Anthropic cancelled Sonnet 5's September 1 increase and made $2/$10 permanent. Three days later Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash with an introductory price that doubles on January 1.
v1.0 swaps the SDK's HTTP layer for Pydantic's httpx2 fork, because httpx is “no longer actively maintained.” It also deletes temperature from the Messages signature and turns a silent Bedrock region default into an error.
The Compute Module 5 Programming Jig replaces the carrier board with pogo pins and automates secure boot, disk encryption and OS install. Its headline operation writes a signing key hash into OTP, permanently.
Anthropic says future Claude models will emit watermarked text at no cost in tokens, speed, or quality. The detection API that would let anyone else check is still being worked out.
Anthropic's red team on how agent swarms fail — conformity, collusion, sabotage, and the coordination that intelligence doesn't buy.
