2026-01-30 19:46:09
Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/claude-on-mars
Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/claude-on-mars
Anthropic says over 60% of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing after Claude Code's rise in popularity (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/11/28/anthropic-enterprise-claude/
I spent some more time on AI coding evaluation tooling using the new #AWS open source Standard Operating Procedure system, and now I have an automated leader board. It rates the #Claude-flow hive mind version as better than the Claude-flow swarm version from a month before. Next step is to run some more …
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Christine And The Queens:
🎵 Saint Claude
#NowPlaying #ChristineAndTheQueens
https://wearetouching.bandcamp.com/track/saint-claude-christine-the-queens-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ai8XBxieq1CR263UdhGdF
Anthropic bringt Claude Opus 4.5 auf den Markt
Eine Woche nach dem Launch von Googles Gemini 3 stellt Anthropic mit Claude Opus 4.5 eine neue Version seines Top-KI-Modells vor.
https://www.heise…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority, the national privacy watchdog, told Het Financieele Dagblad that it has counted dozens of such AI-related data breach reports so far this year.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/30/dutch-privacy-watchdog-warns-rising-ai-ch…
Wake: Terminal History for Claude Code https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/01/25/wake-terminal-history-for-claude
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-antisemitism-report-grok-chatgpt-gemini-claude-deepseek-llama-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p52#a260128p52
Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/anthropic-brings-agentic-plugins-to-cowork/
I vibe coded a game in Claude Opus 4.5. It is neither perfect nor a one shot. This took about 4 hours or so. The image is from Nano Banana and yes, that's my old Saab 900s from my LA days. The game is meant to evoke a video game on a PC or Mac in 1991.
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert<…
Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SLAVE: Oh, er...
TARRANT: Come on, come on!
SLAVE: Try zero seven two.
TARRANT: Zero seven two it is. [Explosions on the flight deck, Tarrant is dazed]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/26 B7B2
Kürzlich las ich von #Claude Code. Das ist eine Version von https://claude.ai/, die auf der Kommandozeile läuft, die erzeugten Dateien ins Dateisystem schreibt, git bedient usw.
Das wollte ich mal ausprobieren und habe mal ei…
There is no AI "winter" i think, now Anthropic has also released a new model, they have a clear focus on coding.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-o…
@dawid@social.craftknight.comADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-…
🔧 Install via: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code then /plugin install ralph-wiggum@claude-code-plugins
💡 Philosophy: "Better to fail predictably than succeed unpredictably" - prompt engineering becomes the critical skill
https://paddo.dev/blog/ralph-wiggum-au
RE: https://mastodon.social/@borkdude/115799677210560924
Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people i…
Mit Claude Code (bzw. der neuen Oberfläche Cowork) verlässt KI das Chatfenster und arbeitet direkt mit Dateien auf dem eigenen Rechner. In Kombination mit dem Notizsystem Obsidian wird KI damit zum lokalen Arbeitswerkzeug, das Zusammenhänge erkennt. Claude Code sei wie eine eigene Wohnung, in der die KI wohnt. | Marcus Schuler | #FAZ (€)
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
I vibe coded a game in Claude Opus 4.5. It is neither perfect nor a one shot. This took about 4 hours or so. The image is from Nano Banana and yes, that's my old Saab 900s from my LA days. The game is meant to evoke a video game on a PC or Mac in 1991.
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert<…
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
SERVALAN: What if Avon heard?
ZUKAN: He's been on Betafarl for three hours. He'll have left Scorpio by now.
[Sandpit on Betafarl. Nothing else is in sight.]
SOOLIN: Here?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/322 B7B3
Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch
Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-new-claude-opus-4-5-reclaims-…
Which street will S.F. name for Claude? Vote here in the official poll. https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-claude-albino-alligator-street-name-poll/
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Just the main ignition controls now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
AVON: One minute precisely, Doctor.
[Main drive chamber. Plaxton is still working.]
PLAXTON: Two more connections. Not long now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/434
Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867673/claude-mcp-app-interactive-slack-figm…
Made a bunch of revisions to the Sigalert game. All vibe coded with Claude 4.5
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
#LLM
Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
JENNA: Your carrier beam is the fastest way to contact Servalan.
ORAC: That is not the purpose for which it was developed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/443 B7B5
Made a bunch of revisions to the Sigalert game. All vibe coded with Claude 4.5
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert
Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great (Jasmine Sun/@jasmine's substack)
https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
KEILLER: We've got to get back up.
AVON: No! Down.
KEILLER: But now...
SOOLIN: Tarrant and Dayna are up there, they'll cover for us.
KEILLER: But, how'd they get there, I don't understand?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/107
Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/
Gurman: internal development at Apple "runs on Anthropic at this point", Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude, but Anthropic's terms were too steep (@tbpn)
https://x.com/tbpn/status/2016911797656367199
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
POOLA: Chesil... I think I've got something. [Chesil moves to look at Poola's screen.]
CHESIL: Aren't you going to report it?
POOLA: No. Wait! [They watch as a spacecraft-shaped dot crosses the screen.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/50…
OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users (Financial Times)
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: Would he do that?
SERVALAN: Oh, yes. He thought it through very carefully. He wouldn't even reveal the location of the laboratory until I'd agreed to all his terms.
TRAVIS: Which were?
Claude 4.5 Opus seems to have finally done it, made ChatGPT essentially irrelevant to my purposes. Claude is a far superior writer and much, much smarter. Less prone to hallucinations. It's coding ability is wild.
KI-Update: Werbung in ChatGPT, KI-Einsatz überrascht, Schwäche bei Claude Cowork
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://w…
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
AVON: Not unless they can do it in their sleep.
DAYNA: You should have killed them.
AVON: Probably.
CALLY: They could sleep through a war.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/415 B7B5
Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/claude-code-success-anthropic-business-model/…
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is "the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: I want you back here. Get ready to teleport.
VILA: Wasting your time, Cally. I'm not wearing a bracelet. I'm not going to be snatched away in the middle of...in the middle of anything. Sightseeing. And you should see some of the sights I'm seeing. No. Perhaps you shouldn't.
https://
Sicherheitslücke in Claude Cowork: So verschaffen sich Hacker unbemerkt Zugriff
Claude Cowork ist als Begleiter für den Arbeitsalltag gedacht. In der aktuellen Testphase weist der KI-Agent allerdings noch gravierende Sicherheitslücken auf.
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Oh yes. I just don't know what it's for.
PELLA: And they didn't teach this in, ah, Academy? [laughs] There's a switch. When the door is closed, every forty-eight hours Dorian must say a code word to reset the timing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/150
Inside the #DevelopmentWorkflow of #ClaudeCode's Creator
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/claud…
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
GAN: Bounty hunters. They're going to sell us to the Federation.
BLAKE: But how did they get on board?
AVON: Gan?
VILA: It wasn't Gan's fault.
GAN: They used me and a voice synthesizer. It was very well planned.
Continuing to experiment with vibe coding in Claude Opus 4.5. here is sigalert, a shooting game based on the LA freeways. #claudeai
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: And the prisoners?
DAINER: We've killed six.
LEYLAN: Six?
DAINER: [Glancing at body] Seven. In the course of quelling a riot and protecting the ship, sir.
LEYLAN: Very well. Carry on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/373 …
Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is "harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry" but isn't "immune" to such attacks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: We are short of time, Orac.
VILA: I'll say we are. It's not hanging about this time. [Screen display: 2. WAIT blinks out and is replaced by:]
[Computer display: 2. ARBITERS TAKE POSITION AND INDICATE READINESS]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/544
Continuing to experiment with vibe coding in Claude Opus 4.5. here is sigalert, a shooting game based on the LA freeways. #claudeai
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert
Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: All right, I'll keep it a secret.
[They resume their descent.]
TARRANT: Look, we must be at least four levels below the landing silo by now.
DAYNA: At least.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/395 B7B2
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
COMMANDER: Good. Our detector shield is working. Give me her exact position in three minutes at present speed. Mark.
MUTOID: Computer running.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/56 B7B5
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Eleven minutes!
TARRANT: Yes, but what about the others?
PELLA: There aren't any others. Last week we were five. This morning, three. And now we are two.
VILA: Ten and three-quarter minutes!
TARRANT: Let's go.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/472
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: [V.O.] Right.
CALLY: Orac, operate teleport as instructed. Orac?
ORAC: Yes.
CALLY: Did you hear what I said?
ORAC: Teleport operation is a menial task much more suited to one such as yourself.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-in-microsoft-foundry
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/anthropic-google-cloud-quantum-xch…
Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-cowork-for-claude-complex-action…
Made a game with Claude Opus 4.5. Not a one shot, but 4 shot.
The first one was “Build a game like spectre (Mac “VR” game, 1990s) in JavaScript.” The tanks were firing out the butt, so I reversed that. Finally, I made tanks blow up in shards and made shields regenerate:
frater-pedurabo.itch.io/phosphor
Anthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro subscribers, after launching it for Max users, and says Pro users may hit their usage limits sooner (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-open
Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
ASSISTANT: That looks sick too. Could that virus still be active?
REEVE: You got your broad spectrum shots, didn't you?
ASSISTANT: Yes sir.
REEVE: And what about you, Madam Brainwasher?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/11 B7B4
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: Oh, I can see the sea.
DAYNA: That is our base.
AVON: You live underneath it?
DAYNA: In it.
AVON: In it? Listen, I'm not very keen on water sports even at the best of times.
DAYNA: Don't worry.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/131
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14,000-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic staffer confirms its authenticity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/…
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: So what is it?
VILA: Eh? Oh, it's just a simple forcefield.
KERRIL: I was right about you, another Sherm, all mouth. This is a solid block, little man.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/263 B7B5
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: So. Those little monsters give us a breather.
TARRANT: Not that it'll do us much good without bracelets to get us up to the Liberator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/535 B7B4
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
SERVALAN: Commander, I'm not interested in your excuses. You will surrender your ship and place yourself under close arrest.
COMMANDER: But, Supreme Commander, I must protest.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/184 B7B5
METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)
https://x.com/metr_evals/status/2002203627377574113
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
FEN: You're a sad man, Travis. Life must have reverence.
TRAVIS: Now. I want the other one.
FEN: No.
TRAVIS: Get the other one.
FEN: You know better than this.
TRAVIS: Do I?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/5 B7B3
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
SERVALAN: [Turns on viewscreen] Travis?
TRAVIS: [From viewscreen] Yes, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/474 B7B2
Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropics-claude-opus-4-5…
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
ORAC: We will be lovers for a little while, or maybe for a long while, who knows?
SOOLIN: I do. [Pulls key]
VILA: What a thought.
SOOLIN: Keller was right again.
AVON: Vila, try and bring Tarrant back up.
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
VILA: Nervous? I'm not nervous. Just... poised for action, that's all.
AVON: You've got an army of five, Blake. Five and HIM! Do you still think you can take over the ship?
BLAKE: If you do your bit.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/229<…
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: Sorry, Vila, it's all my fault.
VILA: No, you were right. Bayban would never have let me out without finishing the job.
KERRIL: How long do you think the air will last?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/402 B7B2
Anthropic launches a Slack integration for Claude Code, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack, launching in beta as a research preview (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/08/agentic-coding-comes-slack-…
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
KATE: Stop it, Pella! [Kate rushes at Pella, who shoots her dead. Pella enters the launch silo and the door closes before the others can rush in. Avon takes the crystal from Kate's neckband.]
[Inside silo. The Scorpio's turntable begins to turn and rise.]
A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-chases-openai-ai-heath-claude-2026-1
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…
Anthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/AI-resistant-technical-evaluations
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Zen, put up the radiation flare shields.
ZEN: Confirmed. Radiation flare shields in position. Neutron blasters cleared for firing. [Cally appears]
https://blake.torpidity.n…
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: She'll have had some help, of course, but not from the High Council of Vandor itself, or not deliberately.
AVON: There's an arms manufacturing cartel that looks highly promising as a candidate for co-conspirator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/596
Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ALIEN: I told you, I don't kill superfluously. When I was alive before, I was accustomed to being served by intelligent menials. I'm prepared to offer you all a choice. You can live as my-
TARRANT: Intelligent menials?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/308