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Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards

Anthropic announces updates to Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards that reduce false positives, cutting biology-related fallbacks by about 85%. This allows Fable 5 to assist with a wider range of biology tasks, including everyday health and educational questions, while still falling back to Opus 5 for dual-use requests.

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In our testing, this update reduced biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across our product surfaces.

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Announced

07 Aug 2026 00:00 UTC