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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. ...

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. ...

Students using GitHub Copilot’s free student plan woke up this week to a familiar and frustrating experience in the AI industry: their tools quietly got worse without any warning. GitHub has removed GPT-5.4, Claude Opus, and Claude Sonnet from its free Student plan — discovered not through an announcement, but by students mid-session finding their model selections grayed out or unavailable. What Changed The GitHub free Student Copilot plan previously offered access to premium models including GPT-5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus and Sonnet alongside the standard model options. Those models have now been removed. ...

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. ...

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. ...