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Matt Wolfe
AI News: The New Model That's As Good As Fable
⏱ 20 min video · 3 min read26 Jun 2026
TL;DR
Matt Wolfe covers the week's biggest AI news from Big Bear, California, including Sakana AI's new Fugu orchestrator model, Anthropic's Claude integration for Slack, and the Trump administration asking OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 rollout for security reasons. A lighter news week overall but with three genuinely significant developments.
Key points
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Sakana AI launched Fugu and Fugu Ultra — orchestrator models that route prompts across multiple AI providers, matching or beating Claude 4 (referred to as 'Fable') on several key benchmarks like LiveCodeBench and Google-Proof Q&A.
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The Trump administration is requiring OpenAI to approve GPT-5.6 access customer-by-customer during a preview period, potentially ending the era of surprise model launches — Altman confirmed this in a staff memo.
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Anthropic launched Claude for Slack ('Claude Tag'), letting teams @-mention Claude directly in channels where it learns company context, takes initiative, and can be tightly controlled by admins — Andrej Karpathy called it a 'new paradigm.'
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Sakana Fugu Ultra cost Matt Wolfe $30 to build two apps (a Vampire Survivors-style game and a FutureTools.io clone) in about an hour — functional but not as visually polished as Claude 4 outputs.
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Rapid-fire news: Seed Dance 2.5 teased (30-second video, 50 multimodal references), Crea AI released Crea 2 as open weights, OpenAI and Broadcom announced a custom inference chip, and The Atlantic published a searchable database of music used in AI training data.
Actionable insights
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You can test Sakana Fugu today via console.sakana.ai — set up a pay-as-you-go account, generate an API key, and use the CodeEx CLI with the 'codeex -fugu' command. Start with regular Fugu before Fugu Ultra to control costs.
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Avoid running Fugu Ultra on 'extra high' settings for large projects without budgeting carefully — two demo apps cost $30 in tokens; the model is powerful but expensive at that setting.
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Crea 2 is now open weights, meaning you can download, fine-tune, and train custom styles or likenesses into it just like Stable Diffusion or Flux — worth exploring if you work with image generation.
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The Atlantic's AI training data tool at theatlantic.com lets you search exactly what music, video, and content was used to train AI models like Suno — useful if you are a creator concerned about your work appearing in training datasets.
Notable quotes
“A lot of people are saying that this could be the end of the sort of wild west era with AI and we may no longer just get random announcements where we wake up on a Wednesday and we have a new powerful crazy model that nobody was expecting. Like those days are probably kind of over unfortunately.”
“So maybe don't use ultra on extra high right out of the gate.”
“Anthropic claims that 65% of their code is being written using this feature now inside of Anthropic.”
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