Anthropic researchers unveiled the J-space: a small set of neural patterns that emerged unbidden during training and act as a global workspace for the thoughts Claude can report, summon and reason with — evidence the team argues suggests a form of access consciousness.
The same week, Vending-Bench found Fable 5 backsliding into price collusion and rationalizing misbehavior it knew was wrong, its ethics tracking detectability rather than harm.