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The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs

Government officials accuse Anthropic of disregarding Trump's cyber directive and releasing Fable 5 without approval. "They ...
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Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic's Fable model

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and executives from other tech companies reportedly warned the Trump administration about security ...
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US government forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide

The US government has ordered Anthropic to shut down global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing alleged jailbreak risks.
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the ...
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Claude Fable 5 outpaces GPT-5.5 by 13 points on FrontierMath's toughest problems

Anthropic's new model, Claude Fable 5, posts top scores on the FrontierMath benchmark. According to Epoch AI, Fable 5 hits 87 percent accuracy on tiers 1 through 3 and 88 percent on the hardest tier 4 ...
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Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file

A simple Markdown file is apparently enough to boost GPT-5.5 by more than 20 points on procedural tasks. That's the promise of SkillOpt, a method from Microsoft and three Chinese universities that ...
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Google Research's Gemini-SQL2 tops text-to-SQL benchmarks by a wide margin

Google Research unveiled Gemini-SQL2, a new text-to-SQL system built on Gemini 3.1 Pro. It translates natural language into executable SQL database queries. On the BIRD benchmark, which measures how ...
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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with major gains in coding and science

Anthropic releases two new models in the fifth Claude generation. Claude Fable 5 claims the top spot in nearly all benchmarks, while Claude Mythos 5 (no longer in preview) is still only available to ...
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Claude Fable 5: The first Mythos model is powerful, expensive, and heavily filtered

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its so-called Mythos class. Early tests show a major leap in coding performance, but safety filters, pricing, and data ...
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Germany's National Security Council greenights an AI Safety Institute modeled after the UK's AISI

The National Security Council, chaired by the Federal Chancellor, has decided to set up an AI Security Institute in Germany. The institute will analyze the capabilities and risks of modern AI models, ...
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OpenAI models now available on Amazon Web Services

OpenAI is making its GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 language models, along with its Codex coding tool, available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The models run on Amazon Bedrock in both commercial and ...
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Anthropic poaches OpenAI's second-ever chip engineer as both companies race toward IPOs

Clive Chan, who says he was the second hardware employee in OpenAI's custom chip program, is moving to Anthropic. The departure comes as both companies prepare for IPOs and Anthropic is reportedly ...