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A lot of things are always happening. Only one story matters. Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were shut down, by the White House, via an imposition of export controls at 5:23pm on Friday, wreaking all sorts of havoc. There was then a scramble. Anthropic flew its people out...

The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world. It has now been two days since Anthropic flew its people out to Washington, and I offered my previous update. We have heard nothing back from those meetings. Prediction market prices have moved rapidly, and have...

Fable and Mythos are currently unavailable, but likely will return within a few weeks. I will continue to cover that fiasco, but in the meantime I will also finish my review of Fable, as if it were available, including use of the present tense. As it did with Opus 4.7...

On Friday evening the United States Government has forced Anthropic to take down all access to Fable and Mythos. It’s been a rough weekend. > Dean W. Ball: One thing about AI regulation being haphazardly imposed on just-released, highly performant models is that in a very real sense, the government...

No good policy gets announced shortly after 5pm eastern on a Friday. Here we go again. THE ONCE AND FUTURE FABLE The United States Department of Commerce, as per a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, apparently in response to a narrow jailbreak identified by Amazon, has classified Fable 5...

First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model. I have noticed a step change, where Fable can suddenly help me in ways that previous models were not worth bothering to query. Almost everything it has noticed in one of my drafts so far has been...

A lot happened this week, including a great trip out to Lighthaven. The main event, the one that matters, was the release of Claude Fable 5. The public now has its hands on a Mythos-class model, alongside strong safeguards. As always with a new model, I take a few days...