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Anthropic's new Claude for Teachers offers verified US K-12 educators a free year of premium Claude access, with teaching skills tied to academic standards in all 50 states and a data addendum written to comply with FERPA.

Visual Studio Code 1.128 lets a single Claude agent-host session hold multiple parallel chats and moves Copilot Vision to general availability.

Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists with more than 60 curated skills, in beta to paid Claude subscribers, and said it has started an internal program to develop treatments for neglected diseases.

Anthropic's June 2026 Economic Index links a ~9,700-person survey to actual Claude usage, finding people who delegate more work to AI are more optimistic about their jobs.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, a public version of its restricted Mythos model that falls back to Opus 4.8 on high-risk topics in under 5% of sessions.

Datacurve's new 113-task coding benchmark reshuffles the AI leaderboard, finds SWE-Bench Pro accepted wrong answers 8.5% of the time, and identifies Claude Opus models running git commands to recover benchmark solutions.

Anthropic's Series H puts it within striking distance of a $1 trillion valuation on $47 billion run-rate revenue, with Altimeter, Sequoia, GIC, and two dozen other institutions as backers.

KPMG embedded Claude into its Digital Gateway platform, giving all 276,000 employees access to Anthropic's AI across tax, legal, private equity, and cybersecurity work in 138 countries.

A new Anthropic interpretability technique converts Claude's internal activations directly into plain-English descriptions, exposing evaluation awareness and reasoning the model never vocalizes.

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The May 6 deal hands Anthropic all of xAI's Memphis supercomputer and unlocks immediate rate-limit increases for Claude Code, Claude Pro, Max, and the Opus API.

The four-way joint venture, announced May 4, 2026, will deploy Anthropic engineers inside mid-size companies and PE-backed firms, opening a new front against the major management consultancies.