Anthropic launched its sixth European office in Milan to serve Italian enterprises, researchers, and developers building with Claude, following partnerships with major companies like Generali Group, Enel, and Satispay. For commerce practitioners, this signals Anthropic's commitment to localized support and demonstrates measurable productivity gains—Satispay compressed an 18-month roadmap to seven months using Claude across engineering teams.

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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 with improved reasoning and agentic capabilities.

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 today at the same price as Opus 4.7, featuring improved benchmarks across coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks, plus new features like dynamic workflows and effort controls. Commerce teams building AI agents for customer service, search, and autonomous workflows gain a more reliable, honest model that catches its own mistakes and completes complex multi-step tasks end-to-end without costly retraining.

May 29, 2026

AI funding surge and global expansion accelerate

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation on $47B ARR

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Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, reaching a $965 billion post-money valuation with run-rate revenue exceeding $47 billion. For commerce practitioners, this capital influx signals Claude's entrenchment in enterprise workflows and Anthropic's ability to scale compute infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure—reducing vendor lock-in risk for businesses deploying AI agents in production.

May 29, 2026

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Anthropic opens Milan office to expand European enterprise reach

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 with improved reasoning and agentic capabilities.

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation on $47B ARR