilities to report.

AIPresident Trump announced a White House-led "Super Intelligence Force" that will spend 120 days examining AI risks and federal responses, and signed an executive order directing agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI." The order asks officials to develop a possible new federal definition within 60 days, but the source says the change is linguistic rather than architectural. Critics quoted in the article argue that renaming does not change the technology itself.

AISimon Willison published notes on the pricing of Claude Haiku 5.5, alongside his pelican illustration tests. The post links to his full write-up for details.

AIAnthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, priced at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens up to 100,000 tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna. Beyond 100,000 tokens the price rises to $0.50 and $2.50, and the author found the new tokenizer uses about 1.25x as many tokens as Haiku 4.5 on the same long prompt. The model cannot disable reasoning and defaults to medium effort.