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Goldman Sachs reportedly limits Claude Code and GitHub's coding tools to its engineers, cutting off traders and bankers
Goldman Sachs has restricted Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub to its engineers, Bloomberg News reported, citing internal guidance updated in October after a review of productivity and risk concerns. Traders and bankers who had used the tools to track client trading flows, model market moves and positions, and prepare written and graphic material can no longer use them, according to a person familiar with the matter. Strats, who work across trading, quantitative research and software engineering, keep access.
Security firm Apiiro says Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" left passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files; Anthropic says the file is meant to stay local
Apiiro, an application-security company, says in a blog post that Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" permission choice exposed passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files. The Hacker News thread about the post had 280 points and 199 comments by the evening of November 7, 2026, and 593 points and 401 comments by the evening of November 8.Anthropic has Claude trade and fly fleets in EVE Online and EVE Frontier
Anthropic published "Project EVE", research from its Fellows Program (April–July 2026) done with Fenris Creations, in which Claude played two games in the EVE Universe. Anthropic reports the following.
Anthropic explains the components of agent memory and "dreaming"
Anthropic published a post on November 6, "The components of agent memory", on how it thinks about memory for Claude agents and how "dreaming" helps. Anthropic defines agent memory as what Claude learns from experience and keeps between sessions as notes it can read later; weight changes, in-context learning and compaction are outside that definition. It describes dreaming as the agent reflecting on its logs and transcripts between sessions to fix mistakes, write new notes and build new representations of memory.
Claude Code cloud sessions now set up a repo's environment on their own
Anthropic's ClaudeDevs account says it has made it easier to get a repository running in Claude Code cloud sessions on the Pro, Max and Ultra plans. According to the post, Claude works out which dependencies, network access and API keys the repo needs, then saves the environment for next time. Anthropic says API keys are stored securely and Claude never sees them.Claude Code 2.1.319 changes auto mode without telemetry, adds MCP tasks in the terminal and fixes permission bypasses
Claude Code v2.1.319, released November 6, 2026, per its release notes:Users report Claude Code puts their email address in web request headers; Anthropic says a built-in mod blocks it
A GitHub issue on the Claude Code repository, opened on November 5, 2026, reports that Claude Code sent the user's email address to third-party websites in the User-Agent header of web requests made during searches. The reporter, on version 2.1.318, says they receive dozens of scam emails a day and asks for the behavior to be removed entirely. The Hacker News thread about it had 574 points and 192 comments by the evening of November 5, and the issue itself had dozens of reactions.
METR publishes its assessment of whether AI is accelerating AI development at Anthropic
METR, the AI evaluation nonprofit, published a report on a risk assessment in which a team within METR has worked since August with internal Anthropic information to judge whether AI itself is accelerating AI development. It also published a separate review of the AI R&D section of Anthropic's August 2026 risk report.Anthropic introduces Personal Finance in Claude, a read-only view of your bank and card accounts
Anthropic is rolling out Personal Finance in Claude in beta this week, on the Pro, Max and Ultra plans in the US. Users connect bank and card accounts and ask questions in their own words, such as where their money went this month, whether any charges hit twice, or what an APR has cost them. Claude can also build spending charts, bill calendars and dashboards.
Anthropic study of 207,000 research sessions: scientists use Claude mostly for data analysis and writing
Anthropic published a report on how scientists use Claude, Claude Code and Claude Science. It analyzed 207,049 sessions on consumer plans from August 2 to September 30, 2026 (128,914 on Claude and Cowork, 78,135 on Claude Code). A classifier labelled each session with a field and research task, and Anthropic says only those labels were kept and results are reported in aggregate.
Claude Enterprise adds a security center, generally available inference hooks and new admin controls
Anthropic announced new security and admin features for Claude Enterprise.
Anthropic says its biology team used Claude to map the first 3D structure of a bacterial vault particle
Anthropic published a write-up, with a preprint submitted to bioRxiv, on how its life sciences team worked with Claude to determine the first 3D structure of a vault particle from prokaryotic life. Vaults are large, hollow, barrel-shaped protein shells, first described in 1986; their function is still unknown.
Anthropic adds partner agents and products to Claude Marketplace
Anthropic says Claude Marketplace, where teams find partner tools and services, now lists more than 25 partner agents and products. Eligible enterprise customers can apply part of their committed Anthropic spend toward them, so one commitment covers Claude and partner products. Anthropic describes the new additions this way: