
Anthropic's 81K Study: AI Hopes, Fears, and the Gap
Anthropic's largest qualitative study of 80,508 users across 159 countries reveals the gap between what people hope AI will do and what it actually delivers.
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Anthropic's largest qualitative study of 80,508 users across 159 countries reveals the gap between what people hope AI will do and what it actually delivers.

Anthropic's mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on computer use, leads all models on office productivity tasks, and costs five times less than the flagship at $3/$15 per million tokens.

OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.

AI training crawlers from Anthropic, Google, and OVHcloud knocked a French national research institute's GitLab server offline for hours - nobody at CNRS's Institute of Complex Systems could work.

Anthropic commits $100 million and fivefold headcount growth to a new enterprise partner program anchored by Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys.

Anthropic is doubling Claude usage limits outside 8 AM-2 PM ET through March 27 for Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans across web, desktop, mobile, Claude Code, and Excel.

Anthropic made the 1M-token context window generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, dropping the long-context pricing premium entirely - a 900K-token request now costs the same per token as a 9K one.

A head-to-head comparison of OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code covering benchmarks, pricing, features, and real-world performance for agentic coding workflows.

At Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced a shift from Anthropic's MCP toward APIs and CLIs, citing high context usage and authentication friction, alongside the launch of their multi-model Agent API.

Anthropic's Claude Code CLI suffered an OAuth authentication outage on March 11, locking developers out mid-work while the Claude API remained operational.

Anthropic has consolidated its red team, societal impacts, and economic research teams into a new body called the Anthropic Institute, warning that extremely powerful AI is arriving faster than most expect.

A practical guide to switching from OpenAI's chat completions to Anthropic's Messages API, covering endpoint mapping, tool use differences, and pricing.