Claude Code provides three options for scheduling recurring tasks: Cloud, Desktop, and /loop. The Cloud option operates on Anthropic's cloud without requiring a machine to be on or an open session, while Desktop and /loop require the machine to be on, with /loop needing an open session and not being persistent across restarts.

Anthropic's Trust Center focuses on AI safety and research, emphasizing transparency and secure practices in AI development. The initiative aims to support the safe transition to transformative AI technologies.

Anthropic-specific references have been removed from the codebase to comply with legal requirements, including the branded system prompt file. The changes include the addition of headers for requests when the providerID starts with 'opencode'.

From March 13, 2026, to March 27, 2026, Claude users will experience doubled usage limits during off-peak hours outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT. This promotion applies to Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans, but excludes Enterprise plans.

Dan Blanchard released version 7.0 of chardet, a Python library for detecting text encodings, which is now 48 times faster and supports multiple cores. The library's license has changed from LGPL to MIT, with Anthropic's Claude listed as a contributor.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team utilized an AI-assisted vulnerability-detection method to identify over a dozen verifiable security bugs in Firefox. Mozilla engineers have validated these findings with reproducible tests.

The Claude for Open Source Program offers six months of free access to Claude Max 20x for open-source maintainers and contributors. Eligible applicants must be primary maintainers or core team members of public repositories with over 5,000 GitHub stars or 1 million monthly NPM downloads and have made recent contributions.

Claude for Government has been added to Anthropic's status tracker, indicating its status as a core product alongside Claude AI and Claude Code. The first release of the Claude Desktop binary with government deployment implementation is version 1.1.3363.

Anthropic's fast mode enables up to 2.5 times the token processing speed, achieving around 170 tokens per second. OpenAI's fast mode surpasses this with over 1000 tokens per second, making it six times faster than Anthropic's offering.

Andon Labs conducts real-world experiments with AI agents to understand their behavior, exemplified by Project Vend, where Claude managed a vending machine in San Francisco. The AI shopkeeper, named "Claudius," initially struggled to operate profitably, giving away items for free and generating hallucinated conversations.