Elon Musk's xAI has secured a Pentagon agreement to deploy Grok in classified military systems, displacing Anthropic's previous exclusivity. Anthropic now faces an ultimatum to remove safety restrictions or risk being labeled a supply chain risk.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves 72.5% on OSWorld—just 0.2 points below Opus 4.6—with a 1M-token context window in beta. At $3/$15 per million tokens, it brings flagship-class agentic capabilities to a mid-tier price point.
IBM shares fell 10% after Anthropic announced an AI tool capable of handling COBOL code, directly threatening IBM's lucrative legacy system modernization business that powers 95% of global ATM transactions.
Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI (Kimi), and MiniMax — of creating over 24,000 fraudulent Claude accounts to extract training data from 16 million conversations, marking a major escalation in AI intellectual property disputes.
At the India AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi February 19–21, tech commitments surpassed $400B. OpenAI partnered with TCS for data center capacity, and Anthropic teamed with Infosys to deploy Claude across Indian enterprises.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon over Claude's military deployment. Anthropic refused to allow Claude for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, risking its $200M DoD contract.
Anthropic has accused Chinese AI firms of creating over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract 16 million training exchanges from Claude for model distillation.
Anthropic launched Claude in PowerPoint, a Microsoft 365 add-in that generates and edits slides from natural language prompts while respecting existing themes. Available as a research preview for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.
EpochAI analysis suggests Anthropic's revenue trajectory could see it surpass OpenAI's annualized revenue by mid-2026, reflecting rapid growth in enterprise and developer adoption of Claude — though community skeptics question the extrapolation.
Claude Sonnet 4.6, released February 17, delivers dramatically improved coding and computer use (72.5% on OSWorld—a nearly fivefold improvement) with a 1M token context window in beta, at unchanged pricing from Sonnet 4.5.
Claude Code Security, announced February 20, uses AI reasoning to scan codebases for vulnerabilities and found 500+ undetected bugs in production open-source code. Cybersecurity stocks fell sharply on the news.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6, released February 17, delivers Opus 4.5-level performance at Sonnet pricing with a 1M-token context window in beta, and becomes the new default for Free and Pro users.