On the newer models there are no more todo lists in the terminal, GitLab merge requests now show up in the agents view, and an NTLM leak on Windows is closed. A release with one change you'll notice right away.
Claude in Slack used to see only the one message right in front of it. Now it reads the whole channel, uses its memory, and jumps in when it has something to add – or stays quiet. At no extra cost.
Anthropic has explained how the watermark in Claude's text works under the hood. In short: it doesn't change which words Claude picks, only where the randomness for that choice comes from. Nothing is hidden, nothing costs extra.
Starting today, new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team run in auto mode. Instead of asking at every step, a classifier checks each action – and only blocks what turns dangerous.
A single change, but one that annoyed a lot of people: MCP OAuth sign-in to services like Slack was broken. 2.1.231 fixes the redirect URI and the login works again.
Three weeks after 3.6 Flash, Google sends its next model for coding and agents into the ring. It's said to beat comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI on nine benchmarks – at half the price.
OpenAI gives an early look at a new service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster. Not a new model, just raw speed – powered by Cerebras chips.
60 subagents, 650 ideas, 31 million tokens — and a genuine step forward on a 150-year-old math problem. It's not solved, but the story behind it is the good part.