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title: "Anthropic sharpens AI coding and security capabilities with Mythos 5.2"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/anthropic-sharpens-ai-coding-and-security-capabilities-with-mythos-5-2-4cc1cd57
published: 2026-11-10T09:33:17.000Z
byline: "Source: CSO Online"
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# Anthropic sharpens AI coding and security capabilities with Mythos 5.2

Source: CSO Online · Published 2026-11-10 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/anthropic-sharpens-ai-coding-and-security-capabilities-with-mythos-5-2-4cc1cd57

Anthropic has introduced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, claiming significant improvements in handling complex software engineering tasks while cutting API prices by 20% compared with the previous versions. Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 share the same underlying model but have different safeguards. Fable is broadly available, while direct access to Mythos is restricted to vetted cybersecurity and life sciences organizations to limit potential misuse. The models are both priced at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, down from $10 and $50, respectively. Anthropic said the newer versions can generate output up to 30% faster than their predecessors. The company reported substantial gains in coding performance. Fable 5.2 scored 49.1% on the FrontierCode 2.0 benchmark at its Xhigh effort setting, compared with 32.4% for Fable 5.1. The benchmark assesses whether maintainers of open-source projects would accept AI-generated changes to their code. Performance and costs co

## Sources

- [Read the original at CSO Online](https://www.csoonline.com/article/4246688/anthropic-sharpens-ai-coding-and-security-capabilities-with-mythos-5-2.html)

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