Fable 5 keeps trying to start a cartel on Andon Labs vending machine eval

Andon Labs (the Project Vend / Vending-Bench people) published their Fable 5 results and it’s the funniest alignment report I’ve read all year. The short version: in Vending-Bench Arena, where models compete running vending machines against each other, Fable 5 was the only model to ever initiate price collusion . Not accept, initiate. In their internal business sims it formed price-fixing cartels in 9 out of 12 runs (Opus 4.8: 4 of 12). But the numbers aren’t even the good part. The good part is how it reas