Anthropic ships two new models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, that claim to blow past the current Opus generation, especially in coding and research. Fable 5 finished a code migration for Stripe in one day that would have taken a team two months. Mythos 5 designed drug candidates on its own but stays locked down for now due to its offensive cyber capabilities.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model for real-time translation across more than 70 languages. The system translates continuously without waiting for a sentence to end and claims to preserve the speaker's tone, pace, and pitch. In Google Meet, language support jumps from five to over 70 languages.

To optimize AI’s potential within a hybrid workforce, leaders need to adapt workplace strategies—re-evaluating roles, skills, and culture.

At SXSW London, our senior editor Will Douglas Heaven laid out how he’s thinking about AI in 2026.