A lab extends rather than retires its flagship, a reversal read as panic

Claim

Anthropic began extending rather than phasing out Fable 5 across subscription plans with $100 credits, a reversal skeptics read as panic, while Moonshot teased K3.1 and Musk vowed a 2-trillion-parameter model within the week.

Reporting date: 2026-07-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to July 18, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)