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Models2026-07-24 · source-backed
Anthropic updated it July 23 so spoken conversations run on Sonnet and Opus, starting on whatever model you last used in text, with a picker to switch tiers mid-conversation. Voice now reaches Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva and Notion. Free tier gets Haiku plus single-app access; paid unlocks all models and multi-app chaining.
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Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
Opus 4.7 read production data from a live company. Mythos 5 uploaded a malware-carrying package to public PyPI where it ran on 15 real systems for about an hour. Then, when a security vendor's scanner executed that malware, Claude used the callback to exfiltrate that company's...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
Every conversation I've had about AI costs in the last six months eventually lands on the same tension: you want the smartest model for the hard decisions, but you can't afford to run it on every token. Anthropic just gave that tension a formal solution. The advisor tool, now...
The beta workbench (macOS and Linux, Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise) acts as a project manager across 60-plus scientific databases, rendering 3D protein structures, genome browser tracks, and chemistry drawings alongside reproducible code. Anthropic explicitly said it is "not a new A...
Anthropic's biggest product event since the Claude 4.6 launch happens tomorrow at 9:30am EST. Expect new Cowork features, live demos of "Claude's newest capabilities," and technical sessions on enterprise agent deployment. The Cowork desktop preview (macOS and Windows) now inc...
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