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• Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 Breaks Coding Records, Cuts Prices 66%

• Grayscale Lists Dogecoin and XRP ETFs During Market Bloodbath

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TODAY IN AI

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 Breaks Coding Records, Cuts Prices 66%

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship model competing directly with Gemini 3 and GPT-5.1. The model particularly stands out in coding and agentic benchmarks.

Opus 4.5 became the first model to break 80% on the SWE-Bench Verified coding benchmark. It also set new records for tool use, reasoning, and problem-solving. The model matches or beats Google's Gemini 3 across multiple benchmarks, with Anthropic calling it the "most robustly aligned model" for safety.

Anthropic designed Opus to orchestrate teams of smaller Haiku models, positioning it as a central coordinator for multi-agent systems. Pricing dropped 66% from Opus 4.1 while showing major efficiency improvements over previous models.

Anthropic also rolled out updates including unlimited chat lengths, Claude Code in desktop, and expanded access to Claude for Chrome and Excel.

Opus 4.5 arrives during a packed week for frontier AI, landing days after GPT-5.1 Pro and Gemini 3 launched. The price cut addresses longstanding criticism of Claude's costs compared to competitors. The frontier model race just got tighter.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

Grayscale Lists Dogecoin and XRP ETFs During Market Bloodbath

Even during a correction, altcoin ETF approvals keep coming.

Grayscale just listed GXRP and GDOG, converting its existing XRP and Dogecoin trusts into full ETFs with a 0% fee for the first three months or until they hit $1 billion in trading volume. Franklin Templeton's XRPZ ETF also started trading, adding another regulated entry point into XRP.

This isn't isolated. Bloomberg's ETF analysts expect over 100 new crypto ETFs across different assets in the next six months as issuers rush to lock in ticker symbols.

XRP shows how fast things have changed. Five years ago, the SEC sued Ripple for $1.3 billion over unregistered securities. That case is now closed, appeals dropped, and the current administration is approving multiple XRP products and formally updating digital asset rules.

Now the market has Canary Capital's XRPC as the first US spot XRP ETF, plus funds from Bitwise, 21Shares, CoinShares, and REX Shares. Franklin and Grayscale added XRPZ and GXRP on top.

Dogecoin is getting similar treatment. Grayscale's GDOG is the second DOGE ETF in the US, following REX Osprey's product. What started as a meme now sits inside brokerage accounts and model portfolios. Grayscale explicitly states DOGE has moved from "internet culture" to "real world utility."

The irony is stark. Prices remain weak. XRP is still over 40% below its July high. DOGE is down roughly 80% from the 2021 peak. Bitcoin is stuck in a correction.

Yet the infrastructure is exploding. More issuers, more tickers, more ways for traditional capital to get exposure without touching an exchange or wallet. The market is pricing in fear. The product pipeline is pricing in the next wave of demand.

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