Anthropic's Top Models Return, and Its Newest One Was Built to Stay Out of Trouble
Washington lifted the export controls that grounded Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a fortnight of negotiation. The same week, Anthropic shipped Sonnet 5 and made a point of advertising a weakness: it is deliberately worse at cybersecurity. A gate has appeared between America's labs and their best work, and they are learning to build for it.
Read full story →The Tenth-of-a-Price Workaround: Inside China's Grey Market for Banned American AI
Anthropic built one of the industry's strictest walls to keep Claude out of China. A network of proxy "transfer stations" walks straight around it, selling access at a tenth of the price. The catch: your prompts and answers become the product, an ideal dataset for training a rival, and the same pipes let anyone reach a frontier model untracked.
Read full story →China's Robots Can Dance at Your Wedding. They Still Can't Do Your Job.
A rental boom has put humanoid robots on stages across China, with more than 153,000 rental businesses now competing. The same boom is exposing their limits: most are expensive puppets driven by a human with a controller, prices are sliding as the novelty fades, and industrial deployment is still under 10 percent.
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