Claude News
The ElevenLabs MCP in Claude
August 17, 2026
via ElevenLabs
The ElevenLabs MCP is now available in Claude, so teams can manage voice and chat agents where they already work: review recent performance, create new agents, update configurations, and estimate LLM costs before changes go live.
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The /design Skill in Claude Code
August 17, 2026
Claude Code can design now. The new /design skill, a research preview, brings Claude Design's artboard workflow into the CLI and Desktop, built on artifacts. Run /design to get editable artboards for your UI — pick one, tweak it, then have Claude implement it.
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How Claude's Text Watermark Works
August 14, 2026
Anthropic explained the text watermark coming to future Claude models, added to meet EU AI Act requirements. When several word choices are equally valid, the model biases that pick using a hidden pattern that Anthropic can later detect, so Claude's involvement can be verified without changing output quality or spending extra tokens.
Auto-Continue After Usage Limits in Claude Code Desktop
August 13, 2026
Claude Code desktop now has an auto-continue checkbox for usage limits. Turn it on and it picks up where you left off automatically once your limit resets.
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Granola Connects to More Apps via MCP
August 11, 2026
via Granola
With MCP, what you talked about in meetings can inform the work you're doing in other apps. Granola now connects via MCP to Sauna, PromptQL, Deelan, Blomma, Rezonant, and Mira — as well as all your favorite AI apps, like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
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Weave Tools, Now via MCP
August 11, 2026
via Figma Weave
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any AI agent to the Figma MCP server and run your favorite Weave tools right from the chat. Give your instructions, and get the creative back without leaving the conversation.
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Improved Biology Safeguards in Claude Fable 5
August 7, 2026
Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards, cutting biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across product surfaces. That means fewer legitimate requests, like everyday health questions, educational biology content, and clinical tasks for healthcare professionals, get redirected to the less capable Opus 5 model. Fable 5 still blocks requests in dual-use research areas such as virology, toxicology, and molecular design.
Session Budgets in Claude Managed Agents
August 7, 2026
You can now set a budget for Claude Managed Agents sessions to keep spend predictable. Sessions that hit the limit pause with a budget_reached event, and you can raise the budget to resume. One of four Managed Agents updates Anthropic shipped this week.
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Claude Code Sessions Can Message Each Other
August 7, 2026
Your Claude Code sessions can now message each other. Instead of re-explaining yourself in another session, tell Claude to do it: it sends a summary (not your history or files), and the other session picks it up mid-task.
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Auto Mode Becomes the Claude Code Default
August 7, 2026
Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team users. Auto mode reviews shell commands and actions with a separate classifier: in testing it caught 89% of dangerous commands, while manual approval caught 14%.
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Introducing Video Skills
August 6, 2026
via Capsule
Capsule introduced Video Skills: make a video in Claude or ChatGPT that follows your exact video workflow, uses your assets and motion systems, and stays fully editable. Not slop.
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Artlist MCP Is Now on Claude
July 27, 2026
via Artlist
Artlist MCP is now on Claude. Generate images and videos right inside your conversation, with everything saved directly to your Artlist account. No prompt engineering, no tab switching.
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Claude Opus 5 in Lovable
July 24, 2026
via Lovable
Claude Opus 5 is now available in Lovable. Lovable pushed it hardest on what builders care about most, shipping complete, working apps. It's the top performer in its family, up 22% over Claude Opus 4.7 on Lovable's most demanding coding tasks, with the highest finished-app quality they've measured and noticeably less variance run to run.
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Claude Opus 5 in v0
July 24, 2026
via v0
You can now use Claude Opus 5 in v0. Try it at v0.app/?opus5.
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Introducing Claude Opus 5
July 24, 2026
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5, a thoughtful, proactive model with near-frontier performance at about half the cost of Claude Fable 5. It sets the state of the art on coding benchmarks, doubles Opus 4.8's Frontier-Bench score, beats everything but Fable 5 on OSWorld 2.0 at a third of the cost, and produces the strongest visual output of any Opus yet. Pricing stays at $5/$25 per million tokens. It's the new default on Claude Max, the strongest model on Pro, and available in the API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, with Fast mode support.
Managed Agents Gets New Features
July 24, 2026
Anthropic added several features to Claude Managed Agents: configure effort levels per agent, seed sessions with events, add up to 500 skills per session, use webhooks for environments and memory stores, and stream events for sub-agents.
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Claude Opus 5 in Cursor
July 24, 2026
via Cursor
Claude Opus 5 is now available in Cursor. It matches Fable 5 on CursorBench (66.7 vs 66.5 at default effort) at half the price, and unlike Fable it's also compatible with Zero Data Retention.
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Claude Opus 5 in Rork
July 24, 2026
via Rork
Claude Opus 5 is now live in Rork: state of the art on coding benchmarks, stronger visual output than any previous Opus, and near Fable 5 intelligence at half the price.
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Claude Opus 5 in Notion
July 24, 2026
via Notion
A new model today: Claude Opus 5 is now available in Notion.
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Claude Opus 5 in Perplexity + Computer
July 24, 2026
via Perplexity
Claude Opus 5 is now available in Perplexity and Perplexity Computer. Perplexity evaluated it against six other models on WANDR. It outperformed all but Fable 5, while being 57% cheaper.
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Upgraded Voice Mode
July 23, 2026
Claude's voice mode now runs on Claude's more capable models and can reach the tools you've connected mid-conversation. Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages.
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Run Creative Production From Your Agent
July 23, 2026
via OpenArt
Your AI agent can now run your creative production with OpenArt MCP. Upload one product photo and your agent generates banners, social creatives, product images, and video ads, all inside Claude, with no tool switching and no API keys. Just tell it what you need. Check it out at openart.ai/mcp.
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Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code (Beta)
July 22, 2026
The Claude Security plugin for Claude Code is now in beta. Scan your changes for vulnerabilities before you commit, or run a full scan across your codebase, all from your terminal on the Claude inference you already run.
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Economic Index Connector
July 22, 2026
Anthropic launched a connector that lets you query the Anthropic Economic Index directly in Claude. Ask natural-language questions about how AI is used across occupations, regions, and tasks (like which jobs use AI most, or what teachers use Claude for) and get answers grounded in real Index data with citations. It works across all Claude models, takes about a minute to enable from the connectors menu, and the full datasets stay free on Anthropic's site.
Cap for Agents
July 21, 2026
via Cap
Cap for Agents is here. Your agent can search your entire library, understand recordings, pull out action items, reply to comments, and even record and share your screen for you. Works with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
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Record a Skill in Claude Cowork
July 21, 2026
New in Claude Cowork: teach Claude a skill by recording your screen while you do a task and talking through it as you go. Claude turns the recording into a skill it can run again. Find it under 'Record a skill' in the + menu of the Claude desktop app. Available on Pro, Max, and Team plans.
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Bolt Slides Is Now Open Source
July 16, 2026
via Bolt
Bolt open sourced Bolt Slides, the building blocks any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Bolt) can use to compose presentations. Every deck is a real web app with responsive slides, presenter mode, annotations, and 20+ layout components, and each slide is a plain React component. A bundled skill teaches the agent how to theme, compose, and write the deck from a single prompt.
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Use Lovable Apps Inside ChatGPT and Claude
July 15, 2026
via Lovable
Lovable apps can now be used directly within ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools. Enable agent integrations on a published app and Lovable reads its logic, generates an MCP server listing its actions, and hosts it for you, protected by OAuth by default with security checks at publish time. Your assistant can then run the app's actions in conversation.
Claude for Teachers
July 14, 2026
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, a free AI tool for K-12 educators that automates planning and admin so teachers can focus on evidence-based practices like differentiation and mastery-based learning. It maps lesson plans to state standards, builds differentiated materials, analyzes class data, and connects to trusted curricula (OpenSciEd, Illustrative Mathematics) and nine edtech partners including Canva Education, MagicSchool, and Diffit. Free for verified US K-12 educators with full access through June 30, 2027.
After Effects Plugin Upgraded (Fable 5)
July 14, 2026
via Higgsfield
Higgsfield's MCP/Plugin for After Effects got a major upgrade, powered by Claude Fable 5. Build your own AE plugins, drop in a reference and have it decomposed into editable vector layers you can animate, get an AI assistant that answers or does the work for you, and localize a project seamlessly.
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Artifacts: Public Sharing + Multiplayer Editing
July 13, 2026
Claude Artifacts now support public sharing and multiplayer editing in Claude Code, and can be created with Claude Tag. Publish an artifact for anyone to open, and collaborate on it with others in real time.
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Claude Code In-App Browser
July 10, 2026
Claude Code on desktop now has an in-app browser — Claude can pull up docs, designs, or any other site and read, click through, and interact the same way it does with your local dev servers. It is sandboxed and configurable, so you choose whether sessions persist.
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Claude for Open Source Expands
July 7, 2026
Anthropic is expanding Claude for Open Source to more of the community — offering 6 months of Claude Max 20x free. Maintainers, core contributors, people landing PRs across the ecosystem, and those keeping critical packages alive can apply today.
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Claude Cowork on Mobile and Web
July 7, 2026
Claude Cowork is coming to mobile and web — hand Claude a task at your desk and pick up the finished work from your phone. Close the laptop and Claude keeps going. The beta rolls out over the next several weeks, starting with the Max plan and more plans to follow.
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Higgsfield Apps
July 7, 2026
via Higgsfield
Higgsfield launched Higgsfield Apps — its biggest release yet. Generate apps with any Higgsfield image or video model built in, with Fable 5 engineering every app like a top engineer. Build aesthetic websites of any complexity and ship browser extensions, plugins, and desktop and mobile apps, then deploy when done. Available on Supercomputer and on Claude via Higgsfield MCP.
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Fable 5 in Framer
July 4, 2026
via Framer
Claude Fable 5 is now available in Framer, bringing proactive setups, tasteful details, and stronger shaders, animations, and visual consistency.
Sonnet 5 in Shipper
July 3, 2026
via Shipper
Claude Sonnet 5 is now live in Shipper — available for your builds, faster and sharper on smaller tasks. Shipper reaches for it when you want quick, precise edits without the wait.
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Gemini Omni Flash on Arcads
July 3, 2026
via Arcads
Gemini Omni Flash is live on Arcads — infinite world knowledge, top-tier editing, real motion design, and text that stays crisp across every frame. Also available on Claude via the Arcads MCP.
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Fable 5 in Magica
July 2, 2026
via Magica
Claude Fable 5 is back and now in Magica — one prompt in, a full campaign out. Content pipelines, deep analysis, and agent-run marketing with no human bottleneck. Not a smarter chatbot, but an agent that takes the task to completion autonomously.
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Artifacts in Claude Code on Pro & Max
July 2, 2026
Artifacts in Claude Code are now available on Pro and Max plans. Ask for an artifact and Claude writes the code, publishes it live to claude.ai, and updates it in real time while it keeps working. Pages are private to your account and fully self-contained.
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Higher Claude API Rate Limits
July 2, 2026
Anthropic raised Claude Platform API rate limits for all users and simplified the tiers, which are no longer based on API spend. The latest Sonnet and Haiku models now provide 5x higher rate limits at the highest tier.
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Higgsfield Explainer
July 2, 2026
via Higgsfield
Higgsfield introduced Explainer, powered by Claude Fable 5 and Gemini Omni Flash — faceless documentaries at scale. It auto-researches your topic, narrates in any language, and renders up to 10 minutes in one run. Available on Higgsfield, MCP, and Supercomputer.
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Higgsfield MCP Now Free
July 2, 2026
via Higgsfield
Higgsfield MCP is now free — every new user gets 100 free credits to generate content with Fable 5 driving Higgsfield MCP on Claude. Grab the free trial plan for full MCP access for 3 days. Limited offer.
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Claude for Figma
July 2, 2026
via Shipper
Shipper introduced Claude for Figma — paste your Figma URL and Claude Fable 5 will code, design, launch, and translate an app that perfectly mirrors the original Figma. A verified tool you can use today.
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Claude × Arcads in Slack
July 2, 2026
via Arcads
Arcads introduced Claude × Arcads in Slack — get viral ads right in your Slack DMs. Available today for all Arcads users.
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Sonnet 5 in Framer
July 1, 2026
via Framer
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available in Framer — a stronger partner for original design work than Sonnet 4.6, especially for layout, visual direction, and editing alongside you. In Framer evals, accuracy improved from 72% to 90% while using 0.6× the credits of GPT 5.5.
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Sonnet 5 + Nano Banana Lite in Magica
July 1, 2026
via Magica
Magica now runs Claude Sonnet 5 alongside Nano Banana Lite inside one AI agent — Nano Banana Lite delivers near-flagship image quality in seconds at a fraction of the cost, while Claude Sonnet 5 plans and runs the entire task on its own, no prompting skills needed.
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Magic Layers with AI Assistants
July 1, 2026
via Canva
Canva Magic Layers now pairs with AI assistants — whether you come from Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot, you can unlock every visual element as a separate, editable layer to remix, refine, and make your own.
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Claude Fable 5 in Cursor
July 1, 2026
via Cursor
Claude Fable 5 is available again in Cursor — it leads all models on CursorBench, but is the most expensive per task.
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Claude Fable 5 on Base44
July 1, 2026
via Base44
Claude Fable 5 is live again on Base44 — back from timeout and ready to build.
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Sonnet 5 on Higgsfield
July 1, 2026
via Higgsfield
Claude Sonnet 5 is live on Higgsfield — it plans and runs marketing asset pipelines on its own via the Higgsfield MCP, at a level that used to need bigger, costlier models, and makes agentic pipelines more efficient on Higgsfield Supercomputer.
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Claude Fable 5 as Orchestrator
July 1, 2026
via Perplexity
Claude Fable 5 is once again available in Perplexity as an orchestrator model.
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Sonnet 5 in Lovable
June 30, 2026
via Lovable
Lovable now supports Claude Sonnet 5 — benchmarks show it gets more done for less and excels at catching risky requests, with improved security capabilities over the previous Sonnet model.
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Claude Sonnet 5
June 30, 2026
Anthropic introduced Claude Sonnet 5 — its most agentic Sonnet yet. It makes plans, uses tools like browsers and terminals, and runs autonomously at a level that until recently required larger, more expensive models.
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Claude Desktop on Linux
June 30, 2026
Claude Desktop is now available on Linux (Ubuntu and Debian) in beta — alongside the browser and terminal, you get a first-class desktop experience with Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and chat on all paid plans.
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Sonnet 5 in Bolt
June 30, 2026
via Bolt
Claude Sonnet 5 is now part of Bolt's agent, with rollout to users beginning shortly.
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Claude in Microsoft Foundry
June 29, 2026
You can now run Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Azure. Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are available through the Messages API with capabilities like prompt caching, thinking, and more.
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Audio Generation in Claude via Higgsfield MCP
June 27, 2026
via Higgsfield
Claude can now generate audio via the Higgsfield MCP — voiceovers, voice cloning, and dubbing in 50+ languages, powered by Seed Audio 1.0 and ElevenLabs v3, all inside Claude.
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External Agents: Claude + Cursor
June 24, 2026
via Notion
Introducing External Agents in Notion — your favorite agents collaborate like teammates. Assign Claude and Cursor tasks from a board shared with your whole team, @-mention them, and watch them run.
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Introducing Claude Tag
June 23, 2026
Claude comes to Slack as a collaborative teammate — tag @Claude in a channel to delegate tasks. It can access selected tools and data, learn from channel context over time, and work autonomously while your team focuses elsewhere.
Artifacts in Claude Code
June 21, 2026
Claude Code now supports Artifacts — interactive pages built from your full session, like a PR walkthrough or a living project dashboard, shared with your team at a private link. Available in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
Two-Way Sync: Claude Code ↔ Claude Design
June 21, 2026
Claude Code and Claude Design now sync both ways. Run /design-sync to pull your design system into your repo and build against your real components, or push what you've built back into Claude Design and keep editing on the canvas.
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Claude Design Updates
June 21, 2026
New in Claude Design: it stays on brand with your design system across projects, lets you edit directly on the canvas, syncs with Claude Code, and connects to more of the tools you already use.
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Claude Fable 5 in Underlord
June 12, 2026
via Descript
Descript added Claude Fable 5 to Underlord — it sees your footage and understands it: it zooms the moving thing in your screen share, perfects on-screen text overlays, and frames the person talking, automatically.
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Claude Fable 5 in Notion
June 9, 2026
via Notion
Claude Fable 5 is now in Notion — the model to put behind your most complex custom agents and workers, setting new highs on Notion internal benchmarks for the hardest multi-step work. Available on Business and Enterprise plans.
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Dynamic Workflows
June 6, 2026
New in Claude Code (research preview): dynamic workflows — Claude writes an orchestration script on the fly and spins up a large fleet of coordinated subagents in parallel.
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/fork Update
June 6, 2026
/fork in Claude Code now runs a background agent with your exact context and prompt cache; the old /fork behavior is now /branch.
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Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
June 6, 2026
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 — sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer. Available at the same price.
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Claude Marketplace: Five New Partners
May 28, 2026
Augment Code, Bolt, CodeRabbit, Hebbia, and Legora join the Claude Marketplace. Apply your existing Anthropic spend commitment toward their Claude-powered products.
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Security-Guidance Plugin for Claude Code
May 27, 2026
A security-guidance plugin for Claude Code is now available — helps identify and fix vulnerabilities as you write code. Available for all Claude Code users via the plugin marketplace (/plugins).
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Self-Hosted Sandboxes + MCP Tunnels for Managed Agents
May 20, 2026
We've added two security improvements to Claude Managed Agents.
Self-hosted sandboxes keep the agent's execution environment in your infrastructure or with a managed sandbox provider.
MCP tunnels let the agent connect to services inside your security perimeter.
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"Extra Usage" Renamed to "Usage Credits"
May 18, 2026
Anthropic renamed 'extra usage' to 'usage credits' across Claude. Spending limits, auto-reload settings, and previously purchased credits carry over exactly as they were.
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Why Usage Credits Now
May 18, 2026
Why the rename? 'Extra usage' originally meant paying when you hit a plan limit. Usage credits now power more — including features like Fast Mode directly.
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Claude Design Token Limits Doubled
May 17, 2026
You can now create more with Claude Design. Token limits have been doubled across every plan.
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Prompt Cache Diagnostics in Claude Console
May 17, 2026
Prompt cache diagnostics are now in Claude Console. When a request misses the cache, you can see exactly which part of your prompt changed and how many tokens it cost you.
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Cache Diagnostics Docs + Dashboard
May 17, 2026
Check prompt cache diagnostics in the Claude Console usage dashboard and read the cache diagnostics docs for more on optimizing for cache hits.
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Fast Mode Now Defaults to Opus 4.7 in Claude Code
May 17, 2026
Fast mode now defaults to Opus 4.7 in Claude Code. Try it with /fast.
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How Fast Mode Works
May 17, 2026
Fast mode is identical Opus quality at ~2.5× the response speed, billed at a higher per-token rate. Use it when latency matters more than cost: rapid iteration, live debugging, time-sensitive work.
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Claude for Small Business
May 13, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business — 15 agentic workflows across finance, ops, sales, marketing, HR, and customer service. Integrates with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. Plans payroll, closes books, tracks metrics, runs campaigns, chases invoices, and analyzes margins. Free "AI Fluency for Small Business" course with PayPal + a multi-city SMB Tour.
Claude Code Weekly Limits +50%
May 13, 2026
Claude Code weekly limits are increasing 50%, now through July 13. Live for all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users. Applies everywhere you use Claude Code — CLI, IDE extensions, desktop, and web. Nothing to opt into. Stacks with last week's 2× increase to 5-hour limits.
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Dedicated Monthly Credit for Programmatic Usage
May 13, 2026
Starting June 15, paid Claude plans get a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage — Claude Agent SDK, `claude -p`, Claude Code GitHub Actions, and third-party apps built on the Agent SDK. SDK and `claude -p` usage no longer share your subscription rate limits — interactive use gets its own budget.
Credits by plan:
• Pro: $20
• Max 5×: $100
• Max 20×: $200
• Team Standard: $20/seat
• Team Premium: $100/seat
• Enterprise: varies by seat type
Resets each billing cycle, no rollover. Third-party tools like Conductor and OpenClaw work with your Claude plan and draw from this credit too.
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/goal in Claude Code
May 12, 2026
How do you keep Claude working until the job is done? Claude Code helps with this in a few ways, including one shipped recently: the /goal command — set a clear goal and let Claude work until it's met.
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Fast Mode for Claude Opus 4.7
May 12, 2026
Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is now in research preview on the API and in Claude Code. ~2.5× faster output token speeds while keeping Opus-level intelligence.
Claude Code Skills + Dispatch
May 11, 2026
Turn common workflows into Claude Code skills and dispatch many at once. Claude pushes ahead until your skill says stop and ask. Peek and reply to unblock; open the transcript only when you need it. Run `claude agents` to get started.
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Agent View in Claude Code
May 11, 2026
Claude Code added Agent View — a single screen listing every Claude Code session you have running, blocked on you, or done. Research preview, requires Claude Code v2.1.139+.
Claude Code /radio
May 9, 2026
Claude Code now has a /radio command — opens Claude FM, a lo-fi radio station in your browser for long coding sessions.
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Claude for Microsoft 365 GA
May 8, 2026
Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now GA on all paid plans; Claude for Outlook joins in public beta. Context carries across all four apps — start in your inbox and finish with a deck without copy-pasting between tools.
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Anthropic × SpaceX
May 6, 2026
Anthropic and SpaceX announced a partnership bringing Claude to SpaceX engineering teams.
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Agent Templates for Financial Services
May 6, 2026
Claude released agent templates for financial services — pitches, valuations, month-end close, and more.
Claude Security Public Beta
May 1, 2026
Anthropic opened the public beta for Claude Security — a Claude product purpose-built for security teams. Available to try now.
Claude for Creative Work
April 28, 2026
A new suite of connectors brings Claude into creative software like Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, and Ableton — accelerating ideation, automating repetitive tasks, and extending what you can do inside the apps you already use.
Live Artifacts in Cowork
April 20, 2026
In Cowork, Claude can now build live artifacts — dashboards and trackers connected to your apps and files that refresh with current data every time you open them.
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Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
April 18, 2026
Introducing Claude Design: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Opus 4.7. Export to Canva, PDF, PPTX, or hand off to Claude Code.
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Introducing Claude Design
April 17, 2026
Make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, the most capable vision model. Available in research preview on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
Claude Code Routines Are Here
April 14, 2026
Now in research preview: routines in Claude Code. Configure a routine once — a prompt, a repo, and your connectors — and it can run on a schedule, from an API call, or in response to a GitHub event. Routines run on Anthropic's web infrastructure, so you don't have to keep your laptop open.