Anthropic Just Replaced Claude Code With New Claude Tag
The Mystery of Anthropic's 'Extended Thinking'
Concerns have surfaced regarding Anthropic's 'extended thinking' feature in Claude Code, where users observed a significant decrease in thinking depth after default settings were changed. Instead of detailed reasoning, logs showed encrypted cryptographic signatures. This practice, where the actual reasoning is encrypted and held by Anthropic, means users only receive a summary, with full access requiring an enterprise agreement, leading to accusations of data loss and opacity.
Sakana AI's Fugu: A Dispatcher Model
Sakana AI has released the Fugu model series, with Fugu Ultra claiming to rival top-tier models like Fable 5. However, Fugu is not a base model but a dispatcher that routes tasks to specialized models like Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT 5.5 based on task classification. While its routing logic is sophisticated, its performance benchmarks reflect the aggregated capabilities of the underlying frontier models, raising questions about its long-term business viability against direct competition.
