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OpenRouter launches Fusion API with model panels and judge routing
OpenRouter launched Fusion, a server-side panel API that sends prompts to multiple models and combines one answer. Early logs also showed a web-path issue where Fusion still invoked Claude Opus 4.8 as judge and billed for it until API-side control was clarified.

Amp removes proactive ID verification after same-day backlash
Amp reversed its same-day plan to proactively verify user IDs for future frontier-model access and deleted any Stripe verification records. The rollback removes an immediate KYC step, but Amp says governments and model labs could still require identity checks later.

Kilo releases Product Week bundle with Agent Manager, Console beta, and M3 plan
Kilo's Product Week bundle added Agent Manager for isolated git worktrees, Kilo Console beta, REVIEWS.md memory hooks, and a balance-based MiniMax M3 plan. The bundle puts parallel agent runs, browser control, and plan provisioning into one shipped release.


OpenRouter launches Fusion API with model panels and judge routing
OpenRouter launched Fusion, a server-side panel API that sends prompts to multiple models and combines one answer. Early logs also showed a web-path issue where Fusion still invoked Claude Opus 4.8 as judge and billed for it until API-side control was clarified.

Report: Politico and Axios give conflicting Fable 5 timelines as Anthropic staff head to Washington
Politico and Axios gave conflicting accounts of the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown, and Axios said Anthropic was sending senior technical staff to Washington. Engineers still lack a settled explanation for whether the block centers on jailbreak risk, foreign access, or both.

GLM-5.2 ranks #1 on BridgeBench Reasoning at 42.8
GLM-5.2 opened to GLM Coding Plan users and posters claimed #1 BridgeBench scores in BS and Reasoning, with one post citing 1/10th the cost and 300 tokens per second. Early frontend tests still found a gap to Fable 5 and Opus on finer visual details.

Fable users compare GLM-5.2, GPT-5.5, and model panels on one-shot UI work
Two days after Fable 5 went offline, developers started testing GLM-5.2, GPT-5.5, and multi-model panels against the kinds of one-shot frontend and greenfield builds Fable handled well. The early pattern is that replacements cover much of the work, but Fable still leads on UI taste and first-pass product completion.
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OpenRouter launches Fusion API with DRACO panel tests at 1% of Fable
OpenRouter launched Fusion, a server-side panel API that fans prompts to multiple models, judges the outputs, and returns one synthesized answer. The company said DRACO landed within 1% of Fable at roughly half the price, but the published evals do not cover long-horizon tasks.


Report: Amazon raised Anthropic jailbreak concerns before Fable cutoff
The Information reported that Andy Jassy was among the tech leaders who raised Anthropic model concerns to Trump officials, and Axios separately said Amazon informed the White House. That adds a named actor to the export-control timeline tied to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 staying offline for users and some employees.

Z.ai releases GLM-5.2 for Coding Plan users with 1M context and Max mode
Z.ai made GLM-5.2 available to GLM Coding Plan users with High and Max thinking modes, 1M context, and promised API plus MIT open source next week. Early testers reported higher plan pricing, heavy rate limits, and mixed build quality versus Opus and Fable.

Vals ranks Kimi K2.7 Code at 78.2% on SWE-bench and 67% on Terminal-Bench 2.1
Vals posted new external results for Kimi K2.7 Code, ranking it the top open-weight model on SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench 2.1. The results give Moonshot's launch claims an outside benchmark line on repo and terminal-heavy tasks.

Amp adds passport verification for future frontier-model access
Amp added optional identity verification with a passport or government ID, using Stripe and storing only the verification outcome. The feature is aimed at possible future lab or government access rules after Anthropic's export-control cutoff.



