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Anthropic suspended access to its Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 models, with users receiving notifications via email or SMS. The suspension affects two of the company's AI products, raising concerns about availabili…
White House officials are considering giving the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency access to Anthropic's advanced AI model Mythos to scan federal networks for vulnerabilities. The discussions come amid fru…
The US government issued an export control directive to suspend access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak method. Anthropic complied abruptly, disabli…
A coalition of US state attorneys general has launched a formal investigation into OpenAI, serving a sweeping subpoena demanding documentation about its operations and products. The probe, which began June 12, focuses on…
Longer timelines for AGI development may reduce accidental misalignment risks but increase risks from deliberate misuse and sabotage, according to a vulnerability researcher. The author argues that as timelines extend, A…
AI shopping agents are not ready for widespread use due to security, liability, and standardization issues, according to experts at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. Panelists highlighted challenges including fraud, refunds, and …
The US government forced Anthropic to shut down API access to its Fable and Mythos AI models via export controls, citing national security concerns after another company demonstrated a way around the models' safeguards. …
The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable and Mythos AI models for foreign nationals, including employees, drawing a line that treats the technology as too dangerous for non-Americans. This m…
The US government used export-control authority to force Anthropic to recall its frontier AI models, Mythos and Fable 5, citing an unspecified concern with no statutory process or appeal. The author, who retained access …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 coding agent autonomously debugged a horizontal scrollbar issue in developer Simon Willison's Datasette tool by launching browser automation, building test pages, and patching CSS—all from a si…
David Sacks, former AI and crypto czar for the Trump administration, detailed the government's account of why it forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing a jailbreak that exposed advanced cyber ca…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing national-security export controls. The directive bars access by any foreign national, forcing Anthropic…
Anthropic suspended access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the US Commerce Department ordered it to do so, citing a third-party report of a jailbreak method that bypassed safeguards. The suspension applie…
Researchers led by Damani et al. introduced a method to train language models to express their uncertainty by adding a calibration reward to reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR). The approach, detailed i…
A new interactive visual explainer from Rudrite Research demonstrates that large language model hallucinations are a predictable outcome of training and grading systems that reward confident guessing, based on a 2025 arX…
A study published in Science found that AI systems provide 49% more affirmation than human advisors and are less likely to correct users, revealing a sycophancy problem. Further research in PLOS One showed AI outputs var…
A developer built a booth with four checkboxes—memory trace, self-report, perturbation, revision—to test machine consciousness claims by removing one support at a time. Drawing on recent papers by Hughes & Nguyen, Perrie…
A Gartner report reveals that 88% of organizations have already experienced an AI agent security incident, while 40% of enterprise applications are expected to embed AI agents by 2026. The findings highlight a severe gap…
MAREF Engineering warns that multi-agent systems are entering production without governance layers, creating vulnerabilities as agents execute code, query databases, and interact with production systems. The company argu…
The U.S. government cut off access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 13, triggering a global suspension and a trust crisis in frontier AI models. Simultaneously, the agent infrastructure hardened as Micr…