Anthropic study: analysts took Claude Code's lean 86% of the time

AnthropicWhat's new#

Anthropic study: analysts took Claude Code's lean 86% of the time (Anthropic; confirmed)#

If you sign off on analysis an agent helped build, make your own call on each judgment call first. In Anthropic's Oct 27 study, 50 analysts using Claude Code went with a coin-flipped agent lean 86% of the time across four choices, and 77% repeated the agent's argument while only 15% credited it. (confirmed)

ChatGPT Pro and Business owners can claim up to $500 a month in API credits (OpenAI; confirmed)#

If your paid ChatGPT Pro or Business plan is at least 7 days old and you own both it and an API organization, you can claim OpenAI's new API credits benefit in ChatGPT billing settings. Per OpenAI's docs, Pro tiers get $100, $200 or $500 a month, and Business gets $20 per paid Standard seat and $100 per paid Premium seat, capped at $500 per workspace. Unused credits don't roll over. (confirmed)

Cursor 3.28 on Windows breaks agent chat; staff say a fix is coming (Cursor; confirmed)#

If every agent prompt in Cursor 3.28 on Windows fails with an unexpected error, staff say it is "an issue we’re tracking with Cursor 3.28 on Windows, not something in your setup." Use the Agent chat in the IDE window (Ctrl+Shift+N), or install 3.27 and set Update: Mode to none so it does not update back. A fix is identified but has no date. (confirmed)

AnthropicHow people are using it#

• Thursday showcase: four recurring AI jobs people run, from a CFO's five Claude Code schedules to a Grok Bot follower cleanup, a standup prep page and Datadog's live Decisions scoring for shell risk, each with a starter prompt. Credit: Biel Rosinol, Ashley Schendel, Marko Marinovic, AJ Stuyvenberg (self-reported; disclosures in the piece).

One more setup someone says they run. It is self-reported, and we have not run it.

• Hot Tweet Bot, an X list watcher (Grok Bot). @teedubya has a routine scan 4 of his X lists every 10 minutes and ping him when a post is minutes old and "gaining velocity"; he writes the reply himself. Self-reported: daily X impressions went from between roughly 0.5K and 5K a day to 23K to 25K a day. Every 10 minutes is 144 runs a day, and the article never defines "velocity." He plugs his own media company, newsletter and podcast (disclosed in the piece). Starter prompt is ours and untested.

AnthropicThe digest#

Grok Bot and Cursor#

• Your Bot can already brief a Cursor cloud agent and hear back. Replying to a feature request, Colin, a Cursor Community Support Engineer, said at 5:19 AM ET that "Most of this already exists": a Bot "can launch a Cursor cloud agent with a brief it wrote, gets woken up automatically when the agent finishes," and can send follow-ups to that same agent. Name a saved Cloud Agents environment instead of a repo, or run it on your own computer with agent worker start (My Machines docs). One gap: "if a routine launches the agent, the bot’s main chat may not be able to follow up on it yet." Our Oct 8 guide has the full loop. (confirmed, staff)
• Auto-review errors after Wednesday's outage: staff replies differ on timing. Colin said at 5:11 AM ET that the problem "wasn’t caused by the 0.78.1 update." At 5:24 AM ET he told another user the Auto-review outage was "affecting many users right now," while a third reply that minute called it "a separate issue that hit Auto-review itself" and said actions have "been reviewed normally since about 6:59 PM ET." The status page lists no Auto-review incident. Allow rules can't help: "When the classification call itself fails, no rule can match." A bot "can only have 4 waiting" cards, so answer them to clear the pile. (confirmed, staff; replies differ on timing)
• A Team Bot can only use its owner's computer. When a teammate chats with your Team Bot, "the bot doesn’t get access to any local computer, hers or yours," Colin said. "That’s a deliberate safety rule," and "No setting turns it on." The "your computer is offline" message the teammate sees there "is misleading," and he flagged the wording. His workaround: "Copy the role’s instructions and skills into each person’s own Bot for the local work, and keep the Team Bot for the shared parts." (confirmed, staff)
• Two Bot computer known issues: Reset and Update. If Reset fails on a full computer, it is because "The files saved from your computer are larger than a fresh computer can hold, so Reset stops before it replaces anything," and "Pressing Reset again won’t get past it" (staff reply). Separately, if Update Bot's Computer keeps showing after you press it, "The update did actually run," and "There’s no need to keep pressing it" (staff reply). Both are known issues, per Colin. (confirmed, staff)
• Brief Cloud Agents and Origin slowdown, resolved. The Cursor status page listed a "Degraded performance" incident for Origin and Cloud Agents, also tagged Grok Bot, Automations, Bugbot and Review Agents, from 5:01 to 5:18 AM ET: "Users may see slow responses, timeouts, or retried requests." It is resolved, and the page read "All Systems Operational" at 7:00 AM ET. (confirmed)
• Cursor tip for stuck subagent cards. If a background subagent's card stays on running, Colin suggests asking it "to wait for any background commands it starts to finish (or stop them and wait for them to exit) before it gives its final answer." If one still sticks, "ask the parent to read the subagent’s transcript files directly instead of resuming it with an interrupt." (confirmed, staff; one user's case)

Anthropic#

• Claude for Legal adds a gallery of ready-made legal artifacts. On Oct 28, Anthropic added a legal gallery of artifacts, which it describes as "interactive tools, such as trackers and dashboards, that teams can use and share in Claude" (post). Its six task artifacts are cite check, jurisdiction survey matrix, matter board, playbook deviation board, regulatory horizon scan and tabular review. Goodwin, Harvey, Foley & Lardner and PwC built others, and nine are for access-to-justice work. Per the post, each artifact opens with an example and "Each answer or output has a link to its source." The post doesn't say which Claude plans get the gallery.

• Anthropic reports early drug-development results with six partners. Anthropic posted case studies from six drug-development partners on Oct 27 (post). At Enveda, Anthropic says, Claude caught all 11 issues human reviewers had spotted in 1,061 pages of manufacturing documents and flagged seven they had missed. Anthropic says Claude generated roughly 35,000 antibody designs for Divergence Labs in about a month, and six Generate Biomedicines scientists used Claude Code to propose designs for one part of a CAR T therapy; one was about 70% shorter and did better in lab tests. Anthropic has begun drug discovery of its own, including rare childhood muscular dystrophy programs, and plans to expand work with Bristol Myers Squibb in 2027.

• Claude gets a 40% government discount under a new GSA deal. Anthropic said on Oct 27 that a new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration "gives government partners a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government, and the Claude API" (post). Per the post, the discount covers state, local, tribal and territorial governments, applies to direct purchases now and cloud providers "in the coming months," and has no minimum spend. Anthropic estimates savings of $1 billion and says about 500 US government organizations use Claude. Agencies buy through GSA's Multiple Award Schedule. Claude Enterprise is "in process" for FedRAMP Moderate, per Anthropic.

• AI for Science adds 20 foundations, institutes and projects. Anthropic named 20 partners in an expansion of its AI for Science program, which "gives free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects" (post, Oct 28). Funders including the Sloan Foundation, Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences and the US National Science Foundation will pass credits to researchers. Institutions including the Space Telescope Science Institute, Wellcome Sanger and the Francis Crick Institute will use them in-house. Projects getting credits directly include FlyWire, gnomAD and the Lean mathematics library Tau Ceti. Researchers should check with those funders; the post doesn't describe how to apply.

• Claude Code 2.1.312 stops overwriting big CLAUDE.md files. Claude Code 2.1.312 reached npm at 2:36 PM ET Tuesday (npm). Its changelog fixes Claude overwriting a very large CLAUDE.md, rules file or @-included file after reading only its start; Write now asks Claude to read it all or edit in place. Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and Mantle users with custom deployment names now get the shorter system prompt; set CLAUDE_CODE_SIMPLE_SYSTEM_PROMPT=0 to keep the full one. Prompt and agent hooks now run at most 24 at a time per session. Usage messages now say "5-hour limit." Stable is still 2.1.308.

OpenAI#

• OpenAI doubles Work and Codex usage on Pro 100 and Pro 500 and drops the Pro 200 cut. Per Thursday's release notes, Pro 100 and Pro 500 get "twice their previous Work and Codex allowance." OpenAI also canceled the Pro 200 reduction from its Sep 29 email (our Oct 12 note) and doubled the lower Pro 200 allowance to match the higher one. It arrives "automatically without waiting for renewal," per the Pro tiers article. Business Premium is named with no figure. OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux posted that it is "doubling all usage limits," but the article says Pro 100 and Pro 500 "keep their current weekly GPT-6 Pro message limits in Chat." (confirmed; staff post broader than OpenAI's pages)
• ServiceNow's plugin for ChatGPT is out, with more planned through 2027. OpenAI and ServiceNow expanded their partnership Wednesday. Per OpenAI's post, "The ServiceNow MCP plugin is available in the OpenAI marketplace today, with enhanced capabilities expected by the end of 2026." Customers connect ChatGPT to their own ServiceNow instance and choose which capabilities to make available, and an IT team member "will be able to find similar incidents, assess the risk of a change and update a ServiceNow record without leaving ChatGPT." Still to come, per the same post: voice in ServiceNow's Super Intelligence Control Tower in the first quarter of 2027, security early access in January 2027, and Codex in AI Workflow Factory in 2027. These are plans, not shipped features.
• ChatGPT can now connect to iCloud Mail and Calendar. Per the ChatGPT release notes dated Tuesday, Oct 27, "iCloud users can now connect Mail and Calendar to ChatGPT to find emails, catch up on your inbox, check your schedule, and update calendar events." OpenAI lists them as plugins, "Available to all ChatGPT plans on the web, desktop app, and iOS." Android is not named in that availability line.

Hark#

• Hark Pro 2.6.0 reaches iPhones with dictation and connections updates. Apple's lookup data for the Hark Pro listing shows version 2.6.0, released at 2:01 PM ET Wednesday, with these notes: "Clearer dictation. Easier to manage connections. Better tables. Sharper weather reports. And several other small fixes." Hark hasn't said more about the changes. The listing showed 4.67 stars from 2,081 ratings at 6:00 AM ET Thursday; on Tuesday we reported 4.66 from 1,935 on version 2.5.0. Our math: 146 new ratings in two days. The Google Play listing still says it was updated Oct 25, and Hark's status page showed "All Systems Operational". (store listings, status page)
• A paid user says one task used up a month of Hark; Adcock says he'll look. A user who says he pays for Hark Pro² wrote to Brett Adcock, Hark's founder, at 12:02 AM ET Thursday that on Oct 28 "a single text-only project handover task consumed my entire monthly quota" and that his service is "unusable until Nov 23." He says he filed two support tickets and got "only auto-replies." Adcock replied six minutes later: "Will take a look". Hark hasn't said what happened. (user report, founder reply)
• Users on free and paid plans report hitting Hark's limits. Bryan Tegomoh posted a screenshot at 3:09 PM ET Wednesday showing "You've hit your daily limit." on Hark Pro³, the $100 plan, in a post that called Hark "really good." One user asked why Hark reduced the free limit; another asked why it removed coding features from the free plan. Hark's pricing page still says "All features are offered in all plans. Upgrading your plan increases usage." Hark hasn't answered either question in that thread. (user reports)