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Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5: Faster at the Same Token Price, but Not Always Cheaper per Task

Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs the same per token as Sonnet 5 and generates output faster. Whether it costs less per task depends on the effort setting: Artificial Analysis measures a saving at Medium and a higher bill at Max, where Opus 5.5 at Xhigh matches its score for less. This guide covers the benchmark table with Anthropic’s footnotes, the six changes that can break API integrations, the first cyber safeguards on a Sonnet model, and how to divide work between Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5.

Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5: What's New, Pricing, Benchmarks, and Who Should Use It

A practical guide to Claude Opus 5.5: agentic coding upgrades, the pricing table against Opus 5 and Fable 5.1, how the 40% workload-savings claim is built and what independent testing shows so far, benchmark results with their footnotes, safety changes including the loss of thinking-off mode, availability, and who should switch.

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Claude Is Merging Chat and Cowork and Adding Docs and Slides: Plans, Exports, and Open Questions

Anthropic has started merging Claude chat and Cowork into one interface and added Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta, with Claude Design now available inside conversations. This explainer covers rollout by plan, what each tool creates and exports, and the details Anthropic has not documented, including PowerPoint editability and real-time co-editing.

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Salesforce in Claude Is in Beta: How to Turn It On and Test It Without Risking Your Pipeline

The Claudeforce plugin is in open beta on all paid Claude plans. This is a setup and evaluation guide for sales teams and admins: how to connect it, what the 37 skills do across a week, how writes are approved, and how to pilot it on one team.

Claude vs ChatGPT

Claude vs ChatGPT in 2026: GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1

GPT-6 Astra dominates several math, computer-use, and execution benchmarks, while Claude Fable 5.1 leads independent intelligence and coding-agent evaluations. Here’s when to use each.

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Claude Commerce Agents: Anthropic's Open-Source Blueprint for AI Shopping Assistants and Merchant Agents

Anthropic published free, Apache-licensed reference code for retailer-hosted shopping and merchant agents. What is in the blueprint, how the guardrails keep the model away from money, what retailers still have to build, and who should worry.

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Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: What Anthropic's New Models Change, and What They Cost

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is an endurance upgrade: big gains on long-running agentic tasks, unchanged token prices but far cheaper cache reads, a restricted Mythos 5.1 for vetted defenders and scientists, and safeguards that flag benign requests far less often.

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Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard: AI Agents Step Into the Physical World

MHS is Anthropic’s specification for connecting AI agents to physical equipment. Pilots ran a drug-discovery assay, unified a seven-program microscope stack, and pushed laser recovery from 58 to 99.3 percent success.

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Claudeforce: Salesforce Just Put Its Entire CRM Inside Claude

Salesforce put its CRM inside Claude: pipeline reviews, meeting prep, and record updates by conversation. What shipped, the economics, the security model, and the debate about what Salesforce is now.

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Claude Academy Is Live: Inside Anthropic's Free AI School

Anthropic opened Claude Academy at academy.claude.com: 31 free courses across four tracks, completion badges, and the 4D AI-fluency framework the company uses to train its own staff.