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Anthropic:
Anthropic says Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in ~5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity  —  Today we're launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class1 model that we've made safe for general use.  —  Fable 5's capabilities exceed …
Wired:
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a “safe” Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyberattacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 to trusted orgs  —  Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can't be used for cyberattacks.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for frontier LLM development  —  Key Points … Ask about this article...  Both models share the same base model.  Fable 5 ships with conservative safety guardrails for general use.
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Hands-on with Claude Fable 5: impressive results with complex projects, including a data analysis tool built in just 9.5 hours and an interactive isochrone map  —  Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI  —  I had early access to the first Mythos-class AI model being released to the public, Claude 5 Fable.
More: TechCrunch and Boing Boing
X: @emollick and @emollick.  LinkedIn: Ethan Mollick.  Forums: Hacker News
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits  —  Anthropic is bringing its most powerful AI model to the general public for the first time, but it's doing it with guardrails.
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:
Anthropic says internal and external red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks; it will keep user traffic for 30 days, aligning with Trump's AI EO
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic prices both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at $10 per 1M input and $50 per 1M output tokens, less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview
Inti Landauro / Reuters:
The EU says Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the EU after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted from interoperability obligations for the tool  —  Apple decided not to roll out its new Siri AI tool in the European Union after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Siri AI will not be available in the EU with the launch of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the DMA; Siri AI will also not be available in China at launch
The Keyword:
Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which it says can deliver “near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages”  —  Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is our latest audio model, delivering near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations  —  When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.  —  The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case …
Apple Machine Learning Research:
Apple unveils new Apple Foundation Models: two on-device models, including a 20B-parameter multimodal model called AFM 3 Core Advanced, and three cloud models  —  Our next generation of Apple Intelligence is centered around our users, integrated deeply into our operating systems …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
If Apple's Siri AI works as well as it did in its WWDC demos, Apple is set to take the lead in consumer AI, with the iPhone becoming the first true AI device  —  As the iPhone becomes the first true AI device...  From a pure AI perspective, nothing Apple showcased during their WWDC keynote yesterday was particularly groundbreaking.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU regulators order Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to probe if Meta abused its market power by blocking competitors  —  EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue …
New York Times:
Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the attack tied to Meta's AI chatbot; 3,500+ usernames were changed  —  The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over Instagram accounts using a bug in the company's new artificial intelligence software.
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Decentralized lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and a16z Crypto in a token sale that valued Morpho at up to $2B  —  Paul Frambot has a message for the “suits” at traditional financial institutions.  “I think TradFi is going to have to wear shorts,” …
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the startup is planning to go public in 2028, regardless of how well Anthropic's and OpenAI's IPOs go  —  Perplexity is planning to go public in 2028 regardless of how the market receives the listings of Anthropic and OpenAI, CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays  —  Apple Inc.'s iOS 27 and related software updates offer the clearest public signs yet of the company's upcoming foldable iPhone …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them  —  Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached …
Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
Finland-based Iceye, whose small satellites help countries with real-time location monitoring, raised a €1B Series F led by General Atlantic at a €10B valuation  —  Deal follows major deployment with Poland and crossing €250M in sales  —  We're less than a week …

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Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Memo: HuffPost EIC informs staff that ~15 editorial jobs will be cut, the first layoffs under new owner Byron Allen, and executive editor Kate Palmer is leaving

Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: Paramount and state AGs agree to freeze the WBD merger until an antitrust trial occurs or until June 2027; a preliminary injunction hearing is canceled

Associated Press:
The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work

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Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
In a UK online safety consultation, the US urges the UK against an under-16 social media ban, saying it would place a “disproportionate” burden on US companies
OpenAI:
Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is entering its “third phase”, aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs
James Pero / Gizmodo:
Apple unveils an Apple Intelligence feature to automatically change weak or compromised passwords, using agentic AI, and save the new ones in the Passwords app
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