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title: "Anthropic"
description: "AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems."
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# Anthropic
> AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

## Articles

### [Claude for Creative Work](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-for-creative-work.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 13, 2026
- Type: Announcement

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](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-sydney-office.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 13, 2026
- Type: Announcement

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](https://yomu.fyi/post/ust-is-bringing-claude-to-physical-ai.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

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](https://yomu.fyi/post/golden-gate-claude.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 9, 2026
- Type: Explainer

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](https://yomu.fyi/post/the-long-term-benefit-trust.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

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.


### [Inviting hard questions](https://yomu.fyi/post/inviting-hard-questions.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic is inviting the public to submit difficult questions about AI’s effects on jobs, society, families, science, medicine, and the future. The initiative responds to both optimism about AI’s potential and concerns about job loss, creative work, human agency, misuse, and whether benefits outweigh costs. Anthropic says its Public Benefit Corporation mission is to secure the benefits of advanced AI models and mitigate risks through safeguards, alignment research, free access for scientists, and a fellowship pairing early-career Claude users with nonprofits. It has gathered views through surveys of 52,000 Americans and 81,000 Claude users in 159 countries and 70 languages, plus focus groups and anonymized usage data, and will publicly track actions and shortcomings in addressing submitted questions. The Anthropic Institute and Long-Term Benefit Trust are also described as mechanisms for confronting societal challenges and providing oversight.


### [A new way to reflect on how you use Claude](https://yomu.fyi/post/a-new-way-to-reflect-on-how-you-use-claude.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

The beta reflection feature helps Claude users review and refine their use of the assistant by tracking and visualizing activity over one, three, six, or twelve months. A dashboard summarizes key topics, usage patterns, frequent tasks, and when Claude is used, while periodically prompting users to consider what they should keep doing themselves; a future view will show time spent. It also assesses activity through the 4D AI Fluency Framework—Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence—and can suggest practices such as using a Project for ongoing context, alongside quiet hours and break nudges. Available on Claude for web and the desktop app to Free, Pro, and Max users with memory enabled, the beta excludes incognito chats, connected-tool source files, and conversations tied to health integrations, with sensitive conversations represented only at a high level.


### [Ben Bernanke appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust](https://yomu.fyi/post/ben-bernanke-appointed-to-anthropic-s-long-term-benefit-trust.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) appointed Dr. Ben Bernanke, former Federal Reserve Chair and Brookings Institution Distinguished Fellow, as its newest member. The independent body helps hold Anthropic to its mission of responsibly developing advanced AI for humanity’s long-term benefit, and its Trustees advise the board and leadership on critical decisions involving AI’s risks and societal impacts. Bernanke brings research and policy experience spanning the Great Depression, financial crises, and his 2006–2014 Federal Reserve tenure; he will contribute to Anthropic’s economic research, including work on how AI changes economies and workforces. The LTBT can appoint members to Anthropic’s board, while its Trustees hold no company equity or profit share and are compensated only for their service.


### [Progress from our Frontier Red Team](https://yomu.fyi/post/progress-from-our-frontier-red-team.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 8, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reports on national-security risks from frontier AI models, drawing on work across four releases over the past year. It finds early-warning signs of rapid progress in dual-use capabilities: Claude reached undergraduate-level performance on some cybersecurity evaluations and exceeded expert baselines in selected biology tasks, while current models remain below thresholds for substantially elevated national-security risk. The team compares model generations on CTF and Cybench tests, realistic roughly 50-host cyber ranges, virology troubleshooting, LabBench, and controlled biosecurity studies, including expert red-teaming. Models still fail autonomously in realistic network environments and make critical mistakes in weaponization planning, although researcher-built tools enabled an attack resembling a known large-scale theft of personally identifiable information; the team is expanding automated evaluations and pursuing government partnerships and stronger safeguards.


### [Frontier threats red teaming for AI safety](https://yomu.fyi/post/frontier-threats-red-teaming-for-ai-safety.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 8, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Frontier threats red teaming applies adversarial testing to evaluate whether AI models could create national-security risks, using biology as a test project. Anthropic worked with biosecurity experts to define threat models, probe models for more than 150 hours, learn jailbreak techniques, and build quantitative, repeatable evaluations in a secure interface without public-deployment safety monitoring. The project found that frontier models can sometimes produce sophisticated, accurate, detailed biological knowledge, with capability increasing alongside model size and potentially with tool access; the authors assess unmitigated risks as possibly near-term. Training changes and classifier-based filters reduced harmful outputs or access to chained expert information, and these mitigations were deployed in the public-facing frontier model. Future work will test LLM speedups over search engines, examine newer and smaller adapted models, and expand collaboration, disclosure, and independent evaluation.


### [Anthropic's core views on AI safety](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-s-core-views-on-ai-safety.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 8, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Anthropic argues that AI could have an impact comparable to the industrial and scientific revolutions, potentially within the coming decade, because scaling laws link increased training computation with predictable capability improvements. It says progress may continue toward systems matching or exceeding human performance across many intellectual tasks, while society faces disruption and competitive pressure to deploy systems that are not reliably helpful, honest, and harmless. The company’s safety strategy is empirically driven and multifaceted, emphasizing scalable supervision, mechanistic interpretability, process-oriented learning, and research into how systems learn and generalize. It also studies capability evaluation, red teaming, harmful behavior, economic effects, and policy implications. The stated goal is a broad portfolio of safety work that can adapt as evidence clarifies which future scenario is unfolding, including less optimistic possibilities.


### [Building safeguards for Claude](https://yomu.fyi/post/building-safeguards-for-claude.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 6, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Claude’s Safeguards team describes a lifecycle approach to reducing misuse while keeping the model useful, combining policy, training, evaluation, real-time enforcement, and monitoring. The team uses a Unified Harm Framework spanning physical, psychological, economic, societal, and individual autonomy harms, and policy vulnerability testing with external experts to shape policies and defenses. Before release, Claude undergoes safety, risk, and bias evaluations, including capability uplift testing in high-risk domains; findings can lead to new detection methods or guardrails. After deployment, prompted or fine-tuned Claude classifiers monitor violations for response steering and account actions, while human review and CSAM hash matching support enforcement. Ongoing analysis uses privacy-preserving topic clusters, hierarchical summarization, and threat intelligence to identify aggregate misuse and novel attacks.


### [Government of Alberta uses Claude to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities](https://yomu.fyi/post/government-of-alberta-uses-claude-to-find-and-fix-cybersecurity-vulner.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 6, 2026
- Type: Explainer

The Government of Alberta’s Ministry of Technology and Innovation has used Claude Code with Claude Opus and Sonnet since 2025 to review, secure, and modernize systems spanning 27 provincial ministries. About 50 autonomous agents scanned 466 million lines across 3,400 repositories in roughly 20 hours, using a rules-engine first pass followed by reviews that cite exact files and lines; Alberta estimates a traditional review could take around 6.5 years. Claude Code also generated and tested fixes, wrote missing tests, and rebuilt some obsolete applications, with Ministry engineers approving patches before release. Specialized red-team and blue-team agents now run continuous checks against roughly 95 security controls, while the Alberta AI Academy trains employees and members of the public. The government plans to consolidate 185 legacy applications into 16 reusable modern applications, a future goal rather than a reported result.


### [Claude's extended thinking](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-s-extended-thinking.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 3, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces extended thinking, letting users toggle deeper reasoning and developers set a thinking budget. The same model spends additional computation on sequential reasoning, while agent training supports iterative function calls, computer use, and open-ended tasks. The post examines visible thought processes, noting benefits for trust and research but also limitations around faithfulness, safety, and jailbreak risk; it therefore treats the feature as a research preview. Reported examples include stronger OSWorld performance, playing Pokémon Red through tens of thousands of interactions and progressing through three Gym Leaders, plus logarithmic math gains as thinking tokens increase. Safety work includes encrypted thoughts for some harmful content and computer-use prompt-injection mitigations that raise prevention from 74% to 88%.


### [Announcing Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy](https://yomu.fyi/post/announcing-anthropic-s-responsible-scaling-policy.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 3, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), a set of technical and organizational protocols for managing catastrophic risks from increasingly capable AI systems, including deliberate misuse and autonomous behavior contrary to designers’ intent. The policy introduces AI Safety Levels (ASL), loosely modeled on biosafety levels, with requirements for safety, security, and operations increasing alongside a model’s potential for catastrophic risk; current LLMs, including Claude, are described as ASL-2. ASL-3 would require unusually strong security and no deployment when adversarial testing by world-class red-teamers finds meaningful catastrophic misuse risk, while ASL-4 measures remain unwritten and may depend on unresolved interpretability research. Approved by Anthropic’s board, the RSP is presented as an initial, revisable framework that may temporarily pause scaling when safety procedures cannot keep pace, while incentivizing solutions needed for further development and leaving current Claude uses and product availability unchanged.


### [More details on Fable 5’s cyber safeguards and our jailbreak framework](https://yomu.fyi/post/more-details-on-fable-5-s-cyber-safeguards-and-our-jailbreak-framework.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 3, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Claude Fable 5 has been redeployed globally, accompanied by additional detail about its cybersecurity safety classifiers and a proposed AI jailbreak severity framework. The classifiers distinguish prohibited use, high-risk dual use, low-risk dual use, and benign use, with intended responses ranging from blocking to allowing with monitoring; the model uses a larger safety margin than previous models, accepting more false positives to increase protection against harmful outcomes. Other safeguards include access controls, model safety training, and offline monitoring, while a HackerOne program invites researchers to submit potential cyber jailbreaks. The draft framework measures capability gain against the available baseline and illustrates scoring with Log4Shell cases, where severity changes as discoverability and existing tools change.


### [Redeploying Claude Fable 5](https://yomu.fyi/post/redeploying-claude-fable-5.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was restored after US export controls had temporarily suspended both models for all users. The post says Fable 5 will return globally on July 1 across Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, while Mythos 5 access has resumed for some US organizations and broader partner access remains under discussion. Anthropic describes a new safety classifier intended to block the bypass reported by Amazon researchers in more than 99% of cases; blocked Fable 5 requests are sent to Opus 4.8, although the classifier increases false positives in coding and debugging. It also outlines defense-in-depth safeguards, a proposed shared industry framework for assessing jailbreaks, and expanded government collaboration on pre-release evaluation, information sharing, and joint research.


### [Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-fable-5-and-claude-mythos-5.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jul 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are presented as a joint launch of the same underlying model, with Fable 5 intended for general use and Mythos 5 initially reserved for selected cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers. Fable 5 uses conservative safeguards that route some sensitive queries to Claude Opus 4.8, while Mythos 5 lifts safeguards in selected areas through Project Glasswing and a planned trusted-access program. The post reports strong results in software engineering, knowledge work, vision, long-context tasks, cybersecurity, protein design, molecular biology, and genomics, including a reported 50-million-line Ruby migration completed in a day. Both models are priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with Fable 5 available through the Claude API and staged subscription access.


### [DXC integrates Claude into systems regulated industries rely on](https://yomu.fyi/post/dxc-integrates-claude-into-systems-regulated-industries-rely-on.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jun 26, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic and DXC Technology announced a multi-year global alliance to bring Claude into mission-critical systems used by banks, airlines, insurers, manufacturers, and government agencies. DXC will train tens of thousands of Claude-certified forward-deployed engineers, while adding its own curriculum for regulated, mission-critical environments to Anthropic Academy’s certification. DXC first used Claude internally, including as the default foundation model for DXC OASIS, an AI-native managed-services orchestration platform whose code was more than 95% generated by Claude and reviewed by engineers; DXC estimates this accelerated development tenfold. The alliance initially targets insurance, legacy modernization, cybersecurity, and application services, including an always-on security engineer subagent for security operations centers. OASIS serves more than 50 DXC customers, with broader rollout planned.


### [TCS and Anthropic bring Claude to regulated industries](https://yomu.fyi/post/tcs-and-anthropic-bring-claude-to-regulated-industries.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Jun 26, 2026
- Type: Announcement

TCS and Anthropic are partnering to bring Claude to regulated industries, with TCS providing access to 50,000 employees across 56 countries and developing client offerings. As the partnership’s “customer zero,” TCS will use Claude across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales, then apply those lessons through a dedicated practice of consultants, engineers, and industry specialists. The practice will package and operate industry-specific systems, including claims processing for insurers and lending advisory for banks, while TCS teams contribute reusable Claude Code skills and plugins focused initially on claims adjudication and lending advisory. Other announced work includes Diligenta using Claude for more than 22 million policyholders and TCS iON delivering training and certification after conducting more than 75 million annual assessments.


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