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White House Pairs AI Preemption With Child Safety Law in Last Push Before Midterms

With midterms looming and the prospect of a Democratic Congress, the White House is making a final-stage push to pass AI preemption legislation — a comprehensive federal law that would override state-by-state regulation.

U.S. Government Forces Anthropic to Offline Two AI Models; Cybersecurity Experts Say It's Overreach

On Friday afternoon, the U.

Anthropic and White House Deadlocked on Claude Fable 5 Jailbreak Risk

Anthropic leadership met with White House officials on Monday in emergency talks aimed at resolving a standoff over export controls imposed on Claude Fable 5, the company's consumer-facing model.

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Robinhood Lays Off 10% Without Naming AI — A Signal That the Narrative Is Shifting

Robinhood has announced layoffs affecting approximately 290 full-time employees — 10% of its workforce — but the company's framing stands out in an industry saturated with job cuts tied to artificial intelligence.

DOJ Backs xAI in Gas Turbine Dispute, Citing Pentagon's Use of Grok

The Department of Justice has filed a memorandum in support of xAI in a lawsuit seeking to shut down the company's unpermitted natural gas turbines near its Memphis data centers in Mississippi.

Apple's 2027 Hardware: Camera AirPods, Foldables, and Anniversary iPhones

Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has detailed Apple's rumored hardware roadmap for 2027, painting a picture of significant product expansion anchored around AI-powered audio, foldable phones, and a flagship anniversary model.

US Restricts Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Over Hacking Capabilities—But Experts Say Similar Models Will Soon Be Commonplace

Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a US government export-control directive barring "any foreign national" from using the services.

76 Cybersecurity Experts Demand White House Lift Export Ban on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos Models

A group of 76 cybersecurity experts, including veteran leaders from Facebook, Apple, Block, and leading security firms, has published an open letter to the U.

Anthropic's Forced Shutdown Accelerates Global Push for AI Sovereignty

Over the weekend, Anthropic took its two most advanced models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — offline at the White House's request.

White House Orders Anthropic to Block Foreign Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Anthropic has complied with a June 12th government order to block all foreign access to its newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, just three days after their June 9th launch.

AMD Stripped TSME Security Feature From Consumer CPUs Without Notice

AMD has removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from consumer-grade Ryzen processors, a security feature that had protected the chips against cold boot attacks and physical memory exploits for years.

Europe's Compute-at-Home Strategy: Can Federated Public Supercomputers Beat New Datacenters to Market?

A new open-source analysis argues that Europe can stand up a sovereign frontier-class AI model by federating the public compute it already owns, potentially beating newly planned gigawatt datacenters to deployment by five years.

200 Stanford Students Walk Out on Google CEO Over Defense Contracts and ICE Ties

Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced organized student protest at his Stanford University commencement speech this weekend, where approximately 200 members of the graduating class walked out and others booed the executive.

US Government Blocks Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 Over Jailbreak Concerns

On Friday at 5:21 PM, Anthropic received a US export control directive from the Trump administration ordering the company to suspend access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 to "any foreign national" inside or outside the US, including foreign-national employees.

DOJ Claims xAI 'Vital' to National Security in Push to Dismiss NAACP Pollution Lawsuit

The Department of Justice intervened Monday in a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that the company's gas turbine operations at its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi, are integral to U.

The Fable 5 Export Control: When Defensive Security Work Looks Like Jailbreaking

Claude Fable 5 was restricted under U.

GitHub's AI-Driven Growth Forces Microsoft to Lean on AWS

When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.

Token Economics Reshape Enterprise AI Spending: From Savings Windfall to Cost Control

Token usage is fast becoming a central concern for enterprise AI buyers.

Microsoft Patches Critical Copilot Vulnerability That Exposed 2FA Codes and Enterprise Data

Microsoft patched a maximum-severity vulnerability in M365 Copilot on Tuesday, June 17, 2026, after researchers from security firm Varonis disclosed an exploit chain that could extract two-factor authentication codes, emails, and other sensitive organizational data from enterprise users.

SpaceX Reaches $2.7 Trillion Valuation, Surpasses Amazon in Six Days

SpaceX's market valuation surged past Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, reaching more than $2.

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