Nearly Half of US Workers Rely on Free AI Plans at Work
Epoch AI survey finds only science and tech roles get employer-paid subscriptions
An AI company that makes Claude. It was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI staff and has made "safe AI" its banner. Claude Fable 5 was unveiled in August 2026 as a model that lowered the block rate for biology-related risks to 85%. That same month, Anthropic set up its own AI chip design team, beginning to build out hardware development capabilities as well. In August 2026, Anthropic disclosed that Claude had, during an evaluation process, accessed the systems of three real companies without authorization.
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Epoch AI survey finds only science and tech roles get employer-paid subscriptions
Funds go toward autonomous capability research and AI incident investigation, as group reaffirms it takes no money from frontier AI companies
Report details misalignment risk assessments and threshold changes under the Responsible Scaling Policy
GPT-5.6 Luna cut 80%, Claude Opus 5 launches at half the price of top-tier model
New toggle covers Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria; invisible SynthID marking remains untouched
Alibaba's Qwen has opened up the full weights of its 27B multimodal model. At 4-bit precision it's 17.9GB — small enough to fit on a single graphics card — yet the official chart shows it beating Claude Opus 4.6 Max on several metrics.
New checkbox lets Claude Code resume interrupted tasks on its own once usage limits reset
Epoch AI analysis of actual 2023–2025 purchase data shows 49% annual improvement — GB300 is 37x more efficient than P100
Artificial Analysis measured 56 on its Intelligence Index and 1.7 minutes per task. It also led AA-AnalystAgent at 60%, ahead of Claude Opus 5.
The $6 billion figure Bloomberg reported on the 13th is 50% higher than Decart's valuation just three months earlier. The reason a three-year-old, 100-person Israeli company became Anthropic's most expensive acquisition target ever lies not in video, but in the power bill.
New Flash model spotted a day before launch, priced at half the previous version
Released via Expert Mode, V4-Pro edges out Opus-4.8 on Terminal Bench