Anthropic's new Mythos-class model leads on coding benchmarks but deliberately defers to a safer predecessor in restricted domains. That design choice says more than the score.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, a Mythos-class model with safeguards blocking cybersecurity and biology queries, priced at $10 per million input tokens.

Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos-class AI coding power to general users, but with cybersecurity guardrails, fallback models, and pricing that could make developers think twice.

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