Cloud & Infrastructure
Claude is now available directly through Google Cloud, operated by Anthropic
Anthropic launched Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) on 22 October 2026, bringing same-day feature parity and GCP billing.
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Claude API
31 posts about Claude API from Simon Carter.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic opens public beta for OpenTelemetry tracing on the Claude platform
Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and seven Claude SDKs can now export OpenTelemetry traces to any OTLP-compatible observability backend.
Security & Governance
Anthropic's 2026 usage policy update: what changes on 12 November
Anthropic's annual policy refresh consolidates deception rules, adds physical-action controls for agentic Claude, and bans sustained model abuse.
Models & Assistants
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's cheapest model yet, at $0.10 per million input tokens
Haiku 5.5 replaces Haiku 4.5 with up to 90% lower pricing, a 1M-token context window, and adaptive thinking.
Models & Assistants
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now generally available: faster, same price, and stronger security
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 runs 30%+ faster at unchanged Sonnet 5 pricing, adds cyber safeguards, and ships with zero data retention across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic opens a self-serve plugin submission portal for Claude
Anthropic's new portal at claude.ai/directory/manage lets paid-plan developers submit, track, and publish Claude plugins, with MCP 2.0 support built in.
Models & Assistants
Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-level performance at 40% lower cost
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on key benchmarks, cuts API costs 20: 60%, and raises usage limits for Pro and Team subscribers.
Models & Assistants
Anthropic's Life Sciences Verification Program opens beta access to Claude Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet for biology research
Verified life-science organisations can now apply for relaxed Claude safeguards across claude.ai, the API, and enterprise plans from 17 September 2026.
Agents & Automation
Anthropic's open-source commerce agents blueprint: what it means for retailers and developers
Anthropic released a forkable commerce agents blueprint on 2 September 2025, with shopper and merchant reference implementations deployable via Claude API, Bedrock, Foundry, or Vertex.
Models & Assistants
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are now generally available: same price, much cheaper caching
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok, saving up to 45% on agentic workloads. Mythos 5.1 stays restricted.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's $2/$10 pricing permanent, cancels September price hike
Anthropic has confirmed the $2/$10 per million token rate for Claude Sonnet 5 is now permanent. The planned 50% increase from 1 September 2026 will not happen.
Developer Tools & APIs
Claude Files API graduates to general availability
The Files API beta header is no longer required on /v1/files endpoints, simplifying file-grounded Claude API integrations from 20 August 2026.
Security & Governance
How Claude's invisible watermark works: and what it means for you
Anthropic explains its SynthID-Text watermarking for Claude: how it works, what it survives, its limits, and a detection API coming soon.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic shuts down legacy Claude Workbench and three experimental API endpoints on 17 August 2026
The legacy Claude Workbench and three /v1/experimental/ prompt API endpoints reach end of life on 17 August 2026. Here's what to do.
Security & Governance
Anthropic embeds invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated content, worldwide
From 2 August 2026, all Claude models watermark generated text and attach C2PA metadata to files: globally, with no opt-out.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic removes fast mode from Claude Opus 4.7 and adds a 'default' fallbacks mode
From 24 July 2026, speed: 'fast' on Opus 4.7 returns a hard 400 error. Here's what to fix and what the new fallbacks default mode gives you.
Developer Tools & APIs
Claude Opus 4.1 is retired: what breaks on 5 August 2026 and how to fix it
The claude-opus-4-1-20250805 model ID retired on 5 August 2026. API calls to it now return a hard 404. Here is what to do.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Anthropic's 164th outage of 2026: seven and a half hours, four models, and uptime figures that should worry enterprise buyers
A major multi-model outage on 5 August 2026 took down Claude Mythos 5, Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 for 7.5 hours: the 164th disruption of 2026.
Developer Tools & APIs
Claude Opus 4.1 retires on 5 August 2026: migrate to Opus 4.8 now
The claude-opus-4-1-20250805 model ID stops working on 5 August 2026. Here's what to change and why Opus 4.8 is the right target.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic is retiring the legacy Claude Workbench and three experimental prompt API endpoints on 17 August 2026
The legacy Workbench and three /v1/experimental/ prompt endpoints shut down 17 August 2026. Here's what to export and what replaces them.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic is retiring Claude Opus 4.1 on August 5, 2026 — here's what developers need to do
Anthropic has deprecated claude-opus-4-1-20250805 with a retirement date of August 5, 2026. Opus 4.8 is the recommended replacement.
Developer Tools & APIs
Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 are gone from the API — here's what to do
As of June 15, 2026, claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 return errors. Migrate to Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.8.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Claude went down twice in 14 hours — and Anthropic's uptime numbers tell the full story
Two Claude outages in 14 hours on June 22–23 pushed 90-day uptime below enterprise SLA thresholds, with 8,000+ Downdetector reports at peak.
Developer Tools & APIs
claude-mythos-preview Is Deprecated — But Its Replacement Is Currently Unavailable
Anthropic has formally deprecated claude-mythos-preview with a June 30 2026 retirement date, directing developers to migrate to claude-mythos-5 — which is currently suspended.
Developer Tools & APIs
Claude Agent SDK Billing Splits on June 15: What the New Credit Pool Means for Your Plan
From June 15, Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents draw from a separate monthly credit, not your subscription quota.
Models & Assistants
Claude Fable 5 is here: Anthropic's first public Mythos-class model, with a safety wall built in
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 with a 1M-token context window, $10/$50 pricing, and a safety-classifier fallback — plus a restricted Mythos 5 for Project Glasswing partners.
Security & Governance
Claude Managed Agents can now store API keys in a vault — and the agent never sees them
Anthropic's vault-stored environment variables let Claude Managed Agents authenticate CLI tools without the API key ever entering the agent's context window.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure
Azure becomes the only cloud with both OpenAI and Claude frontier models, as Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 go GA in Microsoft Foundry on NVIDIA GB300 GPUs.
Agents & Automation
Anthropic updates Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes, mid-session tool swapping, and cache diagnostics
Anthropic ships three Claude Managed Agents platform updates giving enterprise developers more infrastructure control, runtime flexibility, and prompt-cache transparency.
Developer Tools & APIs
ClaudeForFoundationModels: Anthropic's Swift package brings Claude into Apple's Foundation Models framework
Anthropic's new Swift package lets iOS/macOS 27 developers use Claude as a drop-in server-side model via Apple's LanguageModelSession API.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic Claude API: Zero-Cost Refusals and a Smarter Advisor Tool for Agentic Pipelines
Anthropic now bills zero for API refusals with no output, and the advisor tool gets a max_tokens cap to control cost and latency in agentic workloads.