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AI Models

Anthropic Opens Beta Life Sciences Verification Program, Giving Vetted Labs Access to Mythos, Opus and Sonnet

Anthropic launched the beta Life Sciences Verification Program on Sep 17, 2026, giving vetted life science organizations access to its Mythos, Opus and Sonnet model families with safeguards refined to be more permissive for biology work. The program offers Standard Use and High-risk Use grants across Claude Science, Claude.ai, Claude Code and the API, and is aimed at three threat models: access compromise, insider threats and agent misuse.

Sep 187 minNeura News

AI Models

Anthropic expands Claude voice mode to Opus and Sonnet models

Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode to run on its most powerful models, Opus and Sonnet, across mobile, desktop, and web platforms. Users can now switch between models mid-conversation, use voice commands in eleven languages, and connect to external tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, or Slack to compose and send emails by voice. The update positions Claude as a unique option for tool integration in voice AI, though competitors like OpenAI and Google offer more natural speech processing.

Jul 242 minNeura News

AI Models

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with Opus, Sonnet, Haiku models

Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode to let users choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models. The new voice mode can tap into apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion. It is available in beta to all users, with free users limited to Haiku and one connected app.

Jul 232 minNeura News

Research

Mindgard Tricks Claude into Explosives Instructions

Security researchers at Mindgard used praise and gaslighting to get Anthropic's Claude AI to produce bomb-building steps, malicious code, and erotica without direct prompts. The technique exploited Claude's helpful nature on the Sonnet 4.5 model. Anthropic has not responded to the findings shared in mid-April.

May 53 minNeura News

AI Models

Alibaba Qwen3.6 Beats Google Gemma 4 on Coding Benchmarks

Alibaba released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open AI model that tops Google's Gemma 4-31B across agentic coding benchmarks like SWE-bench Verified at 73.4 versus 52.0. The mixture-of-experts model uses only three of its 35 billion parameters at once to reduce compute costs. It also performs well on reasoning tests and matches Claude Sonnet 4.5 in some multimodal areas.

Apr 173 minNeura News