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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.
Dean W. Ball / @deanwball:
Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior  —  My last observation re: Anthropic's secret sabotage safety policy, is that it undermines actually good safety policy. How? 1. First, it is very plausible to describe this as anti-competitive behavior (even if you are maximally sympathetic to Anthropic here you must admit this),
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements
The Keyword:
Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models  —  Our newest open experimental model delivers up to 4x faster inference on dedicated GPUs and opens the door to exploring speed-critical, interactive local workflows.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a Slack message on Monday that he expects OpenAI to go public …
Reuters:
Sources: SpaceX has drawn $250B+ of investor demand for what is poised to be the largest IPO to date, far beyond the $75B that SpaceX is aiming to raise  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) has drawn more than $250 billion of investor demand for what stands to be the largest-ever IPO …
Bloomberg:
Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations  —  One of the most powerful AI chief executives has almost no direct reports at a moment when other tech leaders are widening their spans of control.
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, banning bets it finds aren't in the public interest or that seem highly susceptible to manipulation  —  The CFTC will provide clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won't ban certain contracts
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multistep prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and seems a bit more dispassionate than Gemini  —  Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or “spirit week” theme days from an email …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record nearly 200 security flaws, 33 rated Critical, as it and security researchers increasingly use AI to find bugs  —  Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software …
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
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices  —  Key Points … Ask about this article...  The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing  —  - Palantir CEO Alex Karp said enterprises are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market  —  The Fastest Iteration Cycle In Next-Gen Robotics Should See Unprecedented Acceleration  —  Reyk Knuhtsen, Niko Ciminelli, Jacob Rintamaki, and 4 others
Sarah Guo:
As AI commoditizes benchmarkable work, an organization's lasting moats lie in tasks that are verifiable through its private data and judgment  —  The mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychosis is a despair that nothing is investable, that we should put all our money into Anthropic and Nvidia and go home.
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW, $500B+ data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include Nvidia's financial backing  —  OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal …
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 …
Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg:
Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the Kuwait Investment Authority have each placed share orders worth $1B to $5B for SpaceX's IPO  —  Gulf wealth funds have put in orders for shares worth several billions of dollars in SpaceX's initial public offering, according to people familiar …

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New York Times:
Lesley Stahl says David Ellison called her and promised to respect editorial independence at 60 Minutes, a sign he is taking steps to calm turmoil at the show

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU is reviewing Paramount's WBD takeover under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, probing involvement of Middle Eastern funds; a decision is due by July 14

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ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites
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