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Practical AI news for people running businesses. Today, Anthropic's new top model arrives at a lower price, Amazon cuts an AI bill by 98% with a much smaller model, and Claude Code settings files leak passwords onto GitHub. North Wayne, who writes First Opinion, joins us on the Amazon story. Plus four quick hits, and what each one means for you.
Today's stories
- 00:20 Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output, up to 30% faster than 5.1, with Mythos 5.2 limited to vetted organizations. Anthropic's own advice is to start most work on Opus 5.5, its own table has Gemini 4 Carbon slightly ahead on business workflows, and prompts are kept 30 days for safety monitoring unless you have zero data retention. (Anthropic, The Verge)
- 02:15 Two Amazon engineers replaced Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider, a small decision model, for labeling tickets in a huge internal system: about $500 instead of $22,200 per million tickets, and calls under one second. North Wayne, who writes First Opinion, on running old and new side by side, when this approach won't work, and asking vendors what model sits under simple sorting jobs. (Strands Agents)
- 04:43 Apiiro found over 100,000 Claude Code settings files in public GitHub repos, about 1,100 from 63 organizations holding passwords, API keys or private keys saved by "don't ask again" approvals. If anyone builds tools for you with Claude Code, have them check for a .claude folder and change any exposed passwords. (Ars Technica)
Quick hits
- ChatGPT Enterprise is now sold through AWS Marketplace, and eligible spend can count toward AWS commitments. (OpenAI)
- Cisco AI Defense and IBM Concert are adding Anthropic's Mythos to their security tools; Cisco says at no extra cost under existing licenses. (The Register)
- Apple sells $49.99 Intelligence Usage Packs in Logic Pro, with more apps including Pages, Keynote and Numbers expected this month. (The Verge)
- OpenAI says Costs API exports published November 6 to 9 had incorrect cost data; it reports the issue resolved. Re-pull any AI spend reports from those days. (OpenAI Status)
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