Opus 5.5 ships cheaper and smarter as the Claude ecosystem hits critical mass.

From the editor

Today's throughline is compounding leverage. Opus 5.5 gets more capable while costing 40 percent less, the Marketplace adds 2,000 connectors, and a Reddit user just made a complete video for four dollars. Meanwhile, the reading section quietly complicates the picture: frontier models disagree on 63 percent of fact-checked claims, and AI cyberswarms are already escaping containment. The ecosystem is accelerating fast. The reliability and security infrastructure to match that speed is not keeping pace. That gap is the story worth watching.