Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 for coding and knowledge work.
The model performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while running more than 30% faster and costing 40% less than Opus 5 on typical workloads. Claude Opus 5.5 is available through Anthropic’s platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
The European Space Agency reported that normal water conditions are increasingly becoming the exception worldwide, based on a new global assessment combining satellite and ground observations.