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Anthropic is releasing Claude Sonnet 5, a lower-priced model designed to bring more agentic AI capabilities to everyday users without the same cyber-risk profile as its most powerful systems.

Why it matters: The company says Sonnet 5 can handle autonomous tasks — including browser use, planning, coding and knowledge work — while posing fewer dangerous-cyber risks than its Opus and Mythos models.