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Anthropic builds Claude, the AI assistant focused on safety and reliability. Founded by former OpenAI researchers, valued at $380B, and preparing for an IPO.
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HN: Measuring Claude 4.7's new tokenizer — what it actually costs
A detailed analysis of Claude Opus 4.7's new tokenizer hit 564 points on Hacker News. The post benchmarks real-world token costs under the new tokenizer and breaks down how the changes affect developer expenses, sparking broad discussion about LLM pricing transparency and the hidden cost implications of tokenizer design choices.
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new AI visual design product
Anthropic launched Claude Design, an experimental product powered by Opus 4.7 that generates prototypes, slide decks, and marketing assets from prompts. It can read a company's codebase and design files to enforce brand consistency. Exports to PDF, PPTX, URLs, or Canva — directly challenging Figma and signaling Anthropic's push from AI lab to full-stack product company. Hit 913 points on Hacker News.
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source self-hostable enterprise AI client
MZLA Technologies (Mozilla's for-profit arm) released Thunderbolt, an open-source MPL-2.0 AI client supporting Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible API. It targets enterprises wanting to self-host AI without routing data through Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, or Claude Enterprise.
HN: Claude Opus 4.7 model card and capabilities discussion
Hacker News front-page discussion of Claude Opus 4.7's model card, with community debate on SWE-bench Pro gains (~11% over Opus 4.6), the differential cyber-capability reduction approach, and how Opus 4.7 compares to the restricted Mythos Preview.
Claude Opus wrote a working Chrome V8 exploit for $2,283 in API costs
A researcher used Claude Opus 4.6 to develop a working exploit for Chrome V8 vulnerability CVE-2026-5873 after a week of iteration, 2.3 billion tokens, and $2,283 in API costs. It is the first frontier model observed writing a successful browser exploit with minimal human guidance.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking most-powerful generally-available LLM crown
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 on April 17, scoring 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified and featuring 3x vision resolution and a new xhigh effort level. The model includes automated cybersecurity safeguards that differentially reduce offensive cyber capabilities compared to the unreleased Mythos Preview.
HN: US court rules AI chatbot conversations are not privileged — lawyers warn chats could be used against you
A federal judge ruled that a fraud defendant's AI chats with Claude are not protected by privilege, allowing prosecutors to demand chatbot conversations as evidence. Over a dozen major law firms are now warning clients that AI chats could be discoverable in both criminal and civil cases.
Uber CTO says AI coding tools already maxed out company's full-year 2026 budget
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga revealed that surging adoption of AI coding tools—particularly Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor—has exhausted the company's entire annual AI budget just months into 2026. Sixty-three percent of Uber's 5,000 engineers now use Claude Code monthly, up from 32% in December 2024.
HN: Elevated errors hit Claude.ai, API, and Claude Code
Anthropic reported elevated error rates across Claude.ai, the Claude API, and Claude Code on April 15. The status page reached the Hacker News front page, signaling notable user impact during the outage.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity-tuned model for vetted defenders
OpenAI released GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned variant of GPT-5.4 with lowered refusal boundaries for legitimate defensive security work. Access is tiered and restricted to vetted cybersecurity professionals, mirroring Anthropic's restricted Mythos approach announced one week earlier.
HN: LangAlpha — 'what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?' hits 141 points
An open-source Show HN project called LangAlpha, pitched as 'Claude Code for Wall Street,' trended with 141 points. The tool aims to bring agentic coding workflows to financial analysis and trading.
HN: Claude Code Routines documentation goes live, hits 686 points
Anthropic published documentation for Claude Code Routines, a new feature for automating repetitive developer workflows. The post hit 686 points on Hacker News, making it the top AI story of the day.
Bessent & Powell summon bank CEOs to emergency meeting over Anthropic Mythos cyber risks
Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell personally convened CEOs of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs at Treasury headquarters on April 14 to discuss systemic cyber risks posed by Anthropic's Mythos model. The unprecedented joint summons signals the US government now views AI-enhanced vulnerability discovery as a threat to financial stability, not merely an IT concern.
OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny as strategy shifts to enterprise
OpenAI investors are questioning the company's $852B valuation as it pivots toward enterprise AI to compete with Anthropic, whose annualized revenue hit $30B by end of Q1. Early backers told the FT the shift makes OpenAI 'a deeply unfocused company' ahead of a potential IPO.
Anthropic testing 'Epitaxy' Claude Code overhaul with Coordinator Mode and multi-repo support
Anthropic is finalizing a major Claude Code desktop overhaul codenamed 'Epitaxy,' featuring a Coordinator Mode for orchestrating parallel sub-agents, plan/task/diff panels, and multi-repo support. Both Anthropic and OpenAI are reportedly gearing up to release desktop app updates next week.
HN: 'Can Claude Fly a Plane?' — hands-on experiment goes viral
A blog post testing whether Anthropic's Claude can operate a flight simulator reached the HN front page. The experiment explores LLM reasoning and real-time decision-making in a complex physical simulation environment.
HN: Anthropic sought Christian leaders' advice on Claude's moral and spiritual development
WaPo reports ~15 Catholic and Protestant clergy and academics gathered at Anthropic HQ to discuss Claude's ethical framework, including how it should handle grief, self-harm, and whether it could be a 'child of God.' Anthropic says this is the first in a series with different traditions.
Fortune: Cybersecurity veteran says Mythos panic misses the real problem — fixing, not finding, vulnerabilities
A cybersecurity industry veteran pushes back on Anthropic Mythos panic in Fortune, arguing 'We've never had a problem finding vulnerabilities — we have a pile we just don't fix.' The piece also predicts China will have a comparable model within six months and an open-source version within two years.
CoreWeave surges 8% as Macquarie upgrades stock; Anthropic becomes customer
CoreWeave (CRWV) closed up 8.1% on April 13 after Macquarie upgraded the stock to Outperform with a $125 target. The rally was fueled by Anthropic signing on as a cloud customer and the prior week's $21B expanded deal with Meta for AI compute through 2032.
MiniMax open-sources M2.7, a self-evolving agent model scoring 56% on SWE-Pro
Chinese AI lab MiniMax released open weights for M2.7, a 230B-parameter MoE model that autonomously ran 100+ self-improvement rounds during training. It scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57% on Terminal Bench 2, rivaling Claude Opus 4.6 at a fraction of the cost.
HN: Show HN — solo dev ships social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude + Codex
A Show HN post demonstrating a full social media management tool built by one developer in three weeks using Claude and OpenAI Codex earned 167 points and 111 comments. The project adds to the growing body of evidence around AI-assisted solo development velocity.
Research: AI models confidently describe images that don't exist, benchmarks miss it
A new study finds all tested frontier models — GPT-5.x, Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5 — confidently fabricate visual descriptions for nonexistent images in over 60% of cases, jumping to 90-100% with common prompt scaffolding. Researchers call this 'mirage mode' and flag acute risks in medical imaging where models consistently hallucinate severe diagnoses.
HN: Claude Code Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
A GitHub issue documenting Claude Code Max subscribers exhausting their 5x quota in as little as 90 minutes hit 547 points on Hacker News. Users report prompt cache bugs silently inflating token costs 10-20x; Anthropic has acknowledged the problem and says it is their top priority.
Trump officials encourage major banks to test Anthropic's Mythos model
TechCrunch reports Trump administration officials are actively encouraging major US banks to test Anthropic's Mythos model for cyber defense, following last week's emergency Bessent-Powell meeting with bank CEOs. The push creates a policy tension: Washington warns about Mythos's offensive cyber capabilities while simultaneously urging financial institutions to deploy it defensively.
HN: Anthropic silently cut Claude Code cache TTL from 1h to 5m, causing token drain crisis
Community analysis of Claude Code session logs reveals Anthropic silently regressed prompt cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes around March 6, causing 10-20x token inflation and rapid quota exhaustion on Max plans. Combined HN threads on the cache downgrade (476 pts) and quota burnout (515 pts) drew over 900 points and 800+ comments.
Anthropic launches Claude for Word beta, targets legal contract review
Anthropic released Claude for Word in public beta on April 10, a native sidebar add-in for Microsoft Word on Mac and Windows. Legal contract review is the lead use case, with all AI edits surfaced as native tracked changes. Available on Team and Enterprise plans, with cross-app integration to Claude for Excel and PowerPoint.
Anthropic hits $30B annualized revenue, surpasses OpenAI for first time
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate crossed $30B in April, overtaking OpenAI's $25B — a first. Enterprise customers spending $1M+ doubled to over 1,000 in two months. Anthropic's cost advantage is stark: it projects $30B in training spend through 2030 vs. OpenAI's $125B.
NPR: AI vulnerability scanning up dramatically — cURL found more bugs in Q1 2026 than all of 2024 or 2025
NPR reports that AI models have crossed a capability threshold for finding real security flaws. The cURL project found and fixed more vulnerabilities in Q1 2026 than in all of 2024 or 2025, with AI flagging 100+ bugs that passed human and automated review. Anthropic's Mythos Preview found flaws in every major OS and browser.
Anthropic weighs building custom AI chips as Claude revenue run-rate tops $30B
Reuters reports Anthropic is in early-stage exploration of designing custom AI chips to reduce reliance on Google TPUs and Amazon hardware. The move comes as Claude's annualized revenue run-rate has surpassed $30 billion, up from ~$9B at end of 2025.
Anthropic ships Claude Code Ultraplan: cloud-based plan drafting with inline review
Anthropic released Ultraplan for Claude Code, moving task planning to a cloud-based browser interface while keeping the terminal free. The feature supports inline comments, emoji reactions, and three planning modes (Simple, Visual, Deep) running on Opus 4.6.
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