Claude News
"An expandable usage limits section" is part of a new Claude Code layout for Claude Desktop, according to TestingCatalog, along with an updated model selector. Anthropic's official redesign announcement doesn't mention either one.
Claude counts as a supply chain risk, a D.C. Circuit majority ruled, because its built-in limits stopped it from doing tasks for government users. One judge dissented, saying the law was written for covert bad actors.
"Almost ready" is how a Threads post describes a Liquid Glass revamp of Claude's iOS app, which reportedly moves navigation to a bottom tab bar. Anthropic hasn't confirmed it, and the post gives no release date.
An admin pins Claude Code to the one model version the team vetted. In 2.1.283, setting the model match to "exact" keeps every newer release blocked until that admin adds it to the allowed list.
"Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops," Anthropic's Science Blog says, answering a physicist's challenge to beat the eight-loop record on an academic's compute budget. The whole run cost a few thousand dollars.
"Instead of cutting off mid-edit": Claude Code will try to wrap up when you hit the 5-hour limit mid-task, using a small allowance taken from your weekly limit. On Pro plans, that works once a week.
Plugin submissions for Claude got their own portal, where builders can track the review and see usage. Over the coming weeks, those plugins land in one discovery experience across Claude and Claude Code.
It's New Year's Eve, Opus is throwing 500 errors, and an Anthropic on-call engineer hands the hunt to Claude Code. It found the bug, then kept going and flagged 200 accounts from a batch of 4,000 for the safeguards team.
At least $11.6 billion over seven years is what Anthropic will pay Akamai for cloud services, per The Wall Street Journal, and Akamai says a potential $9 billion expansion could lift the total to around $20 billion.
Claude Code 2.1.282 won't let a cloned repo's settings switch on telemetry. It ignores OpenTelemetry variables that turn on export or capture content, and names each skipped one at startup.
4% of Claude Code sessions ran up 65% of a ten-person team's spend over 30 days. Two of them, kept open and resumed daily for over a week, took 32% of the bill on their own.
"The hardware certainly doesn't have 5 MB of ROM for this," Claude Opus 5.5 wrote about PPSSPP's PSP math tables. In about an hour it found the real circuit: 10.5 KB of coefficients, bit-exact on all 2^32 inputs.
Three topics get billed even when Claude never answers: Anthropic is charging again for requests its safeguards block in biology, distillation attacks and frontier LLM development, and it points to recent coordinated attacks.
Per Axios, a memo making the rounds in the White House this week says effective altruism "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation, as Anthropic readies what's expected to be a record-setting IPO.
Per Reuters, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council that AI could be a risk to humanity if it's managed poorly. OpenAI's Sam Altman addressed the same council alongside him.
A small team that built a Claude agent can now list it on Claude Marketplace, the same catalog where buyers find Cursor, CrowdStrike and Deloitte. Anthropic hasn't said how those listings get vetted.
Threads in Claude Code Projects were built as cloud sessions that keep working after you close your device, but Anthropic says they can now run on your own machine as well.
Health teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are racing an outbreak of an unusual Ebola variant, and Anthropic says CEPI, WHO Africa and Kinshasa's INRB are using Claude to speed up that response.
A one-time $250 credit on Max and $100 on Pro sits outside your usage limits, so when you hit a cap locally, Claude Code keeps going in cloud sessions until the credit runs out. You have to claim it by Oct 7.
"3x faster in two weeks" is what the ClaudeDevs account says about claude.ai, and the team credits Claude itself with measuring and debugging the slowdowns. The write-up comes with the exact prompts and methods they used.
