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Hundreds of shared Claude conversations turned up in Google results this week, including CVs and proprietary work research. What happened, what to check in your own account, and the one habit that outlasts any privacy setting.

Opus 5 launched today with near-Fable intelligence at half the price and the best everyday specs Anthropic has ever shipped. It also inherited Fable 5's safety-classifier babysitting, silent fallbacks to Opus 4.8 included. The 85 percent improvement claim is now the number to hold them to.

Two weeks after we argued Anthropic shouldn't gatekeep its best model, the company shipped the exact fix: Fable 5 returns to Max and Team Premium plans July 20, capped at 50 percent of limits. What changed, why the calendar mattered, and what's still open.

Anthropic dropped Claude Science today, a research workspace wired into more than 60 scientific databases and tools. Scientists testing it are impressed and a little wary, and here's what they're actually saying.

Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 today, the new default model, and it gets close to Opus 4.8 quality while costing a fraction as much.

Fable 5 has been out for about a day and the honeymoon is already getting awkward. The model itself is a monster but the safety filters that Anthropic bolted onto it are so twitchy that people are getting blocked for asking completely normal stuff, and the complaints are piling up fast. I went and read through what people are actually running into, and people think it's a problem...

Anthropic dropped Fable 5 today. This is the first time they've taken one of their Mythos-class models, the tier that sits above Opus, the stuff they've been keeping locked in the basement because it was too spicy to hand out, and actually made a version of it that “normies” can use...