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Anthropic Admits Claude Got Worse: Three Bugs, One Ugly Post-Mortem
Anthropic published a rare post-mortem Thursday confirming Claude Code quality dropped for six weeks. Here's what broke and what they fixed.
ChatGPT and Codex Hit Global Outage as OpenAI Investigates
OpenAI's ChatGPT, Codex, and API platform hit a global partial outage Monday, blocking logins, conversations, and image generation worldwide.
Claude Opus 4.7's Flat Price Hides a 20–47% Cost Increase
Opus 4.7's per-token price matches 4.6 — but a new tokenizer splits the same text into up to 47% more tokens, quietly raising real costs 20–30%.
Alibaba Open-Sources Qwen 3.6, a 35B Coding Model That Rivals the Frontier
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B scores 73.4 on SWE-bench Verified with only 3B active parameters — and it's free under Apache 2.0.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design, Taking On Figma and Canva
Claude Design generates polished slides, prototypes, and one-pagers from a prompt — and exports straight to Canva, PPTX, or HTML.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design, a Direct Shot at Figma and Canva
Claude Design turns prompts into prototypes, slides, and one-pagers — and reads your codebase to match your team's visual style automatically.
Cloudflare Launches Agent Memory to Fix AI's Context Rot Problem
Cloudflare's new Agent Memory service lets AI agents remember across sessions without bloating the context window — a fix for a real, unsolved pain.
Cloudflare Launches Agent Memory, a Persistent Brain for AI Agents
Cloudflare's new Agent Memory service gives AI agents long-term recall without bloating context windows — and exports every memory back to you.
Anthropic Starts Checking IDs: Claude Now Asks for a Passport
Anthropic quietly rolled out passport and selfie verification for select Claude users via Persona — a first among major AI labs and a jolt to its privacy brand.
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.7 With Sharper Vision, Better Code
Anthropic officially released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, adding 3x vision resolution, an 'xhigh' reasoning mode, and stronger coding at unchanged pricing.
Avid and Google Cloud Push Agentic AI Into Professional Video Editing
Avid and Google Cloud announced a multi-year deal on April 16 embedding Gemini and Vertex AI into Media Composer and a new platform, Content Core.
Boston Dynamics Puts Google's Gemini Robotics-ER Inside Spot
Boston Dynamics is integrating Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 into Spot, letting the robot read gauges and reason about its surroundings.
Anthropic Preps Claude Opus 4.7 and AI Design Tool This Week
Anthropic is set to ship Claude Opus 4.7 and a new AI design tool for websites and presentations as soon as this week, per The Information.
AWS Launches Agent Registry to Tame Enterprise AI Agent Sprawl
AWS Agent Registry is now in preview in Bedrock AgentCore, giving enterprises a governed catalog to discover, share, and control AI agents at scale.
California Court Weighs If AI Ads Pierce Platforms' Section 230 Shield
Northern District of California is deciding if platforms whose AI shapes fraudulent ads can be 'makers' of those statements, limiting Section 230 immunity.
Anthropic's 'Epitaxy': Claude Code Becomes a Multi-Agent IDE
Anthropic is testing a Claude Code overhaul codenamed Epitaxy with a Coordinator Mode that orchestrates parallel sub-agents across multiple repos at once.
Did Anthropic Nerf Claude Opus 4.6? The BridgeBench Debate
A viral BridgeBench post says Claude Opus 4.6 fell from 83% to 68% on hallucinations. Critics call it bad science. Here's what the data actually shows.
Anthropic Launches Claude for Word Beta in Microsoft
Claude now lives inside Microsoft Word as a native sidebar, with tracked changes, cross-app chat, and enterprise-grade document editing.
Powell and Bessent Summon Bank CEOs Over Anthropic Mythos AI Threat
Treasury and Fed leaders convened Wall Street's top executives for an urgent cybersecurity briefing on Anthropic's Mythos model.
Cisco Eyes $350M Astrix Deal to Lock Down AI Agent Security
Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire Astrix Security, signaling a major bet on securing the booming AI agent ecosystem.
Claude Opus 4.6 Sweeps All Three LMSYS Arena Leaderboards
Anthropic's flagship model hits a record 1504 Elo, claiming #1 in text, code, and search — a first for any AI model.
Anthropic Explores Custom AI Chips to Power Claude
Anthropic is weighing in-house chip development as Claude demand drives revenue past $30 billion, joining OpenAI and Meta in the race to reduce Nvidia dependence.
Anthropic Launches Managed Agents to Fast-Track Enterprise AI
Claude Managed Agents handles sandboxing, error recovery, and orchestration so teams can ship production AI agents in days.
New Standard Aims to Make AI Agent Spending Safe
Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Columbia propose the Agentic Risk Standard — a financial protection framework for AI agents that handle money, contracts, and high-stakes tasks.