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Ball: Anthropic Using Safety to Mask Monopolistic
Commentator Dean W. Ball argues that Anthropic secretly throttling Claude's usefulness for LLM development reveals the company is using AI safety as cover for monopolistic behavior.
Nine Indian Startups Named WEF Tech Pioneers
Nine Indian startups, including Dhruva Space and climate-tech firm Varaha, have been selected for the World Economic Forum's 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort of 100 early-stage companies from 23 countr
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
Niteshift, a new AI‑coding startup founded by ex‑Datadog engineers, secured a $7 million seed round and aims to protect developers from model‑vendor lock‑in by routing code through multiple AI models
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 with Cyber Guardrails
Anthropic unveiled Claude Fable 5, a public‑ready Mythos‑class model equipped with cyber‑guardrails to block malicious use, while offering the full‑power Claude Mythos 5 only to trusted partners as pa
Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5 to Public, Mythos 5 to Trusted Orgs
Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and a public "safe" variant called Claude Fable 5, priced at $10 per 1M input tokens and $50 per 1M output tokens.
Anthropic's Fable adds strict guardrails, draws ire
Anthropic unveiled its new Fable model, a public version of the Mythos cybersecurity AI, but users and security researchers are balking at its ultra‑strict guardrails that block even harmless requests
Anthropic's Fable 5 ships with hidden safety guardrails
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a new model that shares its base architecture with Claude Mythos 5 but ships with invisible safety guardrails that limit its capabilities for building frontier AI sy
LLMs Fail Stroop Test as List Length Increases
A new study shows that leading large language models lose focus on the Stroop task as list length and conflict increase, with accuracy dropping from over 90% to near zero, exposing a fundamental execu
iPhone 17’s 8GB Model Misses New Siri Voice & Dictation
Apple’s iPhone 17 with 8 GB of memory can’t run the new expressive Siri voice and higher‑accuracy dictation features introduced in iOS 27, limiting those upgrades to higher‑memory devices.
Meta partners with Reliance on 168‑MW AI hub in India
Meta has partnered with Reliance Industries to lease capacity at a 168‑MW renewable‑powered AI data center in Jamnagar, marking its first AI infrastructure venture in India.
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5 Publicly, Restricts Mythos 5
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the general public and Claude Mythos 5 to a limited set of trusted organizations, framing the public model as a "safe" Mythos-class system it claims cannot be weap
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, a Safe, SOTA Model
Anthropic has unveiled Claude Fable 5, a Mythos‑class language model with built‑in safety routing that blocks cyber‑attack use, and made Claude Mythos 5 available to trusted organizations, touting sta
Taiwan Plans AI Chip Export Curbs to Match US
Taiwan is weighing much stricter export controls on AI chip sales to China — including criminalizing smuggling — as part of ongoing trade talks aimed at aligning with US restrictions on advanced Nvidi
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Google cut its budget AI Plus subscription from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled the included storage, exporting the price-war playbook it pioneered in India to U.S. consumers.
Apple's New Siri AI Works, Two Years Late
Apple's rebuilt Siri AI, now in developer beta, can finally handle practical tasks like adding email events to calendars, diagnosing wilting plants, and creating shopping lists — features that work bu
Sabertooth Deploys $500M via SPVs to AI Startups
Justin Ernest’s Sabertooth Capital has bypassed traditional VC fundraising, deploying nearly $500 million via SPVs and nominee structures to give family offices equity in late‑stage AI startups such a
GM teams with Peak Energy on sodium‑ion battery cells
GM is expanding into grid‑scale energy storage, partnering with Peak Energy to develop sodium‑ion batteries while also buying second‑life packs from Redwood Materials and supplying LFP cells to LG Ene
Hey, Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI
Apple unveiled a long-awaited AI-powered Siri revamp at WWDC that reads your texts, emails, and screen using on-device processing and a 'private cloud compute' system — with an opt-out toggle Google d
Google names Paris Hilton first Android 'Icon in Residence'
Google has named Paris Hilton Android's first "Icon in Residence," a new role centered on demonstrating how the platform's AI app-building tools can turn creative ideas into working software.
Meta to Use Off‑Site Business Data for Feed AI
Meta said it will now draw on data that businesses share about users’ off‑site activity to tailor both the News Feed and its AI chatbot replies, while offering expanded controls and no new data collec
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