Morning brief

Tuesday, June 30

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TL;DR Anthropic landed two big distribution moves overnight: Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are now GA in Microsoft Azure Foundry, and California signed the first statewide AI deal giving all its agencies half-price Claude access. June 30 also closes GitHub Copilot’s first usage-based billing month, with agentic devs posting 10-50x cost spikes.

Models & research

  • model-releases Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 hit GA in Microsoft Foundry on Azure; teams get Azure-native identity, billing, and governance for Claude with NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra acceleration. “Hosted on Anthropic infrastructure” option stays in preview. Azure blog · WindowsReport

Tools & dev

  • dev-tools June 30 closes GitHub Copilot’s first full 30-day token billing cycle after the June 1 switch to usage-based pricing. Agentic users are posting 10-50x cost spikes – bills moving from $29/mo to $750 and $50/mo to $3,000. Promotional credits expire September 1 and the flat-rate era is gone. TechTimes Jun 29 · TechJournal

OSS

  • google/agents-cli (3.9k stars, v0.6.1 released Jun 28) – CLI + skills for building, evaluating, and deploying ADK agents on Google Cloud; designed to work as skills inside claude-code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI rather than as a standalone agent. agentic-ai GitHub · Google Developers Blog

  • diegosouzapw/OmniRoute (617 stars today) – AI gateway routing across 160+ providers with token-saving compression and multi-model API support. GitHub

  • ogulcancelik/herdr (467 stars today) – Rust-based agent multiplexer for terminal environments. GitHub

  • usestrix/strix (395 stars today) – open-source AI penetration testing tool for finding and fixing app vulnerabilities. GitHub

Other

  • Governor Newsom signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic on Jun 29: all California state agencies and localities get Claude at 50% off plus free workforce training. Claude becomes the first AI tool available statewide via California’s IT Shared Services portal; DMV and Health Care Services were already using it. gov.ca.gov · The Next Web