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7 updates · 5 appsAugust 11, 2026

Claude Releases Sonnet 5, a Smarter AI for Multi-Step Tasks

Claude gets a major upgrade with its new Sonnet 5 model, making it much better at handling complex projects by itself.

Claude

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A new version called Claude Sonnet 5 is now available, designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks on its own.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model that's much better at planning and completing tasks that require several steps. It can use tools like a web browser or a code terminal by itself.

This means you can give it more complicated goals, and it will figure out how to achieve them.

Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet.

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Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Meta AI

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On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the “personal superintelligence” systems Meta AI is building.

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the po…

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ChatGPT

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Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.

Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed c…

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Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.

While OpenAI’s incredible growth and products are likely to generate massive interest in public markets, the potential debut of rival Anthropic — which was reportedly profitable earlier this year — gives the company a reason to ensure it p…

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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