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Visit website →Anthropic launches IPO roadshow for 825 million shares at $70-$78 per share
The offering includes 801,351,354 shares from Anthropic and 23,648,646 from existing stockholders, with a 30-day underwriter option for 123,750,000 additional shares.
Anthropic expands AI for Science program with 20 new foundation and institutional partners
The expansion includes the US National Science Foundation, EMBL, and the Francis Crick Institute, which will distribute free Claude credits to researchers.
Anthropic expands GSA partnership to offer 40% Claude discount to all US government levels
The agreement extends discounts to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, with no minimum spend commitment and an estimated $1 billion in savings.
Anthropic files S-1 with SEC for proposed IPO on Nasdaq
The company plans to list Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, with share count and price range yet to be determined.
Anthropic opens call for life sciences guest investigators to use Claude
Principal investigators can apply for free access to Anthropic models and direct researcher support for projects in biology and drug discovery.
Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard to Agentic AI Foundation
The open standard, integrated by over 70 platforms including ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, has seen 1 million skills published and 280 million installs since its December 2025 launch.
Harvard physicist Christopher Stubbs joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust
The experimental physicist and former Harvard Dean of Science becomes the Trust's first physicist, joining a board that appoints a majority of Anthropic's directors.
PickAnthropic commits 5% of shares to new Public Benefit Fund
The fund's stake can increase by an additional 2% at the board's discretion for every 50% rise in company value, bringing current public-good equity commitments to roughly 20%.
Anthropic Announcements Index Lists 74 Recent Updates, Including New Claude Models and Global Office Openings
Anthropic's announcements page lists 74 recent updates, including the release of Claude Haiku 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Opus 5.5, as well as office openings and major investments.
Claude Uncovers Origins of NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds
Anthropic's Claude reverse-engineered the generation of NIST P-192 through P-521 seeds in under 30 minutes, confirming they originated from a standard Unix timestamp-based PRNG rather than a backdoor.
Claude Designs Novel Quantum Circuits, Cutting Decoder Gate Counts by 12x
Anthropic researchers used Claude to autonomously design novel quantum circuits for modular inversion and Reed-Solomon decoding, achieving significant reductions in gate counts and qubit usage compared to previous methods.
PickAnthropic Grants METR Employee-Like Access for Independent Model Evaluation
Six METR employees now have office space, hardware, and internal system access comparable to Anthropic's own risk assessment teams.
Anthropic Publishes Policy Proposals to Adapt Institutions to Exponential AI Progress
The company argues that current policymaking processes are ill-suited for the speed of AI advancement and outlines measures to prepare institutions for this pace.
Anthropic Strengthens Election Safeguards Ahead of 2026 US Midterms
Claude will integrate official voting information from Democracy Works and display real-time election results directly in user conversations.
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore government
The new office is Anthropic's fifth in Asia-Pacific and includes a partnership on AI safety and adoption.
Anthropic Develops Scion and Migrates Monorepo to Resolve AI Coding Bottlenecks
Anthropic migrated from git to Scion in five months to resolve source management bottlenecks caused by AI coding.
Anthropic Updates 2026 Usage Policy to Address Deception, Weapons, and Autonomous Actions
The updated policy takes effect on November 12, 2026, and introduces specific controls for autonomous physical actions and deceptive campaigns.
Anthropic commits $150 million to Genesis Mission to support US scientific research
The funding will provide Claude access to over 15 federal agencies, including NASA and NIH, over the next three years.
Anthropic launches Cyber Mission to secure critical infrastructure and open-source software
The initiative introduces the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with 11 founding partners and a free OSS Scanner service for vulnerability detection.
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with 75% cost reduction and new effort settings
The new model costs around 75% less than Haiku 4.5 and introduces adjustable effort settings for the first time in the Haiku class.