Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Last week Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 — and within 48 hours it became one of the messiest releases in frontier AI. A buried line in the model's system card revealed Fable would silently degrade its own answers for anyone it suspected of building competing AI systems, with no warning. Researchers called it silent sabotage. Anthropic apologized and reversed course. Add a 30-day data-retention requirement that got the model banned inside Microsoft, and you have a live referendum on the question crypto has been asking for years: should any single company hold this much control over frontier AI?
We brought together three of the sharpest voices at the crypto Ă— AI intersection to fight it out.
🟢 Jake Brukhman (CoinFund) makes the case for decentralized AI.
🟢 Jesus Rodriguez (Sentora, The Sequence) pushes back.
🟢 Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly) brings the hot takes on both sides.
HOST
Camila Russo (@camilarusso) — Founder & CEO, The Defiant
Last week Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 — and within 48 hours it became one of the messiest releases in frontier AI. A buried line in the model's system card revealed Fable would silently degrade its own answers for anyone it suspected of building competing AI systems, with no warning. Researchers called it silent sabotage. Anthropic apologized and reversed course. Add a 30-day data-retention requirement that got the model banned inside Microsoft, and you have a live referendum on the question crypto has been asking for years: should any single company hold this much control over frontier AI?
We brought together three of the sharpest voices at the crypto Ă— AI intersection to fight it out.
🟢 Jake Brukhman (CoinFund) makes the case for decentralized AI.
🟢 Jesus Rodriguez (Sentora, The Sequence) pushes back.
🟢 Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly) brings the hot takes on both sides.
HOST
Camila Russo (@camilarusso) — Founder & CEO, The Defiant
