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The government cleared one Anthropic model and kept the other locked up News
Washington partially reopened access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 for about a hundred organizations, but its more powerful sibling Fable 5 stays blocked - and Anthropic is still suing.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6, but only to companies the government clears first News
OpenAI's most capable models yet shipped today as a tiny, government-vetted preview, signaling that Washington now holds a gate in front of the frontier.
Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June. June is almost over. News
Google said its next flagship would arrive in June; with days left it's still limited preview. The timing is awkward -- it overlaps a gap where another Western flagship is also unavailable.
A senator says a banned AI broke into nearly all NSA systems in hours News
New testimony reframes the Mythos export ban: a top general reportedly told a senator the model breached almost all classified systems in a red-team test, not in weeks but in hours.
Recursive self-improvement: when AI starts building AI Lesson
The idea that an AI good enough at AI research could improve itself, and the improved version could improve itself again, faster each round. Here's what it actually means, why a major lab now says we're getting close, and why "close" is not the same as "here."
Anthropic Wants a Pause Button the Whole World Can Check News
Buried in Anthropic's essay is a concrete proposal: not to stop AI, but to build the machinery that would let rival labs prove to each other they had stopped.