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Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions to other AI companies (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
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European political figures say Anthropic disabling access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is a "wake-up call" about the risks of depending on the US for AI tech (Nathan Rennolds/Associated Press)
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Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states (Allan Smith/NBC News)
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David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to "fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model" after "a highly credible trusted partner" reported a Fable jailbreak (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
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Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions (The Information)
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US barring foreign nationals, including Anthropic staffers in the US, from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a new phase in the US trying to control Anthropic (New York Times)
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A review of The Yahoo Boys, a deeply reported book on four online scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam and the local impact of the trade (Jessica Loudis/Bloomberg)
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Luta Security CEO says US government restrictions on Mythos follow a jailbreak report by Amazon researchers and calls the restrictions a "complete overreaction" (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
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After years of false dawns, Big Tech, startups, and governments are betting on commercially useful quantum computers by 2030, as skeptics worry about hype (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
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An interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks on risk-sharing provisions that protect the company in multibillion-dollar fiber deals with Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
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South Korea's "semiconductor belt" town Dongtan has become one of the fastest-rising affluent areas, driven by windfall bonuses for Samsung and SK Hynix workers (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
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Huawei unveils HarmonyOS 7, introducing an "agent-friendly" architecture that connects to 2,000+ specialized AI agents and features an enhanced voice assistant (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
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A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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Anthropic says it believes the US government's export control order for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 is a "misunderstanding" and that it is working to restore access (Ananya Palyekar/Reuters)
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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage compared to K2.6, available under a modified MIT license (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)