Anthropic News & Updates
Last updated November 15, 2026
Google and Anthropic go after small business owners with competing AI assistants
Elvis Presley’s rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs, saying Claude still reproduces them despite its added guardrails
Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic for allegedly training AI on songs it owns by Madonna, Johnny Cash, and Joni Mitchell
Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI each post their biggest lobbying quarter yet, spending nearly $6M combined from July to September
Anthropic names Harvard astrophysicist Christopher Stubbs to the Long-Term Benefit Trust that elects most of its board before IPO
Anthropic offers up to $345,000 for a human executive communications writer while its CFO says AI writes 90% of its code
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive agent app that can manage Shopify stores and buy things with Stripe Link and Shop Pay
CyberCartel automates attacks on 400 Latin American financial firms using AI agents built on Anthropic’s Claude and SpaceX’s Grok
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt owns about 1% of Anthropic from a 2021 Series A bet, worth up to $20 billion at a $2T IPO
Anthropic’s draft IPO prospectus shows revenue soaring to $16.3B in six months but leaning on two customers and scarce compute
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says an internal model forecasts AI could lift US GDP nearly 50% to $44 trillion by 2030
Anthropic signs a 20-year lease at EverWind’s planned C$10B data center campus in Nova Scotia, its first data center in Canada
Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic another $45B in computing power from a second building at its West Virginia data center
Anthropic will be a “very speculative investment” after its IPO, says D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria, who favors cloud giants
OpenAI rushes to close a $30B funding round at a valuation above $1.4T before Anthropic’s expected IPO in mid-November
Meta apologizes for taking the No Kings Instagram account offline and blames a Claude tool that it mistook for bot traffic
Anthropic says junior engineers fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires as its AI agents now outwork staff six hours to one
Anthropic pitches lawmakers a draft AI safety bill that limits when the government can block a model and preempts some state laws
Anthropic opens talks with NYC Comptroller Mark Levine after he urged it to delay its IPO until it addresses AI safety risks
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