The Trump White House is freezing out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, reportedly calling him a 'weirdo' and refusing direct dealings with him, forcing cofounder Tom Brown to step in as tensions escalate over the regulatory future of the Claude Fable 5 AI model.
The US bans foreign access to Anthropic's AI models Mythos and Fable, sparking international backlash as French President Macron warns of 'non-cooperation among democracies,' while critics question whether Anthropic's own heavy use of AI risk language — nearly eight times more than OpenAI — helped justify the sweeping export restrictions.
Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.1 rockets to No. 2 globally in AI video, Reflection AI locks a $6.3B SpaceX compute deal for open-weight models, and Anthropic gets caught in a regulatory trap after its own risk warnings trigger a U.S. export ban on its latest AI models.
Anthropic is requiring select Claude users flagged for potential fraud to submit government IDs, selfies, and biometric face data starting July 8, sparking privacy concerns over data retention and the company's use of Thiel-linked verification firm Persona.
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is sounding the alarm that AI-powered cyberattacks capable of toppling governments and businesses are just months away, urging immediate action from leaders as frontier AI models rapidly shrink the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
A viral dystopian thought experiment called 'Europe 2031' is rattling EU policymakers, warning that Europe's failure to invest in AI infrastructure could trigger economic collapse and geopolitical vulnerability to the US and China, gaining urgency after the Trump administration blocked foreign nationals from accessing a key AI model.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warns ASML that a cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet lithography machine — critical for making advanced chips and never legally permitted for export to China — may have illegally reached the country, posing a major challenge for the Dutch chip-equipment giant under the Trump administration.
Former White House AI adviser Dean Ball joins OpenAI to lead a new Strategic Futures team, bringing government expertise to shape the company's frontier AI policy and internal governance.
Anthropic vows its blocked frontier AI models, Mythos and Fable 5, will be restored 'in coming days' after a White House security directive halts global access, with Korea at the center of the controversy following a Chinese-linked telecom company allegedly triggering the U.S. export block.
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