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Wired:
Anthropic debuts 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 organizations  —  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.
Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude 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.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs  —  Key Points … Ask about this article...  Both models share the same base model.  Fable 5 ships with conservative safety guardrails for general use.
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:
Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days  —  Claude Fable 5 offers Mythos-level performance for most tasks with safeguards on sensitive topics.  Anthropic claims testing found no universal jailbreaks.
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.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic prices both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at $10 per 1M input tokens and $50 per 1M output tokens, less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview
Wall Street Journal:
Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work  —  The popular predictions market is putting new guardrails in place for certain bets as concerns about suspicious activity rise
The Keyword:
Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, its latest audio model that 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.
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
Reuters:
Analysis: Trump and his sons profited $2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including $TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~$2.3B  —  Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune …
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 …
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta plans to expand using off-platform data, such as online purchases, to personalize content feeds and AI responses; it was previously used just to serve ads  —  Beginning in July, you may start seeing content related to the games you've played, your online purchases, and more across your feeds.
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 …
Davis Giangiulio / CNBC:
Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund  —  As prediction market volumes continue to march higher and platforms increasingly look to institutional players to engage …

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
A source and internal figures: Condé Nast forecasts $130M in Q4 US advertising, $35M+ below its goal; Condé Nast says the figures are “materially inaccurate”

Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico amend their lawsuit against the White House, alleging it kept all three off press pool duty since September 18 despite an injunction

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
Memo: MS NOW hires former CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid as its chief White House reporter

More News

Greg Kim / The Seattle Times:
Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill
New York Times:
Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China starts operating the world's first wind-powered underwater data center, off Shanghai's coast, and says it uses 22.8% less power than land-based facilities

Earlier Picks

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
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
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