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Bits In Glass gains Select status in Anthropic’s Claude partner networkThe designation recognises a certified delivery team and documented customer use cases across risk, compliance, underwriting and case management. It reflects the expansion of services firms that operationalise agentic AI for enterprises.→Hexaware corrects and expands its Anthropic partnership announcementThe partnership combines Claude with Hexaware’s Zerovity and AgentVerse platforms for enterprise AI services. The corrected release materially updates the public description of the commercial arrangement.→Dfinitiv launches a platform for building branded agent experiencesDfinitiv introduced SmartCXP AI, a platform for building and operating branded applications across ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants. Its AI Forge generates the application components, while the Engine and Center provide governed runtime and usage visibility.→Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with major speed and cost improvementsClaude Sonnet 5.5 runs more than 30% faster and costs up to 30% less than Sonnet 5. Anthropic reports a jump from 10.3% to 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, alongside gains in long-horizon work and image understanding.→Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with lower operating costsAnthropic says Opus 5.5 performs around the level of Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less than Opus 5. The model has a one-million-token context window, adaptive thinking and availability across major cloud platforms.→Anthropic folds Cowork into Claude and launches Docs and SlidesClaude Cowork and chat are becoming one interface, allowing users to move from quick questions to longer-running tasks without changing products. Claude Docs, Claude Slides and Claude Design are initially beta features for paid users, with enterprise administrators controlling activation.→Anthropic connects Claude to the financial-adviser software stackAnthropic launched Claude for Financial Advisors with connectors to tools from BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, iCapital and other providers. The suite supports meeting preparation, research, portfolio analysis, follow-up and compliance workflows.→Ping Identity adds runtime identity controls for Claude and coding agentsEnterprise Personal Agent Access, delivered through PingOne Privilege, associates agent sessions with the user and device behind them and applies allow, deny, logging and approval policies at runtime. Ping said the controls cover desktop assistants such as Claude and coding agents such as Claude Code, including commit attribution without long-lived credentials.→Infostealer malware hijacks Claude sessionsAnthropic warned that general-purpose infostealers including Vidar, Lumma, StealC and AMOS had harvested credentials and Claude session data from infected devices. The company signed out compromised sessions, removed saved payment methods and refunded unauthorised charges it identified.→VS Code 1.135 turns the Agents window into a cross-agent workspaceVS Code 1.135 can show recent Copilot or Claude agent sessions created in other applications and let users continue them in VS Code. It also introduces experimental Rubber Duck second opinions, a default single-pane Agents layout and per-model input, cached-input and output token details.→Claude Agent SDK adds explicit subagent depth and refusal lifecycle eventsClaude Agent SDK TypeScript 0.3.238 adds is_backgrounded and spawn_depth to subagent task events, plus a terminal refused state for cross-session messages rejected by policy. It also fixes hook reinitialisation and exposes more reliable branch and prompt-suggestion events.→Claude voice mode gains model selection and connected-app actionsClaude voice mode can now use Opus, Sonnet or Haiku, with the default based on the model last used in text chat. Anthropic also says voice conversations can interact with services including Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva and Notion.→Anthropic details Claude text watermarkingAnthropic says the method changes low-stakes token choices without adding hidden characters, extra tokens, or generation cost. It expects executable code to be less affected because exact output matters, while comments and natural-language material may show stronger watermarking.→