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Just inIn the newsWhite House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to let U.S. review new models before sharing them with British testersThe White House wants OpenAI and Anthropic to hold back new AI models from the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute until U.S. agencies get to review them first. The article White House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to let U.S.The DecodercoverageNew releaseClaude Agent SDK v0.2.159 is outNew: Internal/Other Changes · Updated bundled Claude CLI to version 2.1.281 · Pinned default model for e2e tests to claude-opus-5 to work around CI failures with the CLI's new default modelClaude Agent SDKHacker News buzzClaude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats766 points and 786 comments on Hacker News.Hacker NewscoverageHacker News buzzClaude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]480 points and 282 comments on Hacker News.Hacker NewscoverageNew releaseClaude Agent SDK v0.2.158 is outverbatim_prompts option : Added ClaudeAgentOptions.verbatim_prompts (default False ). When True , user messages are delivered to the CLI exactly as written — no @path file expansion and no slash-command dispatch.Claude Agent SDK
In the newsClaude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price warYesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna .Simon WillisoncoverageMicrosoftClaude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge workAI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a…Microsoft Azure blogNew modelClaude Opus 5.5 is now available$4 in · $20 out per 1M tokens. 1M context. Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5.AnthropicNew releaseAnthropic Python SDK v1.8.0 is outapi: add support for claude-opus-5-5, inline tool definitions and MCP tool-list pinning (beta)Anthropic Python SDKAWSClaude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back…AWS What's NewAWSClaude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWSAWS now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it…AWS What's NewVercel AI GatewayClaude Opus 5.5 now available on AI GatewayClaude Opus 5.5 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway . It is a step-change improvement over Opus 5 , with its biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agent tasks, and knowledge work.Vercel AI GatewayNew releaseAnthropic Python SDK v1.7.0 is outNew: api: add group with display_name to rate limits, deprecate group_type · tools: add compact_before_next_turn() to the tool runner · bedrock: raise an API error for eventstream exception and error framesAnthropic Python SDK