US judge approved $1.5B settlement with authors over pirated books used to train Claude

Traders bet Claude Opus 4.8 launch imminent within days based on options market activity

Max plan users report 3-4x faster limit exhaustion on Claude Code, with a single continue message consuming ~3% of the 5-hour limit

Launched the Claude Certified Associate — Foundations (CCAO-F) certification program

Anthropic ARR hit $69B.

Published J-space paper demonstrating causal reasoning control and model detection of interventions

AMD provides $3.6M MI355X cluster access to vLLM and SGLang maintainers

Launched PCIe-based GPU for AI workloads targeting existing servers

AMD joins as a founding member of the UALink Consortium to challenge NVIDIA's NVLink dominance.

AMD's AI Group published a detailed GitHub analysis of Claude Code's behavior, analyzing 17,871 thinking blocks and 234,760 tool calls.