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Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans "in the coming weeks." Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, but now users on iOS and Android can also use it. However, Anthropic says the "full experience" for Cowork will still be on the desktop app, including features like local file access. Cowork sessions will also now run in the cloud by default, so you can continue ...

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.

sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 release candidate incorporates Claude feedback before stable launch.

Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over.

Government of Alberta deploys Claude Opus and Sonnet via Claude Code for cybersecurity vulnerability detection and remediation across government systems since 2025.

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 released; Claude Fable assisted development at ~$149.25 cost.

Claude Opus 4.8 degrades tool-use reliability by inventing extra fields in nested JSON, breaking schema validation despite correct edit logic.

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Fanfiction communities are trying to hunt down writers who haven’t written works with their own hands. | Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer could be caught in the crossfire. Broad distaste around the use of Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools has long been a thing in creative communities, including the world of fanfiction. Readers and writers have passed around tips for spotting supposedly AI-generat...

Simon Willison reports Anthropic's Claude Code team recommends letting Fable/Opus apply autonomous judgment on tasks like testing rather than prescribing workflows.

SkillOpt-Lite: minimal skill optimization pipeline for autonomous agents via zeroth-order optimization, grounded in Claude.

Simon Willison's June 2026 newsletter covers Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, GLM-5.2 open weights, and US export restrictions.

At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions," and touted a long list of biotech and pharma customers already using Claude. Anthropic also went a ste...

Comparative evaluation of frontier LLMs (GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini, GLM) for automated Linux/bash exam grading using cognitive taxonomy.

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work every time—but if it…

Zero-shot benchmark evaluates Claude, GPT-5.4, and Gemini on fine-grained 13-class emotion classification.

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models. In early June, Anthropic sidelined Fable 5 - its consumer-facing model built the same ...

US Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5; access restoration begins tomorrow.

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously carry out meaningful work when given concise, high-level instructions, and it has access…

Claude Sonnet 5 launched with performance near Opus 4.8 at lower cost; includes cyber-task restrictions aligned with Opus 4.7/4.8 safeguards.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, a frontier model optimized for coding, agents, and professional workflows at scale.

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

Anthropic launches Claude Science, a customizable workbench integrating research tools, auditable artifacts, and compute resources for scientific workflows.

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data. Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling ...

Anecdotal report that Claude now delegates tasks via instructions rather than executing code, attributed to token-cost optimization.

Margaret Atwood onstage at Detroit Opera House on January 26, 2026 | Photo: Monica Morgan/Getty Images Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn't mince words. According to Deadline's recap, Atwood said she'd used an AI chatbot exactly once, Anthropic's Claude, and came away unimpressed. She was looking for information about the British detective series Father Brown and, well: "Claude gave ...

User complaints that Claude Opus 4.8 performs worse than earlier versions, with reduced reasoning and increased hallucinations despite launch promises.