Alex’s AI posts

Prices & limitsAnthropicAlex18:05

Claude Fable has been extended for 5 days

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex17:33

Claude Cowork is coming to mobile and web

Cowork now works on desktop, in browser, and on mobile. Sessions, files, and tasks move across devices. Claude keeps working in the background. You…

Tools & updatesAlex15:56

WHAT IS / AN AGENT HARNESS

NotesAlibabaAlex14:03

China may close foreign access to its best AI models

Authorities have already met with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai, Reuters reports. The talks covered current models and models that have not been…

Prices & limitsAnthropicAlex10:05

Fable will be available until 11:59 PM PT on 7/7

For UTC, it’s 06:59 on 7/8

Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex20:02

Claude got a lobotomy and did not fall apart

Anthropic disabled the model’s J-space - the internal zone where Claude holds concepts and intermediate steps. • Basic autopilot stayed intact - the…

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex15:48

A fan brought Tom Riddle’s diary to life

Maxime Rivest made Riddle - a project for reMarkable Paper Pro where the tablet behaves like the diary from Harry Potter. You write a question with…

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex10:53

Google AI Lead ported Command & Conquer: Generals with Claude Code

Ammaar Reshi from Google AI Studio did it through vibe coding: he described what he wanted, tested the game on iPhone and iPad, while Fable wrote…

NotesAnthropicAlex13:12

Would you like one?

LeaksGoogleAlex00:07

LEAK: Gemini 3.5 Pro will get a 2M-token context window

Plus Deep Think mode for complex code, logic, architecture, and legal tasks. Pricing is still unofficial: • $12-15 per 1M input tokens • $36-45 per…

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex09:02

Claude has a setting many people leave enabled by default

It allows Fable → Opus fallback when a safety check is triggered. You can disable it in 3 places: 1. Chat Open Settings → Capabilities Find Switch…

Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex21:36

Fable 5 got jailbroken again

Researcher Vitto Rivabella tested Fable 5’s defenses and managed to find a bypass. According to him, most attempts failed. The protection is…

Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex17:49

Fable was swapped out

Claude Fable 5 was tested again in BridgeBench after its return. The results dropped sharply. Debugging: 86.2 → 25.9 Refactoring: 73.6 → 38.4…

NotesOpenAIAlex09:56

OpenAI may give 5% to the US government

According to FT, OpenAI is in early talks to give a 5% stake to the US government. Sam Altman’s idea is to give citizens a financial stake in AI…

Prices & limitsAnthropicAlex22:55

Claude reset limits for Fable’s return

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex19:43

Fable 5 is back

Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex19:08

AI completes 16% of the freelance tasks in Remote Labor Index

CAIS updated the Remote Labor Index — a benchmark where AI agents complete real client projects: design, video, CAD, architecture, analytics, and…

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex17:51

Claude Desktop is now on Linux

Anthropic has released Claude Desktop for Linux in beta. Ubuntu and Debian are supported for now. The app includes Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and…

Prices & limitsAnthropicAlex16:16

Sonnet 5 looks absurdly priced

• Opus 4.8 Max - $1.80 • Sonnet 5 Max - $2.29 • Fable 5 - $2.75 Sonnet 5 is about 27% more expensive than Opus 4.8. Why does the lower-tier model…

ReleasesGoogleAlex14:56

Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite

The new model generates an image in about 4 seconds and costs $0.034 per 1K image. In Gemini, it is available by selecting 3.1 Flash Lite. The main…

Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex13:44

Claude Fable is back!

Anthropic has lifted restrictions on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a decision by the US government. Fable will be available to Claude users…

NotesAnthropicAlex16:30

Job titles no longer work - that’s how Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code sees it

His point is that the old split between engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists is becoming too coarse. At Anthropic, he sees…

Prices & limitsOpenAIAlex09:32

OpenAI is investigating issues with Codex usage limits

Tibo wrote that the Codex team spent Sunday in a war room, digging through logs and looking for anything that could have caused faster usage drain…

NotesAlex19:27

Trump died of rabies - thanks to Reddit and AI

AI search engines briefly believed that Donald Trump and JD Vance had died of rabies. The source of the fake story was r/poisonai, a Reddit…

NotesAlex08:53

A regular user watching new AI models drop

Prices & limitsOpenAIAlex08:18

Codex reset limits

They acknowledged an issue with increased limit consumption, but said it was not widespread.

NotesOpenAIAlex20:57

GPT-5.6 Sol: not just a safety question

A limited Sol rollout is understandable: powerful models need testing. But the problem is access. While regular users wait, some partners are…

Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex20:43

GPT 5.6 Sol vs Mythos: no clear winner

Based on the numbers, there is no blowout in either direction. GPT 5.6 Sol looks stronger on terminal-based tasks and slightly beats Claude Mythos…

NotesOpenAIAlex20:04

GPT-5.6 Sol - not a new brain, but a new build

Sol is not a new base model trained from scratch. This has already been confirmed in the release discussion. Base training is the stage where a…

NotesOpenAIAlex19:45

The most powerful AI models are starting to look less like products and more like passes into a closed club

Publicly, we hear: “safety,” “staged rollout,” “available soon.” In practice: some people get GPT-5.6 now, while everyone else waits for…