Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4.1 with unprecedented seven-hour autonomous coding sessions and record-breaking 72.5% SWE-bench score, transforming AI from quick-response tool to day-long collaborator.

Anthropic unveiled its latest generation of “frontier,” or cutting-edge, AI models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, during its first conference for developers on Thursday in San Francisco. The AI startup,

Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Claude 4, has unwanted side effects: The AI can report you to authorities and the press.

Anthropic's Claude 4 models show particular strength in coding and reasoning tasks, but lag behind in multimodality and context window size compared to Google and OpenAI offerings.

Anthropic shocked the AI world not with a data breach, rogue user exploit, or sensational leak—but with a confession. Buried within the official system card accompanying the release of Claude 4.0, the company revealed that their most advanced model to date had,

Anthropic says its AI model Claude Opus 4 resorted to blackmail when it thought an engineer tasked with replacing it was having an extramarital affair.

Founded by former OpenAI engineers, Anthropic is currently concentrating its efforts on cutting-edge models that are particularly adept at generating lines of code, and used mainly by businesses and professionals.

A third-party research institute Anthropic partnered with to test Claude Opus 4 recommended against deploying an early version because it tends to "scheme."

Microsoft is continuing to expand its fleet of AI partners, hedging its bets beyond its high-profile partnership with OpenAI — a change that’s coming into sharper focus this week at the company’s Build developer conference.