Opus 5.5
Factory's Droid 1.0 agent harness claims higher Terminal-Bench 4 scores at lower cost
Factory has released Droid 1.0, a rebuilt version of its coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling the default. According to the company, Droid scores…
Google Cloud adds Anthropic-managed option for running Claude models
Google Cloud has made an Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude models generally available, giving customers a second way to run Claude next to the existing…
Open-weight models now handle 71.5% of AI Gateway tokens and 23% of spend
Open-weight models now process more than seven in ten tokens on Vercel's AI Gateway and account for nearly one in four dollars spent, according to the company's October…
Arize test finds Opus 5.5 nearly drops em dashes, halves other Claudisms
Anthropic says Opus 5.5 fixed Claude's writing, and an evaluation run by Arize largely backs the em dash part of that claim. Other stylistic tics fell by about half…
Claude Sonnet 5.5 arrives on Snowflake Cortex AI in public preview
Snowflake is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 to Cortex AI in public preview, available at launch through Cortex Inference. Teams can use the model for analysis…
CodeRabbit: Claude Sonnet 5.5 catches more bugs than Sonnet 5 in half the time
CodeRabbit says Claude Sonnet 5.5 caught 6 of 13 known bugs in its hardest code-review cases, against 4 for Sonnet 5, while finishing reviews in about half the time. The…