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On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 , the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the public. Its twin, Claude Mythos 5, the same underlying model with the cyber safeguards lifted, stays locked to a vetted group of cyber defenders and critical infrastructure operators. Anthropic calls Mythos 5 the strongest cybersecurity model in the world. The practical difference is this: Fable 5 routes flagged cyber, biology, chemistry, and distillation requests to the weaker Claude Opus 4.8, while Mythos 5 keeps the cyber capabilities available for vetted users. Both models cost $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, less than half the price of the earlier Mythos Preview, and Fable 5 is available through the Claude API now. It is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered mental telehealth company Cerebral from using or disclosing personal medical data for advertising purposes. It has also been fined more than $7 million over charges that it revealed users' sensitive personal health information and other data to third-parties for advertising purposes and failed to honor its easy cancellation policies. "Cerebral and its former CEO, Kyle Robertson, repeatedly broke their privacy promises to consumers and misled them about the company's cancellation policies," the FTC  said  in a press statement. While claiming to offer "safe, secure, and discreet" services in order to get consumers to sign up and provide their data, the company, FTC alleged, did not clearly disclose that the information would be shared with third-parties for advertising. The agency also accused the company of burying its data sharing practices in dense privacy policies, with the company engaging in decept...