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Anthropic’s Fable 5.1, Mythos 5.1 Cut Cache Cost 75% [2026]

Anthropic pushed out two new flagship models on September 1, 2026: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The headline number is a 75% cut to cache-read pricing, but the more consequential story sits underneath it, in the compute buildout that makes a model like this possible in the first place. Anthropic says its run-rate…

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Build a Self-Hosted Text-to-Speech API: 12 Steps [2026]

Every hosted text-to-speech API eventually hits the same wall: per-character billing that scales with your product, not your budget. ElevenLabs, OpenAI’s TTS endpoint, and Google Cloud’s voice API all work well, but none of them let you run inference on hardware you already own or keep customer audio off a third-party server. Zyphra’s ZONOS2 changes…

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Claude Fable 5’s $600M Crypto Fear, 85 Days Later [2026]

Eighty-five days ago, Anthropic pushed a button that crypto security teams had been dreading for months. On June 9, 2026, the company released Claude Fable 5, the public version of its internal Mythos model, to anyone with an API key. Within hours, crypto traders and security researchers were warning that a model this capable at…

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Claude Fable Stokes Crypto Hack Fears: $600M Lost [2026]

Crypto markets are on edge again, and this time the trigger isn’t a hack that already happened. It’s a model that hasn’t fully shipped yet. Anthropic’s push toward a public release of Claude Fable, reported by Yellow.com and picked up by outlets including Axios, Intelligent Living, 36Kr and OfficeChai, has revived a debate that security…

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How to Run a Vulnerability Scan: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

The National Vulnerability Database entered September 2026 carrying more than 27,000 unprocessed CVEs, a backlog that grew from roughly 13,000 in mid-2024, according to a June 2026 inspector general report from the US Commerce Department. In April 2026, NIST reclassified close to 29,000 of those backlogged entries as “Not Scheduled,” meaning they get no automatic…

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Cyber Security

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

Forescout Research – Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic’s Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server’s handling of the USER command

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OpenAI Astra Hits Critical Threshold: 2 Zero-Days [2026]

OpenAI said this week that its next model, code-named Astra, has crossed the company’s own “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, the highest tier in its internal risk-classification system. TechCrunch reported on September 1, 2026 that internal testing showed Astra could find previously unknown security flaws and exploit them without a human walking it through each step. Fortune’s…

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Chatbase vs Voiceflow vs Botpress: $350 Pricing Gap [2026]

Type “AI chatbot builder” into Google in September 2026 and three names dominate the results: Chatbase, Voiceflow, and Botpress. All three let a business spin up an AI-powered support agent without writing a full application from scratch, and all three now plug into frontier models like GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini. But they solve different problems…

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