What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Today
Fri · Jul 24 · 7 posts
Grok in Google Workspace
Use the Grok add-on for Google Workspace to work directly in Sheets, Slides, and Docs.
Claude Opus 5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex, long-running coding tasks that require careful reasoning, effective tool use, and reliable…
Claude models explained: choosing the best model for your use case
How to choose the right Claude model for your workload: compare model classes, weigh cost per task vs. cost per token, and build evals that settle it.
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
How the product designer who built Claude Design uses it to explore ideas before building them
Nate Parrott, a product designer at Anthropic, shares how he uses Claude Design (in beta) to explore, iterate on, and share visual ideas early, from product prototypes to slide decks and animations.
Run Ray on TPU, Part 2: Ray AI libraries
This second installment explores how Ray’s higher-level libraries—Serve, Data, and Train—abstract the complexities of running AI workloads on Google's TPU slices. Ray Serve uses a simple topology configuration to correctly gang-schedule large multi-host models, while Ray Data eliminates data-loading bottlenecks by feeding accelerators directly with native JAX batches. Finally, JaxTrainer streamlines distributed training across TPUs by automatically handling cross-slice coordination, checkpointing, and fault tolerance.
Introducing Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
Yesterday
Thu · Jul 23 · 6 postsFour role-based certifications for the people who put Claude to work for customers
We're expanding the Claude Certification Program with three new role-based certifications that span the full team a customer needs to deploy AI.
Workflows in Grok Build
Grok Build can now write and run workflows: orchestration scripts that fan a task out across hundreds of parallel agents, verify the results, and report back in one background run.
Copilot cloud agent for Linear is now generally available
You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot cloud agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will: Analyze the issue contents…
GitHub MCP Server supports the next MCP specification
The MCP protocol is going stateless on 28th July 2026, and the GitHub MCP Server supports the latest spec ahead of the official release. What’s changing The new stateless core…
Agent automation controls in GitHub Issues in public preview
Agent automations increasingly label, type, assign, and close issues for you. GitHub Issues now shows the reason behind each change and lets you review them before they’re applied, so you…
Think through hard problems in voice mode
Starting today, voice mode runs on Anthropic's Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Haiku, reaches the tools you’ve connected, and speaks many more languages.
Wednesday
Wed · Jul 22 · 7 postsBringing Grok 4.5 to iOS, Android, Web, and X
Grok 4.5, our most intelligent model yet, is now on grok.com, X, iOS, and Android.
Ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index
Economic A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund
Cursor Router
Auto mode is now powered by Cursor Router. Cursor Router is our intelligent model router. It analyzes each request and sends it to the right model for the job. Frontier models handle work that demands them. Price-efficient models handle the rest. #Optimization modes Select Auto, then choose how the router optimizes: Intelligence: Frontier quality, matching the most expensive and powerful models that might be out of reach for daily use. Balance: Strong quality, matching the frontier models that most people like to daily drive. Cost: Good quality, reaching the highest available intelligence while optimizing token spend. Balance and Intelligence bill at the routed model’s rate. Each mode moves you along the cost-intelligence pareto frontier. #Admin controls Admins can enable the router per team or group, restrict which optimization modes members can use, set the default mode, and allow or block underlying models. Cursor Router is available across desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and our SDK. It is on by default for Teams plans. Enterprise admins can enable it from the dashboard. Learn more in our announcement and docs. Improvements↓↑ Per-request classification by task type and complexity Optimization modes: Cost, Balance, and Intelligence Admin controls: per-team and per-group enablement, mode restrictions, default mode, and model allow and block lists Routed model can be displayed or hidden (hidden by default) Soft and hard enforcement options for standardizing on Auto Grok 4.5 required as a price-efficient routing option
New Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard
We’ve released a new Copilot metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners. This dashboard helps you tell a deeper Copilot impact story by sharing not just who is…
How Outtake built a cyber investigator on Claude
How Outtake ensures multi-hour agent sessions stay on track to uncover attack network operations
Building verification loops in Claude Code with skills
How Anthropic builds verification loops in Claude Code: turn your manual checks into skills so Claude tests, fixes, and verifies its own work.