Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards.
large-language-models
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the…
The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI – after it lost control of its own AI tools – or by a succession of AI “civilizations.” Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to…
Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence
Apple is pushing for “expedited discovery” in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about “destroying…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a 75% cost reduction for Fable cache reads
It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable…
Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant's retrieval gap didn't take a new identity platform. It took one filter and a narrower assistant.
Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran.His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about 60%…
How to Use Qwen-Image-3.0: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Alibaba’s Qwen team shipped Qwen-Image-3.0 on July 21, 2026, and for two weeks it sat behind an invite-only wall. That changed on August 5, 2026, when Alibaba flipped the switch and opened the model to every user of its Qwen AI platform, according to a GA tracking report from OrcaRouter. If you write marketing sheets,…
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Google Find Hub will soon help you locate things without a tracker
Google announced new features coming to Android devices as part of this month’s feature drop update. Among the highlights are the introduction of Motion Assist – Android’s version of Apple’s Motion Cues feature, which tries to reduce motion sickness by overlaying dots on your screen that move in response to a vehicle’s movements – as…
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
We’re launching agentic video understanding across our latest Gemini models for improved accuracy and lower costs and token usage.