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Claude Sonnet 5 Boosts AI Agent Reliability for East African Infrastructure
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, released June 30, 2026, scores 80.4% on Terminal-Bench, up from 67.0% for Sonnet 4.6. The 13-point improvement enables AI agents to reliably complete multi-step workflows like drought alert cascades across M-PESA, insurance, and county systems. Introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens runs through August 31, 2026.
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The Terminal-Bench jump is real, but the real test is whether East African agencies and startups actually integrate these MCP servers into production—not just demo them.
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