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Is Sonnet 5 Even Worth It? Plus: Fable's Back, and War on Tokenmaxxing | This Week In AI

July 9, 2026

Anthropic lived rent-free in everyone's feed this week. Claude Sonnet 5 launched as "the most agentic Sonnet yet" — and within 24 hours, the government lifted the export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Shane and Abhi unpack both, plus the catch: Fable came back wrapped in new classifiers that quietly fall it back to Opus for coding, and it's coming off subscription plans on July 7.

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Episode Transcript

00:00

Cold open

00:29

Welcome

01:08

Claude Sonnet 5 — and the Opus 4.8 counter

04:04

Fable's export controls lifted (and the coding catch)

05:51

Daily-driving Fable & the July 7 subscription cliff

08:07

The routing wars: Devin Fusion & mid-session routing

09:45

OSS & China: ZCode, DeepSeek V4, Hunyuan HY3

11:57

Inference hardware: Etched & Cerebras

12:58

Agent memory: 5x more solves

14:40

You still have to understand the code

16:18

Tokenmaxxing & Palantir's AI Sovereignty

20:57

agentcn's Mastra recipes & Anthropic's chip talks

21:40

Supermemory local & Vercel/Shopify Hydrogen

22:11

The "Thanks Dario" meme

22:29

Anthropic's "global workspace" research

23:57

Outro

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