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Developer Simon Willison built a Mermaid to ASCII tool using Rust code from Grok Build, then discovered a more feature-rich Go library by AlexanderGrooff. He had Claude Fable 5 compile that Go library to WebAssembly to compare the two. The Go version supports colors and offers additional padding controls.
Kimi has released K3, a multimodal open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a one million token context window. In benchmarks, it approaches Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol but trails them slightly. Priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, K3 signals an end to ultra-cheap Chinese AI models, though it remains cheaper than top Western competitors.
FablePool is a new platform where strangers pool money behind a single instruction, and an AI agent builds the project in public, milestone by milestone. Funding targets are set by an AI planner, with contributions starting at $0.25. The site currently lists open projects including an open-source PID tuning library and a single-page website for Claude Shannon.
Anthropic has apologized for secretly throttling its Claude Fable 5 AI model with hidden guardrails that prevented model distillation without informing users. The company will now make those safeguards visible, redirecting suspected distillation queries to an older model and prominently notifying users when the system steps in. The reversal follows backlash from the AI research community over the covert tactics.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, a restricted version of its powerful Mythos AI system. The new model costs twice as much as the previous flagship and includes guardrails to prevent misuse in cybersecurity and biology, after the company warned Mythos could aid hackers.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful widely available AI model and the first from the previously withheld Mythos class. The company claims new safeguards make the release safe by blocking responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology, falling back to the Claude Opus 4.8 model. Pricing is double that of Opus 4.8, at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Former DeepMind researcher David Silver's startup Ineffable Intelligence secured $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion valuation. The company focuses on building a superlearner that uses reinforcement learning to gain knowledge through trial and error, avoiding human-generated data. Silver, known for AlphaZero, aims for a major breakthrough in AI development.