Claude Sonnet 5 launches with a 1M token context window at $2 / $10 per MTok
Claude Sonnet 5 supports a 1M token context, 128k max output and the same tools as Sonnet 4.6 except Priority Tier. Migrating teams should note that adaptive thinking is on by default and manual extended thinking changes.
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Analytical search (Public Preview)
Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...
MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta
Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings . See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause .
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta . Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables.
Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
Released gemini-omni-flash-preview, a high-performance multimodal model designed for high-speed video generation and conversational video editing. Using the Interactions API, you can generate 3--10 second videos at 720p from text descriptions or animate still images, and then conversationally edit and refine the outputs.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is generally available
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image is a multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency, cost-effective image generation and editing, now GA in the Gemini API.
[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
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Claude Managed Agents session event streams support event deltas
Opt in with event_deltas[] on the session events stream to receive event_start and event_delta events that preview an agent message's text before the complete agent.message event arrives.
Claude Managed Agents session listing adds backward pagination
GET /v1/sessions now returns a prev_page cursor alongside next_page, which can be passed as the page parameter to go back a page.
Claude Managed Agents sessions can override agent configuration
Passing agent with type agent_with_overrides replaces the model, system prompt, tools, MCP servers or skills for a single session without changing the agent itself.
Claude Managed Agents vaults add injection_location for credentials
Environment variable credentials can now be substituted at egress into outbound request headers, the request body or both, controlled by the new injection_location setting.
Claude Managed Agents webhooks cover agent and deployment lifecycle events
New agent, deployment and deployment run webhook events let you react to a published agent version, a paused deployment or a failed scheduled run without polling.
Access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 is restored
Anthropic has restored access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 and published a statement with more information.
Fast mode removed for Claude Opus 4.6
Requests to claude-opus-4-6 with speed fast now run at standard speed and standard rates without erroring, and usage.speed reports the speed used. Migrate to Claude Opus 4.8 to keep fast mode.
agent-memory-2026-07-22 beta header changes memory store listing behavior
With the new header, listing memories returns a stable server-defined order, depth accepts only 0 or 1, and path_prefix must end with / and match whole segments. Page cursors issued without the header are not valid with it.