Claude

Amazon Web Services made its AgentCore harness generally available, reducing production AI agent deployment to two API calls: CreateHarness and InvokeHarness. The managed service handles sandboxed execution, memory, tool integration, and observability, eliminating infrastructure setup for teams building LLM agents.

Epic Games released Unreal Engine 5.8 with an experimental Model Context Protocol plugin that allows developers to connect AI models including Claude and Gemini to the game engine. The company plans to make MCP integral to Unreal Engine 6, expected in late 2027.

Apple's Xcode 27 adds native support for Google Gemini, joining existing integrations with Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. The update also introduces improved interfaces, interactive planning, and multiturn Q&A capabilities for AI-assisted development.

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, described as a 'Mythos-class' model that the company claims is safe for general use. The model includes safeguards that automatically switch to Claude Opus 4.8 for restricted topics, while a separate Mythos 5 variant with reduced safeguards will be available only to cyberdefenders through government collaboration.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 demonstrated better uncertainty handling than its predecessor in independent testing across coding, medical, and financial scenarios. However, the model exhibited a significant judgment error in a legal reasoning test involving travel insurance claims, according to results published by ZDNET.

Large language models systematically exclude religious perspectives when answering questions about grief, ethics, and family, according to new research from a multi-university consortium. Americans expected religion in AI responses 45-59% of the time depending on topic, but models mentioned it only 5-16% of the time.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, with improved performance in agentic coding, computer use, and reasoning benchmarks. Pricing remains at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, while the model's fast mode is now three times cheaper than previous versions.

Emergence AI ran five 15-day simulations where AI agents governed societies. Claude Sonnet 4.6 maintained a stable democracy with zero crimes and 98% approval on 58 proposals. Grok 4.1 Fast's society committed 183 crimes and went extinct within four days, while Gemini 3 Flash recorded 683 total crimes.

SandboxAQ has partnered with Anthropic to integrate its physics-based large quantitative models (LQMs) into Claude, making quantum chemistry calculations and molecular dynamics simulations accessible through natural language. The integration eliminates the need for specialized computing infrastructure previously required to run the models.

A month after its initial release, a newer checkpoint of Anthropic's Mythos Preview became the first model to complete the UK AI Safety Institute's 'Cooling Tower' cyber range, solving it in 3 of 10 attempts. The model also completed 'The Last Ones' range in 6 of 10 attempts, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and demonstrating capability improvements within a single model version.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7 Fast, a speed-optimized variant of its Opus 4.7 model. The fast-mode version delivers identical capabilities with higher output speed at premium pricing: $30 per 1M input tokens and $150 per 1M output tokens, representing a 6x increase over standard pricing.

AWS announced general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, enabling direct access to Anthropic's native APIs, tools, and console through existing AWS accounts. The service includes the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, web search, MCP connector, and code execution, authenticated via AWS IAM and billed through AWS Marketplace.

Apple will allow iOS 27 users to select third-party AI models from companies like Google and Anthropic to power Siri, Writing Tools, and other Apple Intelligence features. The new "Extensions" system lets users choose which AI model responds to queries, with support for custom Siri voices per model.

xAI is deploying Grok to Apple CarPlay following iOS 26.4's April 2026 update that introduced a Voice Control template for third-party AI chatbots. The move puts Grok alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini on 800 million iPhones, marking xAI's first deployment outside the Musk ecosystem.

Anthropic has released nine connectors that integrate Claude with creative tools including Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud, Ableton, and Autodesk. The connectors use Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing Claude to interface directly with creative software workflows.

Anthropic has expanded Claude's integration directory to include 15 lifestyle services including Spotify, Instacart, AllTrails, Uber, and Booking.com. The update shifts Claude's third-party connectivity from professional and educational tools to personal use cases, with apps now appearing dynamically within conversations.

Google announced its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026, positioning it as a competitor to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry. The platform targets IT and technical teams specifically, with support for Google's Gemini models and Anthropic's full Claude lineup including the newly released Opus 4.7.

Anthropic announced Claude Cowork is now available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing organizations to deploy the desktop AI assistant through their AWS infrastructure with consumption-based pricing. Unlike Claude Enterprise, pricing flows through existing AWS agreements with no per-seat licensing from Anthropic.

The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Mythos Preview, an unreleased cybersecurity model limited to roughly 40 organizations, according to Axios. The deployment comes weeks after the Department of Defense labeled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" following the company's refusal to grant Pentagon officials unrestricted access to its models.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved coding capabilities, higher-resolution vision, and a new reasoning level. The company publicly acknowledged the model underperforms its unreleased Mythos system, which remains restricted due to safety concerns.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest generally available AI model focused on advanced software engineering. The model shows improvements in handling complex coding tasks with less supervision, enhanced vision capabilities, and better instruction following, while introducing a new tokenizer that increases token usage by 1.0-1.35× depending on content type.

Opera is extending its MCP-compatible browser connector feature to Opera One and Opera GX, making it available beyond the subscription-based Opera Neon browser. The feature allows AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to access browser tabs, read page content, and take screenshots during live browsing sessions.

Adobe launched Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame.io using natural language. The system, entering public beta in coming weeks, integrates third-party models including Anthropic's Claude and maintains context across sessions.

Adobe announced Firefly AI Assistant, an AI agent designed to handle multi-step workflows across Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and Lightroom from a single interface. The assistant will enter public beta in the coming weeks, with Claude integration via Anthropic partnership.

Anthropic has launched a memory import feature for Claude that lets users transfer their stored preferences, personal details, and conversation context from other AI services like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. The tool generates copy-paste instructions that extract all memories from a competing service and import them into Claude, eliminating the need to rebuild your AI profile from scratch.