Anthropic Puts AI Safety on the Price Sheet
After roughly two years of common guardrails, Anthropic now divides one underlying capability between Claude Fable 5's public tier and Claude Mythos 5's trusted tier.
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in <5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity
Today we're launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class1 model that we've made safe for general use.
Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, its latest audio model that it says can deliver “near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages”
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is our latest audio model, delivering near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages.
Apple says Siri AI will not be available in the EU with the launch of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the DMA; Siri AI will also not be available in China at launch
The new enhanced Siri AI features that Apple announced today at WWDC 2026 will not be available in the European Union or in China …
Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models
Our newest open experimental model delivers up to 4x faster inference on dedicated GPUs and opens the door to exploring speed-critical, interactive local workflows.
Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work
The popular predictions market is putting new guardrails in place for certain bets as concerns about suspicious activity rise
Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting “innocuous tasks” like reading blog posts or performing code reviews
Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos.
Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas
Asha Sharma's first major cuts will arrive in July — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month, according to people familiar with the company's strategy.
Analysis: Trump and his sons profited $2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including $TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~$2.3B
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune …
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record nearly 200 security flaws, 33 rated Critical, as it and security researchers increasingly use AI to find bugs
Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software …
Sixteen economists on what AI will mean for the US economy, workers, and workplaces: AI will boost productivity in the near term, but only two expect more jobs
How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare — Will artificial intelligence improve workers' lives …
Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill
Amid a growing backlash to artificial intelligence, Seattle City Council voted 9- on Tuesday to enact a one-year moratorium …
ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details
ServiceNow is warning about a security incident after attackers exploited an unauthenticated access flaw through a vulnerable API endpoint …
An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics
In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree …
Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multistep prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and seems a bit more dispassionate than Gemini
Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or “spirit week” theme days from an email …
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices
Key Points … Ask about this article... The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company …
Super Micro aims to raise $7B through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund component purchases tied to AI orders; SMCI drops 6%+ after hours
Super Micro Computer (SMCI.O) on Tuesday said it plans to raise $7 billion in a series of equity and equity-linked financing transactions …
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a Slack message on Monday that he expects OpenAI to go public …
Sources: SpaceX has drawn $250B+ of investor demand for what is poised to be the largest IPO to date, far beyond the $75B that SpaceX is aiming to raise
Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) has drawn more than $250 billion of investor demand for what stands to be the largest-ever IPO …
Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund
As prediction market volumes continue to march higher and platforms increasingly look to institutional players to engage …
LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view “creators cards” with metrics
LinkedIn is making a late but logical move to own B2B creator infrastructure before someone else does.
Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball says Xbox Game Pass lost “millions” of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025
At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox's new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company's big moves recently …
CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI
The U.S. cyber defense agency said on Wednesday that government officials now have three days to deal with the most serious categories …
Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites
SpaceX executives say the company is aiming to launch initial demonstrations of space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure …
Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA$14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars
Soon after selling the biggest Canadian corporate bond sale on record, Amazon.com Inc. inked another multi-billion dollar financing …
Anthropic debuts Claude Fable 5, a “safe” Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyberattacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations
Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can't be used for cyberattacks.
Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs
Key Points … Ask about this article... Both models share the same base model. Fable 5 ships with conservative safety guardrails for general use.
Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises
The carmaker has just 59 vehicles in its fleet and is limited to three Texas cities, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises.
A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market
The Fastest Iteration Cycle In Next-Gen Robotics Should See Unprecedented Acceleration — Reyk Knuhtsen, Niko Ciminelli, Jacob Rintamaki, and 4 others
Nintendo's shares fell as much as 8.2% on Wednesday morning in Tokyo after its 2026 Game Showcase came up short on new titles from major franchises, like Mario
Nintendo Co.'s shares fell by the most in a month after the game maker's presentation of upcoming games came up short on brand …Forums:r/nintendoForums:r/nintendo:Nintendo Shares Slide After 2026 Game...
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW, $500B+ data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include Nvidia's financial backing
OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal …
The crackdown on online scam centers in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to Sri Lanka, where authorities say they have arrested 1,000+ people in 2026
The crackdown on scam compounds in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to beach resorts and office buildings in Sri Lanka …
Tata's chairman predicts AI agents will replace half of Tata Consultancy Services' jobs and says TCS plans to reduce hiring in the coming years as it adopts AI
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ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, trailing the US chip sector as the industry spends more on processes outside of lithography, like etching and advanced packaging
ASML Holding NV's ascent to fresh record highs has been a highlight for European markets, yet it's done little to improve …
Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits
and it's based on a model Anthropic once deemed too risky for the publicKong Byeongseonby Ryu Hyunseok /The Asia Business …:High-Performance Model Launch and Ethics Discourse Simultaneously... Anthrop...
Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, with 168 MW capacity, and says it contracted nearly 1 GW of renewable energy in India
As AI commoditizes benchmarkable work, an organization's lasting moats lie in tasks that are verifiable through its private data and judgment
The mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychosis is a despair that nothing is investable, that we should put all our money into Anthropic and Nvidia and go home.
Swedish autonomous truck company Einride debuts on the Nasdaq after merging with a SPAC at a $1.35B pre-money valuation; Einride raised $113M in 2026
The company's backers include Stockholm-based EQT Ventures — STOCKHOLM—Swedish autonomous truck company Einride will make its trading debut …
The EU says Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the EU after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted from interoperability obligations for the tool
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OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments
OpenAI and Visa Inc. are now allowing artificial-intelligence agents to make purchases online after users give their permission …
Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation
Crypto group Tether, Amazon and Nvidia invest in fundraising deal that values company at about $7bn
WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works
The deal is designed to help WMG track exactly where its songs are used in AI training and outputs.
Sources: Chinese companies like Moonshot are reconsidering “red-chip structures”, which make it easier to list overseas, after China blocked the Meta-Manus deal
Beijing's tighter scrutiny of foreign capital forces groups to rethink ownership structures behind listings boom
Apple unveils new Apple Foundation Models: two on-device models, including a 20B-parameter multimodal model called AFM 3 Core Advanced, and three cloud models
CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31
U.S.-based cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike warned Tuesday of increasing cyberattacks from China-based entities aimed …
CameraMatics, which uses AI to help fleet operators improve safety, reduce operational risk, and lower carbon emissions, raised €49M
Tech focuses on accident prevention including by providing alerts of a cyclist in a blind spot or drivers showing signs of tiredness
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, vs. $19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B through a combination of debt and equity financing in FY 2027
Oracle (ORCL.N) reported fourth-quarter revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, amid growing concerns …
Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised a $350M Series B led by AMD and Magnetar at a $1.55B post-money valuation
TensorWave will use fresh $350 million to fill more data centers with chips from AMD, an investor
Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days
Claude Fable 5 offers Mythos-level performance for most tasks with safeguards on sensitive topics. Anthropic claims testing found no universal jailbreaks.
Interfax: Russia restored access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements; Russia had banned Roblox in December
Russia restored access to Roblox Corp.'s gaming platform after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, according to Interfax.
Pi, whose “security brain” AI agent helps companies assess vulnerabilities to prioritize and patch, raised $35M at a $100M valuation; sources: xAI is a customer
Startup Pi counts xAI as one of its first customers, sources tell Forbes, as its AI agent looks to fix security vulnerabilities for the world's premier labs.
Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented
Unit's future was thrown into doubt after its public work was halted despite winning praise from AI developers
OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers
OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates …
EU regulators order Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to probe if Meta abused its market power by blocking competitors
A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations
Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs
Half of Americans fear that the rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll …
Sources: SK Hynix plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August, seeking to capitalize on strong AI-linked stock demand and broaden its investor base
SK Hynix (000660.KS) plans to list its shares in the U.S. as soon as August, said two sources familiar with the matter, as the South Korean memory chipmaker seeks …
Cyera, an Israeli startup focused on protecting companies' data from AI-based threats, raised $600M at a $12B valuation, bringing its total funding to $2.3B
The five-year-old company is now valued at $12 billion. — Anthropic alarmed both governments and the business world in April …
Sources: Ant International is considering raising ~$1B at a $10B+ valuation, which could help pave the way for a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026
Ant Group Co.'s international business is considering raising about $1 billion to accelerate growth, according to people familiar with the situation.
Maneva, whose AI agents connect to existing camera infrastructure in factories to flag safety risks and measure worker productivity, raised a $27M Series A
Maneva, an industrial AI company, raised a $27 million Series A led by U.S. Venture Partners, CEO Rae Jeong tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce
Sea Ltd.'s Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally, joining rivals across the world in slashing staff while they adopt AI …
New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a “context graph” for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A
AI vendors promote their enterprise products as if they're turnkey solutions, but the chances are low that AI agents will hit the ground running right away.
Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the Kuwait Investment Authority have each placed share orders worth $1B to $5B for SpaceX's IPO
Gulf wealth funds have put in orders for shares worth several billions of dollars in SpaceX's initial public offering, according to people familiar …
The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs develop new “designer” drug precursors that can evade existing product blacklists
EU agency chief warns traffickers are tapping new technologies to develop and deliver illegal substances
Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours
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Morgan Stanley forecasts global AI-tied debt issuance will more than double to nearly $570B in 2026, as hyperscalers seek alternative funding for AI capex needs
Morgan Stanley forecasts AI-related global debt issuance to more than double to nearly $570 billion in 2026, pointing to rising bond supply …
Poetic, which aims to use AI to automate tasks like financial compliance, emerges from stealth with $50M in funding from OpenAI and others at a $500M valuation
Poetic, an artificial intelligence startup, is emerging from stealth with $50 million in funding from OpenAI and other investors …
Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames
Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements
then it launched a public version called Fable 5 that it warns ‘comes with risks’Sinisa Markovic /Help Net Security:Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is out for public use, with safeguards for high-risk requ...
If Apple's Siri AI works as well as it did in its WWDC demos, Apple is set to take the lead in consumer AI, with the iPhone becoming the first true AI device
Chinese companies are implementing “quiet” AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce
Liu, a Hangzhou-based contractor at a large Chinese internet firm, says her employer began quietly firing contractors …
Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and its use in this instance didn't violate Anthropic's ToS
Anthropic PBC's boss said he doesn't know what role his artificial intelligence model played in a missile strike that killed …
Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $105M
Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise $6B+ through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from $10B
Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp said enterprises are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating
Decentralized lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and a16z Crypto in a token sale that valued Morpho at up to $2B
Anthropic prices both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at $10 per 1M input tokens and $50 per 1M output tokens, less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview
Is that supposed to be somewhere between Sonnet and Opus?Forums:r/singularity:Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5
Apple updates its App Store review guidelines to say it may remove apps in saturated categories “if they are not updated, improved, or do not attract customers”
Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems
and the gap between the two is becoming the central challenge of the technology. In his latest essay, our CEO Dario Amodei lays out how to close it. We're launching three new initiatives to support th...
Meta plans to expand using off-platform data, such as online purchases, to personalize content feeds and AI responses; it was previously used just to serve ads
Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified “deficiencies”
Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A
Chinese investors are buying tokenized stocks with stablecoins like USDT to circumvent Beijing's capital controls and simulate bets on hot US IPOs like SpaceX
Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire NYC-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.7B and could sign within days
Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations
One of the most powerful AI chief executives has almost no direct reports at a moment when other tech leaders are widening their spans of control.
CoreWeave's founders have sold $2.3B in stock since its lockup period expired in August after its March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by nearly 25%
Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the past four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025
Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior
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An expert panel with Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Ethan Mollick, and Clara Shih discusses AI's impact on jobs and how people should prepare for the future of work
This May, a new genre of viral video emerged: clips from several college commencements, at which the new grads heartily booed speakers …
The CFTC proposes prediction market rules, seeking the ability to ban bets it finds aren't in the public interest or may be highly susceptible to manipulation
The CFTC will provide clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won't ban certain contracts
Walmart outlined a future where AI will change how people work, not necessarily how many work, at its annual Associates Week, as it accelerates AI adoption
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Dario Amodei says frontier models should face mandatory third-party testing for cyber, bio, and autonomy risks, in addition to overall transparency requirements
In addition to transparency, I now believe frontier models should face mandatory third-party testing for cyber, bio, and autonomy risks—with the power to block or revoke deployment of models that pose...