Starting July 10, 2026, employees at Alibaba were told to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code and switch to Qoder, the company’s own internal coding tool. On its own, a company banning one vendor’s software isn’t unusual. What makes this case worth understanding is why: it sits at the center of two separate, serious accusations running … Read more
On July 1, 2026, Anthropic published “Redeploying Claude Fable 5,” confirming that US Commerce Department export controls on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models — in place since June 12, 2026 — had been lifted, and that Fable 5 was being redeployed globally. This is a fast-moving story GAVIHOS has been tracking carefully. A … Read more
Most discussions of what determines whether you can use a given AI model focus on price, capability, or platform availability. There is a fourth factor that increasingly matters just as much: government policy. In some cases, a model that is technically ready and commercially available can become unavailable — or have its usage capped — … Read more
Introduction On June 30, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench positioned specifically for scientific research, at an event the company called “The Briefing: AI for Science.” The announcement included case studies involving the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and the biomedical research organization the Allen Institute, along with a research-credits grant program for institutions … Read more
Introduction Anthropic made Extended Thinking generally available for the Claude API on June 26, 2026. Extended Thinking is a mode where Claude works through a problem step by step before generating a final answer — thinking through intermediate reasoning that is visible to developers but not included in the response token count in the same … Read more
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — and changed how they name their models. For three years, Claude models were organized as Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku: powerful, balanced, and fast. That naming structure is now a tier below the new system. Fable 5 represents something different: the first broadly available model built … Read more
Introduction AI models like Claude, GPT, and Gemini are powerful on their own. But on their own, they are also isolated. They cannot read your files. They cannot query your database. They cannot call your internal APIs. They can only work with what you paste into the chat window. This is a serious limitation for … Read more