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Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in <5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity  —  Today we're launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class1 model that we've made safe for general use.
Wired:
Anthropic debuts Claude Fable 5, a “safe” Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyberattacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations  —  Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can't be used for cyberattacks.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs  —  Key Points … Ask about this article...  Both models share the same base model.  Fable 5 ships with conservative safety guardrails for general use.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits  —  Anthropic is bringing its most powerful AI model to the general public for the first time, but it's doing it with guardrails.
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours  —  Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI  —  I had early access to the first Mythos-class AI model being released to the public, Claude 5 Fable.
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David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic prices both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at $10 per 1M input tokens and $50 per 1M output tokens, less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5 for general users.  — Fable 5 uses Mythos-class power with safety controls.
Reuters:
Analysis: Trump and his sons profited $2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including $TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~$2.3B  —  Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune …
The Keyword:
Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, its latest audio model that it says can deliver “near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages”  —  Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is our latest audio model, delivering near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages.
Inti Landauro / Reuters:
The EU says Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the EU after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted from interoperability obligations for the tool  —  Apple decided not to roll out its new Siri AI tool in the European Union after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Siri AI will not be available in the EU with the launch of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the DMA; Siri AI will also not be available in China at launch
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations  —  When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.  —  The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs  —  - Apple showed off Siri AI demos at its annual WWDC keynote in Cupertino, Calif. … Apple on Monday revealed what it's been working …
New York Times:
Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames  —  The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over Instagram accounts using a bug in the company's new artificial intelligence software.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU regulators order Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to probe if Meta abused its market power by blocking competitors  —  EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue …

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From Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney+ will livestream Super Bowl LXI on February 14 in the US and 55+ international markets, providing another platform for ESPN's first Super Bowl production

Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Democratic Party officials sue Trump to try to block his administration from using any more taxpayer money to pay for election-related TV ads

Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
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Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China starts operating the world's first wind-powered underwater data center, off Shanghai's coast, and says it uses 22.8% less power than land-based facilities
Apple Machine Learning Research:
Apple unveils new Apple Foundation Models: two on-device models, including a 20B-parameter multimodal model called AFM 3 Core Advanced, and three cloud models

Earlier Picks

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal:
Beacon Software, which acquires niche software businesses and transforms them with AI, raised a $225M Series C, bringing its total funding to $550M
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
In a UK online safety consultation, the US urges the UK against an under-16 social media ban, saying it would place a “disproportionate” burden on US companies
Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
Finland-based Iceye, whose small satellites help countries with real-time location monitoring, raised a €1B Series F led by General Atlantic at a €10B valuation
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays
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