Anthropic's Claude Code became a leading agentic coding tool

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, their newest Opus model, available in Claude Code

US judge approved $1.5B settlement with authors over pirated books used to train Claude

Traders bet Claude Opus 4.8 launch imminent within days based on options market activity

Max plan users report 3-4x faster limit exhaustion on Claude Code, with a single continue message consuming ~3% of the 5-hour limit

Launched the Claude Certified Associate — Foundations (CCAO-F) certification program

Launched unified coding subscription plan offering four AI models for $3

Qwen family captured over 50% of global open-source AI model downloads, reaching nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads on Hugging Face.

Released Qwen 3.5 flagship model series, positioned as on par with leading US proprietary models.

Released Qwen 2.5, marking the beginning of a decisive shift away from popular US models like Llama.