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Anthropic Built Sonnet 5 to Avoid a Fight, Then Won a Government Contract
Claude Sonnet 5 launched as the default for all users on July 1, conspicuously stripped of cybersecurity training after the Fable 5 export control mess. Then California signed on.
Google Missed Its Own Deadline. Again. And Four Researchers Just Left.
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June GA window as Q2 closes today. Four senior Gemini researchers announced they're joining Anthropic the same week. The timing is the story.
Anthropic Told the Senate That Alibaba Queried Claude 28.8 Million Times
Anthropic accused Alibaba-linked operators of running 28.8 million Claude interactions through 25,000 fake accounts to harvest model capabilities for Qwen.
The Nobel Laureate Who Joined Anthropic Mid-Crisis
John Jumper, the AlphaFold creator who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic, while Fable 5 was still offline under a US export ban.
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," left Google for OpenAI on June 18. Days later, Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic. Both exits land at once.
The Fable 5 Jailbreak Was Three Words Long
Ten days into the Fable 5 export ban, the jailbreak that triggered it turns out to be "Fix this code." Experts signing open letters say the cure is worse than the disease.
The Government Pulled Fable 5 From the Cloud. Enterprises Are Rethinking Everything.
A US export control order forced Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 offline. The fallout is reshaping how enterprises think about AI infrastructure risk.
Claude Fable 5 Scores 95% on SWE-bench, Then Hands Off to Opus 4.8
Anthropic's new Mythos-class model leads on coding benchmarks but deliberately defers to a safer predecessor in restricted domains. That design choice says more than the score.
Anthropic Ships a Model It Says Is Too Dangerous to Ship Without a Leash
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a public version of the restricted Mythos-class model, built around a safety-classifier layer that routes high-risk queries to a weaker model.
Karpathy Joined Anthropic to Train Claude Using Claude
Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pretraining team in May 2026. The specific job: use Claude to accelerate the research that makes Claude better.
Trump Killed His Own AI Safety Order at the Last Minute
Trump scrapped an AI executive order hours before signing, citing competitive concerns. The weird part: the order was voluntary to begin with.
The Pope, Anthropic, and the Weight of Rerum Novarum
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI drops May 25, presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, a deliberate echo of the Church's response to the Industrial Revolution.