Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections

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0:16Everybody's here for a big, big week, lots of debates, and we got to start with Anthropic.

0:22Anthropic released a mythos-level model with some interesting guardrails.

0:28And it seems as though Dario is back to blogging.

0:33Okay, the model's called Fable 5.

0:36No idea why they're calling it that.

0:38Released on Tuesday.

0:40And it tops every benchmark, nearly every benchmark.

0:43The tokens, however, cost twice as much as Opus 4.8, but it should use less tokens overall because it's theoretically that much better.

0:53Unclear if this is going to alleviate some of the hand-wringing around the cost of tokens, but you remember in April, Anthropic famously did not release Mythos because publicly it had some strong hacking capabilities.