Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Lower Prices
Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40 percent less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads and generates output more than 30 percent faster.
Anthropic is a San Francisco-based AI safety and research company dedicated to developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. As a Public Benefit Corporation, it focuses on creating AI models that are beneficial and safe, with its flagship product, Claude, exemplifying its commitment to innovative research and practical solutions.
Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40 percent less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads and generates output more than 30 percent faster.
The security service uses advanced models from Anthropic and OpenAI to test enterprise systems continuously, validate exposures and recommend fixes.
A civil lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI and Google of illegally coordinating efforts to slow AI development. The plaintiffs seek to represent paid subscribers who they claim would receive less value from the companies' services.
Mistral AI and European officials argue that coordinated limits on model development could protect dominant US companies while Europe works to close its technology gap.
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its model research and development work while remaining under human supervision.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will address a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence and international security. His remarks will cover international coordination and shared safety standards.
Accenture will embed evaluators at Anthropic to test Claude models, attack safeguards and review existing safety procedures. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years.
Hacktron AI researchers used an Anthropic security tool to exploit a forum configuration flaw and access an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account. OpenAI fixed the issues and paid the researchers $6,500.
Anthropic and OpenAI support embedding independent safety evaluators inside frontier AI companies, but details about access, publication rights, timing and legal protections remain unresolved.
Anthropic is combining Claude Cowork and chat in one interface, alongside new tools for creating documents and presentations.
Anthropic will open an office at Raffles Place in Singapore in October, its fifth location in the Asia Pacific region.
Novo Nordisk will test Claude models and Claude Science across research and development workflows, while expanding its use of AI for software development.
Anthropic signed its first Australian data centre lease for a planned 2.16 gigawatt campus near Brisbane. The facility will support AI inference and is expected to begin operating in 2027.
Elon Musk proposed that leading US and Chinese AI companies test each other's models before public release. He said competitors could identify safety issues that internal reviews miss.
Adecco will deploy Salesforce Agentforce Coworker to 27,000 employees in more than 40 countries after pilots in the United Kingdom and France.
Ritholtz Wealth Management selected Hadrius to monitor and archive employee activity in Claude Enterprise as the investment adviser deploys the chatbot across its workforce.
Anthropic released connectors and workflow skills that bring custodian, portfolio, CRM and planning data from firms including Schwab, BlackRock and Vanguard into Claude for financial advisors.
Anthropic told investors it expects to be profitable for a second consecutive quarter.
King Charles will meet executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic to discuss shared principles for AI development.
Asked about Amodei, Altman and Musk calling for slower frontier AI development, China's foreign ministry said fear-mongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only hamper sound global AI governance.