On benchmarks, Opus 4.8 is a step up rather than a leap. It scores 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 87.6% for Opus 4.7), 69.2% on the harder SWE-bench Pro (vs. 64.3%), and 74.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 ...

VS Code needs to catch up.

Claude AI appears to be experiencing issues, with users reporting widespread API 529 "Overloaded" errors that are disrupting coding tasks.

Anthropic is experiencing elevated error rates across its Claude chatbot, its application programming interface and Claude Code, according to the company's status ...

Claude Code routines are automations that you schedule and repeat. They run on Claude Code’s web infrastructure, so your Mac doesn’t need to be online for each task. Anthropic says the new feature ...

Microsoft is increasingly treating Claude as a first-class option across dev tooling and AI products. For one prominent example of that trend, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is extending Claude ...

Developers had been using Claude Code to build software for much of 2025, but the tool had shown more promise than truly game-changing results. Opus 4.5 gave Claude Code the intelligence to build an ...