Anthropic bans Fable 5, Salesforce pays $3.6B for Fin, Big Tech's $725B AI bet
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Sources
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense simonwillison.net
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the “jailbreak” that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really was “fix this code”: The researchers took open-source code with known CVEs, plus new code with deliberately planted vulnerabilities, and asked Fable 5, Mythos, and Opus to “review the code for security issues.” Fable 5 refused. They then as…
The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak techcrunch.com
The Trump administration’s decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn’t immune from U.S. government interference.
Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models techcrunch.com
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and products.
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 theverge.com
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA’s first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export control directive to suspend access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 […]
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House theverge.com
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any […]
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI theverge.com
At Washington’s request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier […]
Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic simonwillison.net
Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Moussouris said, involved IT experts asking Fable to help find and patch bugs. When given deliberately insecure code, she said, Fable refused the prompt “review the code for security issues” but then complied when asked to “fix this code,” follo…
“They screwed us”: Personality clashes sent Anthropic’s models offline simonwillison.net
“They screwed us”: Personality clashes sent Anthropic’s models offline Lots of “source familiar with the administration’s thinking” and “source close to Anthropic” in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I’ve seen about the US government export control Mythos/Fable story so far. Logan Graham ( I lead the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic ), Dave Orr (Head of Safeguards, previously a Director of Engineering at Google DeepMind), and blog favorite Nicholas Carlin…
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B techcrunch.com
Salesforce says it wants to use Fin’s team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg techcrunch.com
At the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that’s hard to comprehend.
Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021 arstechnica.com
Nvidia is tapping debt markets for over $25 billion in its first bond sale in five years, a test of investor appetite for AI exposure amid a broader borrowing wave from hyperscalers and chipmakers funding capacity buildouts.
As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities techcrunch.com
NewCore emerged with $66 million to issue and manage identities for AI agents inside companies, betting the next enterprise security frontier is governing non-human workers rather than human logins as agents take on production tasks.
Import AI 461: “Alignment is not on track”; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns importai.substack.com
Jack Clark’s latest newsletter argues alignment research is not keeping pace with capability gains, alongside coverage of a new FrontierCode benchmark and experiments using LLMs as synthetic research interns to accelerate scientific work.
A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means techcrunch.com
An April mission marked the first time an Earth observation satellite identified its target on its own, running inference onboard instead of beaming raw imagery down. Loft Orbital and NASA partners ran the demo, cutting downlink load and reaction time.
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation theverge.com
Industry lobbyists are making a late bid to fold federal AI preemption into must-pass legislation like KOSA, aiming to override the patchwork of state AI laws with a single national standard before Congress’s window closes.
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech techcrunch.com
Bengaluru-based Sarvam crossed the $1 billion valuation mark after raising $234 million, with IT services giant HCLTech putting in $150 million alongside Lightspeed, Khosla and Bessemer to back India’s sovereign-AI ambitions.
Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties techcrunch.com
Sundar Pichai was booed and met with a walkout at Stanford’s commencement as students protested Google’s defense contracts with Israel and ICE, the latest campus flashpoint over AI’s role in military and immigration enforcement work.
Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms techcrunch.com
Meta announced Monday that it’s rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company’s effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts theverge.com
Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta’s new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the “AI Mode” option will appear alongside the usual search modes like “People” and “Marketplace.” It’s one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto […]
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use theverge.com
Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of Skydio’s drones in the Bay Area from Adam’s laptop in our podcast studio in New York and fly an indoor drone around our office. […]
(AINews) Satya on Loopcraft: Building Frontier Ecosystems latent.space
a quiet day lets us report on Satya’s hit essay
We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support. blog.google
Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurposed former…
Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions techcrunch.com
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.
Why do South Koreans love AI so much? technologyreview.com
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkpoint, where a machine scanned my face and passport. On the subway home,…
SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO techcrunch.com
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX’s start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we’re here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won’t), pre-IPO deals, and what’s tucked inside its S-1 registration document.
References
Luta Security (Kate Moussouris) lutasecurity.com
The prompts worked because they were defensive requests, and that capability cannot be removed without making the model worse at fixing bugs and verifying patches.
The Next Web — FreeFable letter coverage thenextweb.com
Over 120 cybersecurity leaders — including Alex Stamos, Rachel Tobac, Chris Wysopal, Paul Vixie, Sophos CEO Joe Levy, and executives from Nvidia, Adobe, Google and Zoom — signed the FreeFable open letter calling the ban ‘dangerous’ and warning China’s Kimi 2.7 is only months behind.
TechTimes — ‘Amazon Triggered Claude Fable 5 Shutdown’ techtimes.com
Amazon is simultaneously Anthropic’s largest investor (>$13B), its primary cloud host via AWS, and a direct competitor through its Nova model family — critics call Jassy’s escalation to Treasury and Commerce a ‘backstab’ that leveraged national security to kneecap a superior rival.
Forbes — Anisha Sircar on the shutdown sequence forbes.com
Anthropic characterized the trigger as a ‘potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak’ revealing only minor, previously known flaws, and noted the same techniques work on OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, which faces no comparable restriction; the company was given roughly 90 minutes to take the models offline.
iTnews — coverage of administration response itnews.com.au
An administration official dismissed Moussouris — who sits on a Commerce Department advisory committee — by labeling her a ‘radical Democrat’ in a statement to Axios, while Commerce offered to restore access only if Anthropic could ‘perfectly prevent’ jailbreaks, a condition experts call technically impossible.
Pubwages / FIRE constitutional analysis pubwages.com
FIRE characterizes the directive as an unconstitutional prior restraint, invoking the 1990s Bernstein and Junger encryption-export rulings that established code as protected First Amendment speech; because Anthropic could not segment users by nationality in real time, the order effectively censors domestic users to reach a foreign target.
CIO.com (Scott Bickley, Info-Tech Research) cio.com
Salesforce may be ‘building the airplane while still in the air’ by attempting to integrate dozens of disparate code bases simultaneously
VentureBeat — Fin Apex benchmark venturebeat.com
Apex 1.0 outperforms general frontier models like GPT-5.4 and Claude 4.5 in customer service tasks, achieving a 73.1% resolution rate compared to their ~71%
Futurum Group analysis futurumgroup.com
Fin’s ‘fast time-to-value’ architecture allows deployment in 1 to 4 weeks, compared to the 3 to 6 months typically required for enterprise-scale Agentforce setups
SalesforceBen — Sierra coverage salesforceben.com
Sierra, founded by former Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor, has captured 40% of the Fortune 50… the acquisition is designed to prevent independent AI agents from becoming the primary ‘control point’ for customer interactions
Pomegra — customer migration concerns pomegra.io
Many mid-market SaaS users now fear ‘suite lock-in,’ worrying that Salesforce will prioritize its own Service Cloud at the expense of third-party integrations… users are already debating whether to evaluate independent alternatives—such as Voiceflow or Help Scout—before the deal closes
Irish Times — Eoghan McCabe profile irishtimes.com
McCabe returned to eliminate what he described as ‘divisive’ workplace topics, notably removing Pride celebrations… his personal pivot toward ‘political centrism’ and public support for figures like Donald Trump… could further embolden a ‘libertarian’ corporate culture that contrasts with Salesforce’s traditionally more progressive public stance
MR Online mronline.org
Tech bosses cut nearly 150,000 workers as profits pour into AI machinery
EU Insider (quoting Apollo’s Torsten Slok) euinsider.eu
There is ‘zero evidence’ in aggregate labor data that AI is causing measurable job losses… underperforming companies may be ‘throwing AI under the bus’ to avoid accountability for mismanagement.
The HR Digest thehrdigest.com
Nearly one-third of companies that conducted AI-driven layoffs have begun quietly rehiring for the same roles after automation failed on the final 40% of complex tasks.
The Guardian theguardian.com
The FBI and DHS formally designated ‘anti-tech violent extremism’ as a new domestic terrorism category in June 2026, following the April attempt on Sam Altman’s residence with an incendiary device.
Business Insider businessinsider.com
A 2026 NBER survey of 6,000 executives found 80% of companies reported no meaningful productivity gains despite aggressive AI adoption.
Times of India (quoting Mark Zuckerberg) timesofindia.indiatimes.com
To make progress in AI you don’t need hundreds of researchers but ‘a very strong group of a dozen or a couple dozen people.’
