The Biggest AI-as-a-Service Company in History
A directory of some weekend reading about Claude AI products and Anthropic. Links to the best and most unique guides and POV op-eds I could find.
Anthropic is in the Zeitgeist, no longer a glorified AI research lab startup. Now a full on product explosion is happening. This is what AI Supremacy in coding models, agentic AI and maybe even reasoning models looks like (revenue growth is staggering). Upgrade.
“Anthropic: (in philosophy and cosmology) involving or concerning the existence of human life, especially as a constraint on theories of the universe.
“anthropic reasoning is only interesting in a scientific sense if it can help us understand how the universe came to be the way it is”
(typically of environmental degradation) caused by human beings; anthropogenic.
“anthropic climate change”
What is even Anthropic?
It’s mid April, 2026. Everywhere I look recently I see articles about Anthropic and its many Claude updates. I get it, Anthropic is making a huge push into Enterprise AI, will go IPO in about six months, and just released a preview of one of the most impressive models we’ve seen called Mythos. Anthropic is surging ahead of OpenAI and it has repercussions on the entire Tech stack, and incumbents. Tech layoffs feel different this year. (Oracle, Disney, Epic Games, Atlassian (look at the stock), Block, Workday, etc…)
Fastest Growing Enterprise AI Company Ever
Anthropic is arguably the fastest-scaling software company ever, with diversified compute on Nvidia GPUs but also Amazon and Google AI chips. It’s the foundational Agentic AI-as-a-Service company of the Generative AI era (2023-2026, so far). Its API benefits from the explosive growth of Cursor and it’s getting a lot more Enterprise customers with contracts over $1 Million dollars.
What is this List?
But since most of my readers are primarily AI Enthusiasts, their product release timeline lately has been a bit daunting and snappy. I wanted to list some of the best article resources and guides I could find on this platform. This is essentially a Friday listicle, mostly around Claude guides. Clicking on one of these links supports some of its top AI navigators, educators, analysts, enthusiasts.
In a staggering window between February and April 2026, Anthropic's run-rate jumped from $14 billion to $30 billion.
This week Anthropic announced their solution to Managed Agents.
According to Deedy Das, a partner at Menlo Ventures who invest in Anthropic:
“Claude Mythos just obliterated every single benchmark in AI.”
It might take some time for us to get our hands on the model, since they are prioritizing trust and saftey.
Claude’s Good Times Begin
Hilariously it’s turned every AI creator I know into a booster for this company. Instead of simply repeating another guide, I wanted to give you my readers a kind of directory to some of the best content I could find around Claude’s various list of new products.
Remember, Claude Code only became widely available to users by May 22, 2025, not even a year ago.
What are Managed Agents?
Just a small note on the latest product:
Claude Managed Agents is a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. These are suitable for businesses of all sizes, but especially large companies.
It's best for workloads that need long-running execution (tasks that run for minutes or hours with multiple tool calls), cloud infrastructure with secure containers and minimal infrastructure.
So that’s my intro and here’s my list: (I will try and be brief but also give you some weekend reading if you want to catch up on your AI skills):
Click the links to learn more. (I try to keep paid articles to a minimum in the below list, for learning purposes)
A Short Claude Learning Directory:
I think if you read and scan through some of these articles, it’s fair value for your time. Keeping up to date with Claude AI in practice is likely a good idea.
Scan these titles carefully 👀 (These were all hand picked by me over a few days)
Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release, by Kai Williams (Understanding AI
The Non-Technical Person’s Complete Guide to Claude Code, by Michael Crist
How to Onboard to Claude Without the Learning Curve, by Jenny Ouyang (Build to Launch)
AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026, by Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
Anthropic Just Passed OpenAI in Revenue. Spending 4x Less, by Ruben Dominguez (The AI Corner) 🔥
How to setup Claude Code (without coding), by Ruben Hassid (How to AI)
39 Claude Skills Examples to Transform How You Work, by Daria Cupareanu (AI Blew my Mind)
Make the Most of Claude Code: 15 Projects From Your First Prompt to an AI System That Runs Itself, by Jenny Ouyang (Build to Launch)
Turn Claude Cowork Into Your Personal COO 🧠, by Linas Beliūnas
Claude Just Changed Content Creation Forever! (Tutorial), by Sabrina Ramonov 🍄
Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces, by Ethan Mollick (One Useful Thing)
The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Agentic AI Workflow With Claude Cowork, by Wyndo (The AI Maker)
Guide to Claude Cowork (without coding) by Ruben Hassid (How to AI)
Claude Cowork: The Ultimate Guide for PMs, by Paweł Huryn (The Product Compass)
How to Build Product Strategy in the Age of AI: Step-by-Step with Claude Code, by Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny, by Lenny Rachitsky
Claude Cowork Guide for Power Users: 50+ Tested Tips on Plugins, Skills, Sub-Agents, and Memory, by Karo (Product with Attitude)
How to set up Claude Cowork Projects, by Frank Andrade (Artificial Corner)
We Tried 100 Claude Skills. These Are The Best, by Frank Andrade (Multiple authors, Artificial Corner).
Claude Skills Are Taking the AI Community by Storm, by Karo (Product with Attitude)
Claude Cowork: 10 Use Cases I Tested + 67 More by Profession, by Daria Cupareanu (AI Blew my Mind)
10 Claude Cowork Workflows That Actually Work, by Ruben Dominguez (The AI Corner)
You’re Using Claude Wrong! Here’s How to Be Ahead of 99% of Users, by Frank Andrade (Artificial Corner).
Everyone should be using Claude Code more, by Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny’s Newsletter)
Forward-deployed AI consulting: the new world of AI Agents, by Guillermo Flor (AI Opportunity)
Why Anthropic Thinks AI Should Have Its Own Computer (a Podcast interview)— Felix Rieseberg of Claude Cowork & Claude Code Desktop, by Latent.Space
Anthropic’s New AI Report Accidentally Reveals an Industry-Sized Weak Spot, by Alberto Romero (The Algorithmic Bridge)
Turn Claude Into Your Personal AI Operating System, by Daria Cupareanu (AI Blew my Mind)
Before You Use Claude Cowork, Build This First, by Frank Andrade
How to Set up Claude for Non-Coders, by Ruben Hassid 🔥
Perplexity Computer vs Claude Code vs Cowork vs Manus: Tested Side by Side, by Daria Cupareanu
The Claude Dispatch Guide: 48 Hours Running AI Agents From My Phone, by Paweł Huryn (The Product Compass)
The PM’s Guide to Agent Distribution: MCP Servers, CLIs, and AGENTS.md, by Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
How I Connected NotebookLM to Claude and Changed How I Do Research Forever, by Wyndo (The AI Maker)
Claude Code and Codex bet on different harnesses, by Nate
How to build an AI boardroom in Claude Code, by Steffi Kieffer (Insanely Human)
How to use Claude Code to build a board room of world class Product Mentors, Rich Holmes (Department of Product)
Claude Team is Shipping Like Crazy: 74 Releases in 52 Days, by Paweł Huryn (AI Product Management)
How to use Claude Cowork as a Competitive Intelligence System, by Rich Holmes (Department of Product)
The Guide to Claude Code for PMs, by Paweł Huryn (The Product Compass)
The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic, by Timothy B. Lee (Understanding AI)
On Claude Mythos: “New Sages Unrivalled”, by Dean W. Ball (Hyperdimensional)
Is Claude Cowork safe? by Karen Spinner & ToxSec (wonderingabout.ai)
Claude.md Full guide, by Guillermo Flor (Product Market Fit and AI Opportunity)
The Meaning of Anthropic vs the Pentagon, by Dean W. Ball (Hyperdimensional, Persuasion) 🔥
Claude Managed Agents Explained, by Opinion AI (Emerging AI)
Claude Skills: The Feature That Saves You 200 Hours, by Ruben Dominguez (The VC Corner)
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: Dive Into The Details by Zvi Mowshowitz (Don’t Worry about the Vase)
The One-Person Unicorn 🦄, by Linas Beliūnas
AI Just Entered Its Manhattan Project Era, Alberto Romero (The Algorithmic Bridge)
Are AI agents actually slowing us down? By Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
AI #163: Mythos Quest By Zvi Mowshowitz (Don’t Worry about the Vase)
Components of A Coding Agent, by Sebastian Raschka, PhD (Ahead of AI)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained, by Nir Diamant
How to Create Interactive Chats with Claude AI, by Ruben Hassid (How I AI)
Anthropic just solved the hardest part of building AI agents, by Ruben Dominguez (The AI Corner)
A Disruptive Moment in Time… by Peter H. Diamandis (Megatrends)
What should we take from Anthropic’s (possibly) terrifying new report on Mythos? by Gary Marcus (Marcus on AI)
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering, by Nathan Lambert (Interconnects)
AI’s Acceleration Paradox, by Luiza Jarovsky, PhD
Connectors vs Skills vs Projects vs Custom MCP: What Each Layer Is Actually For, by Claude Cowork
How to Install Claude Excel, by Ruben Hassid (How to AI)
A beginner’s guide to using Claude, By Helena Di Biase (Really Rich)
MCP - A Deep Dive, by Neo Kim (The System Design Newsletter)
6 Ways I Cut My Claude Token Usage in Half! by Sabrina Ramonov 🍄
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If this is the fastest growing AI company on Earth and in human history, I guess I understand why guides for its new products are in hot-demand. 🔥
The Claude Learning Explosion
Many lucrative Creators in AI I know, are (almost exclusively) writing about Claude now. I guess Anthropic owns the limelight ✨(or like the way Twitter AI bros used to say: “what a time to be alive” 😂).
Click on the images to visit the Newsletter.
I guess it’s profitable just to write about what’s trending. 🤷🏻♂️ Also, why not go to the source:
Anthropic Academy for learning with Claude AI
Claude for Personal | Daily Tasks
Claude API Development Guide
Go Deeper with Anthropic Courses
Course: Introduction to Claude Cowork
Course: Claude Code in Action
Extend Claude with Skills
Claude Code Docs: Getting Started
What other podcasts, YouTube, courses or resources have you found that helps with learning about Claude AI and enabling you to wrap you mind around AI developments?
I’m not a huge YouTube watcher but you can go deeper with some of your favorite authors and analysts:
YouTube Channels of note related to AI
Dwarkesh Patel - The Dwarkesh Patel YouTube
Nate B. Jones - AI News and Strategy Daily (also a famous TikTok AI educator)
ChinaTalk with Jordan Schneider Sc
No Priors - A VC podcast, but usually good.
Hard Fork, featuring Casey Newton (who’s the other guy again?)
Machine Learning Street Talk (kind of legendary)
Yannic Kilcher - usually breakdowns of AI Papers
Asianometry (another legend)
AI Proem, with Grace Shao
High Capacity, with Kyle Chan
How to understand the “Layers of Claude”:
Anyways I hope you were able to find some value from my lists. This onslaught of Claude guides in April, 2026 is way bigger than the January 2025 DeepSeek moment. See you next time.
As a Claude maximalist since early 2023, this comes as no surprise. Once you go Claude, there is no way back.
There is only one thing that's annoying me now: I don't like to be mainstream 😅 If a space gets too crowded, I usually move on to the next.
On the other hand: there is no next. This is very similar to Apple.
I may have to give Claude a go.