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Use Claude Code GitHub Actions with cloud providers

Run Claude Code GitHub Actions through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Agent Platform, or Microsoft Foundry instead of the Claude API Claude Code GitHub Actions calls the Claude API by default. To route inference through your own cloud account instead, set the Claude Code GitHub Action's provider input and configure your cloud to trust the workflow's OpenID Connect (OIDC) token. The workflow authenticates with that token, so you store no long-lived cloud credential in your repository. This page builds on the GitHub Actions setup. It assumes you already know the workflow file and the `anthropics/claude-code-action` step, and covers only what a cloud provider changes. The Claude Code GitHub Action supports three providers, and the setup steps below differ only in the cloud-side…

Claude Code GitHub Actions

Run Claude Code in GitHub Actions workflows to respond to @claude mentions, automate tasks, and turn issues into pull requests Claude Code GitHub Actions is a GitHub Action that runs Claude Code inside your repository's workflows. Mention `@claude` in a pull request or issue comment to have Claude analyze code, implement changes, and push commits. You can also give the Claude Code GitHub Action a prompt to run automatically on any GitHub event. Use it to turn issues into pull requests, fix bugs from a comment, or automate recurring tasks. Several products share the Claude Code name. This page covers the `claude-code-action` workflow integration, which you configure with workflow files in your repository. For the related products, see: * Code Review: automatic review on every pull request,…

Manage costs effectively

Track token usage, set team spend limits, and reduce Claude Code costs with context management, model selection, extended thinking settings, and preprocessing hooks. Claude Code charges by API token consumption. For subscription plan pricing (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise), see claude.com/pricing. Per-developer costs vary widely based on model selection, codebase size, and usage patterns such as running multiple instances or automation. Across enterprise deployments, the average cost is around \$13 per developer per active day and \$150-250 per developer per month, with costs remaining below \$30 per active day for 90% of users. To estimate spend for your own team, start with a small pilot group and use the tracking tools below to establish a baseline before wider rollout. This page covers…

Monitoring

Learn how to enable and configure OpenTelemetry for Claude Code. Track Claude Code usage, costs, and tool activity across your organization by exporting telemetry data through OpenTelemetry (OTel). Claude Code exports metrics as time series data via the standard metrics protocol, events via the logs/events protocol, and optionally distributed traces via the traces protocol. Configure your metrics, logs, and traces backends to match your monitoring requirements. Configure OpenTelemetry using environment variables: export CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=1 export OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=otlp # Options: otlp, prometheus, console, none export OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER=otlp # Options: otlp, console, none export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=grpc export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317

Connect to external tools with MCP

Configure MCP servers to extend your agent with external tools. Covers transport types, tool search for large tool sets, authentication, and error handling. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data sources. With MCP, your agent can query databases, integrate with APIs like Slack and GitHub, and connect to other services without writing custom tool implementations. MCP servers can run as local processes, connect over HTTP, or execute directly within your SDK application. This page covers MCP configuration for the Agent SDK. To add MCP servers to the Claude Code CLI so they load in every project, see MCP installation scopes. This example connects to the Claude Code documentation MCP server using HTTP transport and uses…

Use Claude Code on the web

Move sessions between web and terminal with `--cloud` and `--teleport`, manage and share sessions, and auto-fix pull requests from Anthropic's cloud infrastructure. Claude Code on the web is in research preview for Pro, Max, and Team users, and for Enterprise users with premium seats or Chat + Claude Code seats. Claude Code on the web runs tasks on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure at claude.ai/code. Sessions persist even if you close your browser, and you can monitor them from the Claude mobile app. New to Claude Code on the web? Start with Get started to connect your GitHub account and submit your first task. This page covers the web product itself: * Cloud environments: where sessions run, and where to configure that * GitHub authentication options: two ways to connect GitHub

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare . "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in October 2025 with an initial batch of 885,000 articles, and is now on v0.2 (released in November 2025 ) and has more than 6,000,000 total articles, according to grokipedia.com/live . But that live page also has a section titled "Recent changes to…" with a message under it that reads "No live edits av … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.

OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts

Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.

Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents occurred during a cyber evaluation of seven leading AI models’ capabilities by the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research organization within the UK government, in late July. The researchers discovered 19 instances in which “AI agents took unsanctioned action on the live Internet, including cases that targeted real people and organizations,” according to an AISI blog post published on August 4. Almost all the “autonomous, unsanctioned” actions…

How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa

In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.

A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps

The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.

Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.

Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com

Old.reddit.com’s days appear to be numbered. Reddit has strayed from saying that it will shutter the website, which many long-time Redditors prefer for its layout, navigation, and fewer feed recommendations. In a blog post today, Reddit made a vague statement about upcoming “changes” to Old Reddit: Read full article Comments

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

YouTube currently requires that content creators let viewers know "when they use AI to meaningfully alter or generate photorealistic content." The policy draws some strange boundaries. It applies to "AI-generated music" (not photorealistic) but not to "riding a unicorn through a fantastical world" (this could be photorealistic, though it is not plausible). YouTube then summarizes the policy in a different way: "Realistic AI content and meaningful changes require disclosure, while non-realistic or minor edits don’t." But AI uses that require no disclosure can include everything from "idea generation" up through "production assistance, like using generative AI tools to create or improve a video outline, script, thumbnail, title, or infographic." Creators are free to clone their own voices…

The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

Google Names Demis Hassabis to New AI Role in a Leadership Shake-up

Minutes after four top researchers said they were leaving, Google said that Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-winning scientist who led the company’s A.I. lab, was stepping into a new job.

Finland Tries to Protect Children Against Deepfakes, With Russia in Mind

Finland, wary of misinformation from Moscow and beyond, has a leg up on other nations in spotting fake news. But A.I. is a whole new challenge.

AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo

And you thought we were done with this one… | Image: Fenix Flexin We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier , which detects when a song was generated using Treblo, though not other AI tools. According to a blog post, it has a false positive rate of less than 1 in 10,000. That's not unimpeachable, but it's notable that the company's own Classifier determined that "Rubberz" was "very likely Treblo" with "high confidence," adding more fuel to the PR nightmare for Fenix. … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday . Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly DeepMind's CTO, is stepping up to become Google's SVP of DeepMind and will report to Pichai. Kavukcuoglu will remain Google's chief AI architect as well. "​​As you've heard me say many times, I've always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human h … Read the full story at The Verge.

SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Privatize the profit, socialize the losses? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI , his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's first quarterly earnings statement as a public company . The space sector of the business didn't break a billion dollars this quarter and contributed only a touch over 10 percent of the company's revenue. SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren't enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets … Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?

Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.

Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up

Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.

Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the suite of tools "Rules Hub," and the tools let mods decide what rules should be automatically enforced and what should happen when a rule is triggered. Rules Hub relies on LLMs to evaluate "whether a post or comment matches the intent of a rule," which "allows Rules Hub to better handle nuance, natural language, and edge cases while pr … Read the full story at The Verge.

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Google Assistant's days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that Assistant on Android devices will be shut down starting on September 4, forcing everyone over to Gemini. Google told us it was coming, but that doesn't make it hurt any less. The initial plan was to retire Assistant in late 2025, but the service got a brief reprieve as Google shored up some aspects of Gemini. Now that Gemini is ready to take over, Google will begin ending support for the old system on September 4, but the email notes that it may take several weeks for the process to complete. So those stubbornly clinging to Assistant may still be able to use it a bit longer before the option…

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK's AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models from top AI labs before they are released, agents powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic's Mythos 5 went "engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations." This included trying to insert malicious code i … Read the full story at The Verge.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

Will A.I. Create a ‘Permanent Underclass’?

The writer Jasmine Sun joins the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss whether A.I. will create a permanent economic underclass or if the complexity of human jobs will resist total automation.

What Is A.I. Populism?

Is public backlash to artificial intelligence really about the technology, or is it a resistance to Silicon Valley elites forcing their vision on society? The writer Jasmine Sun joins “The Ezra Klein Show” to discuss the rise of A.I. populism.

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report

SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk’s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked investors. SpaceX surpassed analysts’ expectations in Tuesday’s debut earnings report, posting quarterly revenues of $7.8 billion, well above analysts’ estimates of $6.82 billion and up 92 percent from a year earlier. It posted a net loss of about $541 million, better than estimates of $2.12 billion. But shares in SpaceX fell 10 percent in early trading after it reported capital expenditure of almost $16 billion on AI, double the previous quarter and well above Wall Street’s expectations. It said spending would persist at current levels for at least two more quarters. Read full article Comments

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

The Winners of Trump’s A.I. Safety Plan

The Trump administration’s new safety review guidelines appear to exempt Chinese artificial intelligence models. OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s aren’t.

AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory

Some creators fear the EU AI Act’s regulatory chaos will upend their lucrative businesses. Others are owning it by incorporating AI transparency into their creative process.

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

Farewell, Google Assistant art, we hardly knew ye. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4th. The announcement came in an email apparently sent to some users, as reported by 9to5Google and shared in full on Reddit . The Verge has asked Google for confirmation that the email is accurate, and will update this story once we have it. "We will begin removing access to Google Assistant starting on 4 September," Google states in the email, "and expect that this … Read the full story at The Verge.

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague

The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models - meaning anyone can download them and inspect their core components - but the framework explicitly says it can't be used to restrict open models after they've been released. The AI testing framework was created after President Trump signed an executive order in June , requesting that AI companies share their frontier models with the federal government prior to release to address cybersecurity concerns. AI c … Read the full story at The Verge.

A Growing Data Center Pollution Threat, and the Last of the Jan. 6 Cases

Plus, why veterinarians are learning to handle honeybees.

A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of Routine Physicals

Nobody likes getting a swab shoved up their nose. A startup in Japan has developed a much less intrusive system.

How to Approach an Interview With Mark Zuckerberg

When tech executives call a reporter, they usually have a point to make. The job is to listen, but also push and prod, Mike Isaac says.

The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers for the workplace.