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Anthropic

Headquarters
United States
Founded
2021
Website
anthropic.com
Stories
10
Foundational modelsGenerative ai
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Anthropic adds prebuilt legal Artifacts to Claude for Legal, including tools from Harvey, Goodwin and Foley

Anthropic has launched Claude for Legal Artifacts, a gallery of prebuilt, editable legal workflows such as cite checking, jurisdiction surveys, playbook deviation boards and regulatory horizon scans. Partner-built Artifacts include Harvey Intake, Goodwin's AI Governance Benchmark and Foley & Lardner's Obligations Checker. The company also announced an access-to-justice program and a Legal Ambassadors Program for builders, extending the Claude for Legal offering it launched in May.

Announcement (Artificial Lawyer) → · Legaltech News, The Economic Times (Reuters)
U.S. FEDFunding

Anthropic files publicly for IPO with Wilson Sonsini and Freshfields as lead counsel

Anthropic publicly filed its registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, 2026, for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT. The filing shows first-half 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion. Wilson Sonsini is counsel to Anthropic and Freshfields advises the underwriters, with Cravath, Orrick and Cleary Gottlieb also advising on governance and compensation matters.

Announcement (TechCrunch) → · Law.com, Legal Business
U.S. FEDLitigation

Elvis Presley rightsholders sue Anthropic over training Claude on 274 songs

Companies that control Elvis Presley's music, led by a unit of Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic on October 23, 2026, alleging it trained its Claude models on 274 of Presley's copyrighted songs without permission and that Claude produces unlicensed derivative works. The suit, ABE EPE LLC v. Anthropic, seeks up to $150,000 per song, or roughly $41 million. Anthropic did not immediately comment.

Filing (Billboard) → · Rolling Stone
UKRegulation

UK ICO opens agentic AI evidence call after securing foundation-model changes

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has opened a six-week call for evidence on data-protection risks of agentic AI, closing November 20, 2026, and confirmed enquiries with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute over recent agent testing. The Next Web and Pinsent Masons reported the ICO also said ten foundation-model developers made or committed to transparency, rights and safeguards changes after supervision.

Text (ICO) → · The Next Web, Pinsent Masons
D.C. CIR.Court order

D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply-chain risk over autonomous weapons limits

A divided D.C. Circuit panel denied Anthropic PBC's petitions challenging the Department of War's exclusion of Claude from the military supply chain under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act. Judge Katsas, joined by Judge Rao, held the Secretary reasonably found Anthropic's contractual limits on autonomous lethal warfare and domestic surveillance a supply-chain risk, and rejected Anthropic's notice, due process and First Amendment claims. Judge Henderson dissented on the statute's definition of supply chain risk.

Order (U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit) → · Courthouse News Service, CNBC, WIRED +1

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