· Anthropic
Barclays rolls Claude out to 16,000 colleagues and its engineers
Why it matters: A regulated UK bank now uses Claude to sort 120,000 emails a day and answer staff questions.
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· Anthropic
Why it matters: A regulated UK bank now uses Claude to sort 120,000 emails a day and answer staff questions.
Read the source (opens in a new tab)Why it matters: Only cyber security partners can use it for now. Introductory API pricing is $2 in, $10 out per million tokens.
Read the source (opens in a new tab)· OpenAI
Why it matters: In the UK only Business Premium and Enterprise plans get it, and Enterprise admins must switch it on.
Read the source (opens in a new tab)· OpenAI
Why it matters: Near-flagship results for far less. Worth re-pricing anything you costed on the top model.
Read the source (opens in a new tab)· AI Security Institute
Why it matters: If AI agents can act on your systems, sandboxing and monitoring matter as much as the model.
Read the source (opens in a new tab)· Anthropic
Why it matters: Same token price as Sonnet 5, over 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper per task.
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