Claude Sonnet 5 Launches: Closer to Opus, and Cheaper
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30. It moves closer to Opus 4.8 on benchmarks while keeping the price flat or lower, and it’s already the default for Free and Pro users.
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Claude Tag Lets You Mention @Claude in Slack Like a Teammate
Anthropic launched Claude Tag on June 23. Mention @Claude in a Slack channel and it splits work into steps and runs them async, like a teammate. Team and Enterprise beta.
How One Word ‘Workflow’ Spins Up Hundreds of Claude Code Agents
Claude Code’s new Dynamic Workflows let a single session write its own orchestration script and fan out hundreds of background agents. Here’s how it compares to my cron-based automation.
Claude Can Now Reach Your Internal Database: MCP Tunnels Launch
Anthropic shipped two new security features for Claude Managed Agents — MCP Tunnels and Self-Hosted Sandboxes. Agents can now reach internal systems without poking holes in your firewall.
Claude Agents Move Into Company Infrastructure — Two London Reveals
Anthropic’s London keynote added two features to Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. Now you can run Claude agents without sending code or files outside your network.
Claude Finance: Anthropic Packages Wall Street Workflows Into 10 Agents
Anthropic launched Claude Finance on May 5 — 10 agent templates covering IB, equity research, PE, wealth management, and analysis. The first vertical domain package.
Claude Code Stops Pausing Every Turn: /goal, /loop, /batch, /background
Anthropic just bundled four slash commands that let Claude Code run on its own — /goal, /loop, /batch, /background. Here’s what changed and when to use each one.
Anthropic Just Took GitHub’s #1 Spot With Its Own Repo — Dev Trends, Week of May 6–12
This week’s GitHub trending #1 was Anthropic’s own financial-services repo — 13K stars in 7 days. The theme: where and how do we run AI agents?