Anthropic posted a policy statement on February 26, 2026 outlining its Department of War engagement and two limits it says it will not remove. The company says it will continue defense support but rejects mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons at current reliability levels.
In a 2026-02-25 X thread, Anthropic said Claude Opus 3 is now part of both deprecation and preservation actions. The company says Opus 3 remains available to paid Claude users and can be requested for API use.
Anthropic and Digital Green announced a partnership focused on AI-powered advisory access for smallholder farmers in India. Their first collaboration is a conversational assistant aimed at improving information access and on-farm decision support.
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round at a $380 billion post-money valuation. The investor mix combines strategic companies and major financial firms, with continued backing from existing investors.
Anthropic introduced an AI Fluency Index built from 9,830 anonymized Claude conversations. The report highlights stronger outcomes in iterative chats, while artifact-heavy sessions show lower rates of explicit evaluation behaviors.
Anthropic announced Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) 3.0 on February 24, 2026. The update keeps the original threshold-based safety logic but adds clearer unilateral commitments, a Frontier Safety Roadmap, and structured Risk Reports to improve transparency and accountability.
Anthropic analyzed millions of real Claude interactions and found the 99.9th percentile session duration nearly doubled to 45+ minutes in 3 months, with software engineering accounting for nearly half of all agentic use.
Anthropic published a new theory explaining why AI assistants like Claude express emotions and use anthropomorphic language—proposing that models select from personas inherited from fictional characters during training.
Anthropic revealed that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated 16+ million Claude exchanges to extract its capabilities and improve their own competing models.
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.