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Claude 4 Opus debuts with native tool orchestration

Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus brings built-in multi-step tool orchestration, cutting prompt-engineering overhead for complex agentic pipelines. Available via API today.

anthropic.com
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OpenAI · research

GPT-5 achieves 92% on GPQA Diamond benchmark

OpenAI's GPT-5 scores 92.1% on GPQA Diamond, surpassing expert-level performance on graduate-level reasoning tasks across STEM domains.

openai.com
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Google · product

Gemini 2.5 Pro rolls out 2M context to free tier

Google expanded Gemini 2.5 Pro's 2M-token context window to all free-tier users, making it the largest free context window in the market.

blog.google
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LangChain · release

LangGraph 0.4 ships checkpoint replay and 30% speedup

LangGraph 0.4 adds checkpoint-replay for time-travel debugging and delivers a 30% throughput improvement on parallel branches. One breaking change to the State schema.

github.com
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OpenClaw · release

OpenClaw-RL v0.8 lands with multi-agent reward shaping

Gen-Verse drops OpenClaw-RL 0.8 featuring cooperative multi-agent reward shaping and a new benchmark suite. Community tests show 18% win-rate improvement on 1v1 tasks.

github.com
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Meta · research

Llama 3.3 70B hits GPT-4o parity on MMLU

Meta's Llama 3.3 70B achieves 85.7% on MMLU, matching GPT-4o on the popular benchmark while running on a single A100 GPU — a cost-efficiency milestone for open-weights models.

ai.meta.com
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Microsoft · product

Azure AI Foundry adds one-click MCP server deployment

Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry now offers one-click MCP (Model Context Protocol) server deployment, letting enterprises spin up compatible tool servers in under 5 minutes.

azure.microsoft.com
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Mistral · release

Mistral Small 3 outperforms GPT-3.5 at 3× lower cost

Mistral AI's Small 3 model achieves higher scores than GPT-3.5-turbo on coding and reasoning benchmarks at one-third the API cost, making it a strong default for high-volume tasks.

mistral.ai
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