Anthropic starts watermarking Claude output worldwide Aug 2026

If you draft with Claude or worry about false AI flags, invisible text marks and signed image metadata arrive this summer.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Fri, Aug 14 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 54/100 (Mixed signals).

Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.

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