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September 3, 2026
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Anthropic Launches AI Agent Blueprints For Retailers Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season
The Economic Times
"Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is giving retailers blueprints to build shopping and merchant agents on Claude, it announced on Wednesday, as demand for internal and external conversational search tools expands ahead of the holiday shopping season. The blueprints are guidelines for building shopper and merchant agents for retail, travel and ticketing companies."
April 13, 2026
Top Post
Anthropic: Project Glasswing Securing Critical Software for the AI Era
Anthropic
"Today we’re announcing Project Glasswing, an initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks in an effort to secure the world’s most critical software. We formed Project Glasswing because of capabilities we’ve observed in a new frontier model trained by Anthropic that we believe could reshape cybersecurity. Claude Mythos Preview reveals a stark fact: AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities."
February 18, 2026
On the web
NPCI & Anthropic Test AI-Driven Shopping: Order Groceries & Food via Claude Using UPI Payments [Video]
YouTube
"The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is venturing into the future of "agentic commerce" through a new pilot program with the AI firm Anthropic. This collaboration allows users to delegate shopping tasks such as ordering groceries from BigBasket or food from Swiggy directly to the Claude AI assistant, which then completes the transaction seamlessly via UPI. Currently running in a closed user group, the service marks a significant shift from simple conversational AI to an end-to-end fulfillment ecosystem where the AI handles discovery, ordering, and real-time payments in a single workflow."
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