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June 14, 2026, 8:25 AM

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The Information:
Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among the tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump administration officials this week about security risks …
David Sacks / @davidsacks:
David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to “fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model” after “a highly credible trusted partner” reported a Fable jailbreak  —  I've had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
Nathan Rennolds / Associated Press:
European political figures say Anthropic disabling access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is a “wake-up call” about the risks of depending on the US for AI tech  —  Anthropic said it believed the US government had become aware of a potential means of jailbreaking Fable 5.
Politico:
US officials: the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic followed multiple tense calls between Dario Amodei and admin officials  —  The administration's imposition of export controls forced Anthropic to pull its new AI model, Fable, just days after it was released to the public.
New York Times:
US barring foreign nationals, including Anthropic staffers in the US, from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a new phase in the US trying to control Anthropic  —  The company said on Friday night that the federal government had ordered limits on its Mythos and Fable 5 A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Luta Security CEO says US government restrictions on Mythos follow a jailbreak report by Amazon researchers and calls the restrictions a “complete overreaction”  —  The Trump administration is banning foreign governments, companies and individuals from using Anthropic's …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions, which are increasingly tied to tech developed and governed in the US  —  Anthropic's sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it  —  THE SCOOP  —  The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic's powerful Mythos AI model partly over suspicions that a China-linked group had accessed it, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states  —  The authors found that data center opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects nationwide from January through March.
Shuhei Ochiai / Nikkei Asia:
After years of uncertainty, including delayed listings, memory chipmaker Kioxia's shares soared 56x in 18 months, making it Japan's most valuable company  —  TOKYO — Japanese memory maker Kioxia Holdings is now the top Japanese company by market capitalization, capping off a dramatic period …
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says memory is now the costliest phone component, accounting for 50%+ of BOM in some models, and predicts phone prices will rise into 2027  —  With RAM getting more expensive, Carl Pei says holiday discounts probably won't be the same this year.
Hyunsoo Rim / Sherwood News:
Challenger, Gray & Christmas: out of ~398K US jobs cuts in 2026 through May, employers cited AI as the reason for ~88K of them, up from ~54K in all of 2025  —  Employers cited AI for nearly 40% of May's cuts — a share that's kept climbing since Challenger began tracking it in 2023.

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