Anthropic said on February 12, 2026 that it raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation. The company says the capital will support frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansion.
Anthropic announced Claude Sonnet 4.6 on February 17, 2026. The release combines a 1M-token context beta, unchanged pricing, and broader upgrades across coding, computer use, and long-context reasoning.
Anthropic said it detected industrial-scale campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax to extract Claude outputs at scale. The company said the activity involved more than 16 million exchanges through about 24,000 fraudulent accounts and that it is investing in detection and response tooling.
On March 18, 2026, Anthropic published a large qualitative study based on responses from 80,508 Claude users about what they want from AI and what they fear. The company says the work spans 159 countries and 70 languages, and that 81% of respondents reported AI had already moved them toward at least part of their vision.
Anthropic said on March 17, 2026 that open source security is becoming more important as AI grows more capable. In its X post, the company said it is donating to the Linux Foundation to help secure the software foundations AI depends on.
Anthropic said on March 18, 2026 that 80,508 Claude users across 159 countries and 70 languages completed a one-week AI interview study. The company says 81% reported AI had already taken at least one step toward what they most wanted from it, making the release a rare large-scale qualitative snapshot of real-world AI expectations and use.
Anthropic announced the Anthropic Institute on March 11, 2026 as a new effort focused on the societal, economic, legal, and governance challenges created by more powerful AI systems. The institute will be led by Jack Clark, combine Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and Economic Research, and launch alongside an expanded Public Policy organization and a planned Washington, D.C. office.
Anthropic said on X that it will support a Linux Foundation effort to secure open source software as AI increases the scale of vulnerability discovery. The associated Linux Foundation release says Anthropic and six other tech groups are providing $12.5 million through Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF.
Anthropic has published a study on how much autonomy AI agents are being given in the wild using millions of interactions across Claude Code and its public API. The longest Claude Code turns nearly doubled from under 25 minutes to over 45 minutes in three months, while experienced users became more likely to auto-approve and more likely to interrupt when needed.
Anthropic is putting an initial $100 million behind the Claude Partner Network in 2026 to help consultancies, integrators, and AI services firms move enterprise Claude deployments into production. The program combines funding, certification, technical support, and a new code modernization starter kit.
An r/singularity post on March 13, 2026 highlighted Anthropic’s move to make 1M context generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, with standard per-token pricing, higher media limits, and automatic support in Claude Code tiers.
Anthropic said on February 12, 2026 that it raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation. The company said the capital will be used for frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansion.