🧠 Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 slashes costs and steps up

Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4.5, which is faster, cheaper, and better at tackling real coding and agent-style tasks. With lower prices and big efficiency AI is getting even more accessible for everyone. Let’s dive in!

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Evolving AI: Anthropic drops prices and pushes Opus 4.5 further into coding and agent tasks.

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5 with major efficiency gains, cheaper tokens, and stronger coding output. Opus 4.5 outperforms on internal hiring tests and SWE-bench, especially when using parallel test-time compute. The new Effort parameter lets developers choose how much compute the model invests. Updates roll into Claude Code, long conversations, Excel integration, and browser task handling.

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Cheaper Opus changes what teams can justify handing off to an AI model: a roughly 67 percent price cut, new Effort controls, and the end of separate Opus caps mean you can point the flagship at day to day coding, spreadsheet work, and research jobs instead of saving it for rare one offs. With Excel, Chrome, desktop apps, and Bedrock wired in, Opus 4.5 starts to feel like a general office worker that reads formulas, patches scripts, and clicks through multi step workflows for you. The shift toward stronger agents sitting on your machine makes the safety story just as important as benchmarks, since early tests show better resistance to prompt injection and malicious coding tasks but still leave room for misuse in security sensitive setups.

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Evolving AI: ChatGPT now builds full product guides for you.

ChatGPT now helps you sort through product options by asking a few clarifying questions and pulling current data from reliable retail sources. It learns your preferences, checks prices and specs and compares items for you. Instead of browsing dozens of sites, you get a clear buyer’s guide that highlights the best picks and the tradeoffs.

Shopping has turned into a maze of tabs, ads and half-useful reviews, and this cuts straight through it by giving you a clear shortlist that actually fits what you want. It trims the noise, highlights the real tradeoffs and keeps everything grounded in live info instead of old advice. It’s a quiet shift, but it reshapes the moment between wanting something and feeling confident enough to buy it.

Evolving AI: Google adds quick slide creation to NotebookLM using Nano Bana Pro.

Google is rolling out a slide generator inside NotebookLM that turns your notes or sources into clean draft decks. The tool can structure content automatically and polish existing slides visually. For now, exports are limited to PDF, though Google Slides and PowerPoint options are coming. The feature uses the Nano Bana Pro model, which handles detailed prompts and text-heavy layouts.

This slide tool is a hint at where office work is heading: instead of staring at a blank deck, you feed NotebookLM your sources and get a decent PDF draft plus infographic ideas in minutes, then you spend your energy on story and nuance instead of layout. For teams that live in docs, research, sales or teaching, that means faster client pitches, quicker internal briefings and way more experiments per week. The interesting question is how long before this kind of “slides on tap” becomes the default expectation for knowledge workers.

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