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Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June launch window promised at Google I/O, slipping to July as four senior researchers departed for rivals.

Claude Mythos 5 is the full release of Anthropic's restricted Mythos family - same weights as Fable 5 but without safety classifiers for cybersecurity and biology, at $10/M input and $50/M output tokens.

The Commerce Department partially lifts its two-week export ban on Anthropic's most powerful model, clearing Mythos 5 for ~100 US companies and agencies while keeping Fable 5 blocked.

Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.

The intelligence agencies of five allied nations issued a joint statement warning that frontier AI will fundamentally transform offensive cybersecurity within months, not years - and that most organizations are not ready.

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.

Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, and two more Gemini engineers left Google DeepMind for OpenAI and Anthropic in a single week, sending Alphabet stock tumbling nearly 10% from its May peak.

Anthropic's Claude Tag replaces the old Slack app with a shared @Claude identity that builds channel memory, works asynchronously, and runs on Claude Opus 4.8.

Micron and Anthropic signed a multi-year HBM supply deal on June 22, with Micron also investing in Anthropic's Series H as memory bandwidth becomes the rate-limiting constraint for frontier AI.

The White House won't lift its ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 until the model can be made jailbreak-proof. Security experts explain why that condition is technically impossible.

New reporting reveals Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged a Fable 5 jailbreak on a routine White House call, triggering a 90-minute ultimatum that shut down Anthropic's two best models worldwide.

At G7 in Evian, Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis pitched world leaders on a US-led international AI governance body, chip trade restrictions on China, and controlled access to frontier models.