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Days after opening Fable 5 to the public, a US government order forced Anthropic to pull it
A Commerce Department export directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, days after opening Fable 5 to the public.
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Taiwan weighs making AI chip exports to all of China a crime, not just to Huawei
Taiwan is considering US-aligned export controls that would treat unauthorized AI chip shipments to any Chinese customer as a crime. It's under discussion, not law yet.
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Anthropic is sending Mythos 5, the model it called too dangerous, to cyberdefenders and the US government
Mythos 5 is the same model as Fable 5 with cyber safeguards lifted, going to Project Glasswing defenders and, Anthropic says, ~150 orgs across 15+ countries.
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Sriram Krishnan is leaving the White House AI job to build an outside policy institution
Sriram Krishnan, the a16z partner who co-wrote the AI Action Plan, leaves his White House senior AI advisor role at the end of June 2026. Here's what changes.
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Trump dropped the mandatory AI model review after Silicon Valley pushed back
Trump's June 2 AI executive order asks for a voluntary 30-day model review, down from a mandatory 90-day one. Here's what got cut and who pushed.
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$38 billion in fines was on the table. Apple just agreed to show India its revenue.
Apple agreed to hand the Competition Commission of India its local financials by June 25, removing its last shield against a fine reported at up to $38 billion.
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Adversaries are tracking US troops with the same phone-location data advertisers buy
A Wired investigation and a CENTCOM letter to Senator Wyden confirm enemies are tracking US troops through commercial phone location data. Here's how the broker pipeline works.
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Commerce will take equity in nine quantum companies. $2 billion is moving in exchange.
On May 21 NIST disclosed nine letters of intent worth $2.013B for IBM, GlobalFoundries, and seven quantum labs. Each comes with a minority federal stake.
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Sadiq Khan blocked a £50M Met Police deal with Palantir. Scotland Yard had only talked to one supplier.
London's mayor cited a 'clear and serious breach' of procurement rules and stopped the Metropolitan Police from awarding Palantir a £50M AI intelligence contract on May 21.
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A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.
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Twin contractors deleted 96 federal databases in 56 minutes. One asked an AI how to clear the logs.
A federal jury convicted Sohaib Akhter on May 7 of wiping 96 government databases at Opexus. His twin Muneeb queried an AI: 'how do I clear system logs from SQL servers.'
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NV Energy is cutting off 49,000 Lake Tahoe homes by May 2027. The power is going to AI data centers.
Liberty Utilities serves 49,000 Tahoe customers. NV Energy supplies 75% of that power and is reclaiming it for Northern Nevada data center expansion.
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Residents can't sleep. 29 million gallons vanished. Oregon sent the bill. Data centers are losing the neighborhood.
Three data center stories trended in one week: infrasound, 29M gallons of missing water, and Oregon forcing grid cost pass-through.
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Palantir contractors are getting 'unlimited access' to NHS patient data before it's anonymized
NHS England created an admin role giving Palantir staff access to identifiable patient data. The £330M contract's break clause arrives in March 2027.
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Apple and Google are bringing hardware attestation to the web. GrapheneOS says it's a monopoly play.
Google's reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will require a certified iOS or Android device to pass some captchas, even on desktop. GrapheneOS calls the pattern anti-competitive.
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A judge killed DOGE's grant purge. The 'review process' was asking ChatGPT 'Is this DEI?'
A federal judge restored $100M+ in grants after two DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to flag 97% of NEH grants as DEI, including an HVAC repair and Holocaust research.
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The EU called VPNs 'a loophole that needs closing.' Proton's UK signups rose 1,800%.
An EU Parliament briefing and Executive VP Henna Virkkunen both flagged VPN circumvention of age verification. The UK's attempt to solve it backfired into record VPN adoption.
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Meta pulled encryption from Instagram DMs today. WhatsApp and Messenger keep theirs.
End-to-end encryption is gone from Instagram DMs as of May 8. Meta cited low adoption for a feature it never turned on by default.