Anthropic

Shopify’s AI assistant Sidekick uses Claude to help change the way store owners do business. Combining Claude’s advanced reasoning and Shopify’s commerce context, Sidekick gives millions of merchants access to everything from help with SEO optimization and getting their first sale, to expert-level business analytics for enterprise companies. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gKymv9nd

AI agents have moved from experimental to an essential part of an organization’s tech stack. But how are enterprises actually using them? We partnered with research firm Material to survey over 500 technical leaders across industries and company sizes to find out. Here are the highlights: Where organizations are today: More than half (57%) now deploy agents for multi-stage workflows, with 16% running cross-functional processes that span multiple teams. Nearly 9 in 10 use AI to assist with coding, and 86% have moved agents into production code. Where they're headed: 81% plan to tackle more complex use cases in 2026. The highest-impact applications beyond coding include data analysis and report generation (60%) and internal process automation (48%). What's working: 80% of companies report AI agents are already delivering economic returns. In 2026, organizations expect efficiency gains to compound as they expand deployments and build institutional expertise. What's hard: Integration with existing systems (46%), data quality (42%), and change management (39%) are primary barriers. Organizations that address both the technical and human dimensions of implementation simultaneously see faster time-to-value. Perhaps most telling: 9 in 10 leaders say agents are freeing up employee time previously spent on routine execution and shifting it toward toward strategic work, relationship building, and skill development. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gpfGu2D9

One year ago, we launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. Since then, MCP has become a foundational protocol for agentic AI, with 10,000+ active servers, client support across most leading AI platforms, and 97M+ monthly SDK downloads. Today, we’re taking a major step to ensure MCP’s long-term future as an open, community-driven and vendor-neutral standard. Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation, where it will be a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)—a new directed fund established by Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg to advance open-source innovation in agentic AI. We're continuing to invest in MCP's growth alongside the open source community. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/g6N3hUmd

We're expanding our partnership with Accenture to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production at scale. We're forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group with approximately 30,000 professionals trained on Claude, creating one of the largest ecosystems of Claude practitioners in the world. The partnership also includes a new joint offering for CIOs to help enterprises shorten software development cycles and bring new products to market sooner. This announcement comes as Anthropic's enterprise market share has grown from 24% to 40%, and Claude Code now holds over half (54%) of the AI coding market, according to Menlo Ventures. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gqrxrKt5

Claude for Nonprofits is helping mission-driven organizations accelerate impact across the globe. Organizations like Innovations for Poverty Action, Per Scholas, and Mercy Corps are using Claude to amplify their impact by streamlining operations, accelerating decision-making, and freeing up staff to focus on mission-critical work. Learn how your organization can do the same: https://lnkd.in/gPuGkfNM

We’re launching Anthropic Interviewer, a new tool to help us understand people’s perspectives on AI. It’s now available at claude.ai/interviewer for a week-long pilot. Give Anthropic Interviewer a research goal, and it drafts research questions, conducts interviews, and analyzes responses in collaboration with a human researcher. We tested it by asking 1,250 professionals about their views on work and AI. Full results here: https://lnkd.in/g7nmv8Wk Anthropic Interviewer will allow us to conduct more research, more often, on a variety of topics. We plan to use it for regular studies on the evolving relationship between humans and AI.

We're expanding our partnership with Snowflake in a multi-year, $200 million agreement. Claude is now available to more than 12,600 Snowflake customers across all three major clouds. This partnership helps businesses use Claude to quickly and easily get accurate answers from their trusted enterprise data, while maintaining rigorous security standards. Snowflake also uses Claude Code and a Claude-powered AI Assistant across its own organization. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gswDEEuS

We're partnering with Dartmouth College and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring Claude for Education to the entire university community—making Dartmouth the first Ivy League to adopt Claude at institutional scale. Dartmouth was where the term “artificial intelligence” was introduced to the world in 1956. Now they’re preparing their students to think with AI, not defer to it. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gBiKC8TT

How is AI changing work inside Anthropic? And what might this tell us about the effects on the wider labor force to come? We surveyed 132 of our engineers, conducted 53 in-depth interviews, and analyzed 200K internal Claude Code sessions to find out. Engineers say they’re experiencing significant productivity gains and are tackling work outside their usual expertise. Many feel like their job has changed to one where they “manage” a group of AI agents. There were mixed feelings about the changes AI has brought to how they work. Some are energized that they can "do significantly more." Others worry about their skills becoming less sharp, and miss the hands-on nature of writing their own code.  Workplace dynamics are changing too. Some engineers have found that as Claude becomes their first stop for questions, they turn to colleagues less: “I like working with people and it is sad that I ‘need’ them less now.” We're watching how these dynamics continue to evolve as AI usage grows. Building on this work, we’re expanding our research to wider groups of Anthropic staff, and discussing as a company ways to address the opportunities and challenges raised. We’re sharing these results because they might preview wider changes in how we work, and because as workplaces become more AI-augmented, they will need to be intentional about learning, mentorship, and skill development. Read the full research here: https://lnkd.in/gcvieVcc

Anthropic is acquiring Bun to further accelerate Claude Code’s incredible growth. Bun has dramatically improved the JavaScript and TypeScript developer experience by optimizing for reliability, speed—and delight. That means faster performance, improved stability, and new capabilities for Claude Code users. Since becoming generally available in May 2025, Claude Code has grown from its origins as an internal engineering experiment into a critical tool for many of the world’s leading enterprises. It's just reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue, and Bun has helped it scale up throughout all that momentum. We're delighted that Bun is joining us to make Claude Code even better. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e4YkcGqe