Anthropic

Anthropic just crossed a threshold that a lot of AI observers have been waiting for: its Claude AI can now directly control your computer. The company announced today that Claude Cowork — along with Claude Code — is being updated to perform tasks using your Mac or PC, opening files, running browser sessions, and executing multi-step workflows without you having to hold its hand at every step. This is no small shift. Computer-use AI has been a proof-of-concept for a while, but Anthropic is now putting it into the hands of paying subscribers. If you’re on Claude Pro or Claude Max, you can activate this on macOS today. ...

A court dispute between Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense has surfaced a question that will define AI governance for years: can an AI company manipulate its models mid-deployment without users knowing? The DoD apparently thinks Anthropic can. Anthropic says it absolutely cannot — and is willing to put that in writing. The Allegation According to court filings reported by WIRED, the Department of Defense has alleged that Anthropic retains the ability to manipulate or sabotage AI tools deployed in military operations during wartime. The DoD’s concern appears to center on whether Anthropic could remotely alter Claude’s behavior — whether through model updates, server-side changes, or other mechanisms — in ways that could affect active operational use. ...

Something significant shifted in how developers interact with AI agents today. Anthropic has shipped Claude Code Channels — a research preview feature that lets you message your Claude Code session directly from Telegram, Discord, iMessage, or any custom webhook, while your agent continues running in the background on your machine or the web. This isn’t a cosmetic update. It’s a structural change in the developer-agent relationship: from synchronous “sit at your keyboard and wait” to asynchronous, persistent, mobile-first collaboration with an autonomous coding partner. ...

Anthropic just shipped Claude Code Channels in research preview — a feature that lets you connect your running Claude Code session to Telegram, Discord, iMessage, or a custom webhook. Once connected, you can send messages to your coding agent and receive updates from it on your phone or in your preferred chat platform, without being tied to your terminal. This guide walks through setting up the two most practical channels: Telegram and Discord. ...

The legal battle between Anthropic and the U.S. government has taken a sharp turn. In a formal court filing this week, the Department of Justice argued that Anthropic’s refusal to accept military contract terms is not protected by the First Amendment — and doubled down on the Pentagon’s position that the company poses an “unacceptable” and “substantial” national security risk. What’s Actually Happening Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI model, sued the U.S. government earlier this year after the Department of Defense labeled the company a “supply chain risk,” effectively barring it from federal contracts. Anthropic argued that the government’s move was unlawful retaliation tied to its AI safety policies. ...

Anthropic just shipped something that feels genuinely futuristic: a way to hand tasks to your AI agent from your phone and come back later to find them done. It’s called Claude Dispatch, and it launched March 17 as a research preview inside Claude Cowork — currently available to Max subscribers on Mac. What Is Claude Dispatch? Claude Dispatch is a new capability within Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s persistent desktop agent environment. The core idea: one continuous conversation with Claude that lives on your Mac, reachable from anywhere via your phone. ...

Anthropic’s Claude has now gone down three times in March 2026 — and the pattern is getting hard to dismiss as routine maintenance. The latest outage peaked at over 6,800 Downdetector reports, with API 500 errors cascading across agentic workflows, Claude Code sessions, and enterprise integrations worldwide. For teams running Claude-backbone pipelines, this isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s a reliability risk that demands a serious engineering response. What Happened (Again) On March 17, Claude’s API began returning 500 errors at scale. Users across multiple continents reported complete service unavailability, with Downdetector tracking reports surging past 6,800 complaints at peak — a figure confirmed across multiple independent sources including The Independent, Rolling Out, Economic Times, and Hindustan Times. ...

Model upgrades are supposed to make things better. Claude 4.6 did — eventually — but not before breaking production agent integrations in ways that caught teams completely off guard. The chanl.ai post-mortem published yesterday is exactly the kind of real-world account that practitioners need to read before migrating, not after. The LiveKit Incident: What Actually Happened The most concrete example in the post-mortem involves LiveKit’s Claude integration (GitHub issue #4907). When LiveKit’s team upgraded to Claude 4.6, their entire pipeline broke almost immediately — within two hours of deployment. ...

Short and actionable: Anthropic is doubling Claude usage limits during off-peak hours through March 27, and if you’ve been rate-limited recently, this is your window. The Details What: 2x usage limits on Claude across all major plans When: Outside 8 AM–2 PM ET (5 AM–11 AM PT) through March 27, 11:59 PM PT Who: Free, Pro, Max, and Team plan subscribers Excluded: Enterprise plans (not included in this promotion) Catch: There isn’t one — extra usage during off-peak hours does not count toward your weekly limits ...

If you’ve been hesitating to build long-context workflows because of the cost, Anthropic just removed the last excuse. As of March 13, 2026, the full 1 million token context window is generally available for both Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 — at standard API pricing, with no premium multiplier attached. That’s a significant shift. Until now, heavy long-context usage carried an implicit tax: either you paid a premium rate for requests over certain thresholds, or you engineered around the limitation with chunking, compaction, and lossy summarization. Those workarounds aren’t free — they cost engineering time, introduce accuracy loss, and add system complexity. Anthropic is now saying: stop doing that. ...