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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

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The Register13h ago

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

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Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.…

The Verge1h ago

Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

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The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy...

The Register1h ago

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

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The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual...

The Register1 day ago

If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID

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Anthropic is considering implementing identity verification requirements for access to certain Claude AI features, according to recent reports. The company has selected Persona, a privacy verification vendor, to handle the ID checking process. This move would make Claude access conditional on users providing personal identification documents.

Simon Willison1 day ago

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

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A recent comparison of image generation capabilities between Alibaba's newly released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 suggests that the open-source Qwen model may outperform the proprietary Claude model in certain visual tasks. The test, which involved generating an image of a pelican riding a bicycle, showed the Qwen model producing output that the tester subjectively rated as superior, despite running on a standard laptop with a file size of approximately 20.9GB.