Claude Academy makes Anthropic's employee onboarding curriculum public: structured courses, real-world tutorials, and a 4D AI Fluency Framework available to anyone at academy.claude.com.
The four features move out of beta and into general availability on the Claude Platform on August 20, with batch multi-action turns, HIPAA eligibility, 5x higher Files API rate limits, and 1 TB storage per organization.
Today's release patches unbounded memory growth that hit users with long interactive sessions, adds graceful shutdown and proxy auth options for self-hosted runners, and brings keybinding customization.
Versions 2.1.234 through 2.1.237 land between August 17-20, adding a Concise output style, ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL, a GitLab MR statusline badge, spellcheck, and cross-session idle notifications.
Microsoft's latest release decouples AI agents from the editor, publishes the Agent Host Protocol under MIT, and lets Claude users skip GitHub authentication entirely.
Anthropic is negotiating to buy Israeli startup Decart, which makes software that cuts the cost of running AI on chips. The deal would be Anthropic's largest acquisition to date.
Starting with models released after August 2, 2026, Anthropic embeds invisible text watermarks and C2PA metadata into all Claude outputs — worldwide, not just in the EU.
Anthropic's self-hosted environments for Claude Code entered public beta on August 6. Team and Enterprise customers can now run coding agent sessions on their own infrastructure, keeping source code and credentials off Anthropic's servers.
Anthropic's introductory rate of $2/$10 per million tokens for Claude Sonnet 5 expires at the end of the month. Standard pricing of $3/$15 takes effect September 1, and the new tokenizer adds another layer of cost that most estimates undercount.
Inference hooks, now in beta for Claude Enterprise, route every employee prompt through your organization's security server before Claude processes anything. Netskope, Palo Alto, Proofpoint, and Zscaler integrations ship on day one.
The latest Claude Code release adds a Focus view that hides tool noise behind per-turn summaries, fixes two permission-check bypass vulnerabilities in Bash and PowerShell, and adds sandboxed credential masking on Linux and WSL.
Responding to accusations of opposing open-source AI, Anthropic's CEO clarified the company's actual position: open-weight models are a public good, with one serious exception.
Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's newest flagship model, is now available in GitHub Copilot on Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. It targets agentic workflows where careful reasoning and multi-step execution matter, and carries usage-based pricing at the provider's list rate.
Claude Opus 5 arrived July 24 with the same pricing as Opus 4.8, a 1 million-token context window, and benchmark numbers that push past Claude Fable 5 on agentic and computer-use tasks. It scores 96% on SWE-bench Verified, solves every problem on IMO 2026, and includes a new effort dial that lets you trade cost for capability per request.
Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode with higher-tier model support and app integrations. Voice conversations can now pull from Gmail, Slack, and Google Calendar in real time.
Anthropic has opened up Claude Security to all Claude Code users in public beta, expanding beyond its earlier Enterprise-only preview. Developers can now run vulnerability scans from the terminal before committing code.
The latest Claude Code release tightens multi-agent behavior with a default concurrency limit and disabled nested spawning, while also adding emoji shortcodes and fixing a set of security and stability bugs.
Anthropic's new Record a Skill feature lets Pro, Max, and Team users screen-record a task while narrating it, and Claude converts the recording into a reusable, automated Skill. No prompt writing required.
Seven releases in a week brought the /fork workflow command, a round of permission bypass fixes, an ElapsedTime counter, and a fix for quadratic slowdowns in long sessions.
Claude for Teachers launched July 14 with free access to premium Claude features for verified US K-12 educators, including curriculum-aligned lesson planning, differentiation tools, and nine ed-tech integrations. A pilot is already running in Detroit Public Schools.
Reuters reported Thursday that Anthropic is in early negotiations to lease GPU capacity from Meta in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years. It would be the second major compute partnership Anthropic has announced in a month.
Anthropic is buying GPU capacity from SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center while competing directly with SpaceXAI in the coding tools market. Claude Code users also got a rate limit bump out of the deal.
Anthropic announced a $10 million CAD commitment to eight Canadian institutions on July 14, including Mila, Vector Institute, and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Canadian startups affiliated with those institutes will also receive API credits through Anthropic's startup program.
Released July 14, version 2.1.208 adds screen reader mode, vim insert mode remaps, corporate process wrapper support, and mouse input for fullscreen menus — plus dozens of bug fixes covering memory leaks, session handling, file tools, and a 79x reduction in transcript size for edit-heavy sessions.
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