
Fable tops KernelBench-Mega as AI agents quadruple on real freelance work
A new GPU kernel record, a 4x jump on the Remote Labor Index in eight months, and OSWORLD 2.0 raise the ceiling on what AI agents can do.
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A new GPU kernel record, a 4x jump on the Remote Labor Index in eight months, and OSWORLD 2.0 raise the ceiling on what AI agents can do.

Sonnet 5 hits 63.2% on agentic coding, close to Opus 4.8's 69.2%, at a fraction of the price.

Anthropic told The Verge Fable's guardrails are 'overly conservative' to block bioweapons queries, routing routine biology asks to Opus 4.8.

Fable's keyword-triggered guardrails reject benign security work, falling back to Claude Opus 4.8 whenever 'cybersecurity' surfaces in a prompt.

The lab once said Mythos was too dangerous to ship. New safeguards route 5% of risky prompts back to Opus 4.8.

The new Opus holds Opus 4.7 pricing at $5/$25 per million tokens, while fast mode drops to a third of its prior cost at 2.5x speed.
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