Anthropic Reduces Fable 5 Biology Safeguard False Positives
Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards, cutting biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across product surfaces. Users will see fewer fallbacks on health and educational questions, while dual-use requests still fall back to Opus 5. The company aims to responsibly expand access to frontier biology capabilities.
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