Anthropic expanded its Cyber Verification Program by consolidating Project Glasswing and the CVP into three access tiers for qualifying security professionals, offering advanced Claude model access with tier-specific cyber safeguards. It reports that on CyScenarioBench, the Defense Access tier blocked 46 of 50 tasks for Claude Opus 5.5, while the Red Team Access tier completed 34 of 50 tasks with no blocks. The change increases eligibility and access for defenders—while requiring verification, data retention (until EFS later this fall), and different controls to limit misuse.
Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company’s backlog rose from $15 billion in June to $50 billion in September, with much of the increase linked to a $35 billion Anthropic commitment signed in late August. The funding and backlog growth position Lambda to fund data center buildouts and potentially influence IPO pricing as it approaches public-market scrutiny.
Anthropic expanded its Claude for Startups program by adding more subsidized benefits for qualifying companies. The update includes a free year of Claude Team with up to five premium seats plus $1,000 in API credits. Eligible startups can now access Claude Marketplace for building plugins and book virtual office hours with Anthropic’s Applied AI team.
Meta and Microsoft are reducing internal use of Anthropic’s Claude across teams and products. Microsoft cut projected Claude spending from over $1 billion annually, and its monthly per-employee cloud budget fell from $100,000 to about $10,000. Meta saw Claude Code users drop from about 60,000 to 30,000 while shifting toward its own coding tools, and both companies used in-house or competing AI offerings instead.
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