Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, and the significant part is not another benchmark race — it is the economics of running AI agents. The company positions Sonnet 5 as its most agentic mid-tier model yet: it plans, drives browsers and terminals, and completes multi-step work that until recently

At Think 2026, IBM moved digital sovereignty from policy to operations with the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, a self-managed software platform for deploying and running AI and cloud workloads in environments governed entirely by the customer. The pitch is that sovereignty now reaches well beyond data residency: it