Analysis · Coding Agents
A coding agent that won't stop
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 fixed a stray horizontal scrollbar by opening browsers, writing a small web server, and editing the app's own templates — none of which it was asked to do.
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Models
10 pieces on models — practical workflows, case studies and field notes.
News · AI Policy
David Sacks makes Washington's case against Anthropic
The White House's most prominent AI voice has set out the administration's account of the Anthropic ban — and it flatly contradicts Anthropic's. He says the lab refused a reasonable safety fix; Anthropic says the flaw was minor.
Breaking · AI Policy
US orders Anthropic to pull Fable 5
A US export-control directive has forced Anthropic to disable its two most capable models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — for every user worldwide, three days after launch. The company says it disagrees, but is complying.
News · Open Models
Try a 550B open model this afternoon
NVIDIA's largest open-weight model is now runnable from your terminal. One command, no local GPU required — UK small teams can give it a spin this afternoon.
Analysis · AI Governance
Anthropic drops a hidden Claude policy
Anthropic has walked back an invisible safeguard in its top Claude model that researchers said was sabotaging their work. The change turns a hidden risk into a visible one — and a reason for small firms to ask vendors what their AI is quietly doing.
Explainer · AI Models
Claude Fable 5 explained: chat, Cowork, agents and code — and the 22 June deadline
Anthropic's strongest generally available model is included on Pro, Max, Team and seat-Enterprise plans at no extra cost from 9 to 22 June 2026. After that, it costs usage credits — here's what it changes for four kinds of UK small-firm user.
News · Local Models
DiffusionGemma: 4x faster open text model
DeepMind's new open-weights DiffusionGemma writes whole blocks of text at once, not one word at a time — and runs up to four times faster on common local hardware. That matters for any UK small firm running models on its own box.
Local Models · Open Weights
MiniMax M3: an Open-Weight Frontier Model Lands — and Small Teams Can Run the Workflow
A frontier-grade model with open weights, a million-token context window and native multimodality. For small teams, it reframes what is possible without a per-seat cloud contract — if you can find the hardware.
Local Models · Multimodal
Gemma 4 Brings Vision and Tool Calling — Agents That See, on Your Own Box
Gemma 4 adds built-in tool calling and vision support, and Ollama now runs it fully. For a retail team, that means document, shelf and stock workflows that never send an image to the cloud.
Local Models · Long Context
Llama 4 Scout Puts a 10M-Token Context Window in the Open
Meta's Llama 4 Scout brings a ten-million-token context window into the open. For logistics and data-heavy teams, the real question is what a window that big is — and isn't — actually good for.