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June 27, 2026, 11:15 AM

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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 …
Axios:
Source: the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5; limits could be lifted as soon as this coming week  —  The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its powerful Fable 5 model, which has been offline for 15 days …
@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
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
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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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 …
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 …
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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