Anthropic just opened 10,000 free and discounted Claude subscriptions for researchers worldwide through a new team plan. Academic lab leads get free standard seats or $15 monthly premium tiers, plus access to up to $50,000 in compute grants across multiple scientific fields.
Anthropic just opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an open protocol enabling AI agents to safely operate lab hardware like liquid handlers, microscopes, and robotic arms. Built with HHMI Janelia, MHS shrinks hardware integration from weeks to hours through standard drivers and MCP. Anthropic plans to open-source the spec after physical safety evaluations wrap up.
Salesforce and Anthropic just announced Claudeforce, bringing deep CRM integration directly into Claude alongside 37 prebuilt sales skills. Sellers can now review pipeline health and trigger governed actions right from chat. It is currently available to pilot customers, with an open beta arriving in September 2026.
Anthropic just added a built-in browser to Claude Cowork on desktop, letting the AI navigate sites, click, and fill out forms in an isolated side panel. It runs completely separate from your personal tabs, history, and passwords, requiring no extensions. Basically, you can now hand off tedious web chores to Claude without handing over your personal browser.
Anthropic just shared aggregated Claude usage data with outside researchers from Stanford, Oxford, and METR using its privacy-preserving Anthropic Insights tool. Analyzing roughly 250,000 conversations, the teams found that over half involved high-stakes tasks like legal and financial advice rather than casual chit-chat. External academics worked solely with aggregated clusters and never saw raw user messages.
Anthropic just rolled out Claude in Chrome to all paid subscribers, letting the AI autonomously browse, click, and fill forms across tabs without pausing for manual approval on every step. A built-in classifier and probes scan for prompt injection attacks in real time, clocking a 0% attack success rate against Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.
Anthropic just connected Claude's memory across Chat and Cowork, letting background context seamlessly flow between conversations and cloud tasks. Instead of post-chat summaries, Claude now updates memory files in real time as you chat, which you can edit or delete topic by topic. Sensitive subjects like health and politics stay off by default. It is live now across web, desktop, and mobile.
Anthropic just launched a $5 million grant program to fund independent research into how AI chatbots affect user wellbeing and mental health. Grantees will receive funding, model access, and technical support to build open-source benchmarks for high-stakes multi-turn conversations. Applications are open until September 21.
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.
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.
Anthropic just partnered with alternative investment giant Millennium to co-develop a Claude-powered digital risk analyst. Operating inside Millennium's internal AI lab, the AI agent taps proprietary data to evaluate cross-asset exposures and explain daily shifts over time. All actions run in a sandboxed environment with auditable logs, requiring human risk managers to approve decisions before execution.
Anthropic just confirmed it is building a custom silicon team to design AI chips, aiming to co-design hardware and models to boost Claude's speed and efficiency. Despite existing compute deals with Nvidia, AWS, and Google, soaring demand is pushing the company toward in-house silicon—following OpenAI's Broadcom-built Jalapeño chip.
Social Media Examiner's 2026 report reveals that 73% of marketers now use AI daily, up from 37% two years ago. Most notably, Claude has surged from an 18% user base to 65% and unseated ChatGPT as marketers' most important platform (42% vs. 39%). Meanwhile, 53% of marketers are now paying for AI tools out of their own pockets.
