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Anthropic files S-1 with SEC, plans Nasdaq listing under ticker ANT
Anthropic, PBC has filed an S-1 with the SEC for an IPO of Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The ticker is ANT; the underwriters are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Anthropic gives METR employee-level access to evaluate its systems' safety
Anthropic is opening its internal environment to independent evaluators: METR gets employee-like access, while Hugging Face and other organizations are in early talks.

Anthropic Ships Ten Claude Announcements in Three Months, From Schools to SpaceX
From April 17 to July 22, Anthropic launched Claude Design, Claude Science, a small-business bundle, Claude for Teachers and an Economic Index connector. Here's the logic.

Anthropic Analyzed 250,000 Chats Ahead of the 2026 Elections
Anthropic analyzed 250,000 chats ahead of the 2026 elections. Politics comes up in 5.75% of conversations, with 0.01% asking Claude how to vote. The company added TurboVote and Democracy Works, strengthened manipulation

Anthropic opens its fifth APAC office: Singapore ranks 2nd of 121 countries for Claude
Anthropic opened a Singapore office and signed an MOU with the country's digital ministry. Singapore ranks second of 121 countries in per-capita Claude.ai usage.

Anthropic updates Usage Policy: new Claude rules take effect November 12
Anthropic's 2026 Usage Policy adds a dedicated section on fake campaigns and sharpens bans on weapons and surveillance. The rules take effect November 12.

Anthropic Launches Cyber Mission: 11 Partners to Defend Power Grids and Open Source
Anthropic is rolling out Cyber Mission — a program to defend critical infrastructure, backed by Accenture, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, and seven other IT companies. CIDP protects power grids and water syst

Anthropic Commits $150M to Put Claude in 15+ US Federal Agencies
Anthropic will spend $150M over three years on the Genesis Mission, giving NASA, NIH, NSF and a dozen-plus other agencies access to Claude. Fusion energy and quantum computing are the priorities.

Anthropic lets six METR auditors into its office, with the right to publish reports without a veto
Six METR staff got Anthropic laptops, office space and internal tools. The company has no publication veto, only the right to require redaction of narrow categories of data.

Anthropic to put 5% of its shares into a Public Benefit Fund, with the stake growing as the company grows
Anthropic is allocating 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund; the board may add 2% per 50% valuation gain. With founder and staff pledges, about 20% goes to public causes.

Anthropic opens a call for life sciences researchers: 8–12 weeks with Claude, free of charge
Anthropic invites labs to joint biology and drug discovery projects: 8–12 weeks with the company's researchers, compute paid by Anthropic, data stays with the scientists.

Anthropic Hands Agent Skills Standard to AAIF: 1 Million Skills, 280 Million Installs
Anthropic gave the Linux Foundation the Agent Skills standard, along with its name, logo and domain. Since December 2025, more than 70 platforms have adopted it, including ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot.

Anthropic puts part of its equity into a new Public Benefit Fund after a $65 billion round
Anthropic is creating a Public Benefit Fund and putting some shares into it; the fund's stake grows with the company, valued at $965 billion. Also: 5.5 models, a Singapore office.

Anthropic cuts distillers' extraction of Claude's reasoning by 10–100x
Anthropic added a two-stage classifier and preserved thinking: the data distillers can collect fell by 90–99%, with false blocks under 0.1%.

Anthropic commits $150 million over three years to the federal Genesis Mission
Anthropic will put $150 million over three years into Genesis Mission, a US federal initiative to speed up scientific discovery with AI. It is the company's largest public bet on science in 2026.

Healthcare Organizations Use Claude to Combat Ebola in DRC
A rare strain of Ebola is spreading in the DRC without a confirmed vaccine. Global healthcare organizations are deploying Claude to accelerate response to the epidemiological crisis.

Anthropic Commits $200M to Research on the Economic Impact of AI
Anthropic is putting $200M into external research on preparing the economy for AI disruption, with large grants of $5–30M across five priority areas.

Dario Amodei (Anthropic): Why We Don't Advocate Banning Open-Weights Models
On July 27, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company has never proposed banning open-weights models, and named the real threats: chips for China and distillation.

Anthropic Builds Economic Index Into Claude: Find Out Where AI Is Already Automating Tasks
On July 22, 2026, Anthropic released an Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude. Anyone can now ask in chat how AI is used in their profession and get an answer based on Index data.

Anthropic Offers Up to $50,000 in Claude Credits for Rare Disease Research
Anthropic has opened applications for AI research on rare genetic diseases: grants of up to $50,000 in Claude credits for six months, open to scientists and early-stage biotech startups.

Claude for Teachers: Anthropic Opens Free Access to Verified K-12 Teachers in the US
On July 14, 2026, Anthropic gave verified US K-12 teachers free access to Claude: lesson planning, differentiation and standards for all 50 states.

Anthropic to Put CA$10 Million Into AI Research in Canada
Anthropic will give CA$10 million to Canada's three leading AI institutes — Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute — and several universities for responsible AI research.

Anthropic launched Claude Science — an AI platform for scientists and laboratories
Anthropic introduced Claude Science — a working environment for scientists with access to 60+ scientific tools, where every result is reproducible and verifiable.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 — the most agentic model in the Sonnet line
Claude Sonnet 5 approaches the quality of the flagship Opus 4.8 but costs half as much and became the default model in Anthropic's free and Pro tiers.

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust
On July 9, 2026, Anthropic appointed Nobel laureate Ben Bernanke, former US Federal Reserve Chair, as a new member of its Long-Term Benefit Trust—an independent oversight body.

Alberta Government Found Vulnerabilities in 466 Million Lines of Code Using Claude
On July 6, 2026, Anthropic described how Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet models checked 466 million lines of Alberta's government code in 20 hours using 50 agents.

Anthropic files draft S-1 with SEC for IPO
On June 1, 2026, Claude's creator officially notified the U.S. securities regulator of its intention to conduct an IPO after raising $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion.

Anthropic Launched Public Record: Ask AI Complex Questions
Anthropic announced Public Record initiative, inviting the public to ask complex questions about AI and promising to show publicly how the company answers them.

Claude in Production: UST Deploys Anthropic's AI in Chip Validation
Anthropic and UST have launched integration of Claude Code into the iDEC platform for chip validation: the neural network reduces the testing cycle from 4 days to 2 days and expands into healthcare, telecom, and banking.

Anthropic launches Reflect dashboard to analyze how you use Claude
Anthropic launches Reflect in beta — a dashboard showing Claude usage history and patterns over 1–12 months, with quiet hours settings and 4D AI Fluency guidance.