Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Anthropic for the week ending July 24, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category cover image prompt:
A single glowing parchment scroll unfurling and twisting through deep cosmic purple-black space, its surface rendered as a flowing rainbow ribbon of hot magenta, electric orange, acid yellow, lime, turquoise, and violet, lit from above by a golden mothership beam with chrome starburst sparkles dancing along its curves, with the bold funk display word ANTHROPIC arcing across the top in fat rounded chrome and glitter letters with stacked multicolor drop shadows, 1970s psychedelic Afrofuturist concert poster style, one clear central subject with generous negative space.
This Week in Anthropic News
Here’s a quick AI-generated summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5, based on the headlines and excerpts accompanying this week’s links:
- Fable 5 access and tooling: Anthropic put Claude Fable 5 into Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits, with credits for Pro users. Claude Managed Agents gained per-agent effort levels and webhooks, and Claude Code desktop can now run the iOS simulator beside the conversation.
- Distillation fight over Kimi K3: A White House official said Moonshot AI distilled Fable to build Kimi K3, and TechCrunch reported that Treasury threatened sanctions. Skeptics, such as Elie Bakouch, noted only 15 days separate the Fable ban removal and K3's release.
- Fable is not plug and play: Ethan Mollick argued that frontier models are growing more different, so swapping them is harder. He said Opus-era skills can make Fable's output worse, and he judged Fable ahead of Kimi K3 and GPT 5.6 Sol Pro on an Odyssey poem.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Anthropic
Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon!🌐 With a massive 2.4T parameters, this model is continuously evolving. We believe it’s one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models , second only to Fable 5. You don’t have to wait to”
https://x.com/qwen_cloud/status/2078758151390953489?s=20
Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to”
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218?s=20
Riley Goodside on X: “Crossword layout of all 1,009 distinct words of 12 or more letters in Moby Dick, arranged in the shape of a whale One-shot by Claude Fable 5 Max https://t.co/iYCCuOwKTS” / X
https://x.com/goodside/status/2078649724710658309
Riley has been doing some truly wonderful experiments with Fable. Also this is crazy.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2078994785935774073
We’ve just added several new features to Claude Managed Agents. You can now configure effort levels per agent, seed sessions with events, add up to 500 skills per session, use webhooks for environments + memory stores, and stream events for sub-agents.”
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2080009523952263295
Test iOS apps in the simulator – Claude Code Docs
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-ios-simulator
Claude Code on desktop now works with the iOS simulator. Build and run your iOS app, and the simulator opens in a panel right next to your conversation. Available today in public beta.”
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2079674432038248611
This reads to me as if preparations are being made to ban models like Kimi K3 in the future. I would be very interested in the evidence that leads to the assumption that Fable 5 was distilled for Kimi K3.”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2079950651644051544
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/treasury-threatens-sanctions-after-white-house-claims-moonshot-distilled-anthropics-fable/
We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of”
https://x.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708
Claude’s Voice Mode Just Got Smarter
https://www.engadget.com/2221938/claude-voice-mode-just-got-smarter/
Voice mode now runs on Claude’s more capable models and reaches the tools you’ve connected mid-conversation. Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages.”
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2080376094939603366
The Anthropic Economic Index connector \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-economic-index-connector
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 scores 156 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), setting a new open-weights record. This places it between Opus 4.6, and GPT 5.4, which released in February and March 2026 respectively, and just ahead of GPT 5.6 Luna.”
https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2079602012644360382
Kimi K3 is basically Opus 4.8 on ALE-Bench but Inkling and Grok 4.5 are ngmi”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2079944011914109189
AMD and Anthropic Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy Up to 2 Gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs :: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1292/amd-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-up-to-2-gigawatts-of-amd-instinct-mi450-series-gpus
Huge if true. Rumor is that Anthropic is in talks to acquire Physical Intelligence. While Google DeepMind has been actively developing Gemini Robotics and OpenAI has been quietly building a dedicated robotics team for over a year, Anthropic has shown almost no public signs of”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2078708600827207829
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/the-anthropic-physical-intelligence-rumor-roiling-ai-twitter/
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumors have some seed of truth to them.” – Reporter for The Information”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2079613650667794894
US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20/
We see that as well and added code paths that use the claude cli directly – hard to fight the system.”
https://x.com/steipete/status/2080318789980201224
guys you can’t claim your Devin solved unsolved problems when it’s literally Fable and 5.6 calls in the backend. come on”
https://x.com/willdepue/status/2080145158612603122
hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x – 3 x^2 y – x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3,”
https://x.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566?s=20
I have been searching for the most anti-Fable writing. I feel like I need to clear my mind after reading FableProse all day, with its “naming” this & “earning” that. I think it may be John McPhee, non-fiction without pointing at each important thing. And spare & beautiful, too.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079383693437596038
Looks like Opus 4.8 already routes to Opus 5. Release today is imminent. So freaking excited! Imagine Fable 5 performance at 50% its cost.”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2080287241885134963
Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal Help? – Charles AZAM
https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/
We are making the EnigmaEval benchmark publicly available. It’s a collection of long, complex reasoning challenges that take groups of people many hours or days to solve. Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol are ahead of other frontier models. On the hard set (puzzles that take MIT”
https://x.com/CAIS/status/2080344746699170214
“Generate a fake, but believable, witty Churchill insult at a party and explain the context. It should be very clever and original” This time, I think GPT 5.6 Sol Pro wins, but Fable is good too, and you could argue for it taking the prize. Kimi & Gemini miss by a mile.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2080010641905955328
At the moment that everyone is talking about switching models often for cost or sovereignty or optionality or whatever, the most advanced models are growing more and more different from each other. Fable responds very differently than Kimi K3 or Sol, you can’t just plug & play”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079631873299320915
Fable, Sol Pro, Kimi K3: “write me a short but good poem using the Odyssey as a basis, think Tennyson or Cavafy” I think this is a Fable victory. Kimi’s is literally a blend of Tennyson’s & Cavafy’s poems themes with some odd bits, and Sol is pretty thematically incoherent.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079024884315828351
there are only 15 days between fable 5 ban removal and kimi K3 release. i don’t think claiming that K3’s performance comes from fable distillation (even if they did it) makes sense technically”
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2079968464626749888
Unfortunately for the “distillation = IP theft” theory, raw LLM outputs are not protected by copyright according to the US Copyright Office. Or is this saying that K3 is an infringing copy of Fable? On what basis? (Copyright protection of model weights is not guaranteed either.)”
https://x.com/aviskowron/status/2080000721580364166
A big thing about Fable (and Sol, though a little bit less) is that you need to be really careful about treating it the way you would a less capable model. Skills that worked well for Opus often make Fable outputs worse, and too many lists of negative instructions can do the same”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079558104383959517
An issue with Codex and Claude Code is that users need more control over the particular configurations of subagents that orchestrator AIs use. I want to decide whether to delegate research or writing or user testing, and to which models. Otherwise it is a router problem again.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079943557989671114
Anthropic set to end Conway test as wider rollout expected
https://www.testingcatalog.com/anthropic-set-to-end-conway-test-as-wider-preview-expected-soon/
Learn more in docs:”
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2079674434940801391
One of the weird things about AI is some models just turn out to be much better than others and then the next model in line falls back to the mean. A great historical example was Updated Sonnet 3.5 (sometimes called Sonnet 3.6), it was a anomalous jump over what had come before.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079027267137601724
So, uh, is Opus 5 still happening today?”
https://x.com/theo/status/2080419731396551167
Introducing Fugu-Cyber: an update to our Fugu orchestration model. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world security benchmarks, matching cyber-focused frontier models like GPT-5.5-Cyber and Mythos Preview.
https://t.co/5Nh1eBPhHg 🐡”
https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/2079367107272405069
I feel like my timeline was right and now it is 3.5 months later. Assuming the Chinese government will still be okay with releasing open Mythos-class models & that Mythos-class models are as risky as the US and UK say, CISO offices do not have too much longer to prepare.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2079030868413182298
Token-Efficient Enterprise Claude Workflows
https://www.cdata.com/blog/token-efficient-enterprise-claude-workflows
Update: the 1.5x limits promo just got quietly extended to Aug 19 (page updated an hour ago lol). Good move – this stops the 20 (now 10x) and 5 (now 2.5x) plans from becoming the 6.67x and 1.67x plans for another month. Someone found anthropic some compute.”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2078532647974744522
Kimi K3, like Claude, loves drowned cities, ancient apocalypses, and vast dying gods.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2078345174334181381
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