Dreams research preview adds support for Claude Opus 5
Dreams, in research preview, now supports Claude Opus 5.
Also shipped Aug 1, 2026Anthropic in August 2026 →
Fivetran adds in-dashboard annual contract renewal
Eligible accounts can renew their annual contract from the Billing page in the Fivetran dashboard within 90 days of the current contract's end.
Gemini Enterprise: Pay for what you consume with the Pay-as-you-go edition
The Gemini Enterprise Pay-as-you-go edition is generally available. With this edition, you pay for the feature usage your project consumes without pooled user license quotas. To get started, you need an invoiced Cloud Billing account with a one-seat minimum. You can monitor feature usage and set monthly spend limits in the Google Cloud console.
FOCUS 1.3 Cost and Usage Report for Atlas billing
Adds a FOCUS Cost and Usage Report presenting billing cost and usage data in FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.3 format for FinOps and cross-vendor cost tools.
Foundry Agent Service long-running hosted agents (preview)
The August 2026 What's new in Microsoft Foundry update adds a new article: Long-running agent API reference (preview), with companion articles on resilience, task state, crash recovery, and streaming with reconnect.
Foundry agents human-in-the-loop approval step (preview)
The August 2026 What's new in Microsoft Foundry update adds a new article: Add a human-in-the-loop approval step (preview), under Foundry Agent Service.
Foundry steerable hosted agents: steer an in-flight turn (preview)
The August 2026 What's new in Microsoft Foundry update adds a new article: Steer an in-flight agent turn (preview), plus Deploy a steerable agent (preview).
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Compliance API returns cloud Cowork session transcripts in beta
New /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/remote endpoints list Cowork sessions started on claude.ai web or mobile and return their transcripts for Claude Enterprise organizations.
Inference hooks
are now in beta for Claude Enterprise organizations. Point Claude at your organization's AI security server, and each governed prompt across claude.ai, Cowork, and Claude Code is held for the server's allow or deny verdict before inference proceeds.
Claude Opus 4.1 is retired on the Claude API
All requests to claude-opus-4-1-20250805 now return an error. Anthropic recommends upgrading to Claude Opus 5; researchers can request continued access through the External Researcher Access Program.
Claude Managed Agents sessions support hard spend budgets
A session budget caps spend at public list rates; when reached, the session pauses with the budget_reached stop reason instead of starting new model requests. Deployments can apply the same budget to every session they start.
Claude Managed Agents sessions can consult an advisor model
An advisor entry in the agent's multiagent roster names a model at least as capable as the agent's own that the primary thread can consult mid-turn for strategic guidance.
Claude Managed Agents adds inference_geo to control where inference runs
Set inference_geo in the model object when creating an agent, or override it per session, to control data residency for model inference.
Claude Managed Agents sessions load skills from GitHub repositories
When a session mounts a repository, skills in its root .claude/skills directory are discovered automatically at session start and available to the agent.
Claude Opus 5 launches with a 1M token context window at $5 / $25 per MTok
Claude Opus 5 improves on Opus 4.8 with a 1M token context window, 128k max output and thinking on by default, at the same $5 / $25 per MTok price. It is available on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.