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Expanding our partnership with Cognizant | Anthropic
Anthropic is expanding its partnership with Cognizant, a technology services company, to deploy Claude more broadly across enterprise work. Cognizant is embedding Claude in its business and engineering platforms, scaling a Claude-certified workforce through its Frontier Certified model, and becoming a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network. Its Flowsource platform runs Claude Code alongside engineers in a Spec-Driven Development module, directing outputs with project specifications, coding standards, and architectural blueprints before evaluating them for production. The company reports more than 30,000 associates have completed Claude training and describes client deployments including a contract-intelligence system that cut review time by up to 40% and raised extraction accuracy above 88%, plus a risk-navigation tool that saves underwriters roughly eight hours a week. The collaboration combines Cognizant’s industry context, engineering scale, and delivery capabilities with Claude for production enterprise use.
Introducing Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available as a new model positioned near the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5, at half its price, while remaining behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Reported results show state-of-the-art performance on coding and knowledge-work evaluations, including Frontier-Bench, alongside strong results on ARC-AGI 3, Zapier AutomationBench, and OSWorld 2.0. The model uses configurable effort settings to trade intelligence for token use, speed, and cost, and is described as stronger at verifying work, iterating, and handling long agentic tasks. It costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with Fast mode running about 2.5 times faster at twice the base price. Safeguards allow vulnerability finding while blocking binary-based scanning, penetration testing, and exploit generation, with flagged requests able to fall back to Opus 4.8.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 is generally available as an upgrade to Opus 4.6, with stated gains in advanced software engineering, difficult long-running tasks, instruction following, self-verification, and higher-resolution vision. The announcement reports benchmark and tester results including a 13% resolution increase on a 93-task coding benchmark, a 0.715 tie for top score across six research-agent modules, and 90.9% on BigLaw Bench at high effort. It also describes safeguards that detect and block prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity requests, while legitimate security professionals can apply to the Cyber Verification Program. The model is offered across Claude products, its API, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. New controls include xhigh effort, task budgets, Claude Code’s /ultrareview, and auto mode, while migration may increase token counts because of tokenizer and reasoning changes.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5 is available today across Claude apps, the API, and all three major cloud platforms, with the model identifier claude-opus-4-5-20251101 and pricing of $5/$25 per million tokens. The announcement positions it as a state-of-the-art model for coding, agents, computer use, deep research, spreadsheets, and slides, while reporting stronger vision, reasoning, and mathematics than predecessors. On the Claude API, an effort parameter lets developers trade off speed and spend against capability; at medium effort, Opus 4.5 matched Sonnet 4.5’s best SWE-bench Verified score using 76% fewer output tokens, while highest effort exceeded it by 4.3 percentage points using 48% fewer tokens. Additional platform changes include context compaction, advanced tool use, memory, and improved multi-agent coordination. Product updates add Claude Code’s editable Plan Mode and desktop sessions, automatic conversation summarization, and expanded Claude for Chrome and Excel access.
Donating another $20 million to Public First Action
The announcement says an additional $20 million contribution to Public First Action brings total support to $40 million. Public First Action is described as nonpartisan, educating the public about AI and working across party lines on safeguards; the donations are restricted to public education and policy and cannot influence elections. It cites rapidly improving models, including Claude Mythos Preview’s discovery of thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, and says the model was released to a limited set of cyber defenders through Project Glasswing. The policy agenda calls for verifiable safety claims, civil penalties, deployment controls for catastrophic risks, independent evaluation, security programs, and tighter controls on advanced chips and illicit model access.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic introduces Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade over Opus 4.7 for coding, agentic skills, reasoning, and practical knowledge work, with regular pricing unchanged. The release adds adjustable effort in claude.ai and Cowork, dynamic workflows in Claude Code, fast mode at 2.5× speed, and support for system entries inside the Messages API messages array. Dynamic workflows can plan work, run hundreds of parallel subagents in one session, and verify outputs; the post cites codebase-scale migrations across hundreds of thousands of lines as an example. Early evaluations and tester reports describe stronger reliability, judgment, tool efficiency, computer use, and analysis, including an approximately fourfold reduction in allowing flaws in generated code to pass unremarked.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
The release introduces Claude Sonnet 4.5 as a model aimed at complex coding, agentic work, computer use, reasoning, and math, with claimed gains in alignment. It reports state-of-the-art SWE-bench Verified performance and a 61.4% OSWorld score, up from Sonnet 4’s 42.2%, while noting more than 30 hours of observed focus on complex multi-step tasks. Alongside the model, the company released Claude Agent SDK, added Claude Code checkpoints, a refreshed terminal interface, native VS Code extension, context editing, and a memory tool, and brought code execution and file creation to paid Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is available through the Claude API as claude-sonnet-4-5 at $3/$15 per million tokens, the same pricing as Sonnet 4. It is released under AI Safety Level 3 protections, with reported reductions in concerning behaviors and improved defenses against prompt injection, while the temporary Imagine with Claude preview is available to Max subscribers for five days.
Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5, the latest small model, is available to all users, offering a new option for near-frontier performance with lower cost and greater speed. Compared with Claude Sonnet 4, it delivers similar coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed, while surpassing Sonnet 4 on some computer-use tasks. Priced at $1/$5 per million input and output tokens, the model targets real-time assistants, customer service agents, pair programming, Claude Code workflows, and sub-agent orchestration, where Sonnet 4.5 can plan and delegate parallel subtasks to multiple Haiku 4.5 instances. Safety evaluations found low rates of concerning behavior and greater alignment than Haiku 3.5; the model is released under ASL-2 and is available through Claude apps and Code, the API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Claude Design is introduced as an Anthropic Labs product for collaborating with Claude on visual work including designs, prototypes, slides, and one-pagers. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, it is in research preview for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, with gradual rollout and Enterprise access disabled by default. Users can start from prompts, uploaded DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX files, images, codebases, or captured website elements; Claude builds a first version and supports conversational refinement, inline comments, direct edits, custom sliders, and organization-scoped collaboration. During onboarding, it reads a team’s codebase and design files to build reusable design systems, while projects can be exported to Canva, PDF, PPTX, or standalone HTML and handed to Claude Code. Anthropic says teams use it for interactive prototypes, wireframes, explorations, presentations, marketing collateral, and code-powered experiments.
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 improves on Opus 4.5 with stronger coding, planning, debugging, code review, long-running agentic work, and performance in large codebases. It is the first Opus-class model with a beta 1M-token context window, while API features include adaptive thinking, four effort levels, context compaction, and up to 128k output tokens. In reported evaluations, it achieves the highest score on Terminal-Bench 2.0, leads frontier models on Humanity’s Last Exam and BrowseComp, and exceeds GPT-5.2 by around 144 Elo points and Opus 4.5 by 190 points on GDPval-AA. The release also adds Claude Code agent teams, upgraded Excel capabilities, a PowerPoint research preview, and availability on claude.ai, the API, and major cloud platforms, with base pricing of $5/$25 per million tokens.
Introducing Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is introduced as an upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. It adds a 1M token context window in beta, becomes the default for Free and Pro users in claude.ai and Claude Cowork, and keeps Sonnet 4.5’s starting price of $3/$15 per million tokens. Early testing reports that users preferred it over Sonnet 4.5 in Claude Code roughly 70% of the time and over Opus 4.5 59% of the time. The release also reports gains on OSWorld computer use, prompt-injection resistance, OfficeQA document comprehension, and long-horizon planning, while adding adaptive and extended thinking, beta context compaction, and generally available code execution, memory, programmatic tool calling, tool search, and tool-use examples.
Apply for Anthropic’s AI for Science rare disease research grants
Anthropic’s AI for Science program is accepting applications for a rare genetic disease research call, offering accepted applicants up to $50,000 in Claude credits over six months across two tracks: basic science and early-stage biotechnology. The basic-science track focuses on collaboration and mechanism discovery, including work with the Monarch Initiative’s Mondo Disease Ontology, Monarch Knowledge Graph, and agent-friendly DisMech library. The biotech track targets faster therapeutic development through regulatory documentation, modality and target analysis, biomarker discovery, and potential basket-trial strategies. Applications are open through August 2, 2026, at 11:59 PM PST, and projects may use Claude Opus or other approved generally available biology models.
Introducing Claude Tag
Claude Tag is a Slack-based way for teams to delegate work to Claude by tagging @Claude in shared channels, with access to selected tools, data, and codebases. Claude breaks requests into stages, uses permitted tools, replies in threads, retains relevant channel context, and can pursue scheduled tasks asynchronously; ambient behavior can also surface information and follow up on unresolved work. Administrators scope Claude identities, memories, tools, and information by channel, set organization- and channel-level token-spend limits, and review activity logs, while users can also message Claude privately. Available in beta to Claude Enterprise and Team customers, Claude Tag replaces the existing Claude in Slack app, works with Opus 4.8, and is credited with creating 65% of the product team’s code through Anthropic’s internal version.
Agents for financial services
Anthropic is releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for financial services, targeting work such as pitchbook creation, KYC screening, and month-end close operations. Each template packages task-specific skills, governed data connectors, and subagents, and is available as a plugin for Claude Cowork or Claude Code, or as a cookbook for Claude Managed Agents. Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and, soon, Outlook carry context between applications, while new connectors and a Moody’s MCP app provide access to market, research, credit, and company data. The announcement says the updates pair best with Claude Opus 4.7, which leads Vals AI’s Finance Agent benchmark at 64.37%, and states that templates are available today through the financial services marketplace.
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research
Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to Canadian research institutions to support beneficial and responsible AI applications, building on Canada’s contributions to neural networks, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. The announcement names partnerships with Amii, Mila, Vector, CHEO, CAMH, Université Laval, University of Toronto, and the University of Saskatchewan, with Claude credits supporting work spanning trust and safety, health, scientific discovery, mental health, robotics, sustainability, and public services. Amii, Mila, and Vector will also join Anthropic’s for Startups program, providing affiliated Canadian startups with at least $5,000 USD each in API credits. A Canadian country brief based on the March 2026 Anthropic Economic Index reports that Canada ranks eighth in Claude.ai use, accounts for 2.6% of global consumer use, and ranks second by per-capita adoption; usage is highest in British Columbia and closely follows professional, scientific, and technical employment.
Claude for Creative Work
Claude for Creative Work describes a set of connectors and workflows intended to help creative professionals expand ideation, reduce repetitive work, and take on larger-scale projects. The connectors connect Claude with tools including Ableton, Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity by Canva, Autodesk Fusion, Blender, Resolume, SketchUp, and Splice, supporting documentation access, asset production, 3D modeling, live visual control, and sample search. The described uses also include tutoring, Claude Code scripts and plugins, cross-application pipeline work, Claude Design exploration with export to Canva, and batch processing. Blender has an officially available MCP connector that can analyze and debug scenes, batch-apply object changes, and add tools through Blender’s Python API; because it uses MCP, it is accessible to other LLMs. The post also describes access for students and faculty in three art and design programs, whose feedback will inform understanding of creative practitioners’ needs.
Anthropic Sydney office
Anthropic has officially opened a Sydney office and appointed Theo Hourmouzis as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Hourmouzis brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience across Asia Pacific and most recently served as Snowflake’s Senior Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN. He will lead the growing local team, shape a regional strategy for customers, and bring Claude into important work. The team will deepen relationships with enterprise customers and AI for Science research partners while delivering on commitments in a memorandum of understanding with the Australian government. Local partnerships include Canva, Xero, and YMCA South Australia, where custom Claude AI skills turn operational data into actionable insights, reduce branded content production from hours to minutes, and bring previously outsourced technical work in-house.
UST is bringing Claude to physical AI
UST is partnering with Anthropic to bring Claude into engineering and production systems used by semiconductor, automotive, manufacturing, telecom, embedded, and IoT companies. Claude Code reads chip pinouts and hardware schematics, then writes and runs regression tests while carrying design context across hours-long tasks. UST is integrating Claude as the reasoning layer in its iDEC validation pipeline, which generates tests, compares live equipment data with a digital twin, and already cuts validation cycles from four days to 48 hours, 50 to 70 percent. The partnership also applies Claude to healthcare, telecom, and banking platforms, with human approval retained for recommended actions and response workflows. UST will train 20,000 associates worldwide and build specialized deployment teams, with governance and audit controls supporting production use in high-stakes industries.
Golden Gate Claude
Golden Gate Claude presents a research demonstration of interpretability work on Claude 3 Sonnet. Researchers identified millions of activated concepts, or “features,” including a specific combination of neurons associated with the Golden Gate Bridge, and adjusted that feature’s activation strength. Increasing it caused responses to mention the bridge across unrelated prompts, such as spending $10 or writing a love story; the demonstration was available online for 24 hours and is no longer available. The post distinguishes this intervention from verbal role-play, system prompts, and traditional fine-tuning, describing it as a precise change to internal activations. It also says similar techniques could modify safety-related features connected to dangerous code, criminal activity, or deception, potentially supporting safer models.
The Long-Term Benefit Trust
Anthropic announces the Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT), a new governance structure intended to address the unusually large public externalities it associates with transformative AI. The independent Trust has five financially disinterested Trustees and, alongside Anthropic’s Delaware Public Benefit Corporation status, is meant to add accountability to the public interest without directing ordinary commercial decisions. Created through Class T stock after Series C, it can elect and remove board members, with authority phasing in through time- and funding-based milestones and reaching a board majority within four years; investors also receive a new directly elected seat. Protective provisions require notice of certain major actions, while amendment rules combine agreement-based changes with supermajority failsafes whose thresholds rise as the Trust gains power. Anthropic presents the arrangement as an experiment, with initial one-year Trustees selected after a year-long search and future Trustees elected by the Trustees.
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