Today: Anthropic widens access to its most capable consumer model before moving it behind usage credits, a Nobel-winning scientist leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic, and new work lands from NVIDIA, Cisco, and Reliance. Here are five developments worth knowing from the past few days.

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Anthropic broadens access to Claude Fable 5, its most capable generally available model. Anthropic says Fable 5 — the consumer-facing version of its higher-end Mythos line — now leads its publicly available lineup on software engineering, knowledge work, vision, and long-running tasks. The company said the model is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost through June 22; starting June 23, it plans to move Fable 5 behind usage credits on those plans. API pricing is set at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, roughly double Claude Opus 4.8. (VentureBeat) (The Decoder)

NVIDIA researchers detail SpatialClaw, a training-free agent for spatial reasoning. In a June 19 write-up, NVIDIA described SpatialClaw, an approach that treats code as the action interface so a model can reason about 3D space by writing and running programs rather than being fine-tuned for the task. The method is presented as a way to tackle spatial-reasoning problems without task-specific training. (MarkTechPost)

Cisco AI introduces FAPO for automated prompt optimization. On June 20, Cisco's AI group published FAPO (Fully Automated Prompt Optimization), a pipeline-aware system that tunes prompts from a baseline toward a target accuracy and attributes failures at the individual step level. The framework uses Claude Code for orchestration and is aimed at teams maintaining multi-step LLM pipelines. (MarkTechPost)

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic. Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-creating AlphaFold, said on June 19 that he will join Anthropic after nearly nine years at Google DeepMind. The move adds to a run of high-profile researcher departures from the lab and gives Anthropic a prominent scientific hire as competition for AI talent intensifies. (CNBC)

Reliance unveils a Jio AI assistant and a suite of sector apps. At its June 19 annual general meeting, India's Reliance introduced Jio Call Agent, an assistant that can join phone calls to transcribe, summarize, and carry out tasks such as booking rides or making reservations — activated by saying "Hey Jio" and slated to reach Jio's 500-million-plus user base later this year. Reliance also announced AI products for healthcare, education, agriculture, and small businesses, branded JioHealthIQ, JioLearnIQ, JioKrishiIQ, and AI Vyapar, designed to work across multiple Indian languages. (TechCrunch)

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