
Anthropic Ships Opus 4.8 with Multi-Agent Workflows
Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows for parallel subagent orchestration, hitting 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and introducing granular effort controls at unchanged pricing.
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Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows for parallel subagent orchestration, hitting 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and introducing granular effort controls at unchanged pricing.

Anthropic's $65 billion Series H closes at a $965 billion post-money valuation, pushing it past OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company - driven by $47B in run-rate revenue and a clear IPO runway.

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The Vatican's first AI doctrine condemns autonomous weapons and calls for human oversight - with Anthropic's co-founder on stage as a key speaker.

KPMG and Anthropic signed a global alliance giving all 276,000 employees access to Claude, with a dedicated PE product and a preferred-consultant designation for private equity deployments.

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Trump scrapped a White House AI executive order signing ceremony at the last minute, citing concerns about US competitiveness - even as Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber showed AI can now find and exploit zero-days at scale.

Anthropic projects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and its first-ever $559M operating profit, two years ahead of its own 2028 guidance - but the xAI compute bill arrives in full next quarter.

SpaceX's IPO filing discloses that Anthropic will pay $1.25 billion per month for compute across both Colossus data centers through May 2029, totaling roughly $45 billion.

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A practical guide to switching from ChatGPT Plus to Claude Pro in 2026, covering Opus 4.7's 1M context window, the new $100 ChatGPT Pro tier, voice mode on both platforms, and the June 15 agent billing split.

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