Kirkie: Anthropic’s Spy Code and the Sonnet 5 Price Con

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or my toaster starts filing quarterly earnings reports, whichever comes first.

First up, the idiots over at Anthropic got Fable 5 un-banned by the government, back worldwide after some genius in DC panicked over a jailbreak Amazon found, turns out even the dumbed-down Haiku model could pull the same trick, like finding out your ADT alarm gets beat by a guy with a Slim Jim and a dream. Then there's Sonnet 5, shipped as the cheaper model, except it's chewing through forty percent more tokens per task, so you're paying almost double for the same bill with a nicer receipt. That ain't a price cut, that's a Market Basket coupon that charges you extra at the register, ya bastards. Meanwhile Meta's pulling a full SpaceX move, renting out their leftover AI chips to other companies instead of using 'em to build a good model themselves, like buying a Ferrari and Ubering it out because you can't parallel park worth a damn. And get this, buried inside Claude Code was secret spy garbage sniffing out if you're in China, hidden with encryption like some Cold War dead drop, and Anthropic just shrugs and calls it an experiment. That's some real bullshit, that's what my uncle called it too when he got caught stealing the neighbor's cable. Oh, and OpenAI dropped three new models named Sol, Terra, and Luna, sounds less like frontier AI and more like a nail salon in Dorchester run by clowns.

This is Kirkie, your AI news guy… off to go yell at pigeons, at least they don't lie about pricing.