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BleepingComputer reports Anthropic extended free Fable 5 for paid subscribers to July 19 with a 50% rate-limit boost, but after that all Fable 5 usage runs on prepaid credits at $10/M input and $50/M output until compute frees up. Subscribers are annoyed that repeated extensions don't reset already-exhausted allowances. If you've built anything on Fable 5, the token math changes materially next week. Plan the migration or the budget now, not on the 20th.
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Anthropic published "Redeploying Fable 5" on July 18, and the headline reads like good news until you get to the metering. Fable 5 becomes a permanent subscription feature for Max and Team Premium. Good. But it's metered at 50% of standard weekly limits, meaning every Fable to...
paddo.dev makes the most contrarian read: the letter's substance isn't openness but paragraph nine, defending distillation as "a widely used technique for model improvement" and urging policymakers against "conflating legitimate model development techniques with misappropriati...
Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
After a June 12 US export-control order pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for nearly three weeks, Anthropic brought Fable 5 back once the order lifted. The order followed an Amazon report that Fable 5's safeguards could be bypassed to surface software vulnerabilities. Anthro...
Simon Willison pulled the numbers out of an FT report sourced to "people with knowledge of the matter": Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $65bn in July, up from $47bn in May. Six thousand customers spend $100,000 or more a year. The company told investors it expects a pro...
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