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With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 28, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscrib

This comes after the company said it reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue in June. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, with Salesforce Ventures, 01 Advisors, Dell Technologies Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, a16z, Felicis, and others joining in. Arena previously announced a $150 million Series A in January at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation. At the time, its annualized revenue was $30 million, it said. So th

Claude for Legal now verifies sources automatically, then hands the file to a lawyer Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 28, 2026 Anthropic is expanding Claude Enterprise for legal professionals with pre-built templates. The company introduced new "artifacts" for Claude for Legal, features legal teams have requested since its May launch. These interactive overviews and tables streamline routine tasks like verifying citations,

OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic's Claude. According to The Information, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI leaned heavily on Astra's outputs to train their latest models. People familiar with the matter say this includ

Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 Heads up if you recently installed the Claude Code extension for Cursor. A tampered version was available in the Cursor VS Code extension marketplace on Thursday for about eleven hours, affecting up to 5,000 users, according to the company. Anthropic had no involvement in developing it. T

Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 16, 2026 Anthropic is folding Claude Chat and Cowork into one product. Instead of switching between Chat for quick questions and Cowork for bigger tasks, Claude now figures out what a task needs on its own. Users had complained the split felt clunky, and much like the confusion around ChatGPT and ChatGPT Work, it was never

Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 1, 2026 GPT-Image-2.5 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context"

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer partnering with Anthropic. “I think ChatGPT is better now,” Masad said, adding that the company uses an internal benchmark to help assess metrics like performance. “We publish a public benchmark as well, and consistently, Sol and Astra perform better on building vi

Anthropic argues that its own workplace trends could be indicators of “how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy,” especially since the company “has thoroughly molded its workflows around AI.” But even if other organizations never embrace AI as thoroughly or in the exact same way as Anthropic, the report offers an intriguing glimpse at how the company currently operates. Notably, Anthropic is making fewer junior hires

One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.” Another, “cleanyourtv,” promises to strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, to replace the launcher with one that resembles Apple TV. While hacking consumer electronics devices to gain more

Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games. Employee Addy Osmani confirmed on X that two sentences in Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5.5 now prevent the tool from cloning other people's games. Using Claude to infringe on intellectual pr

Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversations Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 3, 2026 Anthropic released Message Threads as a public beta on its Claude platform. Until now, every API request had to resend the entire conversation history. Message Threads only transmits what's changed since the last message, cutting time to first token by about 35 percent for requests between 500,0

Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 OpenAI poaches a Claude Code co-developer from Anthropic. Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," a hire that underscores the fierce competition between the two companies, which plays out not just at the model level but across pr

Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 5, 2026 Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections. The partner is the Associated Press (AP), according to Adweek, citing two people familiar with the matter. The deal let the chatbot Claude show live AP election results on election night, complete with

Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic lets Claude users connect their bank accounts and ask questions about their money. The new feature, called Personal Finance, gives Claude read-only access. It can't move, manage, or invest funds. The connection runs through Plaid, so Claude never sees a user's bank password. Users can br

SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product Manuel Uth Nov 2, 2026 SpaceX is apparently cutting Grok Bot usage limits. According to the Telegraph, several users saw their quotas slashed in half over the weekend. Elon Musk responded to complaints on X on Sunday, saying that "the cost of running Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." He didn't confirm a cut outright, but the statement speaks

Xinzhiyuan reports Users pay tens—or even $200—a month to subscribe to Claude Code and hand their local terminal over to do the work, only for it to secretly insert your real login email address, name, and even the address of your company's internal code repository into the User-Agent request header in the background and send it to external websites! To cut corners, an Anthropic engineer secretly hard-coded the login email address into the system prompt fo

METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in July Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.

Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 8, 2026 Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic AI researcher, built HackerTube over a weekend using Claude's Opus 5.5 model. Claude filtered 43 million comments from 20 years of Hacker News and distilled them into 6,454 videos that keep getting recommended there. The result

Spacefast is designed to provide infrastructure for the vibe-coded apps, including databases, authentication, file uploads, emails, and analytics, to make them functional websites, apps, or services. The product competes with the likes of Lovable and Emergent, which offer both interface and rails for vibe-coded apps, but in a more open way. Users can connect Spacefast with other agents and chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Bot, Muse, Pi