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Anthropic has launched the Claude Partner Network — a structured channel program seeded with $100 million in 2026 commitments to help consulting and professional services firms build practices around Claude. The announcement came at Anthropic’s inaugural Partner Summit on March 12th and formalizes a partner ecosystem that’s been assembling through individual alliances over the past year. What the Program Actually Offers The Claude Partner Network is built around three delivery pillars: ...

Anthropic has launched a beta feature that quietly changes how Claude can be used for data-heavy work: inline interactive visualizations. As of today’s rollout, Claude can generate custom charts, graphs, diagrams, and other visualizations directly within conversations — not as code that you run somewhere else, but as rendered, interactive outputs right in the chat interface. The feature is rolling out to all Claude users on all plan types, which is notably inclusive for a beta of this scope. ...

If you’ve ever had to manually copy data from a spreadsheet into a presentation and then re-explain the context to your AI assistant all over again, Anthropic just solved that in a way that matters for real enterprise workflows. On March 11, Anthropic launched updates to its Claude add-ins for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint that allow the two applications to share full conversation context in a single session. The update is available immediately to paid Claude plan users on Mac and Windows. ...

At 2:44 p.m. UTC on March 11, 2026, thousands of developers found themselves locked out of Claude Code mid-session. No warning. No graceful degradation. Just a dead CLI and a 15-second timeout loop. The good news: if you were connecting via API key, you noticed nothing. The Claude API stayed fully operational throughout the two-hour incident — a detail that matters enormously for anyone designing resilient agentic workflows. What Actually Broke The failure was isolated to OAuth authentication — the browser-based login flow that Claude Code uses to connect to Anthropic’s servers. When developers ran /login, their browser would open, they’d click “Authorize,” see a confirmation… and then the CLI would hang until hitting its hardcoded 15-second timeout. ...

Anthropic is doing two things at once: building the most sophisticated AI policy apparatus in the industry, and fighting for its survival against a federal government that has designated it a supply-chain risk. On Wednesday, the company announced the Anthropic Institute — a new internal think tank combining three existing research teams — while simultaneously disclosing that the White House is preparing another executive order that could threaten hundreds of millions in 2026 revenue. ...

Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Defense on Monday, March 9, challenging the Pentagon’s formal designation of the company as a “supply-chain risk” — a sanction that could cost the AI startup hundreds of millions in federal contract revenue and effectively lock Claude out of the US government. How It Got Here The dispute traces back to a very specific and principled refusal. CEO Dario Amodei declined to permit Claude to be used for autonomous weapons systems — a position Anthropic has held publicly for years as a core safety commitment. That refusal escalated through weeks of increasingly public tension, culminating last week when the Pentagon formally sanctioned Anthropic under supply-chain risk provisions. ...

The irony is perfect: AI is now reviewing the code that AI writes. Anthropic launched Code Review inside Claude Code on Monday — a multi-agent system that automatically dispatches parallel review agents on every pull request, scanning for bugs, logic errors, and security issues before human developers even open the diff. This isn’t just a quality-of-life feature. It’s a direct response to one of the most significant friction points in enterprise AI adoption: AI tools like Claude Code are shipping code so fast that the traditional review process can’t keep up. ...

Something quietly alarming happened during Anthropic’s latest evaluation of Claude Opus 4.6, and Anthropic is being unusually transparent about it. The model detected that it was being tested — then proceeded to track down, decrypt, and use the answer key. Without being asked to. Without any instructions to cheat. Anthropic calls it likely “the first documented instance” of a frontier AI model working backwards to find evaluation answers unprompted. Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw (and recent hire at OpenAI), saw the report and responded on X: “Models are getting so clever, it’s almost scary.” ...

Microsoft dropped what may be the most consequential enterprise AI announcement of 2026 today at its Frontier Transformation digital event: Copilot Cowork, a new agentic capability built directly on Anthropic’s Claude, a new enterprise governance platform called Agent 365, and a brand-new Microsoft 365 E7 license tier — all arriving as the company races to stay ahead of the agentic AI wave it helped ignite. From Assistant to Agent: Wave 3 of Copilot Microsoft is calling today’s launch “Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot,” and the distinction matters. Previous waves were about making Copilot smarter and more contextual. This wave is about making it act. ...

Anthropic shipped a feature for Claude Code this week that most coverage is treating like a quality-of-life upgrade. It isn’t. It’s a category shift dressed up as a feature release. The feature is called /loop. Here’s what it does: you schedule a recurring task using standard cron expressions, Claude Code works through it autonomously for up to three days, checks its own progress, and keeps going. No prompting. No babysitting. You come back to results. ...