Anthropic Update: Models, Policies, Lawsuits & Strategic Growth

Anthropic continues to make headlines with major developments across product, policy, and legal fronts. The company secured a massive $13 billion Series F round, elevating its valuation to $183 billion, reflecting explosive growth and confidence from investors. On the legal side, Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion copyright settlement, compensating authors for using pirated books in AI model training a landmark development in AI copyright law. Additionally, their AI model Claude has been misused by threat actors for extortion, ransomware, and employment fraud.

Claude 1M token API support

Claude Gets 1M Token Support via API to Take on Gemini 2.5 Pro

Ravi Jain
A significant enhancement to Claude Sonnet 4, an artificial intelligence model, which now boasts a 1 million token context window when accessed through its API, a five-fold increase that dramatically expands its capacity for processing information. This upgrade allows for handling vast amounts of data within a single session, making it highly competitive with models like Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro for tasks such as analyzing large codebases or hundreds of documents simultaneously. While currently exclusive to API users with tiered access, the article indicates future broader availability for general users and other platforms. The text also introduces Technijian, an IT services provider that offers expertise in helping businesses leverage such advanced AI capabilities, alongside a general overview of their managed IT, cloud, and cybersecurity services across Southern California. ... Read More