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TechCrunch covered the limited beta announced July 15, letting developers and agents search stores, build carts, and check out from the command line. The launch demo showed Claude autonomously picking a restaurant and completing checkout with no human in the loop. Novelty aside, it's software designed for agents rather than only humans, which is the quiet shift underneath the x402 news.
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TechCrunch reports the July 23 macOS and Windows rollout, built on ChatGPT-Live. It drives ChatGPT Work and Codex, so you can direct several agents simultaneously by voice, and macOS "Appshots" let it read the frontmost window including alt-text. Global rollout to Plus, Pro, B...
Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
Agent OS launched August 20, bundling the Binance API, Binance x402, the Wallet Agentic Hub and a Skill Hub behind an MCP server callable from Claude Code, Codex, VS Code and ChatGPT without local API key management. After authorization an agent can pull market data and execut...
The July 2026 update (v1.127-v1.131) runs each agent session against an isolated checkout, and it spans all three agents rather than being Copilot-only. Also: redesigned Agents window with side-by-side code review and chat, subagent tracking showing model, elapsed time and act...
43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
Eight percent of a monthly credit allowance gone in two hours. That's a real Copilot Pro+ user after metered token billing took effect June 1. Another spent over $6 on a single change request. A Claude 4.8 session reportedly ate 1,180 credits, roughly 16% of a Pro+ allowance,...
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