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Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4 — tops SWE-bench, adds extended thinking

Posted 2026-05-23 · Review by 2026-07-23

Claude Opus 4 takes #1 on SWE-bench Verified. Extended thinking and parallel tool use make it the strongest coding agent model available.

OpenAI deprecates Sora — exits the consumer video race

Posted 2026-04-26 · Review by 2026-09-26

Sora 2 is officially deprecated. The API shuts down 24 September 2026. OpenAI is refocusing on enterprise video tooling.