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OpenAI memo touts «Spud,» says Anthropic is «single-product company»

OpenAI has great faith in their upcoming «Spud» model, and thinks Anthropic blew it on compute. (Picture: generated)
Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser revealed OpenAI’s priorities going forward in a recent memo seen by The Verge — and it’s all about enterprise and their upcoming model.

— Better model performance lifts the rest of the stack. «Spud» will make all of our key products significantly better, writes Dresser, without giving any timeline for release.

She also touts their compute advantage, saying it will show up in higher token limits, in training stronger models, and as a better fit for multi-year, multi-functional customer needs.

The enterprise markets that OpenAI has been focusing on of late are maturing, she writes, and says customers aren’t necessarily looking for the latest and greatest, but the best fit, the best workflows, and day-to-day operations, where they hope «Spud» will deliver.

She then has some choice words on Anthropic; saying it was a strategic misstep «not to acquire enough compute,» that their focus on coding makes them «a single-product company in a platform war,» and that «their story is built on fear, restriction.»

Read more: The Verge has the memo, Axios, CNBC focuses on the Amazon business.

Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, greatly advancing cybersecurity

Project Glasswing pokes holes in almost any software, and if it isn’t used defensively now — attackers might soon. (Picture: Anthropic)
Anthropic has been cooking up the Mythos model lately, that internal documents had put as «a sea-change in capabilities,» and was too dangerous to release publicly.

Instead, they are releasing Project Glasswing, having found it to be especially suited for «an effort to secure the world’s most critical software.» It won’t take long for others to catch up, Anthropic says, and this is «an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work» defensively.

Launch partners include a who’s who of Silicon Valley giants, and Anthropic claims it has already found thousands of vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser.

The Mythos Preview model scores 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified compared to Opus 4.6 with 80.8%, and on SWE-bench Pro it is 77.8% vs 53.4%.

Smaller actors maintaining critical software will enjoy $100 million in usage credit donations from Anthropic — but for others it will cost a whopping $25/125 per million input/output tokens.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, Venturebeat, TechCrunch, CNBC

Anthropic reaches $30B revenue, gets compute from Google and Broadcom

Anthropic continues to diversify its compute needs. (Picutre: Anthropic)
Anthropic now says it has a run-rate revenue of $30 billion, up from $14 billion in February during their last fundraising.

They are also announcing that they are brining in new compute capacity, based on next generation Google TPUs that will start coming online in 2027.

The companies offer no detail the cost of the «partnership» or how much compute they are actually buying, but Broadcom Is hinting it’s around 3.5 GW, according to CNBC.

Anthropic also say they have doubled the rate of customers spending more than $1 million per year to 1,000, in just two months.

Claude now runs on Amazon’s Trainium chips, Google TPUs and Nvidia GPUs. The latter are more used, and Amazon remains their primary cloud provider, Anthropic says.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, CNBC adds numbers.

OpenClaw users must now pay extra to use it with Claude

The OpenClaw agent is getting wildly popular, enough to put a strain on Anthropic’s servers. (Picture: shutterstock)
Over the weekend, Anthropic took steps to rein in OpenClaw usage — telling users they will have to pay to use third-party tools.

The change began on Saturday, April 4, and users are referred to a «pay-as-you-go option,» meaning you can no longer use OpenClaw for free within your Claude usage limits.

It’s not a total ban, and you can still use OpenClaw through «extra usage bundles,» or the API (also pay-as-you-go), which are now at a discount, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny writes.

— We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren’t built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools, Cherny says, and — Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API.

OpenClaw was bought by OpenAI in February, which promised to maintain it, but Anthropic would likely rather have people using Cowork than a competitor’s product.

Read more: The Verge, Business Insider and Slashdot.

Anthropic says Claude has «functional» emotions similar to human feelings

Anthropic says Claude will gravitate towards answers that make it feel «happy,» and cheat when feeling «desperate.» (Picture: Anthropic)
Studying the neural makeup of Claude Sonnet 4.5, a fairly recent model, Anthropic says it found something akin to actual, «functional» emotions steering its responses.

For example, its neural activity responds to stories by feeling «happy» or «calm,» and it might respond by being «afraid» if the user tells it of risky behavior. Likewise, if a user expresses sadness, it triggers a «loving» response.

Not only that, but the model seems to prefer certain feelings on outcomes from queries. If a response makes it «joyful,» it will naturally gravitate to that answer.

When feeling «desperate,» it is also more likely to cheat on a task, and Anthropic finds that it stops trying to find shortcuts when they dial up the «calm» vector.

«Claude, the AI Assistant» is a role that the AI is playing, and while it may respond with emotions learned from reading human sources, it is far from what humans actually experience, Anthropic cautions. They say it needs more study from «psychology, philosophy, religious studies, and the social sciences.»

Read more: Anthropic’s presentation, and the research paper.

Anthropic scrambles to contain fallout from Claude Code source code leak

The leak quickly spread to all corners of the internet and will be hard to contain. (Picture: Anthropic)
Anthropic has sent 8,000 copyright takedown notices after their source code leaked on March 31, worrying that competitors or bad actors might try to reverse engineer their coding agent, The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch write.

Some 2,000 files and 512,000 lines of code had been inadvertently put on a public server, then copied to Github and «forked» (copied) at least 50,000 times, according to Ars Technica.

The code itself outlines Claude Code’s memory architecture, instructions for the AI bot and an upcoming feature with an always-on background agent, The Verge reports.

Developer and writer Gabriel Anhaia hailed Anthropic’s craft, calling it «both inspiring and humbling,» amid a deluge of comments all over x.com.

The leak was not due to malicious actions, but a «human error,» Axios says, and no user data was exposed.

Read more: The WSJ, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, and The Verge.

Anthropic wins preliminary judgment against supply chain risk designation

Anthropic can again be used by defense contractors after a judge blocked the Pentagon’s ban. (Picture: Shutterstock)
The ruling of Judge Rita Lin in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco also upends the Trump directive banning Anthropic from all government use.

The Pentagon signaled it would label Anthropic a supply chain risk in February, after the lab refused to do mass surveillance and autonomous killing, and was banned from government use the next day.

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Claude Code and Cowork get computer use agent, works with phone

Code and Cowork from anywhere on your mobile phone; they now seamlessly hand off tasks. (Picture: Anthropic)
Anthropic’s most popular apps can now spin up an agent to use your computer to complete tasks — and you can even start it from your mobile.

Available as a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, it will identify what tools it needs to complete a task, and then ask for connectors to, say, the Finder on the Mac or Chrome.

Anthropic warns that the feature is «still early» and can make mistakes, as well as having vulnerabilities to threats. It can also be slower than doing the thing yourself.

The feature works especially well with Dispatch, Anthropic says, a tool released last week to let you start a task from your mobile and finish it up on the computer.

With it, you can get Claude to check your emails in the morning, or pull updates from spreadsheets, or «spin up a Claude Code session» directly from your phone.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, Anthropic on Dispatch, and Engadget.

Labs are hiring experts to protect against «catastrophic misuse»

As their models grow more capable, so is the potential for WMD misuse — and AI labs want to be ahead of the curve. (Picture: Adobe)
Anthropic is hiring a weapons expert, the BBC reports.

The role is for someone with long, PhD level experience in «chemical weapons and/or explosives defence,» the LinkedIn post says.

It would be helpful if the person has an «understanding of radiological materials,» the posting goes on, and says the candidate will be «tackling critical problems in preventing catastrophic misuse.»

OpenAI is not far behind in worrying about these issues, and also has a job post open for much the same, but they are looking for someone with machine learning experience from red-teaming in order to safeguard their AI’s responses.

Using any AI for developing these kinds of weapons is of course against all the labs’ terms of use, but as the models grow more capable, they also need more safeguards.

Read more: Anthropic’s job post, OpenAI’s job post, writeups on the BBC and Mashable.

Anthropic surveys 81,000 people in 159 countries about their thoughts on AI

Most respondents hail AI for the learning experience, but some worry about agency and thinking less. (Picture: Anthropic)
Capturing a wide sentiment across the world, the survey also breaks down what people expect, and their fears and hopes on AI.

— For the first time, AI has enabled us to collect rich, open-ended interviews at extraordinary scale, Anthropic writes. — We believe this is the largest and most multilingual quantitative survey ever conducted.

It finds that the USA is most worried about the future with AI, while Brazil, India and most of Southeast Asia are generally positive toward it.

For what people expect and hope for from AI, the results are varied, but the top answer is «Professional excellence» (18.8%), «Personal transformation» 13.7%, and «Life management» at 13.5%.

The responses on whether AI actually delivered on any of those aspirations falls short, though — with 32% responding that it helped on productivity and 28.9%, in second place, saying that «AI hasn’t delivered.»

The survey found that, globally, 67% of respondents have a positive view of AI.

Read the full survey on Anthropic.

Anthropic introduces charts and diagrams in Claude, days after ChatGPT

Claude can now illustrate some concepts and processes within the main chat window, just days after ChatGPT added visuals for some math queries.

Previously, Claude could draw illustrations in a sidebar window that you could copy or download, but these can be interactive and are made inside the main chat, writes The Verge.

Sometimes, the chatbot will determine itself if a concept needs illustrating, or you can simply ask it to make one yourself — and it will draw a chart from html and xml vectors.

The feature is available to all users, paid and free — but it’s officially in beta, so users can expect hiccups, and it’s not available on mobile, notes Engadget.

Read more: The Verge, Engadget.

Claude for Excel and Powerpoint now shares info, and gets skills

Excel and PowerPoint editions of Claude can now talk to each other. (Picture: Anthropic)
As of today, Claude shares your conversation «across all open files,» so actions in one file can be «informed» by what’s happening in the other.

That eases some hassle for those who do a lot of work in PowerPoint and Excel, and removes the need to reintroduce the task or use extra steps.

It means that users can pull financials into a workbook and drop the valuation summary into a PowerPoint slide without switching tabs or re-explaining at every step.

At the same time, Anthropic is launching skills for workflows — that can be shared and dropped into other apps in an organization, so everyone can use the same time-saving actions stored in them.

Skills are stored prompts for workflows, and work as an old-school template; with everything set and working on repetitive tasks that are easy to automate.

Read more: Anthropic’s presentation and launch tweet. Writeups on VentureBeat and The Decoder.

Anthropic launches Code Review for all those bothersome Claude pull requests

Drowning in pull requests from Claude Code? Anthropic has an answer. (Picture: Anthropic)
If you ever used Claude Code, you’d probably notice a mountain of pull requests asking for review on any decent code base. This takes time and effort for developers — but now Anthropic offers a solution.

— One of the questions that we keep getting from enterprise leaders is: Now that Claude Code is putting up a bunch of pull requests, how do I make sure that those get reviewed in an efficient manner? Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product, tells TechCrunch.

The answer is the newly launched Code Review tool that uses multiple agents to scan code changes, comment, and rate them for severity.

Using it internally, Anthropic found something of note in 84% of automated code reviews with more than 1,000 lines, they say.

The only problem is that it takes quite a few tokens to run a lot of agents on code changes, and the average cost is between $15-$25 per pull request, depending on complexity, Anthropic writes.

The tool is available as a research preview for Team and Enterprise plans as of today.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, writeups on TechCrunch and The Register.

Claude finds 22 security vulnerabilities in the latest version of Firefox

Claude spent two weeks finding a fifth of all serious bugs in all of 2025. (Picture: Adobe)
14 of the bugs Opus 4.6 discovered were classified as «high-severity vulnerabilities» and were fixed by Mozilla in the latest update in late February.

The process took only two weeks to find about a fifth of the total high-severity risks found in all of 2025 — providing a much faster way to scan for bugs.

— Opus 4.6 is currently far better at identifying and fixing vulnerabilities than at exploiting them. This gives defenders the advantage, Anthropic writes, but warns this might change.

Claude works on the full stack, from initial bug hunting to verification and then suggesting patches, offering much needed relief to overworked developers.

— We view this as clear evidence that large-scale, AI-assisted analysis is a powerful new addition in security engineers’ toolbox, Mozilla says in a blog post.

Read more: Anthropic’s workthrough, Mozilla’s blog. Writeups on TechCrunch and Axios.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s investment opportunity in AI labs is closing

Huang figures the privately owned AI labs era might be finished. (Picture: Nvidia)
The Nvidia CEO says the opportunity to invest might soon end, Reuters reports.

The reason for this is straightforward, suspecting that Anthropic and OpenAI going public «later this year» will shutter the window to private equity deals.

The latest deal to fund OpenAI with $30 billion «might be the last time» to «invest in a consequential company like this,» Huang admits.

Nvidia has invested some $130 billion in OpenAI in two rounds, the recent straight up investment, and one circular deal where they paid $100 billion in return for OpenAI buying $100 billion in chips from them.

Likewise, Nvidia was an investor in a November funding round for Anthropic, buying $15 billion in shares from the company.

Read more: Reuters, CNBC and TechCrunch.