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Anthropic's 19 August 2026 note retired the ce-user-management beta header, yet the Admin API reference still labels all 8 member and invite endpoints beta. Two header rules, two pagination styles, one API.
The skills-2025-10-02 header is gone, but a Claude Skill written for Claude Code will not run on the API: no network, no package installs, 5 GiB RAM, and no sync between the three surfaces.
Version 1.0.0 of the anthropic Python package landed on 20 August 2026 and moved the HTTP layer to httpx2. The upgrade installs, the type checks pass, and the mocks quietly stop matching.
Version 1.0.0 of the Anthropic Python SDK landed on PyPI on 20 August 2026. It removes temperature, top_p and top_k from every Messages method, yet the Claude Messages API reference still documents all three.
Anthropic added allowed_domains and blocked_domains to Claude Managed Agents web tools on 20 August 2026. The Console organization-level list does not reach agent sessions and each list caps at 64 entries.
Editing the tools array mid-session invalidates the entire Claude prompt cache. The mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01 beta replaces that edit with two content blocks, and the price gap between a cache read and
The price war we flagged in June arrived. On 30 July 2026 OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, and gave Sol a faster mode. Here are the new numbers, the competitive backdrop with Anthropic, and how the cut
Anthropic gave Claude Enterprise admins real cost controls on July 2, 2026: org and per-user spend limits, budget alerts at 75% and 90%, an eight-endpoint Spend Limits Admin API, and Analytics exports into Datadog
Claude Sonnet 5 launched on June 30, 2026 at introductory $2/$10 pricing through August 31. On September 1 it moves to $3/$15, and a new tokenizer already counts about 30% more tokens for the same text. Here is the cost
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 matches near-Fable-5 intelligence at 26% lower cost per task. A guide to the coding-agent benchmarks, the token economics, and when Opus 5 should be your default.
Claude Opus 5 launched 24 July 2026 at unchanged $5/$25 per-million pricing, with a five-level effort parameter (low, medium, high, xhigh, max) that governs token spend across text, tool calls and thinking. Here is how
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic on 15 July 2026: 100 engineers, a $1.5 billion valuation, and a Claude-first delivery model. The launch prices the scarcest input in enterprise
Anthropic began showing rupee prices in India on July 13, 2026. Claude Pro lists at ₹2,000/month against $17 in the US. Most of that 24% gap is GST, not an India surcharge - and the plan-versus-API decision matters far
