Anthropic unveiled Claude Science on June 30, 2026, at a closed-door event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and academic researchers. The product positions itself as the scientific research counterpart to Claude Code — a system that executes autonomous research workflows from high-level natural language instructions. For computational biology teams and …
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Claude Sonnet 5: Specs, Pricing, and Competitive Position
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on 30 June 2026, slotting it as the new default model on Claude.ai for both Free and Pro tiers and pushing it to the API, Amazon Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry on day one. The release is notable for what it consolidates rather than what …
Anthropic Fable 5 Banned by US Government Directive
The US government has banned worldwide access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. The export control directive, issued Friday June 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM ET, forces Anthropic to disable both models for all users because the company cannot verify nationality …
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Anthropic Launches Fable 5: Public Mythos-Class Model
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 today — a Mythos-class model that tops nearly every benchmark. Fable 5 is available to the public via API and Amazon Bedrock at $10/M input and $50/M output tokens, less than half the price of Mythos Preview. Mythos 5, the unrestricted …
Building Claude Skills: A Complete Developer Guide
What Are Claude Skills Direct answer: Claude Skills are folders of markdown instructions, scripts, and reference files that Claude loads dynamically to handle specialized tasks. They eliminate the need to re-paste context, style guides, or workflow rules into every conversation session. Every time you start a new Claude conversation, you …
Anthropic Wants AI Pause, Sells Mythos to NSA for Offense
On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a lengthy post calling for a global “temporary pause” on frontier AI development, warning that recursive self-improvement could arrive before institutions are prepared. Within 24 hours, the Financial Times revealed that the same company has embedded half a dozen engineers inside the US National …
Anthropic: AI Now Builds AI — Inside the Recursive Self-Improvement Data
On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a research paper titled When AI Builds Itself that made a blunt admission: more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production systems is now written by Claude. Engineers at the company ship 8× more code per day than they did in 2024. …
Claude Opus 4.7 Ships, Sonnet 4.8 Leak Raises Questions
Claude Opus 4.7 Ships, Sonnet 4.8 Leak Raises Questions On April 16, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 (model ID: claude-opus-4-7) to general availability across its own API as well as Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. The pricing held steady at $5 per million input tokens and …