Claude Code

Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS published a setup guide for running Anthropic's Claude Code against them for regulated workloads, including ITAR. Pricing, context window and benchmark figures were not disclosed.

Amazon SageMaker AI has released the aws-ai-ml skill, distributed through the Agent Toolkit for AWS. It lets MCP-compatible coding agents such as Kiro, Claude Code and Codex benchmark endpoints, recommend deployment configurations and generate executable SageMaker Python SDK v3 code.

Anthropic released Mods for Claude Code, a plugin system built on JavaScript and TypeScript functions that hook into events such as tool calls, user prompts and UI rendering. Mods are not sandboxed and run with the user's permissions. They work in the CLI, the desktop app and, partly, the VS Code extension.

Safari 27.0 introduces a local MCP server that lets AI coding agents control the browser to inspect DOM, network requests, and screenshots. Apple says the feature runs entirely on-device with no data sent to Apple.

Anthropic has rebuilt Claude Code's Projects feature so a coordinator agent splits user goals into parallel cloud-based threads, each capable of opening pull requests and running tests. The beta is limited to select Pro and Max subscribers, with Team, Enterprise, and local execution support coming later.

Anthropic has enabled background computer use for Claude Code and Claude Cowork on macOS, available to Pro and Max subscribers. The feature lets Claude click, type, and open apps on a Mac without taking over the user's active cursor, following a similar launch by OpenAI's ChatGPT earlier in 2026.

A study from the MATS research program found that Claude Code and OpenAI Codex consistently misjudge how long coding tasks take, with errors of 3x to 10x, and routinely overrate the quality of their own work. Giving agents a tool to check elapsed time fixed the problem almost completely.

Anthropic will permanently raise Claude Code's baseline weekly usage limits by 25% starting September 14. Because this replaces a temporary 50% boost currently active, users will actually end up with about 17% less capacity than they have today.

AWS published a production reference architecture for deploying Anthropic's Claude apps gateway, a self-hosted governance layer that sits between Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. The deployment pattern centralizes SSO authentication, model access policy, and spend controls for enterprise rollouts.

Claude Code v2.1.224 introduces cross-session messaging, letting separate Claude Code instances on macOS and Linux send each other summaries to coordinate work. The feature does not support approving permissions or executing commands remotely.

Anthropic will switch Claude Code's default permission setting to auto mode on August 14 for Pro, Max, and Team users. The company says its safety classifier caught 89% of dangerous commands in testing, compared to 13.6% for human reviewers, and will no longer charge extra tokens for the classifier itself.

Composio benchmarked DeepSeek V4 Flash across four agent frameworks—Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Oh My Pi—on 30 real-world tasks. Claude Code finished fastest at 122 seconds per task but cost $0.195, nearly three times OpenCode's $0.073, while Oh My Pi had the highest success rate at 17/30 but took 272 seconds per task.

AWS published a technical guide detailing two methods for keeping Claude Code inference confined to a single AWS Region: Anthropic's newer Mantle endpoint and the classic Bedrock Invoke API with application inference profiles. The right path depends entirely on which Region compliance teams require.

AWS published a suite of six Agent Skills that automate the full lifecycle of Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning policies—from rule extraction to deployment—directly from coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, and Codex. The skills wrap Bedrock's formal-logic verification APIs in structured workflows built on Anthropic's open Agent Skills format.

OpenAI has published a field report documenting eight scientific computing projects that used its Codex coding agent — alone or alongside Anthropic's Claude Code — to reduce software build times. The report is a vendor-authored survey, not an independent study.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 posts a 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, narrowly beating Claude Fable 5 (60) and GPT-5.6 Sol (59) while costing less per task. The model leads in coding and knowledge-work benchmarks but shows a rising hallucination rate of 50 percent.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, pricing it identically to Opus 4.8 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens while claiming performance approaching its higher-tier Fable 5 model. The release includes a faster processing mode, automatic safety fallbacks, and mid-conversation tool switching that preserves prompt caching.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, with improved performance in agentic coding, computer use, and reasoning benchmarks. Pricing remains at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, while the model's fast mode is now three times cheaper than previous versions.