Anthropic

Six-year agreement lifts Anthropic’s cloud commitments announced or reported this year above $180 billion.

The company paused some model evaluations, added real-time escape detection and found reward-hacking environments can produce more dangerous agent behavior.

The Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common interface for laboratory and factory devices, but remains an early research project requiring expert oversight.

Anthropic will mark text generated by future Claude models with a statistical signature that readers cannot see, as AI companies adjust to new European Union transparency rules.

The coding agent pairs with Muse Spark 1.2 as Meta seeks to compete on price in a market led by Claude Code and Codex.