Cursor, the SpaceX-owned AI coding platform, found a backdoored version of Anthropic's Claude Code extension in its marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday, downloaded by up to 5,000 users across Windows, macOS and Linux. Cursor temporarily closed the marketplace, said no other extensions were affected, and published remediation steps. Anthropic confirmed its own systems and official distribution channels were not compromised, saying an attacker used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a tampered copy.
wired.com
· 2026-10-30
Strava has expanded its AI assistant integrations to include Google Gemini, following a similar rollout with Anthropic's Claude months earlier. Subscribers who connect their Strava account to Gemini can ask natural-language questions about their training history, such as pace trends, race performance, or how strength training affects running, with the integration described as optional and read-only.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-29
Anthropic researchers found that in a study, 86% of participants followed recommendations given by its Claude AI model, but only a small fraction of them acknowledged that Claude had influenced their decision. The study suggests expert-style AI guidance can shape human judgment while remaining largely unrecognized as an influence.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-28
Anthropic has launched new reporting tools that let enterprise managers analyze a team's work over a chosen period, including output, token costs, and where workflows stalled, drawing on internal analytics and employee surveys. The company says this data won't be used for model training by default and will include recommendations for improving results, alongside new pooled group budgets for managing team token spending.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
An Anthropic hiring manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interview challenges because Claude now outperforms candidates on tasks like small React exercises. He argues that junior engineers working with AI tools are increasingly surpassing more experienced coders in impact, and frames his advice around engineers who lack social capital or organizational status rather than years of experience.
felixrieseberg.com
· 2026-10-27
A federal judge ruled in Bartz v. Anthropic that the AI company illegally pirated books from more than 10 Stanford professors, including Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee, to train Claude. Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement covering nearly 500,000 works, but Wolff and Lee opted out and filed a separate suit, Cruz v. Anthropic, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work through a jury trial.
stanforddaily.com
· 2026-10-27
Anthropic filed a 335-page prospectus on Monday for a Wall Street listing expected next month, ahead of rival OpenAI's planned 2026 debut. The filing shows rapid revenue growth but no profitability yet, with reports suggesting the offering could raise as much as $100 billion, potentially making it the largest IPO on record.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-27
A WIRED software reporter ran a day-long comparison of six always-on AI agents installed on an iPhone: Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, Anthropic's Claude Duet, Google's Gemini Spark and xAI's Grok Bot. The agents vary widely in price and access, from Meta's free Muse app to OpenAI's $100-a-month Dots, with Claude Duet only released as a wait-listed preview the night before testing.
wired.com
· 2026-10-27
Anthropic has disclosed financial details ahead of its planned stock market debut, reporting losses exceeding $80.7bn and revenue of $16.3bn for the first half of the year. The company, maker of chatbot Claude, will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, though the number of shares and price range have not yet been set. Anthropic's valuation is expected to surpass SpaceX's $1.8 trillion listing earlier this year.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-10-26
Anthropic has introduced Claude Duet, a new product positioned as a competitor to Muse. Details of the announcement were not elaborated in the source material, leaving specifics of features and pricing unclear.
slashdot.org
· 2026-10-22
Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, an AI agent app built on its Claude Opus 5.5 model targeting professionals and small businesses rather than personal errands. The app can generate daily briefings, build dashboards, suggest actions from user data, and complete background tasks via its own virtual machine before seeking approval. It connects to over 6,000 plugins in the Claude Marketplace and can make purchases through Stripe Link or Shopify Shop Pay, though it won't trade securities or transfer money between accounts.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-22
Investment research firm Citrini Research collaborated with Anthropic, testing an unreleased version of Claude to see if it could design a scorpion antivenom from scratch. Experts told The Verge the AI generated only preliminary leads, not a viable drug candidate, and Citrini itself admitted none of its team had biology expertise. Anthropic reportedly lifted Claude's biosecurity restrictions and gave Citrini access to the advanced model for the project.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
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