Is Opus 5.5 fast mode worth $40 per million output tokens?
Since 15 October, fast mode on Claude Opus 5.5 needs no waitlist or beta header. We stacked every multiplier on the $8/$40 price and found the catch: fast and standard ...
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Claude API traces won’t reach a collector on 4318 or a private IP
Anthropic shipped OpenTelemetry trace export for the Claude API on 14 October. We read the delivery rules: port 443 only, public hostnames only, redirects disable the destination, and spans aren't ...
Claude Haiku 5.5 is $0.10 per million until a prompt passes 100K
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October at $0.10 and $0.50 per million tokens. The footnote matters more than the headline: past 100,000 prompt tokens the rate jumps fivefold.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 keeps $2 and $10 and retires thinking disabled
Same $2 and $10 price as Sonnet 5, benchmarks within two or three points of Opus 5.5, and a disabled thinking setting that now returns a 400.
Anthropic’s $11.6B Akamai deal buys CPUs, not GPUs
Seven years, $11.6 billion, up to about $20 billion with options, and not one GPU. We read Akamai's 8-K and the call coverage to see what Anthropic is actually buying.
Claude Opus 5.5 drops to $4 and $20, and breaks four Opus 5 habits
Anthropic cut Opus to $4 and $20 per million tokens and cache reads by 60%. The catch is four request shapes that Opus 5 accepted and Opus 5.5 rejects.
Anthropic moves retention into your own cloud, for 30 days
Somebody on your compliance team killed the Fable 5 pilot back in June, and the reason fit on one line: thirty days of your prompts parked on a vendor's servers. ...
Claude Fable 5.1 breaks forced tool use, cuts cache 75%
Swap claude-fable-5 for claude-fable-5-1 in your config and there is a decent chance your agent starts throwing 400s before it finishes a single turn. Anthropic shipped both models on 1 ...
Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is gated, and sits under MCP
Every lab we have ever worked near keeps the same drawer of vendor software. Seven programs, seven serial protocols, nothing that talks to anything else. Anthropic opened a research preview ...
A judge vacated one Pentagon label on Anthropic, and the other stands
Six months of a federal vendor ban ended on a Thursday night, in a 59-page order. Judge Rita Lin vacated the supply chain risk designation the Department of War hung ...