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| @anthropicai: |
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 from July 7, and is drafting a jailbreak severity standard with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others — 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 now-lifted US export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers toward 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.
| Financial Times: |
Letter: the US says Anthropic “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks” of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a “safeguard” — US government move allows AI start-up to re-release Mythos and Fable models| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 8%+ — Meta Platforms Inc. is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models …
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs” — New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won't be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced.
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Bluesky: @mattreyn.games and @stephentotilo
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores “in all other countries” in July 2027 — The virtual PS3 store will close in select markets this year, with global closures for PS3 and PS Vita following in 2027.
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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 the glasses' Conversation Focus feature to three hours 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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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature that identifies 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 …
More: International Cyber Digest, The Register, and Tech Times
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @fj@mastodon.social
Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/hackernews
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it — “Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
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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 … | 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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| 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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| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation — Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company, and names Denise Moreno as CMO — Meta has named its chief marketing officer, Alex Schultz, as its new chief data officer, Schultz told Axios.
More: Reuters and Business Insider
| Financial Times: |
Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks on June 30; sources: they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU and avoid 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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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX cuts Starlink's monthly 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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| Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from ~$17,650 — The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms' drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use.
More: Digital Trends, Nikkei Asia, UBTECH, Tech in Asia, and Caixin Global
X: @yicaichina and @xrobohub
| Andrea Shalal / Reuters: |
A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific understanding, the “potential benefits of AI are enormous”, and more — The rapid development of AI offers huge potential benefits to countries and people around the world, but also poses big risks …
More: The Guardian, Axios, and Engadget
| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI model 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.
Bluesky: @emollick
| Reuters: |
Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including ~$800M 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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Bluesky: @saletan, @democracydefendersaction.org, @mcbridetd, @stacy17, @normeisen, @frankamari, @deanbaker13, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu, and @sebastiangarof5. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum” — Uber Technologies Inc. has dismissed two tech leaders at its nascent AI data labeling business, shaking up a key division …
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
B2B sales workspace startup Aligned raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $73.8M, and says it has 1,000+ customers — Aligned, a sales workspace for B2B sellers, buyers, and AI agents, locked up a $60 million Series B, co-founder and CEO Gal Aga tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised $1.68B after selling 57.97M shares at $29 each, valuing it at ~$18.4B, in one of 2026's largest US IPOs by a European company — Bending Spoons SpA, which acquires struggling software businesses, and some of its backers raised $1.68 billion …
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| Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: |
Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to deploy as much as $10B annually from the fund over the next few years — MGX has raised $49 billion for one of the biggest ever funds dedicated to artificial intelligence deals, propelling …
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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 …
More: Financial Times, Sifted, TechCrunch, and Tech Funding News
| 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 1,000+ people worldwide 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China — Taiwanese prosecutors detained two Super Micro Computer Inc. employees following a raid of the US company's local offices earlier …
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