Available as a research preview for Max users on macOS, the agent can both handle your files and create new ones.
Based on Claude Code users surprising their developers, using the tool to manipulate local files — Anthropic is now launching an app that does just that.
The most popular AI coding platforms are joining in doubling limits this Christmas. (Picture: Adobe)From Christmas Eve til New Years Eve, you can do a lot of extra coding with Claude and Codex.
Anthropic started the party with Claude, offering Pro and Max users twice the usual limits to close out the year:
Opus 4.5 beats every human candidate on Anthropic’s onboarding exam for engineers. (Picture: Anthropic)Billing it as the «best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use,» Opus 4.5 is indeed state-of-the-art in software engineering.
It scores 80.9% in SWE-bench Verified, the preferred benchmark for coding lately. Gemini 3 has 76.2% in this bench, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max registers at 77.9%.
Microsoft wants Copilot to listen for your prompt and interact with your screen, coming soon to Windows 11. (Picture: Microsoft)Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC
The next revolution for Microsoft is putting the Copilot bot front and center in its operating system. Any Windows 11 PC will now be listening for the «Hey Copilot» prompt and you won’t be needing a Copilot Plus PC to engage with it. This will be across apps and settings and Windows 11 should simply «understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that.» The spooky part? They want Copilot to read your screen to interact with you. More at: The Verge, Engadget and The Windows Blog.
Anthropic introduces «Skills»
The new feature across all of their apps is basically a memorized workflow, or folders of actions that Claude can use to remember how to do things. That means you can store a collection of prompts or actions within the app and have it used at a later stage, which can come in handy for tasks used often. It works across apps, so you can store instructions from Excel plotting to brand guidelines. And it’s scriptable, too, so you can save complete routines. Read more: Anthropic’s launch page, writeup at The Verge.
Haiku 4.5 will be the new face of Anthropic’s free plans, and offers similar performance to Sonnet 4. (Picture: Anthropic)The latest Haiku model compares in performance with Sonnet 4 — which was state of the art half a year ago.
— What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model, writes Anthropic. — Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance, but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.
«Code is everywhere,» Anthropic says, and say their new model will make it easier than ever. (Picture: Anthropic)Anthropic says it’s «the best coding model in the world,» and backs it up with solid leads in the benchmarks.
