AI Catchup
Catch up on AI: tools, practices, and what matters this week
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- How Ramp rolled out AI company-wideThe Glass playbook: internal AI workspaces, skills marketplace, and what to copy.
- Make Claude Opus 5 less verboseEffort levels, thinking, and the prompt lines Anthropic says to delete.
- Which AI should run your Mac?Perplexity Computer vs Codex Computer Use vs Claude, with the 30-second decision.
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The AI Catchup - September 1, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 is out today as claude-fable-5-1. Same $10 in and $50 out per million tokens as Fable 5, but cache reads drop 75% to $0.25, which Anthropic says makes typical workloads about 25% cheaper and agentic ones up to 45% cheaper. Cyber safeguards fire about 60% less in Claude Code, zero data retention is back for eligible enterprises, and Mythos 5.1 stays behind two vetting programs.
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Claude Merges Cowork and Chat, Adds Docs and Slides to Every Conversation
Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. The rollout starts with Pro and Max users on web, desktop, and mobile, alongside beta Claude Docs and Claude Slides and Claude Design inside conversations.
Salesforce in Claude Brings Sales Workflows into Claude
Anthropic and Salesforce released Salesforce in Claude in beta. The plugin brings seller accounts, opportunities, and pipeline data into Claude, includes 37 pre-built sales skills, and can draft or apply CRM updates after seller approval. It is available on paid Claude plans after an admin connects Salesforce.
OpenAI Lists New ChatGPT Voice in Desktop Pricing for Work and Codex
OpenAI's current Codex pricing documentation lists Voice in Desktop at $0.05 per connected minute and 1.25 credits per minute for credit-based Business, Edu, and Enterprise workspaces. OpenAI Developers amplified a post describing the change as an approximately 60% price reduction for Voice in Work and Codex; the documentation confirms the current rates but does not provide a prior-rate comparison.
Claude Managed Agents Adds a Terminal Session Viewer and Auto Permission Mode
Claude Managed Agents now includes a terminal workflow for attaching to live sessions and a local web session viewer. Anthropic also added an auto permission mode that evaluates each agent or MCP tool call against the intent in user.message and runs, denies, or pauses for approval.
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