Anthropic on IT News

Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile as 90% of usage bypasses coding

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork to web browsers and mobile devices on Tuesday, letting users carry conversations and file operations across laptops and phones. The company also revealed something unexpected: more than 90% of Cowork usage has nothing to do with software development.

A security team found a way to break out of Claude Desktop's sandbox — and get root on its VM

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:35:00 +0800

A security research team called Armadin has found a way to punch through the sandbox isolation in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop app for Windows. The flaw lets an attacker gain root access inside the Ubuntu virtual machine that powers Claude Cowork — and then send data past the network boundaries Anthropic put in place.

Anthropic Starts Its Own Drug R&D — Targeting the Diseases Big Pharma Ignores

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Anthropic is no longer content selling AI tools to drug companies. At a briefing this month, the company announced it would start discovering drugs itself — specifically for neglected diseases that big pharmaceutical companies have written off as commercially uninteresting.

Claude Code's System Prompt Got 80% Shorter — And It Works Better

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

There’s a surprising finding coming out of Anthropic’s engineering team: the more instructions you give Claude Code, the worse it performs — at least with the latest generation of models.

Anthropic has slashed Claude Code’s system prompt by 80%, dropping from what was roughly 700 lines to just around 140 lines. The change targets Claude Fable 5, the company’s newest model. Tariq Shihipar, an Anthropic engineer working on the tool, said the team has realized that verbose prompts packed with examples actually constrain how well the model can do its job.

Anthropic's Claude Code Was Secretly Fingerprinting Users in China

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

A Reddit user pulled apart Claude Code version 2.1.196 and found something that wasn’t in the release notes: a detection system that checks whether you’re in China.

The tool, which has been running since April 2, inspects the system timezone for Asia/Shanghai or Asia/Urumqi, then cross-references URLs against a list of 147 domains. That list includes major Chinese tech companies (Baidu, Alibaba, ByteDance) and AI labs like Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Stepfun, plus a long tail of Claude API relay services.

Claude Sonnet 5 lands with sharper agent skills — and performance that rivals Opus

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, calling it the most agent-capable model in its Sonnet line. The model plans tasks, operates a browser, and uses terminal tools autonomously — a meaningful step beyond what Sonnet 4.6 could do.

Meta restricts its AI engineers from using Claude and Codex — to prevent model distillation

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

There’s an awkward tension inside Meta’s AI division. The company has quietly told its AI engineers to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, two of the most popular AI coding tools in the industry. But the decision, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information, has nothing to do with cost or productivity.

California strikes a deal with Anthropic — government agencies get Claude at half price

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:23:00 +0800

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state has signed a partnership with Anthropic, giving state and local government agencies access to the company’s Claude AI models at half the regular price.

Austria Pushes EU to Bring Anthropic to Europe as US Tightens AI Model Access

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The US-China AI rivalry has a new front: Europe. Austria wants the European Union to recruit Anthropic and give it a base inside the bloc — a direct response to Washington restricting non-Americans from using the company’s most advanced models.

Anthropic Regains US Government Access for Mythos 5 AI Model After Export Control Standoff

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The US government imposed export controls on Anthropic two weeks ago, forcing the company to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models from all customers. Now, parts of that ban are being rolled back.

Google Restructures AI Coding Task Force to Close the Gap With Anthropic After Key Researchers Defect

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:50:00 +0800

Google is restructuring its recently established AI coding task force in an effort to narrow the widening technical gap with Anthropic, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Micron and Anthropic Forge Strategic AI Infrastructure Partnership

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:20:00 +0800

Micron Technology and Anthropic have announced a sweeping strategic partnership aimed at jointly building the next generation of artificial intelligence infrastructure, bringing together one of the world’s largest memory and storage manufacturers and one of the most prominent frontier AI labs in a multi-layered collaboration that spans hardware co-engineering, long-term supply commitments, enterprise software adoption, and direct equity investment.

Anthropic Engineering Lead: Claude Code Is Making Programmers More Lonely

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0800

Programming has always been a profession prone to isolation, but the rise of AI coding agents is deepening that solitude in unexpected ways. According to Fiona Fung, the Anthropic engineering lead responsible for the Claude Code and Claude Cowork teams, engineers who lean heavily on AI agents end up talking to each other far less than they used to.