Ben Thompson proposes US legislation to clarify that training data collection is fair use and to ban terms that forbid distillation, countering Chinese open-source model competition and revealing the hypocrisy in AI policies.
Facing competition from GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi 3, Anthropic reversed its plan to make Fable 5 API-only, instead including it in subscription plans, highlighting the intensifying battle over AI subscription pricing and user retention.
Anthropic repeatedly delays access restrictions for its Fable model due to compute constraints, but the uncertainty is driving users to OpenAI's stable and unrestricted service.
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in its Series H funding round, achieving a $965 billion valuation, signaling the AI race has entered a white-hot phase defined by astronomical capital and compute.