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Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There’s still more to be done: we’re working on developing and releasing models that provide many of the same capabilities as Opus at a lower cost. Not only that, but we plan to release a new class of model with even higher intelligence than Opus. As part of Project Glasswing, a small number of organizations are currently using Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity work. Models of this capability level require stronger cyber safeguards before they can be generally released. We’re making swift progress on dev

The human sciences are shifting: for the first time, core research tasks can be handed off to machines. AI chatbots increasingly contribute to scientific research, including in the most prestigious publications and in the social sciences. This has spurred optimism that AI could boost research productivity—while also stoking fears about overloaded peer review and a deluge of academic AI slop. But while turn-taking AI chatbots have primarily been used for writing assistance, coding agents could restructure social science research more radically. Agentic coding platforms like Claude Code and Code

The AI-Q skill enables Claude Code, Codex, or other general-purpose agents to submit a research task to a running AI-Q server and receive a well-formatted, detailed report with citations. The skill includes a SKILL.md file that tells the harness how to use AI-Q, plus a helper script that manages request routing, job submission, polling, and result retrieval. A skill can mean different things in agent workflows. Agent skills guide the harness, the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit helps define reusable tool functions, and the AI-Q Agent Skill exposes the full research pipeline—including intent classifi