AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra scores 95% on one robot task, 10% on another
Robocurve ran GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on real robot arms. Astra hit 19 of 20 on the easy task and 2 of 20 on the hard one.
Anthropic news and analysis
Anthropic model releases, pricing changes and platform updates, covered for the developers building on Claude: what changed, what it costs, and what to re-test.
Coding
Anthropic's AI formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean
Anthropic says an internal model wrote 13 million lines of Lean in 11 days, producing a complete machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Tech Industry
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at once
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down within the same window on September 3. Cursor was hit too. No company has confirmed a shared root cause.
AI & LLMs
Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cache reads 75% and keeps token prices flat
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 holds input and output prices at $10 and $50 per million tokens, and drops cache reads from $1.00 to $0.25. Mythos 5.1 stays invitation-only.
Tech Industry
Anthropic reportedly commits $35B over six years for Lambda compute
Reports say Anthropic signed a $35 billion, six-year deal for computing from Lambda at a Texas data center. Four companies sit in the chain, and Nvidia holds the lease.
Tech Industry
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over lyrics used to train Claude
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic on August 28, 2026, naming Dario Amodei personally and alleging torrented books and scraped lyric sites.
AI & LLMs
Anthropic's new standard lets AI agents run lab equipment
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard on August 27, 2026. It gives agents one way to drive microscopes, robot arms and lab tools.
Tech Industry
Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist was illegal retaliation
A federal judge found the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic violated the First and Fifth Amendments. A second case is pending, and an appeal is coming.
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