Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)
http://anthropic.com/features/project-deal
The first AI-assisted drive on another planet:
Claude helped NASA’s Perseverance rover travel four hundred meters on Mars.
https://www.anthropic.com/features/claude-on-mars
Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its "open infrastructure" from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/899034/google-android-aut…
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is "troubling" and that "it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic" (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/judge-pentagon-anthropic-troubling
Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why-anthropic-is-he…