Claude Fable 5 is back. On July 1, 2026, Anthropic restored global access to its most capable publicly available model, 18 days after a US government export-control directive forced it offline — the first time a frontier AI model has been switched off, and back on, by regulatory order. The US Commerce Department lifted the…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, positioning the model as a budget-friendly alternative to its flagship Opus line just as the AI lab barrels toward a long-anticipated initial public offering. The company is calling Sonnet 5 its “most agentic Sonnet model yet,” capable of building plans, operating browsers and terminals, and running autonomously at…
Dario Amodei does not tend to litigate his reputation in public. Anthropic’s chief executive has built his case for artificial intelligence in dense essays, policy papers and carefully paced interviews—not through the combustible back-and-forth of X. That is why his recent exchange, prompted by criticism of Anthropic’s safety politics and his own supposedly gloomy rhetoric,…