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Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5, Its “Most Agentic” Mid-Tier Model to Date
San Francisco, July 1, 2026 — If you’ve been following the AI space for more than ten minutes, you know that “boring” isn’t in the vocabulary. But the last 48 hours have been a complete and total rollercoaster, even by 2026 standards. Anthropic, the darlings of “safety-first” AI, just pulled off a double-header: the launch […]
Cal Newport on Big AI “Doom Trolling”
Cal Newport wrote a New York Times op-ed calling on big AI companies to stop "doom trolling" and published a short summary of his argument on his personal website. He specifically criticizes some of the big AI companies for warning (or threatening?) that their technology could spiral out of control and put millions out of...
Yesterday's Fable ban caught me by surprise, I was planning on using Fable 5 until at least June 22, and hoping that it wouldn't actually go token-only after June 22. Fable is good, even great! I'm back on Opus 4.8 with GPT 5.5 supervision earlier than expected. 😞
Asked Claude Code with Fable 5 to write some API docs based on the code, and it did, and also pointed out some bugs in the API, which it is now fixing, and updating the docs to match the fixes.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-07-26
I was only able to publish two editions of Pook-Emu Bee links last week. Thus, to make amends, I present a rare Sunday edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. For link fans out there, I include many links in my weekly newsletter. See my June 6, 2026 Newsletter for an example. [caption id="attachment_5583" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I...
e552 — Norwegian Blue Vision
e552 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #AI, #LifeOnMars, life of the #VisionPro, #retro #C64s and a whole lot more!
Claude Opus 4.7 and Cyber Verification Programme
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 arrives with Project Glasswing baked in.
Hello, Anthropic
After three years at Microsoft working on security and MCP, I'm joining Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff to help grow the MCP ecosystem.
The Game Genie Generation
For an unlicensed game accessory, the Game Genie sure casts a long shadow. It reshaped the games we already owned—and had a profound effect on copyright law.
Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You
On large language models, artificial intelligence, DeepSeek, and trying to find the middle lane between skepticism and surety. I mention bionic arms a lot for some reason.