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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.
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours  —  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: Anthropic, TechCrunch, and Boing Boing
X: @emollick and @emollick.  LinkedIn: Ethan Mollick
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
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
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
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.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~200 Windows security flaws, nearly three dozen of them critical, amid growing use of AI to find bugs  —  Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software …
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  —  Amid a growing backlash to artificial intelligence, Seattle City Council voted 9- on Tuesday to enact a one-year moratorium …
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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, but trails the broader US chip sector as the industry focuses spending on processes outside of lithography like advanced packaging  —  ASML Holding NV's ascent to fresh record highs has been a highlight for European markets, yet it's done little to improve …
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented  —  Unit's future was thrown into doubt after its public work was halted despite winning praise from AI developers
Michael Peel / Financial Times:
The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs develop new “designer” drug precursors that evade existing product blacklists  —  EU agency chief warns traffickers are tapping new technologies to develop and deliver illegal substances
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:
Walmart outlined a future where AI will change how people work, not necessarily how many work, at its annual Associates Week, as it accelerates AI adoption  —  Retailer's embrace of artificial intelligence comes amid anxiety that the technology will create mass redundancies.
More: Axios
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's shares fell as much as 8.2% Wednesday morning in Tokyo after its 2026 Game Showcase came up short on new titles from major franchises such as Mario  —  Nintendo Co.'s shares fell by the most in a month after the game maker's presentation of upcoming games came up short on brand …
Forums: r/nintendo
Bloomberg:
The crackdown on online scam centers in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to Sri Lanka, where authorities say they have arrested 1,000+ people in 2026  —  The crackdown on scam compounds in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to beach resorts and office buildings in Sri Lanka …
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.
Financial Times:
Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified “deficiencies”  —  Europe's most valuable fintech was ordered to address ‘deficiencies’ in oversight with staff encouraged to rapidly launch new financial products
Financial Times:
Chinese investors are using tokenized stocks bought with stablecoins like USDT to bypass Beijing's capital controls and mimic bets on hot US IPOs like SpaceX  —  Manoeuvres highlight the lengths traders are willing to go to get exposure to hot western investments despite risks
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

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Axios:
Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes

Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA launches a probe into Paramount's $110B acquisition of WBD, and sets an initial ruling deadline on August 7; the EU has already set a July 7 deadline

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Email: the WH press corps won't be allowed on White House grounds Sunday due to the UFC fight; only press poolers will be allowed unless UFC gives credentials

More News

Meta Newsroom:
Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, with 168 MW capacity; separately, Meta says it has contracted ~1GW of renewable energy
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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