Anthropic

You know that feeling when you’re deep in a coding session, and your brain is juggling seventeen different things at once? You’re trying to fix a bug, but you also need to review some code, run tests, and maybe figure out why that one API endpoint is acting weird. It’s like being a one-person orchestra where everyone’s playing a different song. Well, Claude Code just handed us a solution that feels almost too obvious in hindsight: subagents. Think of them as specialized mini-Claudes that you can spin up for specific tasks, each with its own expertise and memory space. It’s like having a team of expert consultants you can call in whenever you need them, without them stepping on each other’s toes. ...

Key Highlights The Big Picture: Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Energy have inked a multi‑year partnership under the Genesis Mission to embed AI across all 17 national labs. Technical Edge: DOE researchers will get direct access to Claude and a dedicated team of Anthropic engineers to build purpose‑built AI tools. The Bottom Line: This alliance aims to supercharge American energy leadership, life‑science breakthroughs, and overall scientific productivity. 🚀 The Genesis Mission partnership is a timely response to the growing global AI race. By pairing DOE’s massive supercomputing assets with Anthropic’s frontier language model, we’re giving researchers a smarter, faster way to turn data into discovery. Imagine a physicist at Lawrence Livermore instantly querying Claude for the latest simulation insights—that’s the kind of productivity boost we’re talking about. ...

Key Highlights Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a hybrid reasoning large language model The model offers performance comparable to Claude Sonnet 4, but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed Claude Haiku 4.5 is available on multiple platforms, including Anthropic’s API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, and GitHub Copilot The release of Claude Haiku 4.5 marks a significant milestone in the development of large language models. This move reflects broader industry trends towards creating more efficient and cost-effective AI solutions. By leveraging a hybrid reasoning approach, Anthropic has managed to deliver a model that balances speed and intelligence, making it particularly effective for coding tasks and computer use. ...

As the world grapples with the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize education, Iceland is taking a bold step forward. In a groundbreaking partnership, Anthropic and Iceland’s Ministry of Education and Children are launching a comprehensive national AI education pilot, one of the first of its kind globally. This initiative will empower hundreds of teachers across Iceland with access to Anthropic’s AI tool, Claude, to support lesson preparation, student learning, and educational resource development. ...

The word “free” in AI tools doesn’t mean what you think it does. In 2025, offering free AI isn’t charity — it’s one of the most aggressive commercial strategies in tech. Behind every generous free tier lies a carefully calculated business model designed to capture market share, feed enterprise sales, or lock users into ecosystems. This guide breaks down the 15 most popular free AI tools of 2025, explains what you actually get, and reveals the strategy behind each “free” offering. ...

As the financial services industry continues to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), Anthropic is expanding its Claude platform to better support financial institutions. This move reflects broader industry trends, where AI is being leveraged to streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and improve customer experiences. The latest updates to Claude for Financial Services include an Excel add-in, new connectors to real-time market data and portfolio analytics, and pre-built Agent Skills for tasks like building discounted cash flow models and initiating coverage reports. ...

As the AI landscape continues to evolve, companies are seeking ways to make their models more flexible, secure, and transparent. Anthropic’s latest move reflects this trend, introducing a new feature called Skills for its Claude AI model. This development allows developers to create modular, reusable task components that can be integrated into various applications, making Claude more versatile and efficient. The Skills feature is designed to provide a more transparent and auditable approach to AI development, aligning with Anthropic’s focus on model safety and interpretability. By defining a schema for each Skill, developers can create custom components that can be invoked dynamically through Claude’s API. This architecture enables seamless integration between the model and external systems, making it easier to adapt Claude to specialized business and research needs. ...