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Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports | TechCrunch

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer. Sources close to the deal confirmed to TechCrunch that it closed, though declined to comment on the amount. The deal comes as Anthropic continues its push into healthcare and life sciences, following its October announcement of Claude for Life Sciences, a tool that aims to help scientific researchers make discoveries. Coefficient Bio’s founders, Samuel Stanton and Nathan C. Frey, launched the startup eight months ago, having both worked in computational drug discovery at Genentech’s Prescient Design. Coefficient Bio was using AI to help make drug discovery and other forms of biological research more efficient. The team, consisting of around 10 people, is expected to join Anthropic’s health and life science team. Get 50% off a second passThe Disrupt experience is meant to be shared. Get your pass and bring a colleague, partner, or peer

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Apr 17, 2026·EngadgetT2 · Outlet report
Anthropic now has a design assistant too - Engadget

Canva AI and Firefly AI Assistant, meet Claude Design. In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust…

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Apr 17, 2026·EngadgetT2 · Outlet reportLATEST
Anthropic now has a design assistant too - Engadget

Canva AI and Firefly AI Assistant, meet Claude Design. In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin…

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Apr 17, 2026·CNNT2 · Outlet report
CEO of blacklisted Anthropic and White House hold ‘productive’ discussions on AI | CNN Business

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited the White House on Friday for a high-stakes meeting with the president’s top adviser, while his AI company battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its Claude AI…

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Apr 16, 2026·TechCrunchT2 · Outlet report
OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop | TechCrunch

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. There is…

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Apr 16, 2026·MashableT2 · Outlet reportKEY MOMENT
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7: How to try it, benchmarks, safety

Anthropic has been shipping products and making news at a blistering pace in 2026, and on Thursday, the AI company announced the launch of Claude Opus 4.7. Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most intelligent model available…

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Apr 16, 2026·GizmodoT2 · Outlet report
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 to Remind Everyone How Great Mythos Is

Anthropic announced Thursday the release of its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company is calling a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6 but “less broadly capable” than the to-dangerous-to-be-released Opus…

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Apr 16, 2026·The Next WebT2 · Outlet report
Claude Opus 4.7 leads on SWE-bench and agentic reasoning, beating GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro

This article was published on April 16, 2026 In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%),…

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Apr 16, 2026·EngadgetT2 · Outlet reportKEY MOMENT
Anthropic will ask Claude users to verify their identities 'for a few use cases' - Engadget

The company will use Persona for verification. Anthropic has started rolling out identity verification on Claude "for a few use cases." The company didn't list out those use cases in its announcement, but we've asked it…

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Apr 16, 2026·CNETT2 · Outlet report
Apple Reportedly Plans to Send Siri Engineers to AI Coding Bootcamp - CNET

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Apr 15, 2026·CNETT2 · Outlet report
Adobe Is Working With Anthropic to Bring a Creative AI Agent to Claude - CNET

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Apr 14, 2026·The VergeT2 · Outlet report
Claude Code redesign focuses on managing multiple AI agents.

Anthropic says the changes to the desktop app make it easier to work on multiple tasks at once, with a new sidebar for managing sessions, a drag-and-drop layout for customizing the app’s workspace, and a built-in…

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Apr 9, 2026·Ars TechnicaT2 · Outlet reportKEY MOMENT
Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

Appeals court denies Anthropic’s emergency motion for a stay. A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company’s emergency motion for a…

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Apr 7, 2026·The Next WebT2 · Outlet report
Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as run rate hits $30bn | TNW

This article was published on April 7, 2026 In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure…

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Apr 4, 2026·MashableT2 · Outlet report
Anthropic makes the case for anthropomorphizing AI chatbots

It's an oft-repeated taboo in the tech world: Don't anthropomorphize artificial intelligence. Yet in a new research paper published this week, Anthropic AI experts argue that there may be major benefits to breaking this…

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Apr 3, 2026·TechCrunchT2 · Outlet reportOPENING
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports | TechCrunch

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Anthropic has…

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T2 · Outlet reportEngadgetApr 17, 2026

Canva AI and Firefly AI Assistant, meet Claude Design. In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust…

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T2 · Outlet reportCNNApr 17, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited the White House on Friday for a high-stakes meeting with the president’s top adviser, while his AI company battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its Claude AI model. Amodei met with…

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T2 · Outlet reportTechCrunchApr 16, 2026

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. There is currently a low-grade war…

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T2 · Outlet reportMashableApr 16, 2026

Anthropic has been shipping products and making news at a blistering pace in 2026, and on Thursday, the AI company announced the launch of Claude Opus 4.7. Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most intelligent model available to the general…

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T2 · Outlet reportGizmodoApr 16, 2026

Anthropic announced Thursday the release of its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company is calling a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6 but “less broadly capable” than the to-dangerous-to-be-released Opus Mythos Preview.…

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T2 · Outlet reportThe Next WebApr 16, 2026

This article was published on April 16, 2026 In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination…

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