Anthropic 2026 research series
A source-backed field guide to Anthropic's latest Claude models, agent products, developer platform, research, safety, and company strategy.
Haiku 5.5: Small Models Make Delegation a Partitioning Problem
An assessment of Haiku 5.5's adaptive effort and pricing breakpoint, with experiments for deciding which work belongs in a small-model subagent.
Claude 5.5: Efficiency Gains Need a System-Level Evaluation
A research assessment of Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5: workload economics, safeguard fallbacks, benchmark comparability, and a migration experiment.
Anthropic in 2026: A Full-Stack Map as of August 7
An August 2026 research snapshot of Anthropic's models, agents, platform, safety and compute, with an October review of the execution-contract implications.
Anthropic's August 4–7 Safety Releases: Controls Move Into the Runtime
A source-backed field report on Fable 5's biology safeguard update, enterprise inference hooks, skill and plugin scanning, Claude Code security, and Anthropic's global policy expansion.
Claude 5 Field Guide as of August 4: Fable, Mythos, Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku
A dated August 4 guide to Claude capability, pricing, effort and safeguards, with current contract requirements for model routes and deployment evidence.
From Claude Code to Cowork and Claude Tag: Anthropic's Agent Product Stack
How Claude evolved from chat to coding, cross-app work, and a persistent team agent—and what identity, memory, permissions, and oversight each surface requires.
Inside Anthropic's 2026 Claude Platform: Managed Agents, Tools, Memory, and MCP
A builder's map of the Messages API, Agent SDK, Managed Agents, programmatic tools, MCP, Skills, memory, task budgets, and enterprise controls.
Anthropic's 2026 Safety Stack: Alignment, Safeguards, Containment, and Disclosure
A critical map of Anthropic's latest safety work across constitutional training, capability evaluations, classifiers, model routing, containment, trusted access, and incident disclosure.
Anthropic Research Through August 4: Model Minds, Scientific Agents, Robotics, and the Economy
A source-backed review of Anthropic's newest work in interpretability, alignment, cryptanalysis, biology, robotics, autonomous systems, values, and economic measurement.
Anthropic's 2026 Business Strategy: Compute, Enterprise Distribution, and Governance
How Anthropic is financing multi-cloud compute, distributing Claude through enterprises and partners, and using safety governance as both mission and market position.