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Artificial intelligence in practice — what it changes, who it concentrates power for, and how it lands in the businesses and policies of the technology economy.
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Here is the number that stopped me.
On 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly accessible model from its Mythos class.
By eleven fifteen on the second day, the morning's writing was done.
The cursor blinks. The research is open in nine tabs, the coffee has gone lukewarm, and I have read enough to write a competent summary of the thing.
In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least once and 52% used one regularly.
The headline writes itself and, predictably, wrote itself badly in most places it appeared.
The UK's Online Safety Act gives Ofcom theoretical penalty powers larger than the GDP of small countries. The team that actually issues those fines has fewer than 50 staff — and Meta is now in the High Court trying to shrink the formula.
On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class — a family the company had previously declined to release at all, citing the models' enhanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities.
Picture someone at the end of a long day.
In May, the former chief executive of Google stood at a podium at the University of Arizona, looked out at the class of 2026, and told them artificial intelligence was about to remake the world the way the computer once did.
You already know this version of yourself.
Like most people who work for a living, I assumed AI was going to be a productivity tool.
