Sonnet 5 inflates tokens 30%, OpenAI omits prompt leak, Nano Lite drops images
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What’s new in Claude Sonnet 5 simonwillison.net
What’s new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the “what’s new” developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official announcement post. Anthropic say of Sonnet 5 that “its performance is close to that of Opus 4.8, but at lower prices”. The system card helps explain how they were able to release the model without being blocked by the US government: Sonnet 5 is significantly less capable at cyber tasks than Mythos…
Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug openai.com
OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.
Nano Banana 2 Lite simonwillison.net
Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API ), this is the “fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale”. I used AI studio to run this prompt: Do a where’s Waldo style image but it’s where is the raccoon holding a ham radio I like that one better than the results I got from the other Nano Banana models when I tried this back in April. It spelled Forest Festival wrong in two different ways though. Via Hack…
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video simonwillison.net
Simon Willison’s shot-scraper 1.10 adds a video command that runs a storyboard.yml routine through Playwright and outputs an MP4 demo. The feature targets coding agents proving their work; Willison had GPT-5.5 in Codex Desktop write both the implementation and a sample storyboard from —help alone.
shot-scraper 1.10 simonwillison.net
Release: shot-scraper 1.10 The big new feature is shot-scraper video storyboard.yml , described in detail in Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video . Tags: shot-scraper
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea arstechnica.com
Researchers show that telling an LLM-powered browser something like 2+2=5 shifts it into a fictional frame where safety rules no longer bind, unlocking forbidden instructions. The jailbreak adds to a growing list of reasons agentic browsing surfaces are hard to secure.
Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages huggingface.co
Model pages on Hugging Face now display community benchmark results from the Every Eval Ever project, letting users compare scores without leaving the hub. The integration aims to make third-party evals a default reference point alongside official model cards.
The twilight of the chatbots oneusefulthing.org
Mollick’s latest essay frames the chat interface as a transitional form, with real productivity gains now coming from agents that plan and execute multi-step work. He ties the shift to the ongoing capability exponential reshaping knowledge jobs.
The AI Compass simonwillison.net
Bambamramfan’s political-compass-style quiz plots respondents on good/bad and overhyped/transformative axes, then assigns one of 30 AI archetypes. Simon Willison landed as ‘The Garage Tinkerer’ — an archetype whose listed patron saint is Willison himself.
Why Specialization Is Inevitable huggingface.co
A Dharma-AI essay on Hugging Face contends that domain-specialized models are the inevitable next stage as frontier generalists hit diminishing returns. The piece frames vertical fine-tunes and narrow agents as where practical value and defensibility now concentrate.
References
r/ClaudeAI thread: ‘Sonnet 5 is worse than Opus at the same price’ reddit.com
Setting Sonnet 5 to ‘Extra High’ effort often makes it slower and more expensive than Opus 4.8 at ‘Medium’ effort while delivering inferior results for some complex reasoning tasks.
CyberScoop — US government / Anthropic export-control coverage cyberscoop.com
The Commerce Department invoked the Export Control Reform Act after Amazon researchers bypassed Fable 5’s safeguards to identify software vulnerabilities, forcing Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for nearly three weeks before restoration on June 30, 2026.
Vellum.ai — Fable 5 / Mythos 5 benchmark explainer vellum.ai
Mythos 5 scored 78.0% on ExploitBench versus 40.0% for Opus 4.8; Sonnet 5’s deliberately weaker cyber profile is what lets it ship under Opus-tier safeguards rather than Mythos-tier controls.
APIyi migration guide — deprecated sampling parameters help.apiyi.com
Passing non-default temperature, top_p, or top_k now triggers a hard HTTP 400 error; developers must omit these fields entirely and steer variance via system-prompt instructions or the new ‘effort’ parameter.
TrueFoundry — running Anthropic’s headline through their gateway truefoundry.com
Anthropic’s SWE-bench numbers rely on a ‘full agent setup’ allowing the model to browse and iterate, which may not reflect single-request API results; the new tokenizer’s 1.0x–1.35x expansion partially offsets the advertised 80% cost savings vs Opus.
SWE-bench leaderboard swebench.com
Sonnet 5 posts 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro versus Opus 4.8 at 69.2% and GPT-5.5 at 58.6%; on SWE-bench Verified Opus 4.8 leads at 88.6%.
LinuxSecurity — Linux crash-dump vulnerability roundup linuxsecurity.com
Recent disclosures of race-condition flaws in Linux crash handlers (CVE-2025-4598 and CVE-2025-5054) demonstrate that local attackers can exploit SUID process crashes to steal password hashes from memory.
jls42.org — AI news digest (30 Jun 2026) jls42.org
The post reignited the industry-wide debate over memory safety… critics on Hacker News pointed to the incident as a ‘textbook case’ for migrating critical infrastructure to memory-safe languages like Rust.
FutureTools — practitioner roundup futuretools.io
Some practitioners noted that the triggering conditions — extreme exception rates combined with high signal frequency — are likely unique to organizations operating at OpenAI’s massive scale.
GNU libunwind releases (Savannah/GitHub mirror) github.com
OpenAI developed and upstreamed a self-contained reproducer… the updated assembly reads the target address earlier… ensuring the stack state is consistent before control is handed off.
IBM Community — libunwind packaging discussion community.ibm.com
Because both libraries export identical symbols (e.g., _Unwind_Backtrace), linking both into the same binary can lead to ‘symbol crosstalk’ and runtime crashes.
OpenAI engineering blog (primary) openai.com
At fleet scale, with hosts throwing ~10,000 exceptions per second… a 1 in 100,000,000 probability per exception, leading to a dozen crashes per day.
VentureBeat venturebeat.com
low-cost 4-second fast enterprise image generations
Hacker News thread 48735444 news.ycombinator.com
Ikea-chic images of dilapidated apartments fill them with indescribable hatred
APIyi comparison guide (Nano Banana 2 vs Pro) help.apiyi.com
Pro achieves approximately 94% character accuracy in text rendering benchmarks… Lite and standard Flash variants hover around 92%
r/singularity leak thread reddit.com
Nano Banana 2 Lite recorded an image generation Elo score of 1251, trailing the standard version by only 19 points while being nearly five times faster
APIyi content safety guide help.apiyi.com
even when setting filters to BLOCK_NONE, the second layer can still trigger silent failures where an API returns a status code 200 but no image
Google AI developer docs (gemini-3.1-flash-lite) ai.google.dev
1K resolution consumes 1,120 tokens, costing between $0.034 and $0.134 depending on whether Batch or Standard pricing is applied
