Claude Opus 4.5 Just Landed and It’s Anthropic’s Biggest Leap Yet

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Claude Opus 4.5: Anthropic’s New Flagship Model

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, and early results show a meaningful jump in real-world capability. In internal evaluations, the model outscored every human candidate on Anthropic’s notoriously difficult two-hour software engineering take-home, solving multi-file bugs and reasoning through system-level issues with far fewer mistakes and much clearer judgment. Beyond coding, Opus 4.5 handles long research tasks, spreadsheets, and multi-step computer actions with more consistency than earlier Claude versions.

A big piece of the update is how it manages context and reasoning. Opus 4.5 is noticeably better at navigating ambiguous instructions, identifying tradeoffs, and sticking to policy boundaries while still solving the request. On the agent side, early testers reported that it breaks down long tasks more cleanly, keeps sub-agents coordinated, and avoids the drift that usually happens in extended sessions. With new API controls for “effort,” developers can choose faster or deeper reasoning on demand, and tools like Claude Code benefit from more deliberate planning before making changes.

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AI in the Classroom: A Structural Shift

Andrej Karpathy has argued that schools will need a fundamental redesign in how they teach and evaluate students now that AI is widely accessible. His main point is simple: you cannot reliably detect AI use on homework, and trying to police it is a losing battle. Because of that, he believes schools should assume students will use AI at home and adjust grading accordingly. Homework shifts toward practice and exploration, while most evaluation moves into the classroom where teachers can directly observe what students can do without assistance.

At the same time, he emphasizes that students shouldn’t avoid AI — they should learn to use it well. His analogy is the calculator: even in a world where calculators are everywhere, students still learn arithmetic so they understand what the tool is doing and can catch mistakes. Applied to AI, that means schools should deliberately train students in both directions: how to use AI intelligently and how to operate without it. Exams might mix no-tools tests, open-book formats, or assignments where students critique AI-generated work. The goal is a generation that’s fluent with AI, not dependent on it.

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Meta Experiments With a “Morning Brief” for Your Social Life

Meta is testing a new feature internally, called Project Luna, that delivers a personalized morning briefing based on your Facebook activity, combined with curated outside information. Instead of scattered notifications, Luna would assemble a digest of updates from friends, trending posts, events, and relevant external context. Early tests are expected in New York and San Francisco. If the rollout succeeds, Meta could extend the format to Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, giving the company a new foothold in daily AI-powered content delivery.

Warner Music Settles With Suno and Sells Songkick

Warner Music Group has ended its lawsuit against AI music startup Suno and entered into a licensing partnership that will let Suno offer fully licensed AI music models next year. As part of the deal, WMG is also selling Songkick, its concert-discovery platform, which Suno plans to keep running for fans. Going forward, artists under WMG will have direct control over whether and how their likeness, voice, and compositions appear in AI-generated music. The move follows similar agreements with Udio and comes just as Suno announces a $250M Series C, signaling the music industry’s shift from legal battles to negotiated participation.

Federal vs State: The Fight Over Who Regulates AI

A major policy clash is emerging between Washington and individual states over who should set the rules for AI. With no comprehensive federal law in place, states have moved rapidly (passing more than 100 AI-related laws this year) while parts of the tech industry are pushing Congress and the White House to preempt state authority entirely. Ideas being floated include inserting preemption language into the National Defense Authorization Act or issuing an executive order directing federal agencies to challenge state AI laws in court. The proposals have triggered strong pushback from lawmakers who argue that removing state authority without a federal standard would leave consumers unprotected. Meanwhile, Rep. Ted Lieu and the House AI Task Force are preparing a 200-page AI bill covering deepfakes, fraud, safety testing, and transparency, though it’s expected to take time before anything passes.

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DeepSeekMath-V2 and Self-Verifying Reasoning

DeepSeek has released open-source weights for DeepSeekMath-V2, a 685B-parameter model trained with a generator–verifier system that forces it to write full proofs, check them, revise them, and only finalize when the verifier agrees. This approach pushes the model toward rigorous mathematical reasoning rather than answer-guessing, and the system reached near-perfect Putnam results and gold-level performance on IMO and CMO evaluations.

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