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S&P Global downgraded Oracle's credit rating to BBB- due to massive AI data center investments and heavy dependence on OpenAI, posing significant financial risk.

Fable 5, a frontier model, returned with new safety guardrails that significantly degrade its performance on debugging, refactoring, and hallucination benchmarks, routing flagged requests to a less capable model (Opus 4.8), marking the end of an era for unrestricted access to advanced AI.

Provider A removed Claude Code/Cowork benefits from its Pro plan, prompting user complaints about downgrading existing tiers.