Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, according to the Financial Times. It’s a move sure to turn heads in Silicon Valley. Why? Because venture capital firms have historically avoided backing competing companies in the same sector, preferring to place their bets on a single winner. […]
AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast. In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and Sam Altman-backed MergeLabs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information, and […]
Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.
One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs of mental health struggles in a chatbot conversation. OpenAI’s head of that type of safety research, Andrea Vallone, has now joined Anthropic. “Over the past year, I led OpenAI’s research on a […]
Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder who joined Anthropic two years ago as its chief product officer, is moving to a new focus at the AI startup: co-leading its internal incubator, dubbed the “Labs” team. The Anthropic Labs team started in mid-2024 with just two members; now, the company has decided to expand it, with a […]
OpenAI and Anthropic have each launched healthcare-focused products over the last week.
Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare is unveiled about a week after OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Health product.
Anthropic wants to expand Claude’s AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code – and it’s doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed “Claude Cowork.” “Cowork can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks,” […]
Built into the Claude Desktop app, Cowork lets users designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files, with further instructions given through the standard chat interface.
Anthropic announces its first enterprise deal of 2026 which includes building agents and for, and giving Claude code, to Allianz.