friday, june 12, 2026
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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, which reviewers describe as the new best publicly available model, characterized by proactive behavior in code generation and problem-solving. Early users report it excels at creative tasks—from generating games and art projects to completing poetry—and can autonomously set up development infrastructure when given minimal prompts.
- Zvi Mowshowitz called Fable 5 'the new best publicly available model' on 2026-06-12
- Simon Willison described it as 'relentlessly proactive,' autonomously spinning up CORS servers and using pyobjc-framework-Quartz to debug issues
- Users created games (Squishy & Friends, Checkpoint airport sim) and art projects (Duino Elegies interactive game) with Fable 5
- Datasette 1.0a33 release built with Fable 5's assistance, documenting ?_extra= JSON API mechanism
- Fable spent 10 minutes thinking through Coleridge's intent when asked to complete Kublai Khan, generating extended reasoning traces
Apple announced a major overhaul of Siri at WWDC 2026, introducing "Siri AI"—a conversational assistant with significantly improved capabilities that can handle complex tasks like parsing emails into calendar events, managing shopping lists, and editing photos. The new Siri uses a two-tiered AI model powered by Google and runs local agentic AI on Mac via MLX, with a dedicated app launching this fall.