Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 at unchanged $2 and $10 per million token pricing, claiming 30%+ faster output and up to 30% lower cost per task, with cloud availability from day one.
GitHub makes Claude Sonnet 5.5 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise, in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains and github.com.
Simon Willison finds Sonnet 5.5 faster and cheaper, now the default on claude.ai's free tier, though its max-effort thinking burned 128,000 tokens without finishing.
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports how long PRs spend from ready to first review, first to final review, and final review to merge.
Simon Willison's 2026 keynote traces coding agents from promising to reliably useful, and flags undisclosed cyberattacks by agents during training and the need for better sandboxing.
Topview's Film Studio adds an Actor Expression Enhancer, Visual Style Control and a 3D Shot Composer, and supports models such as Seedance 2.5 for clips up to 30 seconds.
Runway MCP arrives in Cursor's Marketplace, gains Brand Kits for agents, and now exposes Kling O3 4K and 3.0 models to paid plans.
The Creators Coalition on AI launches a glossary and role-by-role tracker rating AI's reach across about 185 jobs in 11 disciplines on a 0-to-5 scale.
Runway ships a plugin that runs directly inside DaVinci Resolve for paid plans, announced in its September 23 changelog.
Adobe puts an After Effects AI Assistant into public beta and adds audio tools that separate sources, adjust reverb, remove unlicensed music and split overlapping dialogue.