WORLD - The company is enhancing the capabilities of its “Claude” model to include financial analysis and cybersecurity, as competition over advanced AI markets continues to grow.

Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, is broadening the scope of its AI program “Claude” to cover additional fields amid escalating rivalry among AI developers.

The company said on Thursday that with the new release, “Claude Opus 4.6,” the AI system is now also capable of performing financial analysis tasks.

It explained that Claude can assess corporate data, mandatory disclosures, and market information.

Shares of some financial analysis firms fell sharply following the presentation of the new AI program.

Just last week, Anthropic triggered a sell-off in the shares of companies offering traditional legal software after launching an AI product specifically designed for legal services.

According to Anthropic, “Claude Opus 4.6” has also improved its ability to identify security vulnerabilities in software.

The company said the AI discovered more than 500 critical vulnerabilities that were previously unknown in collections of open-source software.

However, Anthropic also warned that cyber attackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to carry out their attacks.

Meanwhile, OpenAI, the creator of “ChatGPT,” released an upgraded version of its AI program designed for coding at roughly the same time.

The company said that “GPT-5.3 Codex” was the first model to play a significant role in its own development process.

OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to integrate their AI software across businesses and government agencies.

Artificial intelligence has already transformed software development. Whereas programmers previously wrote most code manually, large portions are now generated by AI and reviewed by human developers.