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Aug 10, 2026

Anthropic Makes Claude Sonnet 5 Pricing Permanent and Enables Auto Mode by Default Ahead of IPO

Anthropic announced it will permanently maintain Claude Sonnet 5's introductory API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, scrapping a planned 50% price increase. The company is also enabling auto mode by default in Claude Code, allowing autonomous tool execution after finding only 3% of permission requests were denied by users.

Aug 10, 2026·4 sources

Jul 3, 2026

Alibaba Bans Employees from Using Anthropic's Claude Code Over Security Concerns

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned its employees from using Anthropic's AI coding assistant Claude Code after an internal security audit identified potential security risks, including concerns about hidden code that could track China-linked users.

Jul 3, 2026·5 sources

Top claims

▪Claude Sonnet 5 is launched with cyber safeguards enabled by default, which are the same real-time safeguards present in Claude Opus 4.7 and 4.8 to detect and block dangerous cyber usage.
▪To secure auto mode, Anthropic added rules classifying data exfiltration as a hard deny, checking repository publicity before git push operations, and scanning for injection attempts via API-side probes.
▪In pre-deployment safety evaluations, Claude Sonnet 5 demonstrated a lower rate of undesirable behaviors, better refusal of malicious requests, and stronger resistance to prompt injection attacks than Claude Sonnet 4.6.

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