We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion. In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding. In the post below, we share more details about our new fund. anthropic.com/news/public-be…

Six projects from the last few weeks that caught our attention: A wildfire analysis prototype that maps the fire’s spread over time and tracks hot spots, made with Opus 5.5.

JUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang assures investors the AI stock selloff is temporary, declaring, “All of this is going to pass.”

More than 1 in 3 Americans bought something based on an AI recommendation in the past year 44% say AI helps them find better value for money 34% would pay more for a product if AI showed it was the best option for them Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/this-week-in-cha…

Cavemen Issues Dire Warning That The Wheel Is Going To Eliminate Countless Jobs

Grok is the best conversational voice model in the world

Claude Code Desktop is now so much aware of its own capabilities and how it can work with you, like spinning off subsessions. I think of this almost like a v2, so many small details went into make it great.

While CPI inflation up to 3.7%, inflation is much higher in many crucial categories: 1. Fuel Oil Inflation: +74.2% 2. Gasoline Inflation: +34.2% 3. Airline Fares Inflation: +22.4% 4. Car Repair Inflation: +5.8% 5. Hospital Services Inflation: +5.6% 6. Utility Gas Inflation: +5.0% 7. Electricity Inflation: +4.4% 8. Fruits and Vegetables Inflation: +3.7% This marks the 67th-straight month with US CPI inflation above the Fed's 2% target. After 5+ years of persistent inflation, the top 1% of US households are now worth ~14 TIMES the bottom 50%. Affordability is still getting worse.

Next thing we are going to have wild dodos running amuck.

Now in public beta, Claude Platform can send OpenTelemetry traces from the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude SDKs to your observability stack.

Chinas wait and then copy model for crating things has now escaped China through ai and is now becoming a standard best practice all thanks to ai. I’m here for it. This empowers the little guy.

JUST IN: Vibecoder reverse-engineers Microsoft Office using AI, releasing free, open-source alternatives to Word, Excel, & PowerPoint.

Open-source AI is undercutting Big AI's margins. Even amid the rapid scale of AI, open-source models cost far less per token, the basic unit of AI computing. For example, Anthropic’s Fable 5 model was more than 50 times more expensive per token than DeepSeek’s V4 Pro. Other open-source models from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and Nvidia are also competing at a fraction of the cost of leading proprietary models. As cheaper alternatives improve, proprietary AI companies will face increasing pressure to lower prices. This could potentially squeeze profit margins all as CapEx is surging. Keep watching open-source AI.

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…

JUST IN: China announces nationwide employment initiative focused on preparing workers for the rapidly evolving AI economy.

Software moats are failing…

you now get Claude API credits with your MAX plans ($100, or 200 matching your plan) every month, use this to build more personal AI for yourself! I made an AI homepage that's generated everyday based on sites I read and replaces my 'new tab' page in Chrome

We just let in every Pro and Max user from the Claude Code Projects waitlist! If you're new to Claude Code Projects, here's a 4 minute walkthrough to get you started:

JUST IN: Grok Bot now has its own email address, allowing the AI to sign up for services, contact businesses, & schedule meetings on users' behalf.

Claude Managed Agents dynamic workflows are now available in public beta. It's a new type of multiagent orchestration, built for your most ambitious workloads. A lead agent writes a plan that runs across many agents in phases, combining the results at the end.