Claude

American

[klawd, klohd] / klɔd, kloʊd /

noun

Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Claude British

/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

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

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Anthropic said it worked rigorously to ensure Claude responds in a balanced way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Using ChatGPT or Claude today for tasks such as analyzing legal documents or going through your email inbox means sharing sensitive data with the company servers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are trained entirely on text and produce text as their output, yet they can convincingly simulate certain forms of human reasoning.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

The company did not specify the size of the deal, but said more financing was needed as its popular chatbot Claude had become so popular that the "demand requires significant new compute".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

So then, I guess, they just looked around and said, “Okay, Claude, you be the dog,” and then Claude was the dog till he got tired of it or they got tired of it.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

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