Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, offers advanced AI capabilities in areas like software engineering and scientific research. Claude Mythos 5, with safeguards lifted, is available to select partners like the US Government. Both models are priced at $10/million input tokens and $50/million output tokens.

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

Claude Code silently inserts Unicode markers into the system prompt to detect API resellers and model abuse, altering apostrophes and date separators based on timezone and custom base URL hostname. The feature is hidden but inactive for typical users.

DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

DeepSeek released DeepInfer, an Apache-2.0 inference framework powering its production services, supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs with optimized kernels, parallelism, and deterministic/structured outputs. A complete service still requires a KV cache, disaggregation, and replica load balancing, which are not included.