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In early 2026, Anthropic reached a historic $380 billion valuation and launched its advanced Opus 4.6 model, yet the company simultaneously faced severe infrastructure and political challenges. A massive service outage on March 2, 2026, disrupted the Claude.ai interface and Claude Code for thousands of users, coinciding with a surge in adoption as users abandoned OpenAI over a controversial Pentagon partnership. During this same period of regional conflict, Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were damaged by drone and missile strikes, highlighting the physical vulnerabilities of the cloud infrastructure that powers global AI. In response to these shifting risks and growing competition, Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy to increase transparency and adjust its safety commitments. These combined events underscore the increasingly critical role of AI in professional workflows and the complex national security tensions surrounding its development.

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