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This Week in Claude · 2 October 2026

Week ending 2 October 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5 arrived at the same price, faster and up to 30% cheaper per task, and Sonnet 4.5 got a retirement date of 30 November. Re-pin everything.

  • Act now

    Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September at US$2 in and US$10 out per million tokens, 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper per task than Sonnet 5, then deprecated Sonnet 4.5 two days later with API retirement on 30 November. Anything pinned to Sonnet 4.5 needs a migration owner.

  • Act now

    Notion renamed its MCP tool notion-query-database-view to notion-query-data-sources on 29 September. Any Cowork skill or script that calls the old name fails now.

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