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Claude
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant line, now with general availability of its Chrome extension, a partnership with Salesforce, and use in Samsung's chip design, while Anthropic reports over $65 billion in annualized revenue.
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Anthropic has been expanding Claude's reach across consumer and enterprise channels. In late August 2026, the Claude in Chrome extension moved from beta to general availability for paid users, allowing the assistant to operate autonomously in the browser, fill forms, and click links on sites without native integrations. The company added safety layers, including probes and a classifier that it says cut prompt injection success to 0% in the model 5. Around the same time, Anthropic logged out users affected by infostealer malware that hijacked Claude sessions, refunded unauthorized charges, and removed payment methods from affected accounts.
On the enterprise side, Anthropic and Salesforce announced Claudeforce, a partnership combining Claude with Salesforce data and workflows. The first offering, Salesforce in Claude, is a plugin with 37 sales skills, while Claude inside Salesforce runs within Salesforce's trust boundary. Samsung's LSI division reported that Claude Code cut a chip design task from over a month to two days, though the AI also made errors. Anthropic's annualized revenue surpassed $65 billion as of July, with growth driven by coding agents and cloud distribution.
Separately, Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot died in a plane crash on June 19, 2026, at age 69. He co-founded Ubisoft in 1986 and served as chairman of Guillemot Corporation.
Key facts
- Claude in Chrome general availability
- Anthropic made the Claude in Chrome extension generally available to paid Claude plan users on August 26, 2026. ↗
- Prompt injection success rate
- Anthropic says safety measures reduced prompt injection success to 0% in the model 5. ↗
- Claudeforce launch
- Anthropic and Salesforce launched Claudeforce, with Salesforce in Claude as the first offering, a plugin with 37 sales skills. ↗
- Infostealer malware response
- Anthropic forcibly logged out affected users, removed payment methods, and refunded unauthorized charges after infostealer malware hijacked Claude sessions. ↗
- Samsung LSI use case
- Samsung's LSI division used Claude Code to complete a chip design task expected to take over a month in two days, but the AI made errors including ignoring fix instructions. ↗
- Annualized revenue
- Anthropic's annualized revenue surpassed $65 billion as of July 2026. ↗
- Claude Science launch
- Anthropic released a beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench with over 60 pre-configured skills for fields like genomics and structural biology. ↗
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6d ago
Anthropic and Salesforce announced Claudeforce, a partnership that combines Claude's reasoning with Salesforce data and workflows. The first offering, Salesforce in Claude, is a plugin with 37 sales skills covering deal preparation, deal health review, and pipeline review. Actions run through Salesforce so business rules apply. A second offering, Claude inside Salesforce, runs Claude within Salesforce's trust boundary. Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said the AI is the interface.
Aug 31
Anthropic confirmed infostealer malware hijacking Claude login sessions to drain usage. The company forcibly logged out affected users, removed their payment methods, and refunded unauthorized charges. The malware copies browser cookies and credentials, so two-factor authentication does not stop it. One Reddit user reported infection from pirated games.
Aug 28
Anthropic announced on August 26, 2026, that its official Chrome extension, Claude in Chrome, is now generally available to paid Claude plan users. Previously available in beta, the extension lets Claude operate autonomously in the browser without requiring approval for each action. Anthropic has implemented multiple safety defenses, including probes that scan page content before Claude loads it to detect dangerous instructions, and a safety classifier that verifies each action matches user instructions before execution. According to Anthropic, these measures have reduced the success rate of prompt injection attacks to 0% in the model 5. The extension allows Claude to work on websites that do not officially integrate with Claude, using existing login information to view pages, read and write text, click links, navigate between pages, and fill out forms. Claude in Chrome can be installed from the Chrome Web Store. At the time of writing, its store rating was 2.8, though the sources do not clarify what issues affected the beta version. The extension addresses the gap between tools that integrate with Claude and those that do not, such as internal dashboards, legacy systems, and vendor portals.
Aug 19
Samsung's LSI division introduced Claude Code for semiconductor development and reported that a design task expected to take over a month was completed in two days. The AI also made errors, including ignoring fix instructions and reverting unrelated work, raising concerns about managing AI agents in complex hardware design.
Aug 18
Anthropic's annualized revenue has surpassed $65 billion, about seven times the figure at the end of 2025. Preliminary second-quarter sales exceeded $11.5 billion, more than 14 times the year-ago period. Growth is driven by the coding agent Claude Code and enterprise adoption through major clouds. The company is expanding computing infrastructure to meet demand.
Jul 1
Anthropic released a beta version of Claude Science, an AI workbench that integrates literature research, analysis, chart and manuscript creation, and computing resource management into a single environment. It comes with over 60 pre-configured skills for fields like genomics and structural biology, supports HPC and cloud computing, and includes a review agent for detecting errors.
Jun 20
Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of Guillemot Corporation, died in a plane crash on June 19, 2026, at age 69. The accident occurred around 18:00 local time when a twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed into a field near La Baule airport in the Loire-Atlantique department of Brittany, France. Both occupants on board were killed; the other is believed to be instructor Marc Guillé. Guillemot was piloting the aircraft en route to participate in an air show scheduled for the following day. He co-founded Ubisoft in 1986 with his four brothers-Christian, Gérard, Michel, and Yves-and helped build it into a global game publisher known for the Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six series. Guillemot Corporation, where he served as chairman, manufactures gaming peripherals under the Thrustmaster brand. Ubisoft has confirmed his death but has not released a comment. The news arrives ahead of the July 9 release of Assassin's Creed Black Flag RE: Synchro, a remake of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.