Claude Report — 2026-04-30
- Anthropic weighs $50B raise at $900B valuation — would overtake OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup.
- Sydney office opens; Canva, Xero, and YMCA South Australia announced as new Claude partners.
- CrowdStrike Falcon Foundry plugin lands in claude-plugins-official, tied to Project Glasswing.
- 1M context window beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Sonnet 4 retires today — requests above 200k tokens will error.
- Goldman Sachs Hong Kong bans Claude access for staff over data security concerns.
🚀 Anthropic Official
Anthropic considers $50B funding round at ~$900B valuation
Anthropic is entertaining multiple preemptive offers to raise ~$50B at an $850–900B valuation — more than double its February valuation of $380B and above OpenAI's $852B. A board decision is expected in May, with a potential IPO as early as October 2026.
Anthropic opens Sydney office, appoints Theo Hourmouzis as ANZ General Manager
Hourmouzis (ex-Snowflake SVP for APAC) joins as GM for Australia and New Zealand. Launch partners include Canva (Claude Design integration), Xero (multi-year product embed), and YMCA South Australia (Claude for Nonprofits); a Seoul office is announced as the next regional opening.
1M context window beta retires for Sonnet 4.5 and Sonnet 4 (effective April 30)
The context-1m-2025-08-07 beta header is now inert for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 4; requests exceeding the standard 200k-token context window on these models will return an error. Migrate to Sonnet 4.6 or Opus 4.6, which support the full 1M context window natively with no beta header.
🔌 Claude Code Plugins
crowdstrike-falcon-foundry — third-party (new)
Adds CrowdStrike's first-party Falcon Foundry plugin to the marketplace; CrowdStrike is a founding member of Anthropic's Project Glasswing and is actively using Claude Mythos Preview for AI-powered vulnerability detection in critical infrastructure.
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🛠️ Skills
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🤖 Agents & Subagents
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🔗 MCPs & Integrations
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💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas
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📰 Quick Mentions
- Goldman Sachs Hong Kong blocks Claude access — Bank bans Claude for staff amid tightened AI data-security and cyber-risk scrutiny; Bloomberg, Apr 29.
- Mizuho: CrowdStrike to rally on Project Glasswing spotlight — Analyst note says Glasswing / Claude Mythos reinforces CrowdStrike's positioning in AI-era cybersecurity; Apr 27.
- CNBC on Anthropic $900B valuation — Independent CNBC sourcing corroborates Bloomberg's report on the potential raise.