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June 28, 2026, 1:35 AM

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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 …
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Alistair Gray / Financial Times:
Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents  —  Battle over licensing of mobile connection protocols could shape global rates for other technologies
Bloomberg:
The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs  —  Claude Code is cutting into sleep time.  —  Matt Van Horn, a serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns his laptop off anymore.
Wired:
A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users  —  As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles  —  Recently, my father called me in a panic.  —  There were just a few minutes until Netflix would start streaming a live MMA event, and he couldn't get into my account.
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
Reuters:
LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs  —  China's onshore technology IPOs are on track for their strongest year since 2023 as Beijing seeks to bolster listings of chip …
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 …

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