Ben's Bites
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3 weeks ago
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Fable 5 has been re-released for paid Claude users with stronger guardrails, available until July 7 with a 50% usage limit. Benchmarks claim Fable 5 can complete 16% of remote work projects, double the previous capability. Alongside Fable's return, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as the default model for free and pro users, and Google released two new Gemini media models for faster and cheaper image and video generation.
MIT Technology Review AI
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3 weeks ago
Woodside Energy has spent over a decade building AI systems for industrial operations, starting with predictive analytics and maintenance optimization rather than consumer-facing generative AI tools. The company's maintenance intelligence system can reduce maintenance hours by up to 15% over five years by analyzing historical records alongside equipment performance data. Woodside is now scaling these foundational systems across the enterprise by embedding agentic AI into core workflows while maintaining human accountability and decision-making authority.
The Neuron
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3 weeks ago
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Ethan Mollick tested Claude 5 Fable, Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI model, and found it substantially outperformed previous public models across diverse tasks from academic writing to software development. In one project, the model spent 9.5 hours building Concord, a research tool for calibrating human and AI judgments on datasets, using its own spawned agents to conduct research and verify code while making hundreds of autonomous decisions. The shift changes the user's role from actively steering the AI's work to commissioning finished outputs, with little visibility into the model's decision-making process, raising questions about whether increased capability inherently means decreased human control.