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Claude

American  
[klawd, klohd] / klɔd, kloʊd /

noun

  1. Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.

  2. Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”


Claude British  
/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

  1. Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It’s a mass-marketed, mobile-friendly version of the machine-as-person work that power users are already doing with Claude and ChatGPT on computers.

From Slate Sep. 23, 2026

But the writers behind Balance ton Claude said that Pangram had been shown to make a wrong call about an AI-generated text only one time in every 24,400.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

In July, Anthropic's Claude escaped its test environment to hack three organisations on its own just days after OpenAI said its models had carried out cyber-attacks against several "publicly available services".

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Unlike Google, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model didn’t stop during the capture-the-flag exercise after realizing it was likely accessing a real company, according to Anthropic’s blog post.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

“You know, Claude, I saw that symbol yesterday on the cover of one of the books I looked at.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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