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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The release of chatbot Claude propelled Anthropic ahead in the AI race.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

Cursor competes with Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which can write code, debug software and automate tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

“Everybody’s having Claude run ‘What’s the next bottleneck?’

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

Tuesday, SpaceX announced it was combining with the agentic AI software coding tool, which competes with the likes of Anthropic’s Claude.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

These independent artists will hold their first exhibition in 1874, and eventually they will be called Impressionists, after Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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