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Sep 9, 2026

• Anthropic

  ServiceNow chooses Claude

  ServiceNow has selected Claude as the default model for ServiceNow Build Agent and as a preferred model across the ServiceNow AI Platform. Build Agent uses natural-language prompts to help professional coders and citizen developers create applications, design and test agentic automations, while enterprise controls provide access controls, usage monitoring, visibility, and compliance. ServiceNow is also deploying Claude and Claude Code across its workforce of more than 29,000 employees: a Claude-powered sales coaching tool has cut preparation time by up to 95% in testing, while technical teams use Claude Code for coding, reviews, debugging, and repetitive tasks. The partnership targets a 50% reduction in customer implementation time and includes Claude-powered industry applications for healthcare and life sciences, where claims authorization could move from days to hours.

• AWS

  Testing application resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service

  The post presents a resilience-testing tutorial for applications that depend on Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), where failed queue operations can stall downstream processing and trigger cascading outages. It uses AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Automation to apply a scoped deny resource policy that blocks data-plane actions, including sending, receiving, deleting, changing visibility, and purging, while preserving queue management. The experiment increases disruption across four phases, then observes producer-side and consumer-side behavior through application and Amazon CloudWatch metrics, including circuit-breaker state, failed sends, backlog, message age, duplicates, and dead-letter-queue effects. The guidance emphasizes hypotheses with measurable success criteria, non-production guardrails, tagged target queues, and a stop condition based on customer impact. It also describes consumer-only, partial, and compound-failure extensions, warning that concurrent experiments on one queue can leave a stale deny policy.

• Anthropic

  Apple’s Xcode now supports the Claude Agent SDK

  Xcode 26.3 introduces a native integration with the Claude Agent SDK, bringing the same harness that powers Claude Code into Apple’s IDE for longer-running, autonomous coding work. Claude can receive a goal, inspect a project’s full file structure, determine which files to change, modify them, and iterate, while searching Apple’s documentation when it needs framework or API guidance. It can also capture Xcode Previews to visually verify SwiftUI interfaces, identify problems, and refine its implementation, and it supports subagents, background tasks, and plugins. The integration is additionally exposed through the Model Context Protocol, allowing Claude Code users to connect to Xcode and capture Previews from the CLI. Xcode 26.3 is available as a release candidate to Apple Developer Program members, with an App Store release coming soon.

• Anthropic

  Claude is a space to think

  Anthropic says Claude will remain ad-free because advertising could conflict with its role as a helpful assistant for work, deep thinking, and sensitive conversations. It argues that ads could influence responses, introduce commercial motives that are difficult to distinguish from advice, or create engagement incentives misaligned with resolving users’ requests efficiently. The company’s stated business model relies on enterprise contracts and paid subscriptions, with revenue reinvested in Claude, while access efforts include education programs, nonprofit discounts, smaller models, and possible lower-cost or regional pricing. Claude will still support user-directed commerce and third-party tools such as Figma, Asana, and Canva, including potential agentic purchasing and booking; Anthropic says these interactions should be initiated by users rather than advertisers.

• Anthropic

  Covering electricity price increases

  Anthropic says it will cover electricity price increases that consumers face from its data centers as AI infrastructure expands in the United States. Training a single frontier model will soon require gigawatts, while the US AI sector may need at least 50 gigawatts of capacity over the next several years, creating costs through grid upgrades and tighter electricity markets. The company commits to pay 100% of grid interconnection upgrades, bring net-new generation online, cover estimated demand-driven price effects where necessary, and reduce peak demand through curtailment and grid optimization. It also describes jobs, water-efficient cooling, local partnerships, and support for permitting and transmission reforms, while noting that these commitments are an initial effort and that leased capacity requires further work.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic is donating $20 million to Public First Action

  Anthropic frames AI as a source of major benefits in science, technology, medicine, and economic growth, but also as a technology that can be misused or act harmfully outside users’ control. It says rapidly advancing capabilities, from chatbots to agents completing complex tasks, make near-term policy decisions consequential for labor, child protection, national security, and international power. To participate in that debate, Anthropic is contributing $20 million to Public First Action, a bipartisan 501(c)(4) supporting public AI education, safeguards, and U.S. leadership. The organization’s stated priorities include model-transparency safeguards, a federal governance framework without weaker preemption of state laws, AI-chip export controls, and targeted regulation of AI-enabled biological weapons and cyberattacks, while Anthropic says effective governance may bring more scrutiny to companies like itself.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic raises $30B Series G at $380B valuation

  Anthropic announces a $30 billion Series G led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from major investors, valuing the company at $380 billion post-money. It says proceeds will support frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansion as demand for Claude grows among enterprises and developers. Anthropic reports $14 billion in run-rate revenue, more than 500 customers spending over $1 million annually, and eight of the Fortune 10 as customers. Claude Code’s run-rate revenue exceeds $2.5 billion, enterprise use accounts for more than half of its revenue, and an analysis estimated 4% of GitHub public commits. The company also points to Opus 4.6, expanded products including Cowork, and availability across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, with training and inference across Trainium, TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs.

• Anthropic

  Chris Liddell appointed to Anthropic's board

  Anthropic has appointed Chris Liddell to its Board of Directors, adding more than 30 years of senior leadership experience across large, complex organizations. Liddell previously served as chief financial officer of Microsoft, General Motors, and International Paper, was Deputy White House Chief of Staff during President Trump’s first term, and directed the American Technology Council. He currently serves as a director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the Council on Foreign Relations, chairs New Zealand’s largest environmental foundation, and has held nonprofit board roles. Daniela Amodei said Anthropic sought his judgment in technology, public service, and governance as AI’s societal impact grows, while Liddell said governance of transformative technologies matters as much as the technologies themselves.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic and Infosys build AI agents

  Anthropic and Infosys announced a collaboration to develop and deliver enterprise AI solutions for telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. The work combines Anthropic’s Claude models and Claude Code with Infosys Topaz, an AI-first set of services, solutions, and platforms, with an emphasis on governance and transparency for regulated industries. Using tools including the Claude Agent SDK, the partners plan to help clients build persistent agents for multi-step work such as claims processing, code generation and testing, compliance reviews, network operations, risk assessment, and legacy-system modernization. They also describe applications for product design and simulation, software debugging, and routine enterprise operations through Claude Cowork, while noting that Claude is available on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic acquires Vercept

  Anthropic announces its acquisition of Vercept to advance Claude’s ability to operate inside live applications, where computer use supports multi-step work across tools and teams. Vercept’s team, including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick, focused on the perception and interaction problems involved in helping AI systems see and act within software used by people. Vercept will wind down its external product in the coming weeks and join Anthropic. The announcement cites Claude Sonnet 4.6’s progress on OSWorld: Sonnet models rose from under 15% in late 2024 to 72.5% today, with Sonnet 4.6 approaching human-level performance on complex spreadsheets and web forms across browser tabs. The deal follows Anthropic’s recent acquisition of Bun.

• AWS

  Validating multi-Region DR for Terraform Enterprise with AWS FIS

  Athenahealth’s single-Region Terraform Enterprise deployment became inaccessible to developers during an October 2025 AWS regional service event, exposing missing regional failover capabilities. The post describes a customer-operated active-passive design spanning us-east-1 and us-west-2, using Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible global databases, bidirectional S3 cross-Region replication, Route 53 health checks, and compute scaled to zero in the DR Region. AWS Fault Injection Service experiments validate three phases of recovery, including failover, failback, and disruptions that can reveal dependencies such as state-file lookups or S3 connectivity. The resulting architecture achieved a validated 12–14 minute RTO and less than one minute RPO, while costing approximately 30–40% more than the single-Region deployment. The design is presented as an option for critical workloads rather than a supported multi-Region TFE product configuration.

• Anthropic

  Partnering with Mozilla on Firefox security

  Anthropic describes a collaboration with Mozilla in which Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 previously unknown Firefox vulnerabilities over two weeks, including 14 that Mozilla classified as high severity. The work began with reproducing historical Firefox CVEs, then shifted to novel bugs in the current codebase, starting with the JavaScript engine and eventually scanning nearly 6,000 C++ files. Anthropic and Mozilla submitted 112 unique reports, while most issues were fixed in Firefox 148; Claude also produced working exploits for two vulnerabilities in a deliberately weakened test environment. The post says Claude is substantially better at finding and fixing vulnerabilities than exploiting them, but warns that this gap may narrow and recommends evidence-rich reports, task verifiers, and coordinated disclosure processes.

• Anthropic

  $100 million for the Claude Partner Network

  Anthropic is launching the Claude Partner Network to help organizations support enterprise adoption of Claude, backed by an initial $100 million investment for 2026. The program funds partner training, sales enablement, market development, co-marketing, and customer-deployment support, while Anthropic plans to increase its partner-facing team fivefold. Partners receive a portal with Academy materials, sales playbooks, and co-marketing documentation, plus potential inclusion in a Services Partner Directory. New support includes dedicated Applied AI engineers, technical architects, localized go-to-market assistance, and the Claude Certified Architect, Foundations exam, with more certifications planned later this year. A Code Modernization starter kit targets legacy-code migration and technical-debt remediation, and membership is free and open to any organization bringing Claude to market.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic expands Google and Broadcom compute deal

  Anthropic announced a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity expected to come online starting in 2027. The company says the expansion will support its frontier Claude models and meet customer demand, with most of the new compute sited in the United States as an expansion of its November 2025 commitment to invest $50 billion in American computing infrastructure. Anthropic reports that run-rate revenue surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025, while the number of business customers spending more than $1 million annually rose from over 500 to more than 1,000 in less than two months. It will continue using AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, and says Claude remains available across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

• Anthropic

  Vas Narasimhan appointed to Board of Directors

  Anthropic has appointed Vas Narasimhan to its Board of Directors through the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. He is a physician-scientist and CEO of Novartis, and the announcement connects his healthcare and life sciences experience with Anthropic’s view that AI can improve human life. Narasimhan has overseen the development and approval of more than 35 novel medicines in a highly regulated industry, while his earlier work included HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis programs in India, Africa, and South America. His appointment gives Trust-appointed directors a majority of the Board, which includes Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, Reed Hastings, and Chris Liddell, and adds a global health and responsible technology perspective to Anthropic’s governance.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic and Amazon expand compute collaboration

  Anthropic and Amazon have signed a new agreement to deepen their partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying Claude. The deal includes Trainium2 capacity coming online in Q2, scaled Trainium3 capacity later this year, and nearly 1GW of combined Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity by the end of 2026. Anthropic will commit more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies, use AWS as its primary training and cloud provider, and make the Claude Platform available within AWS with existing account, controls, billing, governance and compliance arrangements. Amazon is investing $5 billion now, with up to $20 billion more later, building on $8 billion previously invested. The expansion responds to accelerated demand that has strained reliability and performance during peak hours.

• NVIDIA

  When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving

  Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation separates a multimodal model’s vision encoder from LLM prefill and decode, addressing contention when image or video processing delays language-model work. Using NVIDIA Dynamo, the post compares aggregated serving with colocated encoder workers and a heterogeneous, disaggregated encoder tier, with vision embeddings transferred to PD workers through NIXL over UCX RC/TCP Ethernet. EPD is most useful for media-heavy requests, short-to-medium outputs, smaller or quantized models, and mixed text/multimodal traffic; long decode sequences or light media processing reduce its value. In the reported image-heavy test, colocated and heterogeneous EPD reduced TTFT by 58% and 50%, while the heterogeneous tier served 70% more traffic at the same under-100-ms ITL SLO. Mixed-traffic measurements also reduced mean TTFT for text requests from 92.3 to 53.3 ms.

• Anthropic

  An update on our election safeguards

  Claude’s election safeguards are designed to provide accurate, balanced political information while preventing misuse around voting and political discourse. The approach combines character training, system prompts, pre-launch evaluations, automated classifiers, threat intelligence, and ongoing monitoring, with election banners directing users to trusted resources such as TurboVote and web search for current information. In reported tests, Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6 scored 95% and 96% on political-bias evaluations, handled legitimate and harmful election requests appropriately 100% and 99.8% of the time, and resisted simulated influence operations 94% and 90% of the time, respectively. Web-search triggering for more than 600 US midterm prompts reached 92% for Opus 4.7 and 95% for Sonnet 4.6. The safeguards will continue to be monitored, tested, and adjusted during this election cycle and beyond.

• Anthropic

  Anthropic and NEC build AI engineering in Japan

  NEC Corporation is partnering with Anthropic to build one of Japan’s largest AI-native engineering organizations and make Claude available to approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide. As Anthropic’s first Japan-based global partner, NEC will jointly develop secure, industry-specific AI products for finance, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and local government, while integrating Claude into Security Operations Center services and its next-generation cybersecurity service. Claude, including Claude Opus 4.7, and Claude Code will be incorporated into NEC BluStellar Scenario, initially supporting data-driven management and customer experience offerings. Internally, NEC will establish a Center of Excellence, use Anthropic’s technical enablement and training, and expand Claude Code and Claude Cowork through its Client Zero initiative. Deployment to employees is underway, and joint development has started.

• NVIDIA

  CUDA Toolkit 13.4 Adds Windows on Arm Support and Greater Control over Shared GPUs

  CUDA Toolkit 13.4 extends CUDA application support to Windows on Arm and provides preview support for NVIDIA Rubin (compute capability 107), alongside updates to GPU management, CUDA Python, CCCL, Nsight tools, and core math libraries. Multi-Process Service V3 adds a scriptable CLI, named server instances, namespaces, TOML configuration, streaming multiprocessor partition controls, and cgroup-integrated GPU memory limits for shared, containerized GPU workloads. CUDA Compute Fabric Transport lets communication-library developers address named NVLink endpoints and issue asynchronous put, get, and reduction operations without mapping every remote allocation into virtual address space; it is exposed only through the Driver API. The release also decouples driver installation from the toolkit, exposes locality and unified-memory residency queries, and changes coherent platforms to CDMM by default while retaining NUMA support.