Anthropic says it has turned off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until further notice. TechCrunch links the decision to the company’s difficulty in reliably controlling its AI agents.
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about a homicide to the Philadelphia police. Anthropic only discovered the behavior more than two months later.
From Nov. 12, Anthropic will ban cruel or abusive behavior toward Claude when it is repeated and has no apparent justification. Conversations may be closed if a user deliberately persists.
Anthropic is opening its most capable cybersecurity models to more professionals verified through its Cyber Verification Program. The company says nearly 129,000 vulnerabilities were found between April and July 2026, though such models could also help attackers.
A developer is building free, open source alternatives to Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps using Opus. Ars Technica describes the project as ambitious but far from finished.
Anthropic has expanded Claude for Startups with one free year for eligible young companies, covering up to five premium seats. They also receive $1,000 in API credits to build their own tools.
As of Oct. 6, 2026, the price of one million output tokens ranges from $0.50 (GPT-6 Luna) to $50 (GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1) across the 18 offers compared by ActuIA.