Claude showed AP-attributed results on election night. Terms and length of the deal were not disclosed.
Anthropic and the Associated Press struck a content and data licensing deal just before Tuesday's midterm elections, Adweek reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Claude users asking for election updates saw up-to-the-minute information credited to the AP. Adweek says this is the first time Anthropic has paid a digital news publisher to license its content. OpenAI, by comparison, has more than a dozen such agreements.
Neither company commented on the record, and the financial terms and timeframe are unknown. Adweek describes the deal as a limited test rather than a sign that Anthropic has fully changed its approach to licensing. This is reported, not confirmed.
- Partner
- Associated Press
- Terms
- Not disclosed
- Status
- Reported; no comment from either side
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Sources Adweek
A cryptographic proof for each reply can catch a router that quietly swapped in a cheaper model, without revealing the weights.
Anthropic on Wednesday released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype for 'provable inference.' A model provider publishes a short commitment to one exact set of weights. It then attaches a zero-knowledge proof to each response showing that the committed model produced those tokens. A user can check the proof in seconds on an ordinary CPU without seeing the weights. The aim is to let customers of routing services, and anyone checking where text came from, confirm they got the model they paid for.
In Anthropic's demo, a single H100 generated proofs for the 400-billion-parameter Llama 4 Maverick model at more than 100 tokens per second, with proofs of about 19 MB per 1,024-token request. That is roughly 70 to 95 times the GPU time of normal prompt processing. The docs warn that a passing proof does not show the committed model is the one advertised. Anthropic says this is separate from the signed-inference work it used to meet its Frontier Safety Roadmap goal for September 30.
- License
- Open source (prototype)
- Proof size
- ~19 MB per 1,024-token request
- Overhead
- ~70–95x prompt-processing GPU time
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Sources Anthropic · FlashProve on GitHub
The first 3D map of a prokaryotic vault particle took under four months, and the first model took 34 hours.
Anthropic's in-house biology lab published the first 3D structure of a vault particle from prokaryotes. Vaults are giant hollow protein barrels discovered in 1986 whose job in the cell is still unknown. Working under the team's direction, Claude searched about 15 billion predicted proteins, designed DNA constructs, sped up the isolation method and processed the cryo-EM data. Anthropic says a purification step that usually takes three days took about 90 minutes, and a first structural model was ready 34 hours later instead of weeks.
The particle, made by a phage protein called L05, is built from 96 copies (78 in human vaults). It is shorter and wider than the mammalian version and holds about 25% more volume. Claude also flagged a small molecule resembling coenzyme A inside each copy, which has not yet been confirmed. A preprint has been submitted to bioRxiv, and Science covered the result.
- Protein copies
- 96 (human: 78)
- Purification time
- ~90 min (usually ~3 days)
- Project length
- <4 months
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Sources Anthropic · Science
Enterprise Managed Auth swaps each user's OAuth consent step for a signed identity assertion.
Claude Team and Enterprise organizations can now authorize an MCP connector once and have members connected automatically when they first sign in, through a feature called Enterprise Managed Auth, which Claude calls auto-connect. Instead of sending each person through an OAuth consent screen, Claude gives the connector's authorization server a signed identity token from the customer's identity provider. The server checks it and returns an access token.
Organizations without an identity provider or single sign-on can instead use Claude-issued assertions, which are in beta and use an issuer URL unique to each organization. MCP server builders need to support the token exchange, and Anthropic has published developer docs on how to do it.
- Plans
- Team, Enterprise
- Claude-issued assertions
- Beta
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Sources Claude Help Center · Claude Docs
