… At first, the Claude Code team saw Opus 4.5 as an incremental improvement. “We’d been daily users for over a year, so it was less night and day for us,” says Cat Wu, Claude Code’s head of product. …
… These requests will instead be rerouted to an older AI model, Claude Opus 4.8. If Anthropic suspects a user is trying to conduct distillation—training a smaller AI model off a larger AI model’s responses—on Claude Fable 5, those requests will also be rerouted to Claude Opus 4.8, the company says. …
… When OpenAI finished training o3 in early 2025—a model optimized for coding even more than o1—it finally had the foundation to build a real AI coding product. But Claude Code was already poised to launch publicly. OpenAI was scrambling to stand up a competing product. …
… Microsoft spokesperson Kate Frischmann said the tech giant would continue offering Claude to US agencies and businesses except the Department of Defense. OpenAI did not specify when its technology would be ready to replace Claude in military software. …
… But by partnering with Palantir, he said, the federal government can also pull from internal datasets. “This is typically something that I might sit for like five hours with a cup of coffee, and read Google, and go into think tanks, and start writing reports and writing a citation, etc.,” Sharma sa… …
… I’d train Claude to generate some “wider context”—a paragraph discussing how the frustrating incident fits into systemic sludge patterns—and a complaint letter to the relevant regulatory bodies. Claude noodled. …
According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview crosses a threshold of capabilities to discover vulnerabilities in virtually any and every operating system, browser, or other software product and autonomously develop working exploits for hacking. …
… Anthropic even has an engineer devoted to Claude’s welfare. …
… That’s three X in like three months.” He added that he was open to exchanging the house for shares in Anthropic, but not OpenAI, because he prefers using Anthropic’s products. …
… The eye-popping figure is a sign of how hungry Anthropic is for computing resources needed to power products like its increasingly popular AI coding tools. …