// a daily digest from the AI world
New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.
Anthropic unveiled Fable 5.1, saying it sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work and long-running tasks. The announcement highlights scientific research too, with Fable 5.1 scoring 52.6% on the new Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark, up from 24.7% for Fable 5.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash just weeks after its predecessor. The company says it “works harder” than 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and calling tools iteratively. Introductory pricing stays the same: $0.75 per million input and $3.75 per million output tokens.
OpenAI’s upcoming model Astra will use a technique called “recurrent depth,” which lets the model operate outside the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models. AI safety experts are voicing concern over the new approach.
Google introduced Fairwind, a limited-access program that lets governments and trusted partners use its cyber defense tools. It aims to provide proactive protection for both public institutions and enterprises.
HiddenLayer raised $100 million as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments. Security companies are building products that can monitor not just agents themselves but also the tools and add-ons those agents rely on.
Anthropic publishes the system prompts for its Claude consumer apps, namely Claude.ai and the mobile apps. It shares not just the current wording but also historic changes to the prompts, giving developers a rare look behind the scenes.
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