The US government has banned worldwide access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. The export control directive, issued Friday June 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM ET, forces Anthropic to disable both models for all users because the company cannot verify nationality …
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Anthropic Launches Fable 5: Public Mythos-Class Model
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 today — a Mythos-class model that tops nearly every benchmark. Fable 5 is available to the public via API and Amazon Bedrock at $10/M input and $50/M output tokens, less than half the price of Mythos Preview. Mythos 5, the unrestricted …
Building Claude Skills: A Complete Developer Guide
What Are Claude Skills Direct answer: Claude Skills are folders of markdown instructions, scripts, and reference files that Claude loads dynamically to handle specialized tasks. They eliminate the need to re-paste context, style guides, or workflow rules into every conversation session. Every time you start a new Claude conversation, you …
Anthropic Wants AI Pause, Sells Mythos to NSA for Offense
On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a lengthy post calling for a global “temporary pause” on frontier AI development, warning that recursive self-improvement could arrive before institutions are prepared. Within 24 hours, the Financial Times revealed that the same company has embedded half a dozen engineers inside the US National …
Anthropic: AI Now Builds AI — Inside the Recursive Self-Improvement Data
On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a research paper titled When AI Builds Itself that made a blunt admission: more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production systems is now written by Claude. Engineers at the company ship 8× more code per day than they did in 2024. …
Claude Opus 4.7 Ships, Sonnet 4.8 Leak Raises Questions
Claude Opus 4.7 Ships, Sonnet 4.8 Leak Raises Questions On April 16, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 (model ID: claude-opus-4-7) to general availability across its own API as well as Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. The pricing held steady at $5 per million input tokens and …