Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 this morning. If you only read the headline you’d file it under “incremental point release and move on,” and the company itself frames it that way — a modest but tangible step up from Opus 4.7, available at the same price. But a few of the things riding alongside it actually matter for how I work day to day on a Mac, and they’re worth ten minutes of your attention before you go back to whatever you were building. Here’s the short version of w

The last post walked through Power Automate cloud flows for Outlook automation from a Mac, and used Copilot in one place — to draft a flow from a natural-language description. Azure Logic Apps, which is the larger sibling of Power Automate, lets AI show up in three different places. It can write the workflow for you. It can be a step inside the workflow. And at the new edge of the platform, it can be the thing running the workflow. Each of those is a different tool with a dif

Most Power Automate tutorials quietly assume you are sitting at a Windows machine. You are not, and for the daily-email side of automation it turns out that does not matter. Cloud flows run entirely in the browser. The Outlook 365 connector talks to your mailbox over Microsoft's APIs. Copilot in the flow editor will build the first draft for you from a plain-English description. The only piece that is Mac-hostile is Power Automate Desktop, the Windows-only RPA tool — and if y