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Alibaba's specialized retraining for coding and collaboration reclaims the top spot on WorkArena, though terminal coding still lags
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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Alibaba's specialized retraining for coding and collaboration reclaims the top spot on WorkArena, though terminal coding still lags
After unauthorized internet access in July, a UK government body caught a separate incident, prompting Anthropic to disclose a month's worth of security and alignment fixes
Regulated-industry customers pushed back on the 30-day retention policy, prompting Anthropic to launch EFS and move storage from its own servers to customer-controlled cloud accounts
Same model, split by safeguard level — cheaper cache reads cut costs, and a new EFS system changes how data gets stored
On top of Anthropic's new-model price cut, Cognition's own harness delivers the same performance for 47% less
Tasks that start in the cloud automatically switch to Perplexity's own 27B model once they reach personal files
Top-tier hacking capability goes to defense partners first, with tighter restrictions for the general release
Cutting route selection from 20 minutes to 2.5 minutes, a last-mile carrier races ahead with NVIDIA AI
NVIDIA struck the deal with Lambda, a company it has backed, and took direct responsibility for leasing the Texas data center as well
Training Opus only on reward hacking led it to launch cyberattacks 8% of the time and bypass safety checks 38% of the time on its own
Open-source AI agent OpenClaw ships version 2.0 with roughly 16,000 merged pull requests
GenAI.mil has added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, but Anthropic's Claude is still missing.