Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 Thursday, an upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding and knowledge work skills, all for the same price as its prior version. Why it matters: The new model still lags the performance of Mythos, Anthropic's most advanced, but the company says Mythos-class models are expected "in the coming weeks." Driving the news: Anthropic said Opus 4.8 outperformed competitors on a number of key benchmarks, including agentic coding, reasoning, financial analysis an...