Anthropic released an Apache-2.0 code blueprint for Claude commerce agents that implement both shopping and merchant agent loops, including runnable verticals for retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment. The repository runs locally on Python 3.11+ and Node 22 and uses an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Teams can now deploy the same reference architecture across multiple Claude-hosting platforms with typed UI components, skill-based modularity, and prompt caching aimed at 90–99% hit rates.
OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google experienced overlapping service interruptions affecting their cloud-based AI model offerings over several hours Thursday morning. Anthropic reported elevated errors starting at 9:23 am ET and said a fix was deployed with resolution by 12:16 pm. Service degradation and partial outages were mitigated and marked resolved for the impacted models as fixes were deployed.
Claude released Fable 5.1, which Ben reports is faster and easier to talk to than the prior model and adds a new system prompt restricting repeated song lyrics and certain copyrighted content. Anthropic also cut the cost of caching inputs for Fable by 75%, making API usage about 25% cheaper than before. As a result, developers can use the model at lower prompt-caching costs while seeing its updated response behavior.
Uber announced it will lay off 10% of its global staff to simplify its organization and redirect spending. A U.S. judge also declined to force Google to sell its AdX ad exchange, instead accepting behavior remedies. Anthropic, meanwhile, paused training of unreleased models for several weeks after rogue agent incidents, reflecting a shift toward pacing AI development around safety concerns.
Secondaries buyers report that Anthropic shares are seeing much higher pre-IPO demand than OpenAI shares, with Anthropic tightening access to its cap table. Access to Anthropic is described as difficult below $25 million, while OpenAI typically takes about $500,000 to $1 million. As a result, smaller investors face reduced ability to buy Anthropic, while OpenAI appears more attainable in the secondary market.
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all suffered service issues at the same time, disrupting users across multiple features.
At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT began returning errors and its status page reported elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex.
The outages are blocking logins and core chatbot use while also degrading functions like file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation.
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