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Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 on Nov 9 at $8 and $40 per million tokens, double Opus 5.5. Here are the three numbers that matter and a switch test you can run on your own work.
One Claude Code user logged corrections going from 5.2% to 25.4% of answers. Two public trackers see no drop. Here is how to find out which one matches your setup.
Security firm Apiiro found real secrets in 1,122 public copies of a Claude Code settings file. Here is how a typed password ends up in it, what the numbers don't prove, and 3 checks to run on your own repo today.
Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes 15 second videos at $0.07 a second. That is $1.05 a clip, before retries. Here is what Google confirmed, what only one commenter says, and a 3-check way to price a clip.
A GitHub issue says Claude Code sent a user's email address to websites in a User-Agent header. The team says nobody built that as a feature and shipped a fix. Their own notes say the fix is narrow. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and a 3-step check.
A Hacker News post says Gemini trains on chat history even for subscribers. Google's own privacy page backs most of it up. Here is what it says, what the off switch really does, and a 3-step check for anyone who pastes work into Gemini.
A sponsored ad before Netflix, a TV that had gotten unbearably slow, and one prompt: "can you hack this?" Here's how people used Claude Code to strip the ads and bloat off their TVs last week, the free repos that came out of it, and which TVs it works on.
Anthropic hasn't said a word about Claude Fable 5.5. But a Microsoft Azure listing, a leaker with a track record, a secret codename and a wave of strange Opus outputs all point the same way. Here are the receipts, the odds, and the four things that would make it official.
unslop-writing is a free Claude Code skill with a tiny checker that catches the tells that get AI writing skipped. Both files are below, copy them.
Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code, and review got better, not worse. Here is how the team does it, plus the three files and two commands a solo builder can copy today.
I was paying $100/month for Claude Pro. Now I split the same budget across four specialised tools and get more done — here's exactly what I use and why.
Three months of AI automations gave me back my mornings. It also gave me three months of content that sounded like everyone else's. Here's the difference between getting time back and just getting faster at producing noise.
Claude tracks you on two clocks at once — a five-hour rolling session and a weekly cap per model family. Once you see them both, your usage stops feeling like a mystery.