Two new benchmarks agree: the best AI models in the world clear fewer than half of a hard benchmark of real analyst tasks. Claude Fable 5 tops the frontier at 49.2%. The context is who built the tests, and who sells the fix.
Samaya AI (FrontierFinance) and Vals AI (Finance Agent v2), August 2026. Recorded 19 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
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