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After a two-week ban, the US government is letting Anthropic ship Fable 5 globally again. Amazon researchers had found a jailbreak, but Anthropic says even much smaller models like Claude Haiku 4.5 could pull off the same exploit. A new safety classifier blocks the technique in over 99 percent of cases, though it also flags more harmless requests in the process. The article Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

<p>The AI company was forced earlier this month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals</p><p>Anthropic has said the US commerce department has lifted export controls on its Fable and Mythos AI models, less than ⁠three weeks after ⁠the company ​was ordered to suspend access to its most advanced AI models over national security risks.</p><p>“We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow,” Anthropic said in a statement on X late on Tuesday.</p> <a href="https://www.t

The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals.

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

<p>Poll finds use of AI tools for health advice is correlated with belief in vaccine falsehoods, such as shots causing autism</p><p>Adults in the US who frequently seek out health advice from artificial intelligence chatbots are more likely to believe myths about vaccines, according to a poll released on Tuesday by health research firm KFF.</p><p>The survey, which was conducted in May and polled a representative sample of 2,480 US adults, found that use of AI tools and chatbots correlated with b

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which beats its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and even edges past the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. Anthropic is also quick to point out that the model scores far below the models the US government currently has blocked when it comes to cybersecurity tasks, a likely deliberate signal given the ongoing debate. The article Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series appeared

Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers. More than 60 preconfigured skills cover fields like genomics and computational chemistry, and a verification agent automatically checks citations and calculations. The app runs locally or on HPC clusters, so sensitive data never has to leave a lab's own infrastructure. The article Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers appeared first on The Decoder .

According to a report by The Information, OpenAI has cut inference costs for its AI models by more than half. The company applied the optimizations to ChatGPT, where the number of Nvidia GPUs needed dropped to just a few hundred at times. The article OpenAI reportedly cut response costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half appeared first on The Decoder .

Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the first time. Google recommends chaining both models to go from a quick image to an animated video. The article Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

<p>Manny Rutinel’s House campaign draws millions from big tech as pro- and anti-AI factions spar over regulation</p><p>Political groups funded by top tech executives have been homing in on one local race in Colorado, as the state’s Democratic primary vote gets under way on Tuesday. Democrat Manny Rutinel, who’s running in the competitive eighth congressional district for a seat in the House, has seen his campaign boosted with at least $2m in donations from committees led by the former Google CEO

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.

<p>The US motor company found that the hundreds of AI cameras being used for design and manufacturing checks were prone to pitfalls</p><p><strong>Name:</strong> “Greybeards.”</p><p><strong>Age:</strong> There’s a clue in the name.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/30/ai-backfired-so-ford-had-to-rehire-humans-greybeard-engineers">Continue reading...</a>

San Francisco's AI boom is driving up the cost of living so fast that even couples earning $365,000 a year can't find an affordable apartment. Median rent sits at $3,827, and homes cost $1.7 million on average. The expected IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic could make things even worse for those not profiting from the AI boom. The article San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000 appeared first on The Decoder .

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

<p>The markets are souring on artificial intelligence, but is this the bubble being burst? Meanwhile, California proposes a tax on billionaires</p><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after fending off sunburns at the beach. Today, we’re discussing a rocky week for the AI industry’s finances and how California’s proposed billionaire’s tax is changing the political posture of the state’s governor.</p><p><a href="https://www.thegu

Republican and Democratic campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, from vetting opponents to micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. But the technology is still a political minefield, and Europe is taking a very different approach. The article US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta reportedly had hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send suicide, sex, and drug-related prompts to chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI. In a single testing round, more than 45,000 prompts were sent. The companies being tested had no idea. The article Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts appeared first on The Decoder .

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.

Taiwanese authorities have raided the offices of Super Micro Computer and several local partner companies. The article Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China appeared first on The Decoder .

Deepseek's new DSpark framework boosts per-user response speed by 60 to 85 percent. A small model proposes token candidates that the larger model checks in batches, squeezing more performance out of fewer chips. That could further reduce China's dependence on US high-end hardware. The article Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?</p><p>In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one.</p><p>Gabriel was a cheerfu

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.

Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processed rather than compute hours, which could push costs up sharply. The company is also exploring alternatives like OpenAI. The article Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in appeared first on The Decoder .

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade one dependency for another. The article EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe appeared first on

TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.

Meta is restricting its engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data. The article Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data appeared first on The Decoder .