Anthropic has deployed three new technical defenses that it says reduce the volume of data extractable from Claude by roughly 90 to 99 percent, while turning away paying traffic to enforce the controls.
Anthropic's Claude startups program drew 21x the past five months' applications in 48 hours, with hundreds of thousands flooding in. The company paused two perks — a year of Claude Team and $1,000 in API credits. Already-claimed benefits are unaffected.
Anthropic has released the second model in the Claude 5.5 series, Sonnet 5.5. It responds over 30% faster than its predecessor, keeps API prices unchanged, and jumped from 10.3% to 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 coding benchmark. Anthropic claims it 'clearly outperforms' OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol on long-horizon knowledge work.