Anthropic launches Fable 5, a Mythos-class model with guardrails for general use - Anthropic

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a public Mythos-class model with guardrails that route cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries to Opus 4.8 - The New York Times

Anthropic now retains Mythos traffic for 30 days, overriding previous zero-retention enterprise agreements - TechCrunch

don’t use Fable to make OpenAI IPO pitch decks

Fable 5 is the first public Mythos-class Claude, routing sensitive queries to Opus 4.8 while the unrestricted Mythos stays gated to ~200 Project Glasswing partners - theregister

Fable 5 is free for subscribers through June 22, then requires credits; both models are priced at $10/$50 per million tokens - The Verge

Fable 5 scores 80.3% on SWE-bench Pro, topping GPT-5.5; Stripe completed a 50M-line Ruby migration in one day - VentureBeat

AI engineers and researchers fume as they find Fable is nerfed for their work - Business Insider

Anthropic's Fable 5 uses broad safety classifiers that block benign cancer and cybersecurity questions, reverting to Opus 4.8. - Business Insider

Fable 5 benchmarks top software engineering charts; a parallel-agent workflows feature can process entire codebases, priced at $10/$50 per million tokens - 4sysops

Ethan Mollick on Fable/Mythos - One Useful Thing

Claude Fable 5 - Simon Willison

Triple witching: Three simultaneous large IPOs — SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI — raise questions whether markets can absorb record capital raises at once - Fast Company

Trillion-dollar Skynet: SpaceX plans orbital AI demos in 2027, earlier than its IPO filing suggests, and has requested permission for 1 million data-center satellites - Reuters

SpaceX unveiled Gigasat, an 11-million-square-foot factory to manufacture AI1 orbital data-center satellites targeting 1 GW of space AI compute by 2027 - Tom's Hardware

X's automated systems told a Chinese dissident in the UK that deepfake sexual abuse posts targeting her did not breach platform rules. - the Guardian

SpaceX investors bullish on CSAM

Crusoe holds 5GW in data center contracts but paused a 1.8GW Wyoming campus at a customer's request - Bloomberg

Seattle City Council unanimously bans new AI data centers for a year after five proposed projects would consume a third of the city's power - TechRadar

Plug your car in, and it can serve as a utility scale battery storage. GM announced vehicle-to-grid capabilities for existing EV owners and sodium-ion commercial energy storage to help offset AI data center power demand. - The Verge

GPU idle rates exceed 30% across hyperscaler fleets, costing trillions; a ByteDance engineer's OpenSkill automation cut idle time 35% in production - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Industry consensus shifts: 90% of AI use cases could run on smaller models as cost pressure forces a new efficiency focus - Fortune

Layer cake: Only 10% of financial firms run AI in core systems; experts say a governed abstraction layer is the missing piece - TechRadar

White House orders federal AI testing unit to halt public model assessments, citing national security concerns - The Wall Street Journal

Sprechen Sie Defamation: Munich court holds Google liable for false AI Overview answers, ruling them Google's own speech rather than search results - The Decoder

Apple rebuilt Siri around a 20-billion-parameter on-device "scarce model" co-developed with Google Gemini, replacing an earlier incremental plan that was scrapped - TechRadar

In hands-on testing, the new Siri reliably handled multi-step tasks and calendar integration, though its feature set currently mirrors Gemini from 2025 - The Verge

Apple's Private Cloud Compute encrypts AI tasks on servers even Apple can't access, deleting data after use and opening the architecture to outside verification - PCWorld

Natural-language Shortcuts creation and AI-generated Safari extensions look promising but frequently fail in early betas, hinging on broad App Intents adoption - The Verge

Password injection? Security researchers warn every webpage is a potential prompt-injection risk as Apple's iOS 27 adds automatic compromised-password changes - CybersecKyle

Google cuts AI Plus subscription price from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubles storage, escalating U.S. consumer AI pricing competition. - TechCrunch

Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate offers near-real-time speech translation in 70+ languages, preserving speaker tone, rolling out now - Google

Google Gemini becomes main global sponsor of Argentina's national soccer team ahead of the 2026 World Cup. - WIRED

Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed a record ~200 Windows flaws, with AI tools increasingly used to discover vulnerabilities. - Krebs on Security

Would-be Walter Whites use AI to synthesize illicit drug precursors and evade restrictions - Financial Times

Elon Musk claims Tesla's AI5 chip will outperform Nvidia's best by 2-3x at one-tenth the cost, with production targeting 2027 - 24/7 Wall St.

Tesla's robotaxi fleet stalls at 59 vehicles in three Texas cities, far short of Musk's national expansion promises - Bloomberg

bit of a gap between promises and execution

Unitree is applying BYD's cost-leadership playbook to humanoid robots, pricing the G1 at $27K with 67% margins as revenues triple year-over-year - SemiAnalysis

MIT's ultrasound wristband tracks 22 degrees of hand motion for real-time robot teleoperation at 120ms, no cameras or gloves needed - TNW | Deep-Tech

PR-CAD unifies text-to-CAD generation and editing into one agent trained with reinforcement learning, achieving top scores on controllability and faithfulness - arXiv.org

Administrative workers face greater AI displacement risk than coders and are least able to adapt, Northwestern economists find - The New York Times

How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare - The Wall Street Journal

Google DeepMind economist finds no AI jobs bloodbath yet, but warns of a cascade of investor-signaling layoffs - Business Insider

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman clarifies he meant AI will automate sub-tasks, not entire white-collar jobs - The Verge

McKinsey now runs 25,000 AI agents alongside 40,000 consultants, compressing 'week-one answers' to one hour - Business Insider

Chief Agent Provocateur: Satya Nadella argues AI agents deserve real identities like employees, noting he personally manages 100 coding agents - Windows Central

AI proves coding was never the main job — developers must now specify, validate, and verify rather than implement - Hacker Noon

AI makes code generation probabilistic, raising the stakes for explicit system contracts that define component behavior, boundaries, and failure modes - Hacker Noon

Developer uses AI agents to build Grit, a Rust reimplementation of Git that passes over 99% of the Git test suite. - Butler's Log

Agent-force-reduction: Salesforce lays off staff tied to Agentforce weeks after the AI product hit $1.2 billion in revenue - Inc.

Singapore foreign minister uses an AI "second brain" tool for diplomacy but cautions AI cannot replace human judgment. - mint

LLMs are advising real military targeting decisions, MIT Technology Review finds - MIT Technology Review

Geoffrey Hinton says Ukraine's drone warfare has complicated his earlier push for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons - Business Insider

maybe OK for defense?

The bitter lesson, part deux: AI pioneer Rich Sutton argues generative AI trained by supervised learning cannot achieve true creativity or scientific discovery without an evaluation mechanism. - X (formerly Twitter)

Consciousness objector: Suleyman warns Anthropic is anthropomorphizing Claude by treating AI consciousness as an open philosophical question - The Verge

Spinning in circles and crying for help. An AI robot became such a burden for nurses in a Seattle hospital that they eventually cancelled the contract and held a funeral for it. - Proof

My Cousin Vinnie.ai: Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Yeets Everyone Off the Case - 404 Media

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack - 404 Media

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