Three Days Live, Then Pulled: Washington Orders Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5
A government letter citing national security forced Anthropic to disable both models worldwide just three days after Fable 5's launch, over a jailbreak demo run by Amazon researchers that surfaced a handful of minor vulnerabilities. The sharper story is the reversal: barely two weeks after Trump's June 2 order promised no government veto over model releases, and days after the White House twice refused Amodei's request for exactly that power, Washington claimed it anyway, by letter, bypassing its own voluntary review framework.
Read full story →OpenAI Says China Is Stoking the Data Center Backlash. Researchers Who Study It Disagree
OpenAI's report names two Chinese influence campaigns aimed at US debates over data centers and tariffs, while admitting they had no real impact. Experts say the local opposition is homegrown, and warn that blaming Beijing conveniently turns water and power complaints into a question of patriotism.
Read full story →Everyone Is Racing for AI. A New Study Says That Is Exactly Why It Buys Less Power
An economic-complexity analysis of 17 countries ranks AI only sixth among frontier technologies for strategic leverage, behind cloud, cybersecurity and medtech. The reason is the race itself: when every nation specialises in the same thing, the advantage evaporates.
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