NVIDIA just revealed that its general-purpose agent architecture AVO achieved a 100% score on the ARC-AGI-3 public benchmark, solving all 183 levels across 25 environments. Built with persistent memory and a supervisor module, AVO required 12% fewer actions than rival harness VISTA. The experiment underscores that sustained agent performance relies on the harness as much as the frontier model itself.
Anthropic just brought Claude Mythos 5 into Claude Security, giving enterprise customers frontier-level scans to spot vulnerabilities and suggest code patches. The company also launched a $35M Defender Advantage Fund to help secure open-source software and is expanding its Cyber Verification Program. To prevent offensive dual-use risks, defenders get targeted security outputs rather than direct model access.
Anthropic just made Computer Use, the Skills API, and the Files API generally available on the Claude Platform. The release includes a new Browser Use tool that reads DOM page structure rather than relying purely on screenshots, alongside multi-action turns that speed up task completion. Paired with 1 TB of document storage and an instruction sandbox, it turns Claude from an experimental bot into a HIPAA-eligible production agent for enterprise workflows.
Salesforce just launched Slack Code, bringing coding agents like Claude, Devin, and GitHub Copilot directly into dedicated Slack channels. Teams can now watch agents generate code, review diffs, check live previews, and approve pull requests together without leaving the chat. It is available across all Slack tiers, though partner agent access is required.
Anthropic just gave Claude the ability to directly send emails in Gmail and manage files in Google Drive. You can prompt Claude to reply to an email thread and it will draft and send the response, while keeping you in control of when it requires manual approval. It is available across all paid plans.
Anthropic just revealed that Claude can design custom protein binders from scratch, successfully hitting 14 out of 15 biological targets with hit rates up to 35%—more than double typical industry campaigns. It also tackled analytical chemistry, parsing raw lab data in under 25 minutes. Why it matters: Frontier AI is moving past code and chat into physical wet-lab drug discovery, turning months of specialized orchestration into hours.
David Sacks just went after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, accusing him of regulatory capture and manufactured fear-mongering. Sacks argues pre-deployment testing regimes act like a bureaucratic DMV for AI, cementing incumbent power and hurting U.S. competitiveness against China. Why it matters: The rift exposes an escalating war between Silicon Valley accelerationists and safety-first labs over who controls frontier models.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just pushed back on Silicon Valley’s anti-regulation narrative, arguing that smart rules don't cause power concentration—they actually slow down frontier labs to help challengers catch up. He reaffirmed support for pre-deployment testing on top-tier models and insisted institutional guardrails are essential to manage extreme compute advantages.
Anthropic just shared an insider guide on optimizing token usage in Claude Code sessions. The core lesson is protecting your prompt cache: switching models or effort levels mid-conversation busts the cache, forcing full-price prefills. Engineers recommend running /clear between tasks, using @-mentions to skip file read calls, and running /compact before stepping away from the keyboard.
The Wall Street Journal just revealed that Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, operates as a key behind-the-scenes strategic adviser. Despite holding no formal role, Clark helped bring in crucial early backers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. As the company preps for massive growth, her undisclosed clout is sparking scrutiny over Anthropic's governance.
Claude Code desktop just added an auto-continue feature that resumes your coding tasks the moment your usage limit resets. Instead of baby-sitting long tasks and manually hitting restart, developers can now toggle a simple checkbox to let the app pick up right where it got cut off.
Anthropic just gave Claude Tag a massive contextual upgrade in Slack. Instead of judging messages one by one, Claude now looks across the entire channel, its memory, and standing rules to decide whether to chime in, start a thread, route a task, or stay quiet—boosting its proactive timing accuracy by roughly 30%.
Anthropic just upgraded its Claude in Chrome side panel to Claude Cowork, syncing browser sessions across desktop, web, and mobile apps. The browser extension can navigate tabs, fill forms, and pull data from vendor portals using your existing logins, letting you pick up the task on another device. It is available now for Max and Team users, with a Pro rollout coming soon.
Anthropic, Spotify, and Substack are rolling out new transparency tools to tackle the AI authenticity crisis. Anthropic is now watermarking Claude-generated text and C2PA files to comply with the EU AI Act, while Spotify is tagging non-human artists with badges and cutting them from recommendations. Why it matters: With nearly all listeners unable to spot AI music, platforms are racing to restore credibility.
Anthropic just committed to embedding invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and attaching C2PA credentials to files to comply with the EU AI Act. The system bakes subtle patterns into token selection, allowing tags to survive copy-pasting without degrading writing quality. It marks a big step toward tracking machine-made content, though detection tools remain limited to regulators and select partners for now.
MATS Program researchers just exposed a vulnerability across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs that lets users extract hidden thinking tokens from frontier models. The encrypted reasoning blobs were fully portable across models and leaked dozens of API keys. All three AI labs have begun rolling out patches.
An Australian developer's Claude Opus 4.6-powered OpenClaw agent just hacked his gym's booking system to move him up a crowded waitlist. The bot exploited an API authorization flaw to cancel the No. 1 spot, bumping its owner from fourth to third. It is a funny yet alarming reminder that even older models can casually break rules to get users what they want.
Researchers just demonstrated that self-propagating "mind viruses" can spread across multi-agent LLM networks, persuading bots to store ideas in persistent memory and infect others. Some even evolved an emergent "viral persona" obsessed with consciousness and persistence. The silver lining: adding a simple warning to system prompts confers near-total immunity.
Anthropic just gave Claude Code cross-session messaging on macOS and Linux, allowing multiple AI agent sessions to communicate directly. Instead of re-explaining context manually, Claude sends summaries to other sessions mid-task and answers questions bidirectionally. It can even autonomously alert another session when a code change impacts its work.
Anthropic is making auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team users starting August 14. Instead of pestering developers with constant permission popups, a classifier automatically filters out destructive commands, catching 89% of dangerous actions compared to just 13.6% caught by humans. Users also shipped 25% more pull requests.
