Google's Lyria 3.5 puts full songs with vocals in the Gemini API
Multi-minute tracks or 30-second clips, 44.1kHz stereo, SynthID baked in — plus Claude Code's quiet 17% weekly-limit cut on Sept 14 and 'ant apply' for agents.
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Full songs, straight from the API
`lyria-3.5` generates multi-minute tracks with real verses, choruses, and bridges (MP3 or WAV, 44.1kHz stereo); a 30-second clip model handles loops and fast iteration. Steer structure with [Verse]/[Chorus] tags, bring your own lyrics, and condition on up to 10 images — vocals render in multiple languages. Catch: single-turn only, SynthID watermarking is mandatory, and prompts naming a specific artist's voice or copyrighted lyrics are blocked.
Claude Code's weekly limits drop 17% on Sept 14
Anthropic's 'permanent 25% increase' is measured against pre-May baselines; against what you have today it's a 17% cut — landing Sept 14 for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise. Five-hour session windows are untouched; only the weekly cap shrinks. If you already ration your week, plan for less.
'ant apply' brings Terraform-style config to Claude agents
The Claude dev-platform CLI (v1.30.0) adds `ant apply`: create and update agents, skills, memory stores, environments, and deployments from files in your repo — lockfile-backed and reviewable in a PR. Your agent setup moves out of a dashboard and into git.
Elsewhere: Mercury 2.5's launch discount ends Sept 8
Inception's diffusion LLM Mercury 2.5 — the one pushing ~1,100 tokens/sec — reverts to standard pricing on Sept 8. Lock in cheap high-throughput batches before then, or requote your jobs after.