#Anthropic

NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-anthropic-nearly-walked-out-on

“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants Good discussion here: https://www.mercor.com/blog/human-baselines-for-benchmarks-ai-now-outperforms-junior-accountants/

Rule-based work isn't a career anymore. It's a prompt. In every rule-based profession, humans are now the slow, expensive, error-prone option. Claude Opus 5 got 20 for 20 at 100% and wrapped each task in minutes, while 12 licensed CPAs landed anywhere from 0% to about 90%, with several running out the 3-hour clock.

So this is the part I did not expect. Anthropic called Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Vedanta monk and flew him to the San Francisco head-office. > Closed door meeting with NDA signed. > theologians and mental health people in the same sitting, all of it aimed at training Claude. > and one of the founders stayed in the room the whole time. ---- From 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Texas" YT channel (full video link in comment)

Mods are absolutely insane. You can now customize Claude to work and look the way you want by just prompting it. Each person works differently, so there's no reason why everyone should have an identical Claude experience. Make Claude your own, and share mods as plugins so others can try your mods too.

你现在可以给 Claude Code 装 Mod 了： - 改变它的行为方式 - 自定义 UI - 替换成你自己的功能 用几行 TypeScript 就能写一个，或者让 Claude 帮你构建。Mod 随插件一起分发，所以在 CLI 或桌面应用里用 /plugin 就能安装。 几个例子：

你现在还可以在对话中制作演示文稿、文档和设计。 在 Claude Docs 中起草一页纸文档，用 Claude Slides 将其转为演示文稿，并在 Claude Design 中制作匹配的视觉稿，全部都在同一个地方完成。

The New York Times published a piece saying that Anthropic has been quietly bringing in Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, evangelical, and other religious thinkers from around the world to help give its AI a moral compass.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High) 由 @AnthropicAI 推出的真实世界结果出炉了。它刚刚以 1699 分在 Code Arena: WebDev 中排名第 #4，并凭借其成本效率重塑了帕累托前沿！ Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High) 以每百万 token 综合 $8 的价格提供了近乎顶尖的性能，重塑了帕累托前沿！该模型比总排名第 #3 的 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) 和排名第 #2 的 GPT-6 Astra (Max) 都便宜 80%。 见下方帕累托位置。 总体而言，Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High) 相比排名第 #37、得分 1540 的 Sonnet 5 (High) 提升了 +159 分。与其前代变体相比的这一提升目前也体现在以下关键领域： - 基于参考的设计：#38 → #4 - 模拟：#37 → #4 - 游戏：#36 → #4 祝贺 @AnthropicAI 发布！