The latest AI news and updates of Claude — Anthropic's AI assistant and model family, spanning the Claude models, Claude Code, and the Claude API. Covering Claude's latest product updates, launches, and company news from the past 90 days.
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ClaudeOct 8Anthropic launched Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta. Dashboards connects to data platforms or CRMs to build live, query-backed visualizations from plain-language questions. Motion generates editable, code-based animations for export as MP4 files. Additionally, Claude Docs, Slides, and Design are now out of beta and available on every plan, including the Free tier.
ClaudeOct 8Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and most capable small model, which runs on average 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5. The model introduces an adjustable effort setting for balancing cost and intelligence. Alongside this release, Anthropic halved the price of cache reads for Claude Sonnet 5.5 to $0.10 per million tokens, reducing costs for long-running agentic tasks.
ClaudeOct 6Claude now integrates with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via a new sidebar add-on that reads and edits files in place with approval before changes land. Additionally, new connectors allow Claude to create and edit Google files directly from the chat interface. Both features are currently in beta and available on all paid Claude plans.
ClaudeOct 6Anthropic is expanding its Claude Startups program to more founders, offering up to $7,000 in Claude credits and a free year of Claude Team for up to five seats. The new Claude Startup Stack provides up to $45,000 in discounts on tools like Linear and Lovable. The program also includes office hours, events, and Claude Marketplace listing support.
ClaudeOct 1Anthropic is discounting usage limits by 50% for creating or editing artifacts in Claude and Claude Cowork. This promotion runs from October 1 through October 15, 2026, for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The discount applies to the five-hour session limit for the next 10 messages or 15 steps following artifact creation or modification.
ClaudeSep 24Anthropic launched the Claude Marketplace, a central destination for discovering connectors, plugins, and Claude-powered software. The platform features over 2,000 connectors from partners like Slack and Notion, purchasable agents from companies including Cursor and CrowdStrike, and a directory of service partners like Accenture and Deloitte. Builders can list their own tools and services to reach Claude customers.
ClaudeSep 22Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 today, showcasing the model's capabilities through eight creative explorations. The thread features diverse projects, including a watermelon short story, an Apollo 8 Earthrise reconstruction, a pen-and-paper Claude Code interface, a physics-based trebuchet, a UI slot machine, visual effects, a brick-building app, and an algorithmic drawing program.
ClaudeSep 22Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5. The model generates output over 30% faster and achieves Anthropic's strongest alignment score to date, with availability now across all major cloud platforms.
ClaudeSep 16Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork and chat into a single interface. The update introduces Claude Docs, Claude Slides, and Claude Design, which generate and edit documents, presentations, and visuals directly within conversations. These tools also function inside Claude Code and are rolling out to Pro and Max plans over the coming weeks.
ClaudeSep 9Anthropic added CrowdStrike, Cursor, Factory, Gamma, and Vercel to the Claude Marketplace. Existing Anthropic spend commitments now cover these Claude-powered products and agents. Anthropic manages all invoicing for partner purchases, consolidating enterprise AI spend into a single procurement channel.
ClaudeSep 1Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Fable 5.1 reduces typical workload costs by 25% and highly agentic task costs by 45% through cheaper cache reads. The company also introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards for data privacy and improved safety classifiers to reduce false-positive interventions in cybersecurity and biology.
ClaudeAug 28Anthropic launched a Claude Team plan for scientists, offering 10,000 seats to principal investigators at academic and nonprofit research institutions. Standard seats are free, while premium seats cost $15 per month—an 80% discount—for one year. The plan includes Claude Science, Code, and Cowork features, with plans to expand beyond the initial 10,000 seats in the coming months.
ClaudeAug 27Anthropic added a built-in browser to the Claude Cowork desktop app, allowing Claude to navigate sites, read pages, and fill forms in a side panel. The browser operates independently of the user's own browser, keeping tabs and logins separate. It is rolling out to Pro, Max, and Team plans over the next week, alongside Claude in Chrome's general release.
ClaudeAug 25Anthropic updated Claude to share a single memory across chat and Claude Cowork, allowing tasks to start with context from previous conversations. Settings provide a list of topics for editing or deletion, with sensitive subjects excluded by default. Memory is enabled by default for Free, Pro, and Max plans.
ClaudeAug 22Anthropic launched Claude Security scans on Claude Mythos 5 in public beta for all Claude Enterprise customers. The update integrates the model into security workflows, returning vulnerability findings with CWE categories, severity ratings, and suggested patches. Scans are billed as standard token usage, and patches require human review before implementation through Claude Code on the web.
ClaudeAug 22Anthropic adds Gmail and Google Drive connectors to Claude, supporting direct email sending and file management. Claude drafts and sends email replies, with user-controlled approval required by default for actions. The update is available on all paid plans through the connectors menu.
ClaudeAug 12Anthropic updates Claude in Chrome to sync sessions across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. The browser side panel now runs full Claude Cowork sessions, allowing skills and connectors to function directly in the browser. This update is available today for Max and Team plans, with a rollout to Pro plans scheduled for the coming weeks.
ClaudeAug 10Anthropic is making the introductory pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 permanent. The model remains priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. This update cancels the previously planned price increase that was scheduled to take effect after August 31, 2026.
ClaudeAug 8Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5’s biology safety classifiers to reduce false-positive fallbacks by about 85%. The model now directly assists with a wider range of everyday health and educational questions, such as interpreting lab results. It continues to block dual-use requests in fields like virology and toxicology, which remain routed to Claude Opus 5.
ClaudeJul 24Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, a model matching near-frontier Fable 5 intelligence at half the cost. It achieves state-of-the-art results on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks, scores 3x higher than competitors on ARC-AGI-3, and is Anthropic’s most aligned model to date. Opus 5 is available today on all paid plans and the Claude API at the same price as Opus 4.8.
ClaudeJul 23Anthropic updated Claude’s voice mode to run on Claude Opus and Sonnet models. The feature now supports Spanish, French, Hindi, and Japanese on every plan and integrates with connected tools like email and calendar mid-conversation. This public beta is available today across mobile, desktop, and web platforms.
ClaudeJul 22Anthropic released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in public beta. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities like injection flaws and memory corruption, validates findings through adversarial verification, and suggests targeted patches for human review. It integrates directly into the terminal, allowing teams to identify and fix security issues within their existing development environment.
ClaudeJul 22Anthropic launched a connector for the Anthropic Economic Index, allowing direct queries about AI usage across the economy within Claude. The tool provides answers grounded in the Index data, covering topics like task automation and occupational AI adoption. It is available in the connectors menu on claude.ai and functions with any Claude model.
ClaudeJul 21Claude adds a Record a Skill feature to the Claude desktop app, enabling the creation of repeatable workflows. The tool captures screen activity, clicks, typing, and voice narration to generate executable agentic skills. This capability is available under the plus menu for Pro, Max, and Team plan subscribers.
ClaudeJul 18Anthropic is permanently including Claude Fable 5 in Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, 2026, at 50% of weekly usage limits. Pro and Team Standard users receive a one-time $100 credit and continue accessing the model through usage credits. This update provides permanent access to the model for high-intensity plan tiers.
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