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Anthropic has quietly made one of its most capable models available to the public. The company's Fable five, built on the previously invite-only Mythos architecture, is now open to Claude subscribers through June twenty-second at no cost to their usage credits. Anthropic says the model tops nearly all tested benchmarks and is, in their words, safe for general use.
Shifting to Europe, the continent's regulators are once again putting pressure on Meta. The European Commission has ordered the company to restore third-party AI access to the WhatsApp Business API within five days. Meta is pushing back, calling the move regulatory overreach, but the clock is ticking — and this clash could reshape how AI assistants compete inside one of the world's most-used messaging platforms.
And in a story that underscores the real human cost of AI failures, a vulnerability linked to an artificial intelligence blunder left more than thirty-four thousand Instagram accounts exposed. The details are still emerging, but the incident is a sharp reminder that as AI systems take on more responsibility in our digital lives, the margin for error shrinks — and the consequences grow.
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