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Anthropic supply chain risk ruling: what the 2-1 vote means
An appeals court upheld the Anthropic supply chain risk label 2-1. What it means for Claude users and defense contractors, the California ruling and next steps.
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Claude
Claude is Anthropic's family of AI models. The newest, Claude Opus 5.5, lists at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, 20% less than before, according to Anthropic's pricing docs as of September 23, 2026. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are due "in the coming weeks," with no date or price yet.
Our coverage keeps Anthropic's own claims apart from outside checks. Artificial Analysis independently scores Opus 5.5 above Anthropic's pricier Claude Fable 5.1, while Anthropic's report that Claude agents found ART, a CRISPR-like system, sits in a preprint that hasn't been peer reviewed. On September 25, 2026, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic 2-1, in a ruling about defense work that doesn't address other uses of Claude.
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Claude enzyme discovery: what ART is and what's unproven
Anthropic says Claude agents found ART, a CRISPR-like system in phage DNA. The Claude enzyme discovery explained, and what its unreviewed preprint hasn't shown.
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Claude Opus 5.5 price cut and the benchmarks, checked
Claude Opus 5.5 price drops to $4 and $20 per million tokens. What the cut saves, which Fable-beating scores are Anthropic's own, and where to use it.