On July 17, Fable 5 suddenly disappeared behind a paywall for paying users — two days before the model was set to leave the plans anyway. Anthropic fixed it in half an hour and refunded credits. A small outage with unfortunate timing.
Anthropic published a hands-on guide to using Fable 5 in Claude Cowork. Short version: stop spelling out every step. Describe the goal — and let the model find the path.
Microsoft is building an AI security tool that finds vulnerabilities and suggests fixes. The twist: it routes work across models from Microsoft, OpenAI — and Anthropic. And it's aimed squarely at Anthropic's pricey Mythos 5.
Last week's 'Honeycomb' leak has turned into a concrete launch window: community signals point to July 20–21. 1M context, stronger than Opus 4.8 — but Anthropic still isn't talking. So: handle with care.
At WAIC in Shanghai, Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview: 2.4 trillion parameters, multimodal for the first time — and a claim that only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 beats it. The proof? None. No model card, no benchmarks, open weights 'soon'.
Last night's update is almost entirely a security release. PowerShell, very long commands, zsh tricks, Docker flags — the permission check waved them all through. Claude also gets the right to end a conversation.
Two days after Kimi K3 undercut the market on price, OpenAI publishes a post explaining why token prices are the wrong metric. That's not a coincidence — but the argument still holds up.
Nearly nine in ten teens use ChatGPT weekly for learning. OpenAI lays out the safeguards and argues that keeping teens away isn't the answer. New: parents can force Study Mode on.