Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2. Theye already solved black hole physics problems.
THE SO WHAT
If Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 are already tackling black hole physics problems, the ceiling on domain reasoning continues to rise — but verification remains the choke point. For teams in scientific or quantitative domains, the move now is to build eval harnesses and human review loops, not just plug in a stronger model.
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