On Thursday, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8, the latest and most advanced version of its flagship AI model. It’s available everywhere at the same price as its predecessor, Opus 4.7 ($5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens). Opus 4.8 boasts industry-leading scores on tasks like agentic coding and agentic computer use, which is par for the course for a new Anthropic model. The key differentiator that’s being underscored by the company is the model’s “honesty”—and by extension, its overall reliability. According to a company blog post , Opus 4.8 specializes in catching its own mistakes and flagging them to users: “a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, confidently claiming to have made progress in their work despite the evidence being thin,” the company wrote.…