“We cannot let this become the new normal – children losing their lives to violence should cause global outrage and must be condemned at every level.” - @UNICEFmena's Edouard Beigbeder as deadly violence continues to claim children's lives across Gaza and the West Bank.
Full statement: https://t.co/vnFo38lhJE
AI is advancing at a pace our policymaking institutions were never built for—and the gap between the two is becoming the central challenge of the technology. In his latest essay, our CEO Dario Amodei lays out how to close it.
We're launching three new initiatives to support the efforts he outlines.
The word “cancer” is flagged as a biosecurity risk by Claude Fable 5! I also tried to code a website on cancer mutations & Fable 5 was immediately removed from my list! @AnthropicAI will probably soon ban me for such dangerous prompts! FYI @karpathy “little trigger happy Fable”
HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank — burning fields and opening fire on civilians.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn
The New York Times is investigating the Israeli military's recent use of white phosphorus in Lebanon against Hezbollah.
Human Rights Watch has previously documented the Israeli military’s widespread use of white phosphorus. 🧵⤵️ https://t.co/ERIEiWNo3U
Claude Fable 5 is our first generally available Mythos-class model.
It ships with new safety classifiers that may flag certain prompts in dual-use domains like cyber and bio.
We've added fallbacks: a refused request retries on Claude Opus 4.8 instead of dead-ending.
This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time.
I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!
Children with autism and Down syndrome in Gaza have lost homes and vital therapy centres destroyed in Israel’s war. Families and teachers now try to give care in overcrowded tents with scarce resources.
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reports.
Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. Some now carry weapons and live in constant fear https://t.co/jHgknipnse
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. https://t.co/k3XzFX6sUE