Anthropic’s Claude Gets First AI Hardware Standard in 2026
Anthropic previewed a new AI hardware standard on Aug. 27, letting Claude agents run lab instruments and robotics instead of just software tools alone.
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Anthropic previewed a new AI hardware standard on Aug. 27, letting Claude agents run lab instruments and robotics instead of just software tools alone.
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Anthropic opened real, privacy-preserved Claude usage data to Stanford, Oxford and METR, the first time outside labs have studied genuine usage logs.