Anthropic Releases Improved Entry-Level AI Model Claude Instant 1.2


Anthropic will remove access to its top model Claude Fable5 from subscriptions on July 7, 2026, excluding core features from membership. Costs for developers and heavy users will likely surge. The move follows the US lifting export curbs on Fable series, with global redeployment underway.....
Starting July 7, Anthropic will remove its top model Claude Fable5 from subscription tiers and switch to usage-based credits. Pro and Max users, who previously could use up to 50% of their weekly allowance on this model, will lose access. The move has sparked user backlash.....
Meta reportedly bans engineers from using Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, highlighting inter-AI company tensions over model distillation. The concern is that competitors could exploit usage data to replicate or enhance their own models.....
The Claude series large models from Anthropic have been launched on the Microsoft Azure AI Foundry platform. Enterprise users can now directly deploy the flagship model Claude Opus 4.8 and the cost-effective Haiku 4.5 on Azure, with key features such as prompt caching and extended thinking fully retained.
Anthropic launched the Claude Science desktop app for macOS and Linux in public beta. It is a vertical extension enhancing existing Claude models for scientific workflows, addressing limitations of general-purpose LLMs in complex research processes.....