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Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access 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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X: @howardlutnick, @susiewiles47, @deanwball, @ns123abc, @deredleritt3r, @repligate, @sophiacai99, @miles_brundage, @theo, and @hugolowell
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS, BleepingComputer, Axios, MacRumors, Engadget, Simon Willison's Weblog, Benzinga, Gizmodo, Decrypt, Thurrott, The New Stack, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Neowin, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, TestingCatalog AI News, The Deep View, ZDNET, Mashable, The Next Web, The Decoder, Digital Trends, Constellation Research, and Tech in Asia
X: @claudeai, @daniellefong, @claudedevs, @kimmonismus, @bindureddy, @dorialexander, @banteg, @cognition, @levie, @altryne, @cursor_ai, @claudedevs, @altryne, @claudeai, @amazon, @kimmonismus, @teortaxestex, @rohanpaul_ai, @deredleritt3r, @_maxblade, @banteg, @mweinbach, @openrouter, @teortaxestex, @wadefoster, @simonw, @afinetheorem, @github, @iharnoorsingh, @luke_metro, @alexstamos, @alexfinn, @deryatr_, @artificialanlys, @arena, and @kimmonismus. LinkedIn: Rahul Patil. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/claude, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Payment giants, banks, tech firms and crypto companies are among Open Standard's launch members.
More: Open USD (OUSD) Stablecoin, The Information, PYMNTS, Seoul Economic Daily, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Blockchain.News, American Banker, Reuters, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, CoinGape, Fortune, Benzinga, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, Barron's Online, CryptoNinjas, Bitcoin Magazine, Gizmodo, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin News, Forbes, Unchained, COINOTAG, and Finimize
X: @cuysheffield, @openstandard, @jessepollak, @jessepollak, @matthuang, @lorenzoark, @coinbase, @patrickc, @solana, @dwr, @injective, @malekanoms, @dwr, @mtslive, @aave, @base, @nic_carter, @0xpolygon, @ccatalini, @nic_carter, @bbva, @mastercard, @davidmarcus, @aptos, @segall_max, @eastdakota, @stripe, @patrickjwitt, @cuysheffield, @bfaviero, @lightspark, @0xcryptosam, @jeff_weinstein, @sjdedic, @callmegillette, @stellarorg, @koeppelmann, @zcabrams, @brian_armstrong, @cryptocom, @andyfang, @moonpay, @cuysheffield, and @denelledixon
LinkedIn: Connor Fitzgerald, Christoph Sulyok, and Catherine Gu
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear Apple's (AAPL.O) bid to escape being found in contempt in its legal fight with …
More: Engadget, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, The Hill, PYMNTS, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Washington Times, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, Courthouse News Service, Benzinga, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
Forums: r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: Anthropic, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, NVIDIA, The New Stack, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, Neowin, The Deep View, Northeastern Global News, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, The Decoder, and STAT
X: @arthur_spirling, @bowang87, @claudeai, @flomerboy, @pli_cachete, @himanshustwts, @mgdurrant, @inafried, @iterintellectus, @ruxandrateslo, @hankgreen, @briancalbrecht, and @deryatr_. Bluesky: @pedrobeltrao
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers — We're making it easier to experiment and scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model …
More: Google AI for Developers, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Android Authority, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Deep View, Neowin, Mashable, and RuntimeWire
X: @googleaidevs, @googledeepmind, @officiallogank, @officiallogank, @google, @googleai, @googledeepmind, @_philschmid, @google, @google, @alisa_fortin, and @google. Bluesky: @dynamicwebpaige
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, and r/singularity
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don't talk enough about the work … | 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 …
More: Reuters, The Next Web, NBC News, Channel NewsAsia, New Jersey Office …, and Quartz
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As companies struggle to integrate AI, they're increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching … | 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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X: @steverattner, @bitcoinmagazine, and @steverattner
Forums: r/politics, r/Destiny, and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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.
More: Reuters, Finimize, and GeekWire
Forums: r/microsoft, r/gaming, r/technology, and r/wallstreetbets
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AI inference startup Etched raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm, and says it has signed sales contracts worth $1B — Nvidia rival says it has raised $800 million and has $1 billion in contracts. — AI chip startup Etched said it has raised $800 million …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Etched, RuntimeWire, and TechCrunch
| Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users …
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LinkedIn: Gina Sternberg. Mastodon: @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk. Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …
More: LongCat AI, The Next Web, Hugging Face, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, and TestingCatalog AI News
X: @adinayakup, @tugot17, @yacinemtb, @sun_hanchi, @cyodyssey, @basedjensen, @sheriyuo, @fellmentke, @poezhao0605, @eliebakouch, @cyodyssey, @eliebakouch, @yuchenj_uw, @jun_song, @meituan_longcat, @meituan_longcat, @meituan_longcat, @rohanpaul_ai, and @emostaque
Forums: r/SillyTavernAI and r/LocalLLaMA
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M — The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs. One consequence?| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of the modern web, with Tenor being one of the libraries that powers a variety of apps including Twitter/X. Google acquired Tenor …
More: Google Help Center, Ars Technica, The Verge, and PCGamesN
| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed employees to build a standalone prediction market app, he proposed buying Kalshi …
X: @bobbyallyn
| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite.
More: SFist, The American Bazaar, After School, Tech Brew, and The Decoder
X: @powerbottomdad1, @hrlomax, @el_xico99, @mattparlmer, @luke_metro, @producercities, @bigmeaninternet, @aarmlovi, @emmymrtin, @tm_brown, @sukritganesh, @devahaz, @paularambles, @afinetheorem, @uhshanti, @moseskagan, @mattschaar, and @neerajadeshp. Bluesky: @jordannovet.cnbc.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/Plutonomy, r/justincaseyoumissedit, r/sanfrancirclejerk, r/bayarea, and r/sanfrancisco
| Lisa Bonos / Inc: |
Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — Pie, which spent the past year building quietly, is betting small businesses need help showing up in AI search the way they once needed help showing up on Google.| 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) …
More: Decrypt, Financial Times, and Bitcoin Insider
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's $150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round began Sunday, Kalshi joined the likes of Coca-Cola, Visa and Adidas with sideline advertising in the stadiums … | Financial Times: |
A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US companies challenges fears that generative AI will trigger broad job losses
More: International Business Times, PYMNTS, CoinDesk, NBC News, Straight Arrow, and TechCrunch
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