Launched Oct 23, v2.0 averages Cognition's private FrontierCode v1.1 (graded on whether a maintainer would merge the change), Terminal-Bench 4.0, and re-graded SWE-Atlas-QnA-AA across 290 tasks, so scores reset below v1.5. Claude Code with Opus 5.5 tops it at 61.7 for $11.42 per task, while Codex with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 47.3 for $0.39 (announcement).
Speaking at Grafana's ObservabilityCON, Katelyn Lesse said her roughly 200 person team, which runs Anthropic's core services and developer tools, no longer writes code by hand: engineers own system design and verification while Claude Code does the implementation, including a Python to Rust migration. Some test fixes already run with no human in the loop, and Anthropic is weighing letting agents change real codebases on their own…
Announced Oct 21 for late October, the Code tab in the Copilot app on Windows, Mac, and web builds trackers, dashboards, apps, and scripts from prompts grounded in your work data, then publishes them to Copilot Managed Runtime to share inside your org. It needs Frontier enrollment, a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, and a usage based spending policy, and local coding with your files and terminal stays off until an admin enables it (message center)…
Released Oct 23, it saves reusable prompts and slash commands in ten numbered /presets slots, lets you set model, reasoning effort, and permission profiles inline with /model and /permissions , and authenticates enterprise MCP connections via Codex account grants or dedicated sign in. It also masks credentials in remote Bash and Zsh snapshot sessions and stops failed compaction from leaving partial summaries in history…
Announced Oct 22, the permission aware server that launched in Claude in August now also answers intranet questions in ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Slack, with each employee signing in as themselves. From Oct 26, assistants on all four can also draft private knowledge pages and draft or publish group posts, an optional capability admins can block per tool…
Released Oct 21, it fixes environment variables, including secrets, passed to external agents and MCP servers in remote projects showing up in the local machine's process list, and stops prompts to external agents stalling on needless Git checkpoints. It also adds context compaction and session notices for ACP agents, new Bedrock models, and binaries about 33% smaller on macOS…
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