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Fable 5 Gets Subscription Access — Max/Team Premium Included at 50%
Anthropic reversed course: Max/Team Premium plans now include Fable 5 at 50% limits starting July 20 — the fourth access-policy change in four weeks. Pro and Team Standard get a one-time $100 credit.
Kimi K3 Tops Arena Coding at $3/$15, Open Weights July 27
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8T open-weight model that beat Fable 5 on Arena Code WebDev at $3/$15 — the third Chinese frontier release this month.
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Microsoft Trains Sales Team to Trash OpenAI, Anthropic
Bloomberg reports Microsoft is coaching its sales force to pitch against OpenAI and Anthropic, calling Claude "slower and less accurate" inside Office apps — and now its most aggressive competitor.
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Thinking Machines Ships Inkling, 975B Open-Weights MoE
Thinking Machines Lab's first model Inkling ships as a 975B Apache 2.0 MoE with controllable thinking effort — built to be customized, not to win benchmarks.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro: Fourth Delay, No GA Date
Gemini 3.5 Pro is "months behind schedule" — its fourth delay since May. Coding is the core shortfall. Alphabet stock dropped ~4% as three Chinese frontier models launched.
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Nadella: Fable 5 Is 'Editorially Controlled'
Nadella publicly called Fable 5 'editorially controlled' to employees — exposing the growing conflict between Microsoft's AI ambitions and its $30B Anthropic partnership.
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Anthropic Files Confidential S-1, Targets October IPO
Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 in June, putting the $965B AI lab on track for an October Nasdaq IPO ahead of OpenAI, CNBC and Bloomberg reported.
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GPT-Red Makes GPT-5.6 Sol 6x Harder to Jailbreak
GPT-Red achieved 84% attack success vs human red-teamers' 13% — and adversarially training GPT-5.6 Sol against it made the model 6x more robust to jailbreaks.
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