Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other companies have been continuously releasing incremental updates and features that allow their technology to act as an assistant both for consumers (researching topics, scheduling meet-ups, and looking up flights) and for enterprise and developer use (creating slide decks, helping with coding tasks, and analyzing spreadsheets). The battle for attention and reliance heats up nearly every month, if not every week. Days ago, OpenAI announced Pulse, its newest ChatGPT feature<\/a> designed to be part of users\u2019 morning routines and research topics relevant to their days.<\/p>\n Anthropic also said the new model would be paired with other updates to help developers code their own AI agents.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re combining the launch of the model with access to virtual machines, memory, context management, and multi-agent support,\u201d the company wrote in a release. \u201cThis essentially packages the same building blocks that power Claude Code – enabling developers to build their own cutting-edge agents.\u201d<\/p>\n Dianne Penn, a head of product management at Anthropic, told The Verge in an interview that the model\u2019s improvements in its computer use capabilities surprised even her. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is more than three times as skilled at navigating a browser and using a computer compared to Anthropic\u2019s tech from last October. Penn said the team had received feedback from early-access customers \u2014 \u201cthe GitHubs and Cursors of the world\u201d \u2014 and spent the past month working intensively on the model.<\/p>\n Scott White, product lead for Claude.ai, told The Verge that the new model operates at \u201cchief-of-staff level\u201d and can find availability between multiple peoples\u2019 calendars and schedule a meeting, look at a data dashboard and pull together insights, write status updates based on one-on-one meetings with his direct reports, and more.<\/p>\n Neither White nor Penn had yet tried vibe-coding with the new model when The Verge spoke to them. But Penn said she uses Claude Sonnet 4.5 for hiring potential new team members at Anthropic.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been actually really helpful to have a continuous running prompt that I use of, \u2018Do a deep web search, come up with like these parameters for profiles to source for certain types of roles on my team,\u2019\u201d Penn said. \u201cThat\u2019s been really, really helpful. And I\u2019ve seen the Sonnet 4.5 just do even better than in the past, on the quality and the depth of the searches and actually generating a spreadsheet with LinkedIn profiles so then I can email them.\u201d<\/p>\n Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Hayden FieldClose Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n PlusFollow<\/p>\n See All by Hayden Field<\/a><\/p>\n AICloseAI<\/p>\n Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n PlusFollow<\/p>\n![\"Hayden](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HAYDEN_BLURPLE.jpg\"\/)
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