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Introducing Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

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Introducing Claude Opus 5

Introducing Claude Opus 5 I've been offline kayaking with sea otters for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 through its paces yet. The buzz is positive, and Anthropic's description of it as a "thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the…

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Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as…

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Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude…

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Claude Opus 5 is now available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex, long-running coding tasks that require careful reasoning, effective tool use, and reliable… The post Claude Opus 5 is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The…

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Claude Opus 5 now available on AI Gateway

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Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it…

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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

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Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.

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Introducing Claude Opus 4.5

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The Anthropic Economic Index connector

We're launching the Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude, which lets anyone explore the data directly.

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Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.

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Introducing Claude Sonnet 5

Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.

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Introducing Agent Skills | Claude by Anthropic

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Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world, strongest model for building complex agents, and best model at using computers.

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Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.

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Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs

Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.

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Claude Opus 4.6

We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.

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Introducing Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools themselves. The full…

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Apply for Anthropic’s AI for Science rare disease research grants

Anthropic is sharing a focused call for AI for Science applications centered specifically on rare genetic diseases. Accepted applicants will receive up to $50,000 in Claude credits over six months, with the goal of building a community of researchers looking into how AI can reshape our…

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Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed. Boring is good. I decided to have a poke at my own Claude Code installation to see if…

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Claude make Fable 5 permanent

Claude make Fable 5 permanent An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time…

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Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)

Tool: Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii) After building the Mermaid to ASCII tool based on Grok Build's Rust code I learned that there's an older, more fully-featured Go library called AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii that implements a similar pattern, so I had Claude Fable 5 compile that one to…

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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the…

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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.

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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing…

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Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing…

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LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work every time—but if it…

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Claude Fable 5 access restored on AI Gateway

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Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously…

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

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Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

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Claude Sonnet 5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

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Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

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The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.

When confronted with cancer, Conno Christou fed everything tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.

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Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

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NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and…

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