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Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over.

Simon Willison reports Anthropic's Claude Code team recommends letting Fable/Opus apply autonomous judgment on tasks like testing rather than prescribing workflows.

At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions," and touted a long list of biotech and pharma customers already using Claude. Anthropic also went a ste...

Anthropic details Fable 5's cybersecurity safeguards and releases jailbreak testing framework for red-teaming.

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.

Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models. In early June, Anthropic sidelined Fable 5 - its consumer-facing model built the same ...

US Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5; access restoration begins tomorrow.

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously carry out meaningful work when given concise, high-level instructions, and it has access…

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, a frontier model optimized for coding, agents, and professional workflows at scale.

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

Anthropic relaunches Fable 5 globally July 1 and proposes industry jailbreak-severity scoring framework with Amazon, Microsoft, Google.

Anthropic launches Claude Science, a customizable workbench integrating research tools, auditable artifacts, and compute resources for scientific workflows.

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

Industry experience paper catalogs five MCP server architectural patterns across 15 production implementations post-Anthropic November 2024 release.

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US. This level of advancement is particularly concerning to the US government, which has worked to restrict China's access to powerful models like Anthropic's Mythos and Fable, as well as the hardware necessary to train and run them. The ...

Austria proposes hosting Anthropic operations in Europe in response to US export restrictions on AI model access.

Brief dismissive commentary on Anthropic-related concerns; lacks substantive detail or newsworthy content.

Margaret Atwood onstage at Detroit Opera House on January 26, 2026 | Photo: Monica Morgan/Getty Images Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn't mince words. According to Deadline's recap, Atwood said she'd used an AI chatbot exactly once, Anthropic's Claude, and came away unimpressed. She was looking for information about the British detective series Father Brown and, well: "Claude gave ...

Axios report: Anthropic's Fable 5 model expected to return to availability soon following regulatory discussions.

US government insiders expect restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 model to be lifted within the week, per Axios reporting.

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

Trump administration approves Anthropic release of Mythos AI to select US organizations.

Hypothetical argument that preferential US access to Fable 5 could force other countries to ban Anthropic technology for economic protection.

User feature request to reset weekly usage limits on Anthropic API.

Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.