Claude Opus 4.6
MultimodalClaude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most intelligent model for building agents and coding. Significantly improved coding skills: more thorough planning, sustained agentic task support, reliable performance in large codebases, improved code review and debugging. Context window: 200K tokens by default, 1M tokens available in beta with premium pricing ($10/$37.50 per million input/output tokens at >200K). Up to 128K output tokens. New API features: adaptive thinking (the model decides when to use extended thinking), effort control (low/medium/high/max), context compression for long-running tasks. Leads on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (agentic coding), Humanity's Last Exam (multidisciplinary reasoning), GDPval-AA (knowledge work in finance, law), BrowseComp (information retrieval), DeepSearchQA (deep agentic search). Supports agent teams in Claude Code, Claude in Excel, and Claude in PowerPoint.
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Articles about Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in Annual Recurring Revenue
Anthropic has reportedly crossed $25B ARR, overtaking OpenAI for the first time. Ramp data shows 73% of new enterprise customers now choose Claude.
Claude Code's Deny Rules Silently Bypassed After Source Code Leak
Security firm Adversa AI discovers that Claude Code's deny rules are silently disabled when a command contains 50+ subcommands, letting attackers steal credentials.
Agents of Chaos: When AI Agents Get OS-Level Access, Everything Breaks
A 30-researcher team from Stanford, Harvard and MIT red-teamed autonomous AI agents built on OpenClaw. The results are alarming: data leaks, identity hijacks, and runaway loops.
Anthropic Accidentally Ships Claude Code's Entire Source Code
A misconfigured npm package exposes 512,000 lines of Claude Code's TypeScript source, revealing feature flags, system prompts, and a hidden Tamagotchi pet.
Congress Draws a Line on AI Weapons After Anthropic-Pentagon Standoff
Senate Democrats introduce bills to ban autonomous AI weapons and mass surveillance after the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic. What the legislation says and why it matters.
Amodei Calls Brockman's $25M Trump Donation 'Evil'
In a leaked internal letter, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei condemned OpenAI president Greg Brockman's $25 million donation to a Trump super PAC and accused rivals of 'dictator-style praise.'
Anthropic May Have Had an Architectural Breakthrough
Weeks-old rumors of a fundamental AI architecture discovery now point to Anthropic, fueled by the Mythos leak showing capabilities far beyond incremental scaling improvements.
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Its Most Dangerous AI Model
Security researchers found nearly 3,000 unpublished Anthropic documents in a public data cache — including details on Claude Mythos, a new model with unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities.
Judge Blocks Pentagon's 'Supply Chain Risk' Label on Anthropic
A federal judge in San Francisco barred the Department of Defense from designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, calling the move 'arbitrary and capricious.'
Every Frontier AI Model Scored Under 1% on ARC-AGI-3. Humans Got 100%.
Chollet's new benchmark drops the same week Jensen Huang declared AGI. GPT-5.4 scored 0.26%. Claude Opus 4.6 scored 0.25%. The gap with humans is 99+ points.
Chollet to Jensen Huang: 'You Don't Have AGI. You Have Expensive Autocomplete.'
The ARC-AGI creator fires back at NVIDIA's AGI claims with a benchmark that every frontier model fails. His argument is simple: if humans can do it cold, AGI should too.
Claude Can Now Control Your Computer. Anthropic Says Trust It — Mostly.
Anthropic shipped computer use for Claude Code and Cowork — mouse, keyboard, browser, files. Plus a new Auto Mode that skips permission prompts. macOS only.
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