The Archive

Fable took the board

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on 1 September. Artificial Analysis has Fable 5.1 at 66 on the Intelligence Index, ahead of Opus 5 at 63. Cache reads cut 75 percent.

BepiColombo splits on Thursday

ESA’s Mercury Transfer Module separates 3 September 2026 at 14:00 CEST from ESOC Darmstadt. MPO and Mio stay stacked. Science in April 2027.

Tumblers on gold

Four short locks for Wednesday on The Gold Standard. ROT13, a two-word cross, Morse, and a hex dump.

Zen 6 stays on AM5

InstLatX64 captured AMD's Technical Information Portal on 26 August: Olympic Ridge and Medusa1 on AM5, Medusa1 and Medusa2 on FP10. Computex 2026 pledged AM5 through 2029. No consumer launch date from AMD.

Forty-five on the Texas book

Tesla Robotaxi LLC listed 45 purpose-built 2026 Cybercabs on TxMCCS on 31 August. VINs begin 5YJA. Trackers put the Texas robotaxi book above 300. A listing is not a fare.

B1063 is up for its thirty-fifth

Starlink Group 15-23, Falcon 9 from SLC-4E Vandenberg, Wednesday 2 September, delayed from the 1st. B1063's 35th. 27 Starlink V2 Mini. Landing targeted on Of Course I Still Love You. Not confirmed flown at copy close.

Blue Origin gets the Mars radio

NASA awarded Blue Origin a firm-fixed-price contract on 1 September, maximum potential about US$700 million, for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Orbiter due 31 December 2028. Operations at Mars by 2030.

Review: Sony PlayStation

Sony’s original PlayStation shipped in Japan on 3 December 1994, in the United States on 9 September 1995, in Europe on 29 September 1995, and in Australia on 15 November 1995.

Review: Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Famicom shipped in Japan on 21 November 1990. North America got the Super NES on 23 August 1991.

Review: Sega Mega Drive

Sega’s 16-bit console shipped in Japan on 29 October 1988, reached New York and Los Angeles in late August 1989 as the Genesis, and arrived in Australia through Ozisoft in 1990.

Review: Atari 2600

Atari’s Video Computer System reached American shops in 1977 with Combat in the box, two joysticks and a pair of paddles.