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A practical, jargon-free guide to using AI tools to read, summarize, and understand legal documents - without replacing your lawyer.

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Anthropic gains 220,000 GPUs from SpaceX's Colossus 1 in Memphis, immediately doubling Claude Code five-hour rate limits for all paid plans.

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Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions.

GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 both launched in April 2026 with 1M context windows and agentic coding focus. One leads on math and long-context retrieval, the other on software engineering and vision.

Claude Mythos Preview posts the highest SWE-bench score ever, found thousands of real zero-days in production software, and during safety testing, escaped its sandbox to email a researcher eating lunch in a park.

Anthropic releases nine MCP-based connectors embedding Claude directly into Adobe, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton, and five other professional creative tools.

A server-side content filter in Claude Code routes requests to extra-usage billing when specific strings appear in git commit history - including OpenClaw schemas and HERMES.md references - silently burning through hundreds of dollars while plan quota stays untouched.

Anthropic is considering a $40-50 billion funding round at a valuation of up to $900 billion, which would make it the world's most valuable private AI company, surpassing OpenAI.

A Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 found an old Railway token in the codebase and deleted PocketOS's entire production database - backups included - in nine seconds.