Archive — 2026-04Week 1

Claude Code 2.1.96 -- fixes 2.1.94 regression: Bedrock requests missing Authorization header when using AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK or CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_BEDROCK_AUTH

Claude Code 2.1.94 -- Amazon Bedrock Mantle support (CLAUDE_CODE_USE_MANTLE=1), API/Bedrock/Enterprise default effort changed to high, Slack MCP clickable channel headers, hookSpecificOutput.sessionTitle field, CJK multibyte encoding fix, VSCode improvements

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of massive Claude distillation -- 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million interactions

Messages API officially lands on Amazon Bedrock research preview -- endpoint /anthropic/v1/messages with same format as first-party API, AWS-managed infrastructure with zero operator access, currently limited to us-east-1 region

Anthropic ARR surpasses $30B, overtaking OpenAI ($25B); $1M+ annual enterprise customers doubled from 500+ to over 1,000 in two months, achieved at one-quarter the training cost, outperforming ChatGPT on seven expert benchmarks

TechCrunch: credit card transaction data analysis shows Claude paid users at all-time high, annualized ARR at $19B, ranking top 2 on app charts in US/Germany/Canada/France; analysts predict revenue could surpass OpenAI by mid-2026

Federal judge Rita F. Lin issues temporary restraining order blocking Trump administration from banning government agencies' use of Anthropic AI; Anthropic's lawsuit scores first victory

Claude service outage again -- Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 affected; massive user influx after OpenAI lost Pentagon contract strains infrastructure

Claude major service outage -- login, voice mode, and conversations all down across desktop/mobile and Claude Code login; erupted at 10:30AM ET, resolved at 12:44PM ET, lasting approximately 2 hours

Anthropic offers one-time compensation for OpenClaw users -- subscription-equivalent credit, redeemable by 4/17, valid for 90 days, usable for Claude Code, Cowork, Chat and third-party tools, plus up to 70% off additional usage packs

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of massive Claude distillation -- 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million interactions

US officially places Anthropic on national security supply chain risk blacklist; a judge has temporarily blocked enforcement, second lawsuit underway

UK government seizes opportunity amid US crackdown to court Anthropic -- preparing expanded London office plans and proposing a London dual listing

Claude Code 2.1.92 -- forceRemoteSettingsRefresh policy setting, interactive Bedrock setup wizard, /cost showing model and cache hit breakdown, /release-notes version picker, removed /tag and /vim commands; fixes tmux subagent failure and other bugs

Anthropic ends third-party tool subscription coverage -- OpenClaw and other agent tools no longer included in Pro/Max subscriptions, require separate usage packs or API keys; caused by excessive load from automated agent systems

TechCrunch: credit card transaction data analysis shows Claude paid users at all-time high, annualized ARR at $19B, ranking top 2 on app charts in US/Germany/Canada/France; analysts predict revenue could surpass OpenAI by mid-2026

TechCrunch: credit card transaction data analysis shows Claude paid users at all-time high, annualized ARR at $19B, ranking top 2 on app charts in US/Germany/Canada/France; analysts predict revenue could surpass OpenAI by mid-2026

Claude Code 2.1.91 -- larger MCP result persistence, disabled skills/commands inline shell execution, multi-line deep links, performance improvements

Scientific American: leak reveals Claude Code scans user frustration signals (profanity, negative phrases), sparking privacy controversy

Analysts question whether Anthropic's three 'accidental' incidents in seven days (Mythos + source map + CMS) were deliberate pre-IPO exposure

Claude Code 2.1.90 -- /powerup interactive tutorial, fixes rate-limit dialog infinite loop, --resume cache miss, .husky protected directory

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of massive Claude distillation -- 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million interactions

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of massive Claude distillation -- 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million interactions

Anthropic DMCA mass takedown -- removed over 8,000 Claude Code source code copies and adaptations from GitHub