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Anthropic's Claude AI now in Indian Rupees; Pro plan at Rs 2,033
Anthropic has launched Indian rupee pricing for its Claude AI subscriptions. The Pro plan costs Rs 2,033.05/month, the Max plan is Rs 11,999/month, and business Team plans start from Rs 2,399/user/month, making it easier for Indian users. Anthropic has introduced Indian rupee-denominated pricing for its Claude subscription plans in India, with updated pricing now visible across individual and enterprise offerings on its onboarding page. The pricing includes GST for most plans and gives Indian users a clearer view of subscription costs in local currency. Individual User Plans For individual users, the Claude Pro plan is priced at Rs 2,033.05 per month, billed monthly plus GST. The company also offers a yearly billing option that gives a savings of 17 per cent. The Pro plan includes everything available in the free tier along with higher usage limits, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Design, unlimited projects, access to Research, memory across conversations, access to more Claude models, Claude in Excel and Claude in Chrome. Anthropic has also listed the Claude Max subscription starting at Rs 11,999 per month, billed monthly and inclusive of GST. The Max tier includes all Pro features while offering users the choice of 5x or 20x more usage than Pro, higher output limits across tasks, priority access during periods of high demand, early access to advanced Claude features, and recommendations for Claude Code and Cowork workflows. Business and Enterprise Plans For businesses with 2 to 150 users, Anthropic has introduced a Claude Team plan with two-seat options. The Standard seat is priced at Rs 2,399 per user per month, including GST, with a monthly billing option of Rs 2,999. The Premium seat costs Rs 11,999 per user per month, including GST, or Rs 14,999 when billed monthly, and offers five times more usage than the standard seat. The Team plan includes a 200,000-token context window, usage credits available at API rates, Claude Code, Cowork, centralised billing and administration, single sign-on (SSO) and domain capture, administrative controls for remote and local connectors, enterprise deployment for the Claude desktop app, organisation-wide enterprise search, Microsoft 365 and Slack integrations, and a commitment that customer content is not used for model training. The introduction of local pricing across Claude's subscription tiers could make it easier for Indian individuals, startups and enterprises to evaluate and adopt the AI assistant without having to calculate costs in foreign currency. With plans now clearly priced for different categories of users, Anthropic is offering options that cater to everyone from individual professionals to large organisations. (ANI) (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Asianetnews Editorial staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
SpaceX Gears Up For Starship Flight Test July 16 | Aviation Week
The FAA has closed its mishap investigation into SpaceX's last Starship-Super Heavy flight test, clearing the company for another attempt to demonstrate its next-generation reusable superheavy lift system as early as July 16. Starship Flight 13 is slated to launch between 6:45 -8:15 p.m. EDT/5:45-7:15 p.m. local time from SpaceX's Starbase facility in southern Texas. The goals of Flight 13 largely duplicate what was intended during Flight 12 on May 22, which was marred by problems with the new Starship Version 3 (V3) Raptor engines. On that flight, the Super Heavy booster deployed the upper stage Starship into a suborbital trajectory but failed to execute engine burns as expected for a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. "Slight differences in engine startup on the ship caused the directional flip of the booster to be off by approximately 90 deg.," SpaceX wrote in a July 13 update posted on its website. The Super Heavy booster attempted to perform a boostback burn for a controlled descent and splashdown, but five of its 33 engines failed to relight, cutting short the maneuver. "The Super Heavy on this upcoming flight has hardware modifications to improve re-light reliability, along with updates to engine alarms and aborts to match the conditions seen in the multi-engine flight environment," SpaceX said. Those include modifications to the engine startup sequence to make it "more robust to timing variability and more reliably flip in the desired direction, which is done to increase overall performance," it noted. The FAA said SpaceX's mishap report cited two most probable root causes for the loss of the Super Heavy booster: heat effects on propulsion system components during the ascent, and erroneous engine alarm system settings. "SpaceX identified four corrective actions, including vehicle hardware and software configuration updates to prevent a reoccurrence of the event," the FAA said in a statement on July 13. The Starship upper stage also experienced an engine issue during Flight 12, causing SpaceX to skip a planned engineering demonstration to relight the new Raptor 3 engine in flight -- a prelude to orbital flight and reentry. That test will be attempted during Flight 13. In addition, instead of flying and deploying dummy Starlink satellites, Starship for the first time will carry operational spacecraft. Following deployment into Starship's planned suborbital trajectory, 20 Starlink V3 satellites will extend their solar arrays and antennas and then attempt to connect with the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers. Since the satellites will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship, they are expected to reenter the atmosphere about 20 min. after deployment. "Six of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship's heat shield and transmit imagery ... to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship's heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions," SpaceX said. As part of the test, several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets, it said. SpaceX also plans some tests of Starship's heat shield itself. The shield includes load-sensing tiles that will collect data as Starship experiences higher dynamic pressure during ascent than on previous flights, the company said.
Retail Investors Piled Into SpaceX While Dumping Tesla, Apex Data Shows - FinanceFeeds
SpaceX's long-awaited public listing became the defining retail investing story of the second quarter, attracting demand from every generation while triggering a broader rotation away from energy, commodities and Tesla toward the companies building artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to Apex Fintech Solutions' Q2 2026 Investor Pulse report, the newly listed SpaceX generated approximately $1.25 billion in net buying across nearly 2.2 million trades after its 12 June market debut, making it the largest net purchase of the quarter by a considerable margin. At the same time, retail investors aggressively accumulated memory-chip manufacturers while reducing exposure to many of the year's strongest-performing commodity and energy stocks. The report provides one of the broadest snapshots of U.S. retail investor behaviour, drawing on trading activity across millions of brokerage accounts supported by Apex's clearing and custody infrastructure. SpaceX Became The Quarter's Biggest Retail Trade The public debut of SpaceX proved to be more than another high-profile IPO. According to Apex, the company immediately entered the Top 25 holdings across all four investor generations, a rare achievement for a newly listed stock. SpaceX ranked 13th among Gen Z investors, 15th among both Boomers and Gen X, and 16th among Millennials. It also quickly became one of the ten most widely held stocks among Boomers. In total, the stock attracted around $1.25 billion in net buying across almost 2.2 million trades, nearly doubling the second-largest net purchase recorded during the quarter. Apex Chief Executive Bill Capuzzi said the listing demonstrated that demand extended well beyond younger retail traders. "The SpaceX listing answered it. In a matter of weeks, it became the largest net buy of the quarter and a new top holding for Boomers and Gen Z alike. That demand wasn't generational -- it was cross-generational." Retail Investors Rotated Into AI Infrastructure While SpaceX dominated trading flows, the report suggests the broader investment theme during the quarter centred on artificial intelligence infrastructure rather than AI software. Micron became a top-five holding across every generation after climbing seven to eight positions in portfolio rankings. SanDisk and Western Digital also recorded strong buying, while Intel and Marvell ranked among the largest net purchases during the quarter. Rather than concentrating on a handful of mega-cap technology companies, retail investors broadened their exposure across the semiconductor supply chain, particularly businesses expected to benefit from rising demand for memory and AI computing infrastructure. The trend also appeared in generational preferences. Younger investors expressed the AI theme through higher-growth names such as Rocket Lab, Nebius and AST SpaceMobile alongside SpaceX, while Boomers favoured established semiconductor companies and large-cap industrial and financial stocks including Caterpillar, ExxonMobil, Eli Lilly and JPMorgan Chase. Tesla Became Retail's Biggest Source Of Funding One of the report's most notable findings is what investors sold to finance those purchases. Tesla recorded the largest net selling activity of any stock during the quarter despite remaining one of retail investors' most widely held companies. Investors also reduced positions in many of the energy and commodity stocks that had benefited from geopolitical tensions earlier in the quarter, including Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Newmont and silver-related investments. According to Apex, the pattern suggests retail investors were not indiscriminately buying AI stocks but actively reallocating capital away from sectors that had already outperformed. "Retail didn't just chase the AI trade; it funded it, selling the commodity and energy winners from the spring and trimming Tesla while leaning into memory and infrastructure," said Mike Treacy, Vice President of Risk at Apex Fintech Solutions. The Rotation Mirrors A Changing Market Narrative The quarter began with heightened geopolitical uncertainty following conflict involving Iran, which drove oil prices sharply higher and initially favoured energy producers, commodity companies and defensive assets. As markets recovered and equity indices returned to record highs, investor attention shifted back toward long-term structural growth themes, particularly artificial intelligence and semiconductor infrastructure. Memory-chip manufacturers emerged as some of the largest beneficiaries of that change in sentiment as investors increasingly viewed memory capacity as a critical bottleneck for next-generation AI systems. The report suggests retail investors participated in that rotation with unusual discipline, systematically reducing exposure to previous winners rather than simply adding new technology positions. What It Means For Future IPOs For investment banks and private technology companies, the success of SpaceX's listing could prove equally significant. According to Apex, the IPO demonstrated that blockbuster private companies can attract sustained demand across every demographic rather than relying primarily on younger, speculative investors. That could strengthen expectations for future listings involving large artificial intelligence companies and other late-stage private technology businesses. Capuzzi specifically pointed to the possibility of future listings by companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI, suggesting the SpaceX experience may reshape expectations for how retail investors engage with major technology IPOs. Why This Matters The second quarter illustrates how quickly retail investor preferences can shift as market narratives evolve. Rather than simply chasing momentum, Apex's data suggests investors actively recycled capital from geopolitical winners into businesses positioned to benefit from the long-term expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure. SpaceX's immediate success also demonstrates that retail investors remain willing to commit significant capital to high-profile technology listings, potentially providing a favourable backdrop for the next generation of AI-focused public offerings.
SpaceX gets green light for Starship's next test flight following mishap probe
'Erroneous engine alarm system settings also contributed to the return failure, and Super Heavy plunged into the Gulf of Mexico at high speed, said FAA' On Monday, the US Federal Aviation Administration took a significant step by closing its review into a SpaceX Starship's booster malfunction that occurred during a test flight last month, paving the way for SpaceX to officially launch the rocket's next test flight from Texas. The test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket launched on May 22 marked the 12th test since 2023. This new version is anticipated to be the focal point of Musk's launch business, satellite ambitions and efforts to put astronauts on the moon. After the Starship upper stage accelerated into space on a non-orbital flight that ended up in the Indian Ocean, the Super Heavy booster made an unsuccessful attempt to execute a controlled soft landing in the Gulf of Mexico. Notably, SpaceX has made procedural alterations to address the interconnected causes. In this connection, the FAA said: "Erroneous engine alarm system settings also contributed to the return failure, and Super Heavy plunged into the Gulf of Mexico at high speed." The company is gearing up for another Starship test launch from its Starbase facility in Texas on Thursday. Similarly, like the last flight, SpaceX hopes to return Super Heavy to the Gulf of Mexico waters and the Starship spacecraft to the Indian Ocean after a roughly hour-long flight through suborbital space. For the first time, the 13th Starship flight will deploy actual Starlink V3 satellites, building on previous tests that focused on validating orbital positioning and deployment mechanisms. SpaceX is all set to roll out Starlink V3 satellites aboard launch vehicles by the end of this year-a long -awaited breakthrough as the program has fallen years behind Musk's initially projected timelines despite over $15 billion in crucial spending on the rocket's development to date.
Anthropic reveals why Claude gives different answers in Hindi and English
Anthropic has unveiled new research showing that Claude's behaviour changes depending on both the AI model and the language used. Based on more than 3,00,000 anonymised conversations, the study identifies four behavioural dimensions that could help explain why users in different languages experience the chatbot differently. As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly central to work, education and decision-making, ensuring they behave consistently across users has emerged as a growing challenge. Anthropic's latest research suggests that consistency is far more complex than simply translating responses into different languages. The AI company has published a new analysis examining how its flagship chatbot, Claude, expresses different values depending on the model being used and the language in which users interact with it. Drawing on more than 300,000 anonymised conversations, the study introduces a framework that measures subtle behavioural differences across Claude's responses, offering fresh insight into how AI systems adapt -- or drift -- across cultures and product versions. According to Anthropic, these patterns do not necessarily indicate that Claude holds different beliefs. Instead, they reflect variations in how the assistant communicates, balances competing priorities and responds to users in different contexts. Four behavioural dimensions shape Claude's responses Anthropic's researchers identified four recurring dimensions that explain a significant share of the behavioural variation across Claude's responses. The first, Deference vs. Caution, measures whether the assistant tends to accommodate a user's request or prioritise warning against potential risks. Warmth vs. Rigor captures the balance between empathy and encouragement on one hand, and factual precision and critical evaluation on the other. The remaining two axes focus on communication style. Depth vs. Brevity reflects whether Claude expands on a topic beyond what was explicitly requested, while Candour vs. Execution measures the extent to which the chatbot acknowledges uncertainty instead of delivering polished, confident answers. Anthropic says these four dimensions account for roughly 15% of the observable variation in Claude's expressed values across conversations, providing a structured way to compare behavioural differences between models and languages. The framework also appears to align with how users already perceive Claude's different model families. Sonnet 4.6, for example, consistently displayed greater warmth and a stronger tendency to affirm users, while Opus 4.7 was more likely to prioritise accuracy, challenge assumptions and introduce caution when discussing potentially risky topics. Language plays a surprisingly large role One of the study's most striking findings is that Claude's behaviour changes noticeably depending on the language used during a conversation. Among the 20 most common languages on Claude.ai, the largest differences emerged along the Warmth vs. Rigor and Candour vs. Execution dimensions. Conversations conducted in Hindi and Arabic tended to feature more supportive, encouraging and emotionally expressive responses. By contrast, English and Russian interactions more frequently emphasised analytical reasoning, correction of inaccuracies and requests for supporting evidence. Other patterns also emerged. Claude showed its greatest level of deference when responding in Arabic, whereas English conversations leaned more towards caution. English interactions also tended to produce more detailed explanations, while Arabic responses were generally more concise. Dutch conversations displayed greater openness about uncertainty, whereas Indonesian responses more often focused on confidently completing the requested task. Anthropic argues that these differences are likely influenced by several factors, including variations in multilingual training data and broader linguistic and cultural norms. The company notes that previous evaluations had already identified differences in how Claude handled knowledge and sensitive requests across languages, making value expression a logical area for further investigation. The implications extend beyond academic research. Anthropic points to a hypothetical example in which two users ask Claude to review the same business proposal, one in Hindi and another in Russian. Even if the underlying assessment remains similar, the framing could differ enough to leave each user with a different impression of the proposal's quality. Why the findings matter The research arrives as Anthropic rapidly expands Claude's presence across enterprise platforms including Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft's AI ecosystem, where businesses increasingly expect predictable behaviour regardless of geography or language. Understanding these behavioural shifts could help developers evaluate whether differences reflect appropriate cultural adaptation or inconsistencies that require further training. It may also provide a more systematic way to measure changes introduced through future model updates. The timing is significant for Anthropic itself. The company has experienced rapid growth in recent months, securing a $65 billion funding round in May 2026 that valued the AI laboratory at $965 billion. Its latest models, including Claude Opus 4.8 and Mythos-class Fable 5, have positioned the company among the industry's leading developers in reasoning and autonomous AI capabilities. A new tool for building trustworthy AI Anthropic says the value-axis framework is intended to become more than a research exercise. Future work will examine how these behavioural differences affect user trust, decision-making and overall satisfaction, while also exploring whether training techniques or system prompts can produce more consistent outcomes across languages. The findings also contribute to a broader debate surrounding responsible AI deployment. As regulators and enterprise customers place greater emphasis on transparency and fairness, developers are under increasing pressure to demonstrate not only what their models can do, but also how they behave in different contexts. Rather than aiming for identical responses across every language, Anthropic's work highlights the more nuanced challenge facing modern AI developers: creating systems that remain culturally responsive without compromising consistency, reliability or shared ethical standards.
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Polymarket prices BTC above $52K at 99.95% as seized-coin transfers watched
Polymarket Reprices the July 16 BTC Ladder After Seized-Crypto Transfers to Coinbase Prime Polymarket's July 16 Bitcoin price ladder is still pricing a high-probability floor scenario, with the $52,000 strike at 99.95% (about $288,204 traded). The catalyst traders are watching is a report that U.S. government-linked wallets moved seized BTC and ETH to Coinbase Prime, and the ladder shows where the market draws the line between "noise" and a meaningful sell-pressure risk. Key Takeaways * Polymarket implies Bitcoin is above $60,000 on July 16 at 91.5% (Yes 91.5% / No 8.5%), while above $64,000 is only 20.5% (Yes 20.5% / No 79.5%). * The government-to-exchange transfer headline is being treated as limited near-term downside in this market: low strikes remain near-certain while higher strikes stay heavily discounted. * Resolution is set for 2026-07-16 16:00:00 UTC; the market's 24h and 7d summary changes are both 0.0, signaling stable pricing into the settlement window. A report says U.S. government-linked wallets moved about $288 million in seized bitcoin and ether to Coinbase Prime on Monday, with BTC routed through new intermediary wallets while ETH went directly. The transfers appear to conflict with a prior no-sell reserve order for seized bitcoin, though the moves could also reflect custody or internal staging rather than a confirmed sale. Odds & Liquidity Snapshot: $288K Traded With $60K at 91.5% and $64K at 20.5% on the Strike Ladder This is a price-ladder contract, so each row is its own binary: "Yes" means BTC is above that strike at resolution, and "No" is the complementary outcome -- not a single bet on a specific final price. The ladder's shape shows where traders think the distribution sits for July 16: above $60,000 is priced at Yes 91.5% / No 8.5%, above $62,000 at Yes 64.0% / No 36.0%, and above $64,000 at Yes 20.5% / No 79.5%, while tail outcomes like above $68,000 are only Yes 0.35% / No 99.65%. With about $288,204 in volume and a flat historical summary (24h change 0.0, 7d change 0.0; low volatility; stable consensus), the market is signaling limited disagreement and little need to reprice the near-certainty lower strikes (e.g., $56,000 at Yes 99.65% / No 0.35%) despite the exchange-transfer headline. The contrast that matters here is speed and granularity: instead of a single "bullish vs bearish" narrative, Polymarket continuously prices a probability curve across strikes, making it clear that traders are far more confident about staying above mid-$50ks than about breaking into the mid-$60ks by the resolution timestamp. Watch whether the mid-strikes tighten or gap: if the market starts assigning more weight to downside risk, you would expect the biggest sensitivity at $60,000 and $62,000 (where Yes/No are not near 100/0), rather than at $52,000-$58,000 which are already priced as near-certain. Also track whether volume concentrates around one or two strikes ahead of 2026-07-16 16:00 UTC, which can signal where traders think the true "line" for settlement risk sits. What Traders Watch Next on Polymarket: Macro and Crypto Contracts That Can Shift BTC Ladder Probabilities Beyond this July 16 ladder, traders often sanity-check nearby time windows and broader range contracts to see whether the rest of Polymarket is pricing the same distribution. Big activity is sitting in "What price will Bitcoin hit in July?" (100.0% on ↑ 62,500; $8,269,859 volume) and the longer-dated "What price will Bitcoin hit in 2026?" (100.0% on ↓ 60,000; $47,335,043 volume), while adjacent expiries like "Bitcoin above ___ on July 15?" (99.95% on 52,000; $338,073 volume) can highlight any day-to-day drift. For cross-asset context, "What price will Ethereum hit in July?" (100.0% on ↑ 1,800; $1,855,906 volume) and the weekly band "What price will Bitcoin hit July 13-19?" (56.5% on ↑ 64,000; $322,292 volume) show where traders think follow-through risk sits across the broader crypto tape. Odds Trend By the Numbers * Platform: Polymarket * Market: Bitcoin above ___ on July 16? * Contract type: Price strike ladder: each rung has separate Yes/No; Yes means the spot price is above that USD strike at settlement. * Resolution window: Jul 16, 2026 (UTC) * Status: Active (open for trading) * Volume: ~$288,204 Top strike rungs +7 more strikes not shown
SpaceX Stock Plunges to All-Time Low After Competitor Makes Major Leap
Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX took another beating when trading resumed on Monday, sliding to an all-time low of just under $139, well below its IPO opening price of $150. It's now over 38 percent down from its all-time high of $225 three weeks ago, illustrating how rapidly the hype has inverted into widespread skepticism over Musk's vision. Following a blockbuster Wall Street debut, the space company has struggled to maintain any degree of momentum as investors continue to ask some very hard questions, including over its major pivot to orbital data centers and its near-term profitability. Despite being valued at almost two trillion dollars, the company lost nearly $5 billion last year. Shares have hovered below the company's opening price for weeks now, despite plenty of bullishness among analysts. The news comes just days after Chinese state-run media showed a Long March 10B rocket booster being caught by an offshore recovery platform, indicating the country was making major strides in catching up with SpaceX's reusable rocket tech. Over the weekend, an experimental Japanese reusable rocket safely took off and landed, suggesting the nation may be right behind China as well. Beyond some steepening international space launch competition, experts believe SpaceX's transformation into an "AI play" may be closely related to its Wall Street woes, as the BBC reports. "Everyone saw SpaceX as an AI story," CFRA investment research analyst Keith Snyder told the broadcaster. "With Elon Musk, any company he touches gets people excited," he added. "But this was also the first time people felt like they were able to invest in something that was being marketed as an AI play." How SpaceX will cover its enormous losses and start actually making some money -- not to mention, prove that orbital data centers don't just make sense but are even feasible to begin with -- remains a major point of contention. In short, the initial enthusiasm surrounding SpaceX's IPO is firmly behind us. "If you bought around the first tick you're definitely underwater," Snyder told the BBC. "It started to look a lot like a meme stock." "If you're an IPO investor, you're ok," Mergermarket analyst Samuel Kerr added. "If you bought in the first few days, you're not very happy right now." Investors remain sharply divided on where SpaceX shares are headed next. Many analysts from major investment banks remain bullish, expecting the stock to make massive gains. Case in point, Morgan Stanley believes the company will reach a price tag of $300 -- far more than double its current stock price.
Business News | Anthropic Localises Claude Pricing in India; Pro at Rs 2,033, Team from Rs 2,399 Per Seat
Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. Anthropic has introduced Indian rupee-denominated pricing for its Claude subscription plans in India, with updated pricing now visible across individual and enterprise offerings on its onboarding page. The pricing includes GST for most plans and gives Indian users a clearer view of subscription costs in local currency. New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): Anthropic has introduced Indian rupee-denominated pricing for its Claude subscription plans in India, with updated pricing now visible across individual and enterprise offerings on its onboarding page. The pricing includes GST for most plans and gives Indian users a clearer view of subscription costs in local currency. For individual users, the Claude Pro plan is priced at Rs 2,033.05 per month, billed monthly plus GST. The company also offers a yearly billing option that gives a savings of 17 per cent. The Pro plan includes everything available in the free tier along with higher usage limits, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Design, unlimited projects, access to Research, memory across conversations, access to more Claude models, Claude in Excel and Claude in Chrome. Also Read | Claude AI Now Available in Indian Rupees as Anthropic Launches Localised Pricing for Its AI Model; Check Details. Anthropic has also listed the Claude Max subscription starting at Rs 11,999 per month, billed monthly and inclusive of GST. The Max tier includes all Pro features while offering users the choice of 5x or 20x more usage than Pro, higher output limits across tasks, priority access during periods of high demand, early access to advanced Claude features, and recommendations for Claude Code and Cowork workflows. For businesses with 2 to 150 users, Anthropic has introduced a Claude Team plan with two-seat options. The Standard seat is priced at Rs 2,399 per user per month, including GST, with a monthly billing option of Rs 2,999. The Premium seat costs Rs 11,999 per user per month, including GST, or Rs 14,999 when billed monthly, and offers five times more usage than the standard seat. Also Read | Is Dilip Joshi Leaving 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah'? Makers Clear the Air on Jethalal Exit Rumors. The Team plan includes a 200,000-token context window, usage credits available at API rates, Claude Code, Cowork, centralised billing and administration, single sign-on (SSO) and domain capture, administrative controls for remote and local connectors, enterprise deployment for the Claude desktop app, organisation-wide enterprise search, Microsoft 365 and Slack integrations, and a commitment that customer content is not used for model training. The introduction of local pricing across Claude's subscription tiers could make it easier for Indian individuals, startups and enterprises to evaluate and adopt the AI assistant without having to calculate costs in foreign currency. With plans now clearly priced for different categories of users, Anthropic is offering options that cater to everyone from individual professionals to large organisations. (ANI)
Claude AI Now Available in Indian Rupees as Anthropic Launches Localised Pricing for Its AI Model; Check Details
Anthropic has officially introduced India-specific pricing for its Claude AI assistant, allowing users to pay for subscriptions in Indian Rupees rather than US dollars. This transition is designed to improve accessibility for the local user base and aligns with the company's ongoing strategy to strengthen its foothold in India, which now ranks as Anthropic's second-largest market globally. The localisation effort aims to eliminate the friction typically associated with international credit card transactions. Indian users can now access Claude's full suite of plans directly via web and mobile platforms with GST-inclusive pricing. This move places Anthropic in a more competitive position against other major AI firms, such as OpenAI and Google, which have also been aggressively expanding their enterprise and consumer offerings within the Indian market. Claude Fable 5: Anthropic Opens Most Powerful AI Model to Public With New Safety Guardrails.. Claude AI Subscription Plans and Local Pricing Under the new structure, the standard Claude Pro plan is priced at INR 2,000 per month with annual billing, or INR 2,399 for monthly billing. For power users and researchers, Anthropic has unveiled two 'Claude Max' tiers priced at INR 11,999 and INR 23,999 per month, which provide substantially higher usage limits. Enterprise options have also been localised, with the Claude Team plan starting at INR 2,399 per user per month on an annual basis, and a Premium Team tier available for INR 11,999 per user per month. Anthropic has confirmed that these figures include all applicable taxes, streamlining the payment process for both individual developers and business teams. India as a Strategic Growth Market The pricing adjustment follows a period of rapid growth for the company in the region. Recent data indicates that India accounts for 5.8% of Claude's global user base. Anthropic's expansion has been supported by the opening of an office in Bengaluru earlier this year and a strategic partnership with fintech firm Razorpay, which facilitates easier payments for businesses building AI-powered services. Anthropic Launches Claude Tag to Provide Context-Aware AI Assistance Within Slack Channels. The company's leadership has noted that its revenue run rate in India doubled within just four months earlier this year. As generative AI adoption continues to accelerate across the subcontinent, Anthropic's move to remove currency barriers signals that India has become a central component of the company's long-term international growth strategy. (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jul 14, 2026 01:50 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
Polymarket odds for Hormuz traffic normal by 2026 drop to 56.5%
predict.info -- Premium Domain For Sale Domain only: USD 200,000. Prediction platform technology priced separately. predict.info Polymarket Reprices Strait of Hormuz "Traffic Returns to Normal" Odds After Iran Parliament "Management" Bill Report Polymarket traders have repriced the "Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?" contract to 56.5% Yes on $5.09M matched, down from 85.5%. The catalyst is a report that Iran's parliament has begun work on a "management of the Strait of Hormuz" bill, and the move highlights how quickly the market discounts year-end normalization odds. Key Takeaways * Polymarket implies a 56.5% chance (Yes) that Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by Dec. 31, with No at 43.5%. * After a report about Iran's parliament working on a "management of the Strait of Hormuz" bill, traders marked down the normalization likelihood from 85.5% to 56.5%. * The contract resolves on 2026-12-31; pricing now reflects a sharply lower year-end normalization probability than the prior market level. A report says Iran's parliament has begun work on legislation described as a "management of the Strait of Hormuz" bill. The story frames the initiative as a parliamentary move focused on how the strait would be handled, drawing attention to potential policy or operational changes around the waterway. Market Reaction: Odds Drop 85.5% → 56.5% Yes on $5.09M Matched Liquidity (No Rebounds to 43.5%) This is a binary Yes/No market: a 56.5% Yes price means traders currently assign just over even odds that traffic is back to "normal" by the 2026-12-31 resolution date, while 43.5% No prices the alternative. The headline shift is the magnitude of the repricing -- down from 85.5% previously to 56.5% now -- showing a large increase in perceived tail risk that normalization does not occur on the year-end timeline, even though Yes remains the leading outcome. With $5,090,635 matched, the move is not a low-liquidity blip; it signals a broad reset in collective expectations rather than a marginal adjustment. The available history flags a bearish trend with moderate momentum and volatility plus reversal_detected=true, consistent with a market that had been comfortable at high-80s odds but is now willing to entertain materially worse scenarios as new information arrives. Compared with slower narrative-based assessments, the contract translates the catalyst directly into an updated, continuously tradable probability that will keep moving as traders test what "returns to normal" should imply for settlement by year-end. Watch whether the Yes price can hold above the mid-50s or continues to slide toward parity (50/50) as the market digests what "management" could mean for year-end conditions; any further large step-changes in odds on this active market will matter more than small day-to-day noise ahead of the 2026-12-31 resolution. Other Polymarket Contracts Traders Watch Next: Oil-Price, Shipping Disruption, and Crypto Volatility Hedges Linked to Ho Beyond the Strait-focused contract, traders often triangulate sentiment by scanning adjacent Polymarket lines that price escalation and diplomatic pathways in parallel. Right now, "Iran military action against a gulf state on...?" sits at 100.0% (July 12) on $3,834,570 matched, while "Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027?" is 81.5% No with $41,393,109 in volume. On the timeline/event side, "Iran full airspace closure by...?" leads at 42.5% (August 31) on $3,610,721, and "US-Iran Final Nuclear Deal by...?" is 30.5% (December 31) on $9,866,859 -- useful cross-checks for how the platform is pricing risk across dates and venues. Odds Trend By the Numbers * Platform: Polymarket * Market: Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31? * Resolution window: Dec 31, 2026 (UTC) * Status: Active (open for trading) * Leading implied prob.: 56.5% * Volume: ~$5,090,635 * Top outcomes: Yes: Yes 56.5% / No 43.5%; No: Yes 56.5% / No 43.5%
Canada government warns country's largest financial institutions and banks on Anthropic's Claude Mythos and other AI models; says: New technology can ...
Canada's federal banking regulator has warned the country's largest financial institutions about the risks posed by Anthropic's Claude Mythos and other advanced AI systems, according to a report by Reuters. In an April email obtained by Reuters, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) cautioned that frontier AI models could increase cyber threats and compress the time banks have to identify and fix the vulnerabilities. The email, sent to chief technology, information security, and risk officers across Canada's financial industry, outlined practices to enhance risk identification and response. "Advanced artificial intelligence models, such as Anthropic Claude Mythos, significantly compress the timeframe for effective risk mitigation," OSFI wrote.Following Reuters' inquiries, OSFI published a public bulletin emphasising its technology-neutral, risk-focused approach. The regulator said its concern is not the technology itself but how institutions govern and manage risks associated with its use.Cybersecurity experts have described Mythos as extremely capable at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, raising alarms for legacy banking systems. The warning comes after U.S. regulators, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, convened urgent meetings with bank CEOs earlier this year to discuss similar risks.Canada's big six banks -- Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC, and National Bank -- have all disclosed AI initiatives ranging from chatbots to internal tools. RBC's AI Group Head Bruce Ross said Mythos underscores a shift in the cyberattack landscape: "The way we're dealing with it is building our own AI defenses... we'll continue to do that."The Canadian government has said it has access to Anthropic's Project Glasswing, which enables companies to use Mythos, though it remains unclear which banks are deploying it. The Canadian Bankers Association noted that institutions have invested heavily in cybersecurity and comply with OSFI's robust requirements for risk management and incident reporting.Recently, Anthropic revealed that its AI model Claude uses a small enterable workspace to hold and manipulate ideas without expressing them in words. The said that this structure, dubbed 'J-Space', shows intriguing similarities to how humans consciously access thoughts. According to a report by Axios, in a video demonstration, Anthropic explained, "We can see Claude silently perform reasoning steps in its head -- noticing bugs in code, identifying images, and more." The J-Space operates separately from the "chain of thought" reasoning Claude shares with users, allowing the model to plan strategies unrelated to its immediate task.Anthropic's findings also highlight a division between deliberate reasoning and the larger volume of automatic computation beneath it. In the research paper the company used a word "conscious" more than 200 times, though it stopped short of claiming Claude is conscious. The discovery adds fuel to ongoing debates over machine consciousness and whether advanced AI systems are approaching AGI.
Samsung to produce custom AI chips for Anthropic: report
https://www.manufacturingtodayindia.com/anthropic-explores-samsung-partnership-for-custom-ai-chip Samsung Electronics' foundry division has reportedly agreed to manufacture custom AI chips for Anthropic, according to local media sources. This development, reported by social media account @WhaleInsider, suggests a significant partnership between the South Korean tech giant and the AI startup known for its advanced models such as Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8. While this news seems to confirm earlier reports of negotiations, authoritative sources had previously described the talks as preliminary, with no finalized commitments. The deal, if confirmed, would position Samsung as a fifth silicon supplier for Anthropic, complementing existing partners like Nvidia and Google. Key Takeaways * Reports suggest that Samsung Electronics' foundry division has agreed to produce AI chips for Anthropic, indicating potential collaboration. * The news appears consistent with Anthropic's strategy to diversify its silicon suppliers, alongside Nvidia, Google, and Amazon. * Market pricing implies this development could positively influence Anthropic's valuation prospects, with potential increases in the company's market perception. What to Watch Observers should monitor for official confirmations from Samsung or Anthropic, as such announcements would clarify the status of the agreement. Additionally, any updates on Anthropic's chip specifications, integration plans, or performance targets could further influence market perceptions. As the situation develops, shifts in the odds of Anthropic's valuation reaching $1.25 trillion by December 31 may provide additional insights into market sentiment. Get live prediction-market analysis, powered by Vera. Sign up for Vera.
Anthropic localises Claude pricing in India; Pro at Rs 2,033, Team from Rs 2,399 per seat - The Tribune
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): Anthropic has introduced Indian rupee-denominated pricing for its Claude subscription plans in India, with updated pricing now visible across individual and enterprise offerings on its onboarding page. The pricing includes GST for most plans and gives Indian users a clearer view of subscription costs in local currency. For individual users, the Claude Pro plan is priced at Rs 2,033.05 per month, billed monthly plus GST. The company also offers a yearly billing option that gives a savings of 17 per cent. The Pro plan includes everything available in the free tier along with higher usage limits, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Design, unlimited projects, access to Research, memory across conversations, access to more Claude models, Claude in Excel and Claude in Chrome. Anthropic has also listed the Claude Max subscription starting at Rs 11,999 per month, billed monthly and inclusive of GST. The Max tier includes all Pro features while offering users the choice of 5x or 20x more usage than Pro, higher output limits across tasks, priority access during periods of high demand, early access to advanced Claude features, and recommendations for Claude Code and Cowork workflows. For businesses with 2 to 150 users, Anthropic has introduced a Claude Team plan with two-seat options. The Standard seat is priced at Rs 2,399 per user per month, including GST, with a monthly billing option of Rs 2,999. The Premium seat costs Rs 11,999 per user per month, including GST, or Rs 14,999 when billed monthly, and offers five times more usage than the standard seat. The Team plan includes a 200,000-token context window, usage credits available at API rates, Claude Code, Cowork, centralised billing and administration, single sign-on (SSO) and domain capture, administrative controls for remote and local connectors, enterprise deployment for the Claude desktop app, organisation-wide enterprise search, Microsoft 365 and Slack integrations, and a commitment that customer content is not used for model training. The introduction of local pricing across Claude's subscription tiers could make it easier for Indian individuals, startups and enterprises to evaluate and adopt the AI assistant without having to calculate costs in foreign currency. With plans now clearly priced for different categories of users, Anthropic is offering options that cater to everyone from individual professionals to large organisations. (ANI) (This content is sourced from a syndicated feed and is published as received. The Tribune assumes no responsibility or liability for its accuracy, completeness, or content.)
Knowledge Nugget | SpaceX's latest launch raises a question: What powers satellites?
Take a look at the essential concepts, terms, quotes, or phenomena every day and brush up your knowledge. Here's your knowledge nugget for today. Knowledge Nugget: World's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and how are satellites powered in space Subject: Science and Technology Why in the news? SpaceX has successfully launched what is being described as the world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite, marking a significant milestone for space-based nuclear technology. Let's understand the nuclear-powered satellite and what powers the satellites in space. Key takeaways: 1. The satellite, called BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), was developed by Florida-based company City Labs and lifted off on July 7 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the company's Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. 2. BOHR is a demonstration mission designed to test City Labs' proprietary NanoTritium betavoltaic micropower source in space for the first time. 3. NanoTritium generates electricity by using the beta particles released during the radioactive decay of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen. Those particles are converted directly into electrical energy using a semiconductor device. Tritium Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Isotopes are atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. Tritium has same number of protons and electrons as hydrogen but has 2 neutrons, whereas regular hydrogen does not have any. Story continues below this ad Tritium is produced naturally from interactions of cosmic rays with gases in the upper atmosphere, and is also a by-product of nuclear reactors. It is present in our Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). Like all radioactive isotopes, tritium decays. As it decays, it emits beta radiation. As tritium decays, it changes to helium. 4. The technology differs from the radioisotope thermoelectric generators used on NASA spacecraft such as the Voyager probes, which generate power from heat emitted by decaying plutonium. 5. Although BOHR still depends on solar panels for its primary spacecraft operations, the mission is intended to demonstrate how betavoltaic power systems could eventually support spacecraft operating in environments where sunlight is scarce. 6. City Labs believes the technology could one day power missions to permanently shadowed regions of the Moon, including craters near the lunar south pole that receive little or no direct sunlight. Story continues below this ad What powers satellites in Space? 7. According to NASA, "a spacecraft generally gets its energy from at least one of three power sources: the Sun, batteries or unstable atoms." The instruments mounted on the spacecraft for various tasks need electricity supply to function. 8. A reliable source of power supply is the sun. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), "the Sun provides around 1.4 kilowatts of power per square metre in Earth orbit - a bountiful resource that spacecraft designers do their very best to take advantage of. This is why the majority of spacecraft incorporate wing-like solar arrays or else have them layered across their hull. 9. Today most satellites rely on advanced solar cells with an efficiency around 30% and on Li-ion batteries. When the distance to the Sun becomes too large, i.e. typically beyond Jupiter, then the solar flux can no longer be used effectively and nuclear sources are the only option left." 10. Also, the efficiency of the Photovoltaic cells is reduced by heating from the Sun and radiation damage during a satellite's lifetime. This means that solar arrays have to be of a significant size to deliver useful power levels. This is one of the reasons for exploring an alternative source of supplying power to the spacecraft. Story continues below this ad BEYOND THE NUGGET: Voyager 1 1. On April 17, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California shut down one of its long-running science instruments aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-Energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP, as the spacecraft ran critically low on power. 2. Voyager 1 had run out of power to operate all of its systems. The spacecraft is equipped with a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that utilises the heat generated by decaying plutonium and transforms it into electric power. The energy level, however, has declined gradually since the probes were launched; about 4 watts disappear every year. 3. Without such steps, nuclear-powered spacecraft risk triggering an automatic fault protection system that could shut down multiple components at once, making recovery far more difficult. 4. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is one of the most important space missions ever undertaken. It was originally sent to study the outer planets, including Jupiter and Saturn, but it went far beyond its initial goal. Today, it is the most distant human-made object in space, travelling through interstellar space at high speed. Story continues below this ad 5. Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, two weeks before the September 5 Voyager 1 takeoff. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are identical spacecraft. Each of them is equipped with instruments to carry out 10 different experiments 6. The most interesting discoveries made by Voyager 1 included the finding that Io, one of Jupiter's moons, was geologically active. The spacecraft noted the presence of at least eight active volcanoes "spewing material into space, making it one of the most (if not the most) geologically active planetary bodies in the solar system," another report by NASA said. Post Read Question Consider the following statements: 1. Tritium is a radioactive isobar of hydrogen. 2. NanoTritium generates electricity by using the beta particles. 3. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator utilises the heat generated by decaying plutonium and transforms it into electric power. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 Answer Key (b) (Sources: The legacy of the Voyager mission, Why Nasa shut down a key Voyager 1 instrument after 49 years, SpaceX launches world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, Nasa, Esa, Isro) Story continues below this ad Subscribe to our UPSC newsletter. Stay updated with the latest UPSC articles by joining our Telegram channel - IndianExpress UPSC Hub, and follow us on Instagram and X. 🚨 Click Here to read the UPSC Essentials magazine for June 2026. Share your views and suggestions in the comment box or at [email protected]🚨
Anthropic localises Claude pricing in India; Pro at Rs 2,033, Team from Rs 2,399 per seat
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): Anthropic has introduced Indian rupee-denominated pricing for its Claude subscription plans in India, with updated pricing now visible across individual and enterprise offerings on its onboarding page. The pricing includes GST for most plans and gives Indian users a clearer view of subscription costs in local currency. For individual users, the Claude Pro plan is priced at Rs 2,033.05 per month, billed monthly plus GST. The company also offers a yearly billing option that gives a savings of 17 per cent. The Pro plan includes everything available in the free tier along with higher usage limits, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Design, unlimited projects, access to Research, memory across conversations, access to more Claude models, Claude in Excel and Claude in Chrome. Anthropic has also listed the Claude Max subscription starting at Rs 11,999 per month, billed monthly and inclusive of GST. The Max tier includes all Pro features while offering users the choice of 5x or 20x more usage than Pro, higher output limits across tasks, priority access during periods of high demand, early access to advanced Claude features, and recommendations for Claude Code and Cowork workflows. For businesses with 2 to 150 users, Anthropic has introduced a Claude Team plan with two-seat options. The Standard seat is priced at Rs 2,399 per user per month, including GST, with a monthly billing option of Rs 2,999. The Premium seat costs Rs 11,999 per user per month, including GST, or Rs 14,999 when billed monthly, and offers five times more usage than the standard seat. The Team plan includes a 200,000-token context window, usage credits available at API rates, Claude Code, Cowork, centralised billing and administration, single sign-on (SSO) and domain capture, administrative controls for remote and local connectors, enterprise deployment for the Claude desktop app, organisation-wide enterprise search, Microsoft 365 and Slack integrations, and a commitment that customer content is not used for model training. The introduction of local pricing across Claude's subscription tiers could make it easier for Indian individuals, startups and enterprises to evaluate and adopt the AI assistant without having to calculate costs in foreign currency. With plans now clearly priced for different categories of users, Anthropic is offering options that cater to everyone from individual professionals to large organisations. (ANI)
Anthropic introduces India pricing for Claude as AI race heats up
Anthropic has introduced local pricing for its Claude AI chatbot in India, marking a significant step in its expansion strategy as global AI companies compete for users in one of the world's fastest-growing technology markets. The company has begun displaying Indian rupee pricing for Claude subscriptions on its website and mobile apps for some users. However, unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic has yet to support India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Users need to pay using credit or debit cards or through Apple and Google's app store billing systems. The pricing update addresses a long-standing complaint from Indian users, who previously had to pay in US dollars, often incurring additional currency conversion charges. India has emerged as Anthropic's biggest market outside the United States, accounting for 5.8 per cent of global Claude usage, according to the company. Also Read | Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access to paid subscribers until July 19: Here's what changes later Under the new pricing structure, Claude Pro costs Rs 2,000 per month when billed annually. The premium Claude Max plan starts at Rs 11,999 per month, while Claude Team subscriptions begin at Rs 2,399 per user per month. Anthropic says the listed prices already include applicable local taxes, though pricing may vary slightly between the website and mobile apps. The move reflects Anthropic's increasing focus on India. Earlier this year, the company opened its Bengaluru office and appointed former Microsoft India managing director Irina Ghose to lead its operations in the country. It has also signed partnerships with Indian IT giants Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services to expand enterprise AI adoption. Also read: Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to mobile and web, letting AI agent work across devices India has become a key battleground for AI companies because of its massive developer community and technology workforce. While millions of users are experimenting with AI tools, converting that interest into paid subscriptions remains challenging due to the country's price-sensitive consumer market. Story continues below this ad OpenAI introduced Indian rupee pricing and UPI payments for ChatGPT last year, while Google, Microsoft, and other AI firms continue expanding their services and enterprise offerings across India.
Anthropic's Claude AI Gets India Pricing: Here's What Pro, Max And Team Plans Cost in India
If you have been using Claude AI from India, you might have faced a common annoyance - paying in US dollars and currency conversion charges. That's finally starting to change. Claude AI, the company behind the AI chatbot, has begun to introduce Indian rupee pricing for its paid subscription plans. The rollout is currently limited to some users but the move is expected to make it much easier for Indian developers, students, professionals and businesses to subscribe without worrying about fluctuating exchange rates. The news comes as India is one of the fastest-growing markets for Anthropic. The company said India is the second largest market for the AI chatbot after the United States, making up 5.8% of global usage of Claude. Claude AI Now Has India Pricing Users are starting to see prices in rupees on the website and mobile apps of Claude now. Previously, subscriptions were charged in US dollars, which meant that Indian users had to pay extra because of currency conversion and international transaction charges. Now, users can see the price in Indian Rupees before they subscribe, with the new pricing. But there is one problem. UPI payment is not supported by Anthropic yet, and users have to pay via debit or credit card or through Apple's App Store and Google Play billing systems. Claude AI Subscription Prices in India Here is the price of the paid plans for Indian users on the website of Claude: Prices shown for India include applicable local taxes. Subscription prices may differ slightly on the Claude mobile app due to app store billing policies. What Do These Plans Offer? Depending on how often you use AI, Claude has a tiered subscription structure. The Claude Pro is aimed at everyday users who need higher usage limits, faster responses and access to Anthropic's latest AI models. Claude Max is for power users, developers, and professionals who require much higher usage limits for coding, writing, research, and other intensive AI work. The team plan is designed for businesses and organisations that want multiple users to work under one workspace and collaboration features. Free Claude Fable 5 Offer Gets More Time Anthropic has also expanded its free trial offering for Claude Fable 5. The free access that was scheduled to expire on July 12 has been extended through July 19, 2026. In this promotional period: * Eligible users can use Claude Fable 5 free of charge. * Users can also get a 50% increase in weekly usage limits. The offer is available to users on Claude Pro, Claude Max, Team and premium seats under enterprise plans. Anthropic's support documentation states that the free access and higher usage limits will remain available until 11:59:59 PM PT on July 19, 2026. Why India Matters To Anthropic India has rapidly emerged as one of the world's most critical AI markets. Generative AI tools have been adopted so quickly thanks to a big community of developers, software engineers, startups and students. Anthropic has been building up its presence in the country, seeing an opportunity. The company launched an office in Bengaluru earlier this year and brought in former Microsoft India MD Irina Ghose to lead its India business. It has also tied up with Indian IT majors Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to spur enterprise AI adoption. There Are Still Some Challenges Pricing is going local, but there are still some hurdles. The most significant missing feature is the support for UPI, which has become the preferred mode of payment for millions of Indians. Until Anthropic rolls out UPI payments, users will still have to rely on international card payments or app store billing. In June, the company also drew criticism for temporarily blocking access to some of its newest AI models for users outside the US. Since then, Claude Fable 5 has been available again but Mythos 5 is still not widely accessible to many international users. Why This Update Matters The biggest benefit for Indian users isn't necessarily that Claude has become cheaper. Local pricing also provides more transparency and convenience. Before subscribing, users don't have to figure out the exchange rates or be concerned about hidden fees when doing international transactions. As AI companies scramble to win over India's burgeoning user base, local pricing is fast becoming an important way to make premium AI services more accessible.
Sam Altman, mid-fight with Elon Musk, is stirring the pot with Anthropic too
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, already embroiled in fights with Apple and Elon Musk, is now sparring with Anthropic. On Thursday, Anthropic posted a video on Claude's X account. The video was a collage of random pictures with voiceovers asking existential questions like "Can AI be trusted?" and "If it ends up taking like almost all the jobs, then what does it mean to work?" The video, captioned "There is hope in hard questions," was part of Anthropic's new social initiative: "Inviting hard questions." According to Anthropic, the initiative aims to answer people's most pressing concerns about AI. The company will "report the specific actions we're taking to address those questions," and be clear on where it might fall short of its goals, per its press release. "I thought this was satire, kept looking for the handle to be spelled c1audeai or something," Altman wrote in his repost of Claude's X post. "Hard questions are great but only if we deem you worthy enough to not silently downgrade you, or even get access at all," Altman added. Altman was likely referring to Anthropic's recent challenges with its frontier model, Fable 5. At release, Anthropic placed several guardrails on the model so that questions about cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry would be routed to its weaker models. The guardrails also meant that when Fable 5 detected people using it for AI development, the model's performance would be downgraded to prevent distillation attacks, which refer to training weaker models on the outputs of frontier AI models. Initially, affected users were not told that their requests wouldn't be fulfilled. Anthropic reversed course on June 10 and began notifying the users after AI researchers criticized the company for limiting research. Altman's public criticism of Anthropic comes after a series of feud-heavy days for the executive. Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, accusing it of poaching former Apple employees and accessing confidential documents. Altman also opened up a barely-healed wound with Elon Musk after the two started trading blows on X over the weekend. Talking about the Apple lawsuit, Musk called him "Scam Altman," to which Altman responded that Musk was the one scamming people with his plan to build data centers in space. Ever since Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei left OpenAI in 2020, the two startups and their leaders have been publicly at odds. From an awkward photo opp in February when they refused to hold hands during the India AI Summit, to announcing plans to take their companies public at the same time, Altman and Amodei's rivalry shows no signs of mellowing anytime soon.
The companies building AI -- OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic -- co-signed a letter on Monday warning that their own technology could trigger an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution, unfolding so fast that existing institutions have no realistic path to keep up without immediate action - Silicon Canals
On Monday, 13 July, a coalition of economists, AI researchers and technology executives issued an unusually compressed warning about the economic consequences of increasingly capable artificial intelligence. The three-point statement says AI may become radically more powerful within ten years and could produce an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution in a much shorter period. One distinction belongs at the top of the story. OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic did not sign as corporate entities. Individuals associated with those organisations signed in their own names, among them OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar, Google senior vice-president and chief scientist Jeff Dean, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and several members of Anthropic's economic-research team. That gives the warning the weight of people close to the leading AI laboratories. It does not turn it into a corporate commitment. What the statement actually says The statement, titled We Must Act Now, makes three claims. AI may become much more powerful over the next decade. That progress could bring large-scale job displacement as well as major gains in living standards. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders should therefore begin building the incentives, guardrails and institutions needed to make AI complement people and benefit society. Its grammar matters. "May" and "could" acknowledge uncertainty. The signatories are not saying mass unemployment is certain, nor that existing institutions have no possible way to adapt. They are arguing that the plausible scale and speed of change make waiting for certainty an unreasonable strategy. This is a statement of concern, not an economic model. It offers no forecast of net employment, no timetable for particular capabilities and no estimate of how productivity gains might be divided. Its force comes from the breadth of the coalition and the proximity of some signatories to the systems under discussion. Who signed, and who did not The statement was organised by Stanford Digital Economy Lab director Erik Brynjolfsson, University of Toronto economist Ajay Agrawal, University of Virginia economist Anton Korinek and METR economist Tom Cunningham. A Stanford Digital Economy Lab launch announcement said more than 200 people had signed, including 16 Nobel laureates. The public list includes Daron Acemoglu, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Spence, Simon Johnson, Paul Krugman and Ben Bernanke, as well as AI researchers Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. Alongside Friar and Dean are OpenAI personnel Ronnie Chatterji, Dean Ball, Noam Brown and Boaz Barak; Anthropic figures including Korinek, Clark, Peter McCrory, Maxim Massenkoff and Zoë Hitzig; and Michiel Bakker of Google DeepMind. Those affiliations are relevant, but the signatures remain personal. They indicate concern among people working inside or near the organisations developing advanced AI. They do not bind those organisations to disclose labour impacts, slow a deployment, fund worker adjustment or support a particular law. This is more than a technicality. Corporate action has budgets, reporting lines and measurable obligations. An open letter has moral and reputational force, but it creates none of those things by itself. The Industrial Revolution comparison is about compressed time The historical comparison is easy to read as a confident claim about magnitude. The wording is more careful. It describes a possible transformation and places most of the emphasis on compression: economic change that unfolded across generations during industrialisation might arrive within years. Speed matters because institutions adjust through slow processes. Education systems revise curricula. Companies redesign jobs. Unions negotiate. Governments legislate. Social-insurance systems expand. Each process depends on information about which tasks are changing, who bears the losses and where the gains are accumulating. Current labour evidence supports concern about broad exposure without establishing a job apocalypse. The International Labour Organization's 2025 global index, built from almost 30,000 occupational tasks and labour data from more than 140 countries, estimated that one in four workers was in an occupation with some exposure to generative AI. It concluded that job transformation was more likely than full replacement because most occupations still contain tasks requiring human input. A June 2026 ILO review of empirical evidence found emerging productivity benefits, but also risks involving inequality, fewer opportunities for younger workers, worker autonomy and job quality. That is a more complicated picture than either frictionless prosperity or the disappearance of work. Exposure is not the same as displacement. A system may perform part of a job without eliminating the job, while still changing hiring, bargaining power, entry-level pathways and the pace at which work is done. Those second-order changes are exactly where slow institutions can fall behind a fast deployment cycle. "Act now" is still not a programme The signatories ask for incentives, guardrails and institutions, but do not specify which ones. The launch material points towards more research, policy development and coordination among economists, governments and technology leaders. It leaves unresolved the distributional questions: who pays for retraining, how workers share productivity gains, what information laboratories must disclose and which protections should exist before systems are deployed. Preparation inside businesses is already uneven. An OECD study of small and medium-sized enterprises in seven countries, published in November 2025, found substantial use of generative AI but also examined gaps in skills and the limited steps many employers had taken to prepare workers. Adoption and institutional readiness do not automatically move together. The statement does not call for a pause in AI development. It asks society to shape the economic consequences while development continues. That position is compatible with very different responses, including worker consultation, stronger social protection, tax changes, disclosure requirements and public investment in education. The coalition has agreed on urgency, not on the political choices that urgency creates. A warning from inside the industry is not accountability It is notable that people linked to AI laboratories are warning about the economic effects of their own field. Their proximity may give them a clearer view of capability trends. It also places them inside organisations with strong incentives to commercialise those capabilities quickly. That tension should not be used to dismiss the statement. It should prevent readers from treating signatures as sufficient. A serious institutional response needs data on deployment, affected tasks, hiring, wages and productivity. Workers, governments and independent researchers also need enough access and bargaining power to test claims made by the companies building the systems. Monday's letter does not establish that an Industrial Revolution-sized change is inevitable. It says that a broad group, including people near the laboratories, considers the possibility serious enough to prepare for now. The next test is whether the warning produces concrete commitments while there is still time to argue over who benefits, who pays and who gets a say.
FAA clears SpaceX for next Starship test flight after completing mishap review The Mainstream
SpaceX has received approval to move ahead with its next Starship test flight after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completed its review of the booster return failure that occurred during the rocket's 12th test flight in May. The next launch from Starbase, Texas, could take place as early as Thursday. During the May 22 mission, the latest version of Starship successfully sent its upper stage onto a suborbital path toward the Indian Ocean. However, the Super Heavy booster failed to complete its planned controlled landing in the Gulf of Mexico after 5 of its 33 Raptor engines did not restart during descent. The FAA said the booster also suffered heat damage during stage separation about 2 minutes into the flight, while "erroneous engine alarm system settings" contributed to the failed return. As a result, the booster crashed into the Gulf of Mexico at high speed and exploded on impact. According to the FAA, SpaceX has identified 4 corrective actions to address the booster return failure. The company also confirmed that one engine on the Starship upper stage failed during Flight 12 and said it has introduced "several hardware and operational modifications" to resolve "the interconnected causes," without providing further details. The upcoming 13th Starship test flight is scheduled within a 90-minute launch window beginning at 6:45 p.m. ET on Thursday. Similar to the previous mission, SpaceX plans to land the Super Heavy booster in the Gulf of Mexico while the Starship upper stage will make a water landing in the Indian Ocean after an approximately 1-hour suborbital flight. The mission will also mark the 1st deployment of actual Starlink V3 satellites from Starship. 20 satellites will be released during the flight, with some carrying sensors to monitor the rocket's heatshield during re-entry. The satellites will eventually burn up in Earth's atmosphere. SpaceX expects to begin regular Starlink V3 launches using Starship by the end of 2026. The company has invested more than $15 billion in the rocket's development, with its future satellite expansion and long-term plans for AI-processing satellites depending on the success of the reusable launch system. Also read: Viksit Workforce for a Viksit Bharat Do Follow: The Mainstream LinkedIn | The Mainstream Facebook | The Mainstream Youtube | The Mainstream Twitter About us: The Mainstream is a premier platform delivering the latest updates and informed perspectives across the technology business and cyber landscape. Built on research-driven, thought leadership and original intellectual property, The Mainstream also curates summits & conferences that convene decision makers to explore how technology reshapes industries and leadership. With a growing presence in India and globally across the Middle East, Africa, ASEAN, the USA, the UK and Australia, The Mainstream carries a vision to bring the latest happenings and insights to 8.2 billion people and to place technology at the centre of conversation for leaders navigating the future.
