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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5 for general users. * Fable 5 uses Mythos-class power with safety controls. * Pricing is about twice that of Claude Opus 4.8. Anthropic has announced a defanged version of its
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Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Anthropic just announced Claude Fable 5, a new AI model it said is the most powerful model it has ever made widely
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Anthropic is bringing its most powerful AI model to the general public for the first time, but it’s doing it with guardrails. On Tuesday, the AI firm launched Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos model. Anthropic says Fable 5 excels at software engineering, knowledge
