Artificial Analysis ranks Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at 58 on its Intelligence Index—the highest it has measured—tying GPT-6 Astra on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (59.6%) and leading six of ten evals. Anthropic also cut Opus to $4/$20 per M tokens and cache reads to $0.20.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0 adds public preview assisted approvals (auto ok low risk tool calls), Codex plan mode before implementation, org/enterprise shared skills, and persistent per tool MCP controls including a toggle for the built in GitHub MCP server…
Claude Code 2.1.280 switches Pro ($20/mo) and Team Standard defaults from Sonnet to Opus, matching Max and Enterprise, and makes Opus 5.5 the default Opus model. Subscription usage still counts against the five hour/weekly allowance; switch back with /model or /config if you want Sonnet…
NVIDIA, NTU, and MIT released SoL Pi (MIT), an opt in extension for the open source Pi coding agent that cuts EdgeBench token traffic 44.7–49% and API cost about one third versus base Pi, with scores within 6%. Four harness layer mechanisms—Action Fusion, Online Context Compact, ObservationPack, and Evidence Preserving Reducer—ship on GitHub; paper at arXiv:2609.20519…
Vercel’s AI Gateway now serves OpenAI’s GPT 6 Sol ( openai/gpt 6 sol ) and Luna ( openai/gpt 6 luna ) for the AI SDK, Chat Completions, Responses API, and coding agents. Wire them up with npx vercel ai gateway setup , then pick Sol for sustained coding or Luna for high volume agent loops…
Meta briefly routed some Muse business calls to human contractors to lift success rates toward 95–98% after pure AI calling hit hang ups, then paused the test when employees flagged missing disclosures and privacy risk…
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