Oct 12 2026

Anthropic reports its distillation defenses cut harvested reasoning 10 to 100 times

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Anthropic holds the Sonnet 5 price increase · 70%, resolves November 30th 2026
Anthropic IPOs before OpenAI · 75%, resolves August 6th 2027
Anthropic keeps Model 2 unreleased through February 2027 · 70%, resolves March 1st 2027
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's open weights by August 31st · 65%, resolves August 31st 2026
A second flagship API adopts time-of-day pricing · 55%, resolves February 17th 2027
Anthropic runs no production traffic on Fractile silicon in 2027 · 70%, resolves December 31st 2027

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