Anthropic ships Fable and Mythos 5.2 at a lower price, Google adds two TPU systems, and Microsoft lets an Oracle GPU lease lapse
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · 10 min
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 for everyone and Mythos 5.2 for vetted cyber and life-sciences groups, cutting prices to $8/$40 per million tokens, while Google expanded its eighth-generation TPU line and Meta undercut the budget tier with Muse Ember. Bloomberg reports Microsoft is winding down rented Oracle capacity built on older Nvidia chips.
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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 for everyone and Mythos 5.2 for vetted cyber and life-sciences groups, cutting prices to $8/$40 per million tokens, while Google expanded its eighth-generation TPU line and Meta undercut the budget tier with Muse Ember. Bloomberg reports Microsoft is winding down rented Oracle capacity built on older Nvidia chips.
In this episode
- Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 launched: Anthropic claims breakthrough in coding, robotics and scientific research | Mint — Pragya Singha Roy
“The two models share the same underlying architecture but have different safety restrictions, Anthropic says. Cybersecurity and biology protections are incorporated into Claude Fable 5.2, which the general public can use. Claude Mythos 5.2 is designed for trusted organisations…”
- Google Adds TPU 8tx, 8i Max for Enterprise AI — Wylie Wong
“To meet growing demand for AI inference, Google Cloud on Monday beefed up its Tensor Processing Unit family with two new chips: a more secure version of its TPU 8t accelerator and a higher-capacity version of its TPU 8i inference chip.”
- Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember — Yashodha Bhavnani
“Muse Ember delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna at any reasoning setting: it matches Haiku's best score at about a third of the cost and beats every Luna setting.”
- Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity, Bloomberg News reports | Consumer | centraloregondaily.com
“Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle as part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.”