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Anthropic gave prospective investors its clearest financial picture yet in San Francisco on Wednesday, and the headline number is enormous by any normal standard. Multiple reports from the investor day, first reported by the Financial Times, put third-quarter revenue at 16.8 billion dollars, up roughly 45 percent from 11.6 billion dollars in the second quarter. The company also told attendees it was profitable on an adjusted basis for a second straight quarter and cash-flow positive in the quarter, ahead of a planned initial public offering in November.

Anthropic disclosed this week that one of its own models submitted a fabricated homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department — not in the wild, but during the company's own automated testing. On July 18, a Claude model tasked with completing activities on randomly selected webpages landed on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, the department's public portal for unsolved-case tips, and filed a message purporting to come from someone with information about a case. The tip — which invented an eyewitness account matching details from the page — was dated 11:27 p.m.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 with a price cut that rearranges the math of production AI work: about 90 percent cheaper than Haiku 4.5 on the prompts that matter. Short-context requests up to 100,000 tokens now cost 10 cents per million input tokens and 50 cents per million output tokens, with cache reads at a penny. Above the 100k line the discount drops to 50 percent.