News for Tuesday (11/25/2025): Anthropic’s new Opus; Copilot bails on WhatsApp; Spotify raises rates

Magnum Opus

Anthropic updated its AI model to Opus 4.5. The company says the latest Opus has improved problem-solving, can do wonders with spreadsheets, and scores over 80% on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark—a first for any AI model. What to expect? More of Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome and Claude for Excel. Those will be rolling out to Max and Max, Team, and Enterprise users, respectively.

Flying without a Copilot

Microsoft AI chatbot Copilot will no longer work on Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp as of January 15. This follows OpenAI’s move to de-integrate with WhatsApp in January. Both Microsoft and OpenAI cited changes to Meta’s platform policies last month. Meta said it wants WhatsApp to help businesses serve customers, rather than get bogged down by chatbot distribution.

Record prices?

Spotify will raise prices on U.S. subscribers next year, the Financial Times reported. A subscription currently costs $11.99 per month, but the streaming service has been under pressure from record labels to raise prices (presumably so more can go back to the labels…and maybe even the artists).