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 work, and vision, but it comes with hard safety limits. In high-risk areas like cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and distillation, the model blocks responses and falls back to Claude Opus 4.8. Launched as a preview in April, Mythos was initially limited to a handful of partners due to cybersecurity concerns. Last week, Anthropic expanded … Continue reading TechCrunch background on Mythos/ Fable

#ai_frontier #ai #china #technology #quantum Bloomberg Power in the 21st century also depends on drones, biotechnology and quantum computing — and on manufacturing as much as invention. By Simon Johnson and Elisabeth B Reynolds June 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT Illustration: Bhanu Pratap for Bloomberg Washington has woken up to the importance of AI — and especially to the “AI race” against China. The plan seems to be to unleash a massive data center build, backed by complex corporate partnerships and a highly permissive regulatory environment, paired with some controls on who gets access to cutting-edge chips and frontier AI … Continue reading How the US Could ‘Win AI’ But Lose the Tech Race