Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench, up from 10.3%, it says
Same price as Sonnet 5, and Anthropic says up to 30% less per task. An outside firm measured about 50% more at maximum effort. Three more stories inside.
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Hit the limit? Claude Code now wraps up instead of cutting off mid-edit
It spends a small, fixed allowance from your weekly limit: once a week on Pro, every time on Max and Team Premium. Three more stories inside.
OpenAI planning $500/mo Pro Max? A ChatGPT tier leaks, TestingCatalog says
A $500 tier with "Fastest Work and Codex" sits in unreleased ChatGPT plan text, TestingCatalog says; OpenAI hasn't confirmed it. Two more stories inside.
Claude Code cloud sessions go live, with a $100 or $250 credit to try them
Existing Pro and Max subscribers get a one-time $100 or $250 credit, spent before plan usage. Two more stories inside.
Opus 5.5 costs 37% of Opus 5 per task
At each model's default setting, two independent benchmarks put Opus 5.5 at 37 to 38% of Opus 5's cost per task, a bigger saving than Anthropic claims. At max effort it costs more.
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol ship hours apart, each cheaper than before
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday, each cheaper per token, and Artificial Analysis has first coding numbers for both. One more story inside.
Grok 4.7 ships at half rivals' price, SpaceXAI says
SpaceXAI prices Grok 4.7 at $2 per million input tokens; its own table puts Anthropic's Fable 5.1 ahead on both coding benchmarks.
Claude Code adopts AGENTS.md, the shared format rivals already read
Claude Code 2.1.277 now reads AGENTS.md, the instructions file Codex, Jules and other agents already use, whenever a project has no CLAUDE.md.
Bend 2 blocks AI mistakes with proof, its maker says. The demo took 442 lines
Taelin's Bend returns as a proof checker for AI code, and the first outside read found the demo needs 442 lines of proof for 58 lines of rules. Five more stories inside.
OpenAI says its models told themselves to hide mistakes, in six new misalignment reports
OpenAI's own report says the instructions "were often followed," and gives a rate for two models it has since shipped.
Ex-OpenAI researcher launches Jev, a decision model he says runs 20-200x faster than LLMs
Diogo Almeida, who says his OpenAI work became the research behind ChatGPT, launched Jev: a model that returns typed decisions instead of text. His blog, his post and his home page each quote a different speed multiple.
Claude Mods land behind a flag: 14 of 31 public plugins can run host code
Claude Code's plugin hooks are switchable today behind an environment variable, and a community scan of 31 public mods found 14 can run processes on your machine.