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Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing — THE SCOOP — The US government Friday lifted its block on Anthropic's powerful Claude Mythos 5 AI model, allowing the company to release …
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| @anthropicai: |
Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5 — Since June 12, we've been working closely with the US government to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical
| OpenAI: |
GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving — We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT-5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model.
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| Axios: |
OpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government — OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 Friday, but says it's limiting access to all three versions of the new model at the behest of the U.S. government.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says “this kind of government access process” should not become the long-term default — Company says White House review of AI releases shouldn't become long-term default; ban on Anthropic's Mythos model remains
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices — The iPhone maker wants Trump administration to sign off on purchases to ease pressure from rising chip prices
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices — Apple Inc.'s top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and the company's smart glasses efforts is leaving for OpenAI …
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| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider — SpaceX and Charter Communications Inc. have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own — Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark … | Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers' concerns of being replaced by AI — When a friend checked in on a Meituan employee late last month to see if he had survived the latest round of corporate culling … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zuckerberg's plans for Arena, a prediction markets app that Meta is building, also include appealing to 18- to 34-year-old users.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Source: Intel has promised to deliver SpaceX and Apple a toolkit this fall to test its 14A node before they make final commitments to produce chips with Intel — At a tech conference in San Francisco this week, admirers surrounded Lip-Bu Tan, the chief executive of Intel …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B — A loose collective of cybercriminals initially took credit for crippling Jaguar Land Rover last year.
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, but its implementation is unclear — On July 1, it will be illegal for streaming platforms to play ads louder than the content being watched in California.
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