Evening brief

Wednesday, July 1

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TL;DR Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 as its cheapest capable agent model, closing the gap with Opus 4.8 and immediately becoming the free/Pro plan default. California signed the first state-wide government Claude deal the same day.

Models & research

  • Claude Sonnet 5 launched June 30: SWE-bench Pro 63.2% (up from Sonnet 4.6’s 58.1%), OSWorld-Verified 81.2%, GDPval-AA v2 at 1,618 (edges Opus 4.8’s 1,615 on knowledge work). Intro pricing $2/$10 per million tokens through Aug 31, then $3/$15. 1M context window. Now the default for free and Pro plans and positioned as the cost-effective path for agentic workloads. TechCrunch · Anthropic

Tools & dev

  • California Gov. Newsom partnered with Anthropic (June 29): Claude now available to all state agencies plus cities and counties at 50% discount through the new SITeS portal. First state-government-wide Claude deployment. Claude already in use at DMV and DHCS. TechCrunch · gov.ca.gov
  • Cursor launched a native iOS public beta (June 29): remote-controls cloud agents or local desktop agents from phone, with voice input, slash commands, Live Activities on lock screen, and diff review. 75% off Composer 2.5 runs in the app through July 5. cursor.com

OSS

  • msitarzewski/agency-agents surged to 1,791 stars today on GitHub trending: Shell-based multi-agent system with specialized expert personas for different task domains. GitHub
  • xbtlin/ai-berkshire hit 969 stars today: multi-agent investment research framework built on Claude Code methodology. GitHub
  • browser-use/video-use at 721 stars today: agents that edit video files by generating and running code. GitHub
  • google/agents-cli at 445 stars today: Google’s new Python CLI for creating and deploying agents on Google Cloud. GitHub