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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: |
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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| Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: |
Polymarket says its annualized revenue is now $1B+; Dune Analytics: daily volume on Polymarket's US platform rose from ~$50M in mid-May to $200M+ by June 20 — Prediction market platform Polymarket's annualized revenue are now well above $1 billion, the company shared exclusively with CNBC on Friday.| 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 … | 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.| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
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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 … | 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.| 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 … | Max Kim / New York Times: |
A look at South Korea's four vocational “meister” schools that train students to work in semiconductor manufacturing, leading to jobs at Samsung and SK Hynix — Chungbuk Semiconductor High School in Eumseong County, South Korea, is the oldest vocational high school …
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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.| Don Clark / New York Times: |
A look at advanced chip packaging, now more reliant on TSMC and its partners in Taiwan than ever, and the efforts to address this bottleneck in the US — A silicon wafer reflecting Subramanian Iyer, a specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a technology called advanced chip packaging.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Japanese financial giant SBI agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, with the deal set to close in October — Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings said it agreed to buy cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank for around $289 million.
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