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Anthropic says the US Department of Commerce “has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5” and that it will begin restoring access on Wednesday — We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits for Claude users from July 7, and is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard — On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5.
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| @anthropicai: |
Anthropic says “some routine tasks like coding and debugging” on Fable 5 “will fall back to Opus 4.8” in “the near term” as it works to “reduce false positives” — Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models — A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capability beyond what many other models, including Chinese models, could do.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work — Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet. It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals …
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash — Anthropic is backtracking a spyware rolled out covertly to track users' location and whether they are based in China or affiliated …
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| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox — Microsoft is planning to announce job cuts soon as the tech giant continues efforts to control costs, according to people familiar with the situation.
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| Reuters: |
Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M+ from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin — U.S. President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family's crypto ventures last year …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire — Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Google's chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users — “All AI glasses owners get free monthly usage for certain features.” … Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own?
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| Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: |
Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more — After a closer look at some new data, Apple's iPhone 18 Pro modem situation may not be cut-and-dried.
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers — SpaceX is offering discounts for Starlink internet plans in Memphis, Tennessee, as the Elon Musk-led company endures blowback …
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised $1.7B after selling 58M shares at $29 each, valuing it at ~$18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons SpA, which acquires struggling software businesses, and some of its backers raised $1.68 billion …
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| Financial Times: |
Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines — Discussions come as tech group seeks to avoid fines as it and the bloc have been deadlocked over launch of AI assistant
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settlement related to a lawsuit claiming that the world's largest social media platforms are addictive to minors … | Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets — How work changes along the exponential — If you feel like things are accelerating in AI, you are probably right.
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| Bloomberg: |
Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly $2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion to Klarna Group Plc's Pricerunner unit in a dispute …
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| Niko Gallogly / New York Times: |
Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B — Together AI, which specializes in open-source artificial intelligence models, is now worth more than $8 billion.| Bloomberg: |
How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending — A new Amazon transatlantic fiber-optic link is symbolic of the country's tech economy, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending.| Associated Press: |
The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison — A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China's wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years …
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| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A U.K. regulator said Shutterstock must sell its editorial business in order for the merger between the two companies to be approved| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc. is raising $100 million from investors including Amazon.com Inc., NEA Management Co. and Naver Ventures …
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| Bloomberg: |
Lime owner Neutron Holdings raised $174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at $25 each, the midpoint of its marketed range, giving Lime a $1.6B market value — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and some of its shareholders raised $174 million in a US initial public offering …
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| Kirstin Ridley / Reuters: |
Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval — Almost 1,700 British investors are suing Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao for at least £150 million ($200 million) …
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| Financial Times: |
BYD, Nio, and other Chinese carmakers are rushing to design and increase the use of locally developed chips with AI functions in a bid for chip self-sufficiency — EV makers such as global leader BYD are rushing to increase use of locally developed semiconductors
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research …
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| Bloomberg: |
Wayve files to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test it, and let staff sell $85M in shares — Autonomous driving software company Wayve Technologies Ltd. has filed to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market …
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| Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: |
South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to $102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record $44.82B in chip shipments — SEOUL — South Korean exports in June surged past $100 billion for the first time, government figures showed Wednesday … Sponsor Posts
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