Rumor: Anthropic to drop Opus 5.5 two weeks after calling for frontier pacing
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-25
Unverified rumor and commentary: Anthropic is reportedly dropping Opus 5.5 a week after Astra got nerfed and two weeks after publicly calling for pacing the frontier—which the author calls "the geek version of hard ball." The post highlights the apparent tension between Anthropic's safety advocacy and its actual release cadence.
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