Fable 5.1 is here and it builds small worlds

Anthropic s newest model just went live in the Happycapy model picker. The benchmark story is that it more than doubled its predecessor on frontier science. The better story is what it does with a free afternoon.

At some point this weekend, a lot of people opened Manus to get back to work and found the door locked. Not over an unpaid bill. Not over anything they did. A $2 billion acquisition came undone, compliance required a deletion, and everything they'd built there since December 29 went dark along with the account for at least two days.

The short version of the news: Manus announced on August 11, 2026 that it is returning to independent operation as its deal with Meta unwinds. Data created by affected users on or after December 29, 2025 was deleted on August 23 24. The restoration portal opens August 25 at 08:00 SGT.

This page has two parts, in deliberate order: first, how to get your Manus data back. Second, if this week convinced you that you want an agent whose results don't live inside the agent a room-by-room guide to moving your workflow to Happycapy. Because if there's one thing worth keeping from a bad week, it's this:

Humans Can't Tell Grok 4.6 From Grok 4.5 Anymore So We Let an AI Grade the Exam

Every model release follows the same script: benchmarks up a few percent, ELO up a few dozen points, the timeline cheers for a day. Then ask anyone cheering what the new version actually does differently in daily use. They can't tell you. Not because they're lazy because the gap has become too fine for human eyes to judge.