GPT-5.6 Has a New Rival From Anthropic: Here’s What Claude Opus 5 Brings

GPT-5.6 Has a New Rival From Anthropic: Here’s What Claude Opus 5 Brings News18

Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

Hi Hacker News, I'm Louis. I built Screenpipe (https://screenpipe.com), an app that records your screen and audio locally (only!), and gives AI agents a searchable memory of what you've seen, said…

Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents

hey HN, Jonathan and Guy here, creators of OneCLI (https://onecli.sh/). OneCLI is an open source vault for AI Agents.Traditional vaults are used to store your secrets and, on demand, provide them to you…

Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI

Hi HN, we are Marcos and Harrison, cofounders of Palmier (https://palmier.io). We are building Palmier Pro, an open source macOS video editor, with built-in AI generation and a local MCP server that connects…

The Anthropic Economic Index connector

We're launching the Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude, which lets anyone explore the data directly.

Fixes quadratic slowdown in long sessions causing multi-second stalls

What's changed Added `sandbox.filesystem.disabled` setting to skip filesystem isolation while keeping network egress control Fixed a slowdown in long sessions where message normalization cost grew quadratically with…

Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code

Fixes permission-check bypass in PowerShell and Bash

What's changed Fixed single-segment `dir/` allow rules like `Edit(src/)` auto-approving writes to nested `dir/` directories anywhere in the tree instead of only `/dir` Fixed a permission-check bypass affecting commands…

Adds WebSearch and subagent spawn limits to prevent runaway loops

What's changed `/fork` now copies your conversation into a new background session (its own row in `claude agents`) while you keep working; the in-session subagent it used to launch is now `/subtask` Added `claude…

Fixes parallel sessions logging out after sleep

What's changed Added `--forward-subagent-text` flag and `CLAUDE_CODE_FORWARD_SUBAGENT_TEXT` environment variable to include subagent text and thinking in stream-json output Fixed permission previews relayed to chat…

Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages

Adds screen reader mode and fixes context window reset after CLI

What's changed Added screen reader mode: opt-in plain-text rendering for screen reader users. Run `claude --ax-screen-reader`, set CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER=1, or add "axScreenReader": true to settings. Added…

A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

This started based off of a hunch. We usually use OpenCode, but were 'forced' to use Claude Code for a while due to issues with Meridian. In that time, we saw the usage meter rise much, much more quickly than…

Fixes terminal freezing while streaming long content

What's changed Auto mode is now available without `CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE` opt-in on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry; disable via `disableAutoMode` in settings Fixed the terminal freezing and keystrokes lagging…

Fixes background agents crashing after sleep/wake and stale daemon

What's changed Changed `AskUserQuestion` dialogs to no longer auto-continue by default; opt into an idle timeout via `/config` Changed the "default" permission mode to "Manual" across the CLI, `--help`, VS Code, and…

Fixes multiple agent routing, streaming, and persistence bugs

What's changed Stacked slash-skill invocations like `/skill-a /skill-b do XYZ` now load all leading skills (up to 5), not just the first Fixed SSL certificate errors (TLS-inspecting proxies, missing…

More details on Fable 5’s cyber safeguards and our jailbreak framework

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Adds background agent notifications and auto-commit to PR on code work

What's changed Claude in Chrome is now generally available Added background agent notifications in `claude agents` — sessions that need input or finish now fire the `Notification` hook (`agent_needs_input` /…

Sonnet 5 today, and Fable 5 tomorrow

Everything is open again!

Anthropic SDK (TS): sdk: v0.109.0

0.109.0 (2026-06-30) Full Changelog: sdk-v0.108.0...sdk-v0.109.0 Features api: add support for Managed Agents event delta streaming, agent overrides, reverse pagination, vault credential injection scoping, and agent…

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, nearing Opus performance at lower

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work — Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic…

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

Defaults to Claude Sonnet 5 with 1M-token context window

What's changed Introducing Claude Sonnet 5: now the default model in Claude Code, with a native 1M-token context window and promotional pricing of $2/$10 per Mtok through August 31. Update to version 2.1.197 for…

Anthropic releases Claude Science for researchers and pharma

Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry statnews.com

Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists

Claude Science is a customizable app that integrates the tools and packages researchers most often use, produces auditable artifacts, and provides flexible access to computing resources.

Adds organization default models and clickable file attachments

What's changed Added support for organization default models — admins set it in the org console; it shows as "Org default" (or "Role default") in `/model` when you haven't picked one yourself Added readable default…

Fixes hook matchers with hyphenated identifiers to exact-match

What's changed Added `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS` to disable mouse click/drag/hover in fullscreen mode while keeping wheel scroll Fixed hook matchers with hyphenated identifiers (e.g. `code-reviewer`…

Adds autoMode.classifyAllShell to route all shell commands through

What's changed Added `autoMode.classifyAllShell` setting to route all Bash/PowerShell commands through the auto-mode classifier instead of only arbitrary-code-execution patterns Added auto-mode denial reasons to the…

Reduces CPU usage during streaming by ~37% through text update

What's changed Added `/rewind` support for resuming a conversation from before `/clear` was run Fixed scroll position jumping to the bottom while reading earlier output during a streaming response Fixed background…