Anthropic and Microsoft are in early-stage talks for Anthropic to rent Azure servers running Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI accelerator chips for Claude inference workloads. The deal, first reported by The Information on May 21 and confirmed by CNBC and Reuters, has not yet closed. If finalized, it would make Claude the first frontier AI model to validate Maia 200 externally, give Microsoft its most important outside customer for its homegrown chip program, and give Anthropic a fourth custom silicon option alongside Nvidia GPUs, AWS Trainium, and Google TPUs - reducing its per-token inference costs ahead of the October 2026 IPO.
11 Jun 20267 min read
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026 - the first publicly available Mythos-class model and the most capable AI Anthropic has ever released to the general public. Fable 5 scores 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro, outperforms Opus 4.8 on long and complex tasks, and excels at software engineering, scientific research, and vision. It is priced at $10/$50 per million tokens - less than half the cost of Mythos Preview. A key safeguard: cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries route to Opus 4.8 instead of Fable 5, triggering in under 5% of sessions. Free for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers until June 22.
10 Jun 20269 min read
Anthropic confirmed in its official platform release notes that claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 will be retired from the Claude API on June 15, 2026. Any code with hardcoded model strings pointing to these versions will return errors after that date. Migration is a simple model string update: replace with claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-opus-4-8 respectively. This article covers the migration checklist, what changes in behavior to expect, and the third deprecation (claude-opus-4-1) coming in August.
10 Jun 20266 min read
Evidence for Claude Sonnet 4.8 has been circulating since a source map accidentally shipped with the @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package v2.1.88 on March 31, 2026. Inside that map, a security filter list contained three strings: sonnet-4-8, opus-4-7, and mythos. Opus 4.7 subsequently shipped April 16 - exactly as leaked - giving the other two strings real credibility. Sonnet 4.8 has not been announced as of June 6, 2026. Separately, TechCrunch reported Anthropic's Series H round is likely its final private fundraise before its targeted October 2026 IPO, with $47B ARR supporting the case for public markets.
06 Jun 20267 min read
Anthropic published a landmark blog post from its Institute on June 4, 2026 disclosing that Claude authors over 80% of the code merged into Anthropic's production codebase as of May 2026 - up from low single digits before Claude Code launched in February 2025. Engineers now ship 8x as much code per day as in 2024. Claude's success rate on open-ended engineering tasks jumped from 26% to 76% in six months. Anthropic maps out four scenarios from stalled progress to full recursive self-improvement, proposes a coordinated slowdown mechanism, and warns the transition is happening faster than expected.
05 Jun 20269 min read
The complete Claude and Anthropic hub for 2026 — Fable 5 suspension and restoration arc, Claude Code rate limits and pricing, Anthropic IPO and Series H funding, Claude model comparisons, and all Anthropic news. Updated daily.
Large Language Models01 Jun 20264 min read
On May 19, 2026, KPMG and Anthropic announced the KPMG Digital Gateway Powered by Claude — embedding Claude Cowork and Managed Agents directly into KPMG's global client delivery platform across tax, legal, and private equity work in 138 countries. All 276,000 KPMG employees gain Claude access, with full Microsoft Azure implementation targeted for September 2026. Anthropic also named KPMG its preferred partner for private equity and the two companies will co-develop Claude-powered products for PE portfolio companies via a new offering called KPMG Blaze.
29 May 20267 min read
Anthropic and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $200 million, four-year partnership on May 14, 2026 to deploy Claude in global health, vaccine research, K-12 education, and economic mobility programs. The deal is four times larger than the Gates Foundation's $50 million OpenAI deal from January 2026. Anthropic contributes technical expertise and Claude usage credits; the Gates Foundation contributes grant funding and program design. Programs span the US, sub-Saharan Africa, and India.
28 May 20267 min read
Anthropic projected its first-ever operating profit of $559 million in Q2 2026, with revenue surging 130% to $10.9 billion from $4.8 billion in Q1. The milestone arrives two years ahead of internal projections and positions Anthropic above OpenAI on both revenue growth rate and profitability. Here is the full breakdown of what drove it and what it means.
22 May 20267 min read
Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to use the full capacity of the Colossus 1 data center — over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300+ megawatts of power. The partnership is the direct reason Anthropic can now double Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, remove the peak-hour throttle, and substantially raise Opus API limits.
07 May 20266 min read
Anthropic has announced three major changes to Claude Code and its API: doubling the 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers; permanently removing the peak-hours throttle that had frustrated developers since March 26; and substantially raising API rate limits for Opus models. Here's what changes for each plan and what it means for your workflow.
06 May 20266 min read
Claude Code is no longer just a coding assistant — its underlying engine, the Claude Agent SDK, is the same infrastructure Anthropic uses to build its own internal agent loops. This guide walks through three practical ways to build AI agents with Claude Code in 2026: the Agent SDK for full programmatic control, CLAUDE.md configuration for project-level agents, and Claude Managed Agents for production deployments. Includes working code, install commands, and honest limitations.
30 Apr 202610 min read
Anthropic quietly dropped Claude Code from the $20/month Pro subscription on April 21, 2026, with no prior notice to subscribers. The company confirmed it is running a live A/B test affecting roughly 2% of new Pro sign-ups, while existing subscribers retain access for now. The change pushes Claude Code access to the Max plan starting at $100/month — a 5× price jump.
Code Tools22 Apr 20266 min read
The Claude free plan in August 2026 runs Claude Sonnet 5 — the same model Pro subscribers get — with a 1 million token context window, web search, memory, Projects, MCP connectors, extended thinking and code execution, all at no cost. The real limits are message caps (roughly 15-40 per 5-hour window), no Claude Opus 5, no Claude Code, and no priority queue at peak. Here is exactly what you get, what you do not, and the API credit situation.
Large Language Models16 Apr 20268 min read
Anthropic has shipped a major redesign of the Claude Code desktop app. Developers can now run multiple coding sessions side by side from a single window, managed through a new sidebar. The update also brings an integrated terminal, in-app file editor, faster diff viewer, HTML/PDF preview, and a fully drag-and-drop layout — turning the app into a proper orchestration hub for agentic coding workflows.
Code Tools15 Apr 20267 min read
Claude Code Desktop lets you run multiple sessions in one window. Here’s how to install, set up, and use it for real coding workflows and projects in 2026.
Code Tools14 Apr 20263 min read
Anthropic is moving beyond Nvidia dependence with a three-way custom silicon strategy — Google TPUs, AWS Trainium, and now a $21 billion Broadcom chip deal. The company hit $30 billion in annualised revenue in April 2026 and is building its most significant compute infrastructure commitment to date.
Data & Analytics10 Apr 20268 min read
Anthropic launched the Advisor Strategy on April 9, 2026 — a new API pattern that pairs Claude Opus 4.6 as a strategic advisor with Sonnet or Haiku as the executor. Sonnet with an Opus advisor scored 74.8% on SWE-bench Multilingual, up 2.7 points, while cutting costs 11.9% per task.
Large Language Models10 Apr 20267 min read
Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents on April 8, 2026 — a suite of APIs that handles secure sandboxes, stateful sessions, error recovery, and scaling so developers can ship production AI agents in days instead of months. Notion, Rakuten, Asana, and Sentry are already building with it. Early adopters report up to 10x faster development. Here is everything that is live, what is still in research preview, and how the pricing works.
AI Agents09 Apr 20268 min read
Starting today at 12 p.m. PT, Claude Pro and Max subscriptions no longer cover usage on third-party agents like OpenClaw. Users can switch to pay-as-you-go usage bundles at a discount, or use standard API keys. Developers are frustrated — but Anthropic says surging demand and infrastructure costs made the change unavoidable.
Large Language Models04 Apr 20268 min read