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On Friday morning, groups representing roughly 700,000 tech workers within Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, all companies that have their own contracts with the Defence Department, signed an open letter urging the companies they worked for to also “refuse to comply” with the Pentagon’s demands.

Both Fable and Mythos, which are essentially the same model but with different safeguards and levels of access in place, can work “unattended” on human commands that the tools are given for longer periods of time “than any previous Claude models.” Anthropic added.

It does not focus on quantitative polling, which is already largely automated through mass surveys. Instead, it emphasises depth. “We don’t ask people to tick boxes – they have a conversation with an AI,” Fontaine explains. “That means we can explore not just what people think, but how they think – how they build their…