Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic’s flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.
Anthropic has provided the Californian government with access to Claude, with a 50% discount.
The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s GLM-5.2 AI model can match Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity tasks, signaling a rapidly narrowing AI gap.
Anthropic has restored access to Mythos 5 for a small group of trusted users, while reports suggest Fable 5 could return within days.

Claude Tag is a shared instance launching in Slack to summarize chats and proactively set reminders – more platforms coming soon.

US government order caused Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users amid security concerns.
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag feature brings Claude directly into Slack channels, where it can handle coding, research, data analysis, and more. Here’s how it works, how to set it up, and why it could change the way teams collaborate with AI.
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.