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US government clears Mythos 5 for limited release to «trusted partners»

Mythos 5 will become available on Project Glasswing after the government lifts its ban. (Picture: Shutterstock)

After two weeks of purgatory and almost daily explanatory meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic on Friday, clearing one of two models on hold for release:

— I have determined that appropriate safeguards are in place to permit certain trusted partners to access the Claude Mythos 5 Model, he writes to chief compute officer Tom Brown, according to Semafor, who scooped the story.

Mythos 5 was only intended for a limited release through the Glasswing project, for use by a trusted set of government agencies and corporations to test their cyber defenses.

UPDATE: On Saturday, Axios is reporting that Fable 5 might be next in line, with «insiders» predicting it might be released next week, and Anthropic anticipating access «soon.»

The letter also says that «Anthropic has committed to work with the U.S. government on protocols and standards and releases,» and talks are progressing toward a release of Fable, though «the timeline is unclear,» according to Semafor.

Read more: Scoop by Semafor, comment from Anthropic, Reuters, CNBC, and Politico.

OpenAI «launches» GPT-5.6 models in preview, hopes for quick public release

The flagship GPT-5.6 Sol is the new state of the art for cyber capabilities. (Picture: Adobe)

Caught in yet another government AI debacle, the new models won’t be publicly released until «the coming weeks.» It is getting presented today, and released to «a small group of trusted parties,» said by Axios to number in the twenties.

— We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default, writes OpenAI, and says — we [are working] with the Administration to develop the cyber Executive Order framework and a repeatable process for future model releases.

In its presentation, OpenAI details three models in the GPT-5.6 series. Sol is the state-of-the-art Mythos-beating model, while Terra is «a balanced model for everyday work,» and delivers on par with GPT-5.5 at half the cost, and Luna is the cost-focused model «delivering stronger capability at our lowest cost.»

Strong on cyber
The models, particularly Sol, are very strong on cyber defense, and are able to identify security vulnerabilities, but not able to execute automated attacks due to strong safeguards, built using 700,000 A100-equivalent GPU hours of red-teaming.

Sol beats Mythos 5 on coding and cybersecurity and uses fewer tokens for better performance on biology tasks. It also comes with a new max mode, which gives more time for better reasoning, and an ultra mode which uses subagents for more complex work.

Prices for Sol are at $5 input/$30 output, for Terra is $2.50 input/$15 output, and Luna is at $1 input/$6 output, and general availability is up to higher powers.

Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, launch thread, Axios, Reuters, and TechCrunch. Discussion on r/Singularity.

GPT-5.6 release on hold for a few weeks due to government intervention

GPT-5.6 is officially under government review due to «security concerns.» (Picture: generated)

First reported by The Information, OpenAI has agreed to the Trump administration’s demands that it stagger the release of the upcoming GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

The model is said to be on par with Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable 5, which were abruptly pulled from the market after an export ban from the administration just two weeks ago.

Axios is quoting sources familiar saying that GPT-5.6 will only be released to a «small set of government-approved partners,» as the White House previews its abilities.

This preview period is expected to last «a couple of weeks,» CEO Sam Altman told staff in an internal OpenAI meeting, TechCrunch reports.

During this time, the administration itself will supposedly approve access to the model on a case-by-case basis, according to The Verge.

The Trump admin issued an executive order on AI about three weeks ago, setting up a voluntary mechanism for AI labs to submit their models for 30 days of pre-release testing. This gave the government 60 days to come up with criteria, but it isn’t quite ready yet — hence this ad-hoc approach.

Read more: The Information, Axios, TechCrunch and The Verge.

OpenAI delivers Jalapeño, a state-of-the-art chip made in only nine months

The Jalapeño chip offers substantially better performance per watt than anything on the market. (Picture: OpenAI)

The new inference chip, developed with help from OpenAI’s models in collaboration with Broadcom, has compressed what is normally a glacial, years-long process into just a short sprint.

— We believe [this] to be the fastest ASIC development cycle ever achieved in high-performance advanced semiconductors, OpenAI says.

The chip is designed specifically for OpenAI’s needs on current and upcoming language models, and to combine the power of current AI accelerators with the shorter latency of «specialized systems,» like Cerebras’ hardware.

— The world is moving to a compute-powered economy, says Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI. — Jalapeño is part of our long-term full-stack infrastructure strategy to make compute more abundant.

The new silicon will be deployed at gigawatt-scale data centers just as fast as it was made, starting with Microsoft «and other partners» already in 2026, Broadcom says. It is only the first design in what the companies expect to be generations of products.

Jalapeño is already running LLM workloads in the lab, delivering «substantially better» performance per watt than «the current state-of-the-art,» OpenAI says.

Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, CNBC, CNN, Reuters, and TechCrunch.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.5-Cyber, claims better performance than Mythos 5

The new Cyber model not only finds flaws, but offers to fix them automatically. (Picture: Adobe)

Less fabled than the recent Mythos releases, GPT-5.5-Cyber is just as capable, OpenAI claims, and has benchmarks to show it.

The update scores 85.6% in CyberGym versus 83.8% for Mythos 5, and is likewise only available to vetted cybersecurity professionals.

— AI has changed the physics of cybersecurity, OpenAI says, — The bottleneck historically has been finding vulnerabilities, but now defenders are overwhelmed with the number of vulnerabilities found.

Therefore, their Daybreak suite, which includes the Cyber model and Codex Security, moves beyond just threat scanning to actually offering vulnerability patches to fix them.

Since the launch as preview in March, OpenAI claims to have scanned over 30 million commits across 30,000 codebases, with humans having marked 70,000 findings as fixed and 500,000 findings having been fixed automatically.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Launch tweet, writeup on SiliconAngle. Discussion on r/Singularity.

From the grapevine; GPT-5.6 coming shortly, Mythos smashes the NSA, and Google’s upcoming «instant ramen»

Lots of talk on socials doesn’t always relate to hard news, but here are some topics making the rounds. (Picture: Adobe)

GPT-5.6 in overdrive on the hype machine
The rumor mill is kicking into high gear for OpenAI’s next GPT-5.6. It’s supposed to be largely on par with Fable 5, or kick it to the curb on some tests, according to X leaker Chetaslua who claims to have been testing it for a while.

OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, pre-announced the model as a «meaningful improvement,» but would not point to a timeline.

According to prediction markets, Kalshi has it out before July 15th, while Polymaket predicts it between June 30 and July 31, which seem like safe bets.

Continue reading “From the grapevine; GPT-5.6 coming shortly, Mythos smashes the NSA, and Google’s upcoming «instant ramen»”

G7 leaders urged by labs to regulate AI, will begin «assessment»

Altman asked the G7 not to leave regulation of increasingly powerful models to the AI labs. (Picture: generated)

Amodei, Altman and Hassabis were all present at a working lunch with the Group of Seven countries Wednesday, and they all asked «the free world» for stronger regulation.

— Do not cede your responsibilities to AI labs like mine, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said, according to Reuters. — We develop the technology, and the citizens of the free world make the rules.

The leaders gathered for the summit had been spooked by the US government’s shutdown of Mythos 5 just last Friday, with especially European nations worrying about reliance on US tech:

— From one day to the next [the USA] can turn off the switch, said French President Emmanuel Macron, reported by The Financial Times, as he, too, called for stronger regulation and cooperation.

There was also a strong push at the meetup to expand access beyond the USA to Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and the Mythos Preview model, used in a race to find cyber vulnerabilities in critical systems before the capabilities become widely available.

The meeting ended in an official joint statement that would task finance officials, regulators and cybersecurity experts with evaluating AI’s impact on financial stability, productivity and labor markets.

Read more: Reuters, The Financial Times, and CNBC.

Report: OpenAI earned $2 billion a month, spent $34 billion in 2025

OpenAI made $2 billion a month by the end of 2025. (Picture: Adobe)

The spending came on a revenue of $13 billion, with a one-time accounting charge of $30 billion, The Financial Times reports, citing people familiar with the audited figures.

This charge was related to a change in governance from a non-profit to a Public Benefit Corporation. Previously, the FT explains, investors were paid interest on their capital, and this was accounted for as liabilities. As a PBC, they now pay in equity, and the cost won’t be reoccurring.

The numbers also show that the company spent $19 billion on developing models and research, and around $6 billion on sales and marketing.

At the end of 2025, OpenAI was earning $2 billion in revenue per month, as opposed to $1 billion per quarter in 2024, which the FT says makes it one of the fastest growing companies in history.

Without the one-time accounting charge, OpenAI’s losses for 2025 were «only» $8 billion.

OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO last week, stating that they had not decided on a timeline.

Read more: Original reporting by The Financial Times and raw data by Ed Zitron.

Speaking in «different languages,» Anthropic struggles with White House

Finding themselves thrust into politics, Anthropic is having difficulty getting through, Axios reports. (Picture: Shutterstock)

As security researchers and executives are urging a retreat from the Mythos ban, Axios is reporting that Anthropic is failing to «communicate effectively.»

They were scheduled to meet in person with the White House on Monday, sources tell CNBC, and are now finding themselves deeply enmeshed in current politics.

Government officials are now candidly telling Axios that Anthropic «screwed» them, saying they failed to «honor» the recent Executive Order on AI — which calls for a 30-day vetting period for new models, and are calling Anthropic a «bad actor.»

There are also differing narratives in the Axios report, where on the one hand, Anthropic says they «received explicit approval» to deploy Fable, and another where the administration threatened export controls several weeks ago, fearing the model could be exploited by bad actors.

The exploit uncovered in the Fable and Mythos models are replicable in other frontier and open source models, security researchers say in an open letter, and shutting down Fable at a critical time gives an advantage to attackers over defenders. They say there is only a 90-day window until Chinese models reach the same capabilities.

Read the Axios report here, also see the security researchers’ open letter, reports on euters, CNBC and Politico.

Anthropic disables Mythos 5 and Fable 5 after Commerce intervention

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has enacted export controls on the new models, banning their use in any foreign countries and by foreign nationals — and Anthropic responded quickly by completely blocking access for everyone.

The triggering factor appears to be that a company was able to jailbreak the models, potentially getting them to perform harmful actions, an administration official tells Axios.

According to Anthropic, the claim concerns a limited jailbreak and a «minor vulnerability,» not considered a systemwide issue, and says it is impossible to guarantee against this 100% for any model by any provider.

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Reports: Fable 5 won’t answer even simple questions on its restricted topics

Hardly any questions about cybersecurity, biology or chemistry get through to Fable 5. (Picture: Shutterstock)

As more people are testing out Anthropic’s new, Mythos-class Fable 5, many are finding it so restrictive it wont even answer the most basic questions, TechCrunch writes.

The Verge tested it on the fundamentals of biology and found it wouldn’t even answer «easy» questions, about cell membranes or on how mRNA vaccines work.

TechCrunch is reporting on several developers who are complaining that just including the word «cyber» in a query is enough to trip it up, while others say it even refuses to write «secure» code, thinking it might be cybersecurity related.

In order to release the Mythos-based model, Anthropic made a tradeoff on very strict limits for it, and the fallback option is the still very capable Claude Opus 4.8, released in late May.

These tight restrictions aren’t by mistake, Anthropic says;

— To deploy Fable 5 safely, we believe it was necessary to be overly conservative with our safeguards so they block most queries tied to biology work, Anthropic spokesperson Paruul Maheshwary told The Verge.

Read more: TechCrunch and The Verge.

German court holds Google liable for AI Overview responses

AI Overviews aren’t qoutes from websites, and are therefore original expressions, the court found. (Picture: Shutterstock)

In the first ruling on liability for AI search functions, the Regional Court of Munich held that the feature is an expression of Google itself, and it is therefore responsible for outputs that defame or spread false information, The Decoder reports.

The issue was two German publishers who were accused of fraudulent practices by AI Overviews that were not supported by the underlying links, and therefore counted as Google’s «own statements,» the court found.

The publishers sent a cease and desist letter to the search engine that got ignored, resulting in the lawsuit asking for Google to remove the statements, which was upheld.

The previous interpretation was that search engines merely quoted their sources before sending the user on, and full liability for this would ruin Google’s functionality.

AI Overviews, however, generate «independent, new, and substantive statements,» the court said, which are not necessarily supported by the underlying data — and are not needed for the search engine to function.

According to the NY Times, Google’s Gemini 3 model is inaccurate around 9% of the time and includes wrong links 56% of the time, resulting in millions of wrong answers every day, Ars Technica writes.

Read more: The Decoder, Ars Technica, and Engadget.

Anthropic releases Mythos-class Fable 5 and Mythos 5, with strong safeguards

Fable 5 uses a second AI to monitor throughput and prevent misuse. (Picture: Anthropic)

After refusing to release any Mythos models for fear of abuse of its advanced cyber firepower, Anthropic has finally come up with enough safeguards to make it to general rotation. Its capabilities «exceed those of any model we’ve ever made available,» they say.

— The capabilities of models like Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have the potential to do profound good for the world, Anthropic writes in its presentation, and adds — We’ve also seen it in life sciences research, where the models are positing novel hypotheses and speeding up the development of new therapeutics.

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OpenAI confidentially files for IPO

OpenAI has put up a short notice on its website informing of the filing, saying that they haven’t decided on the timing yet:

— It may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company, the message says, and adds: — But it’s a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best.

This is just the first step of eventually filing publicly and paving the way for a proper market entry, which should give journalists and financial analysts a better look at their books, including risks and opportunities and real revenue numbers.

OpenAI’s most recent fundraise in April valued the company at $852 billion and saw companies such as Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank pour in tens of billions each for a round worth $110 billion.

They said at the time that they had surpassed 900 million weekly users and had 50 million paying subscribers, and 6x the monthly web visits than the next AI app.

Anthropic filed confidentially just last week, and along with SpaceX, it sets up a season of some of the largest market entries ever. All three companies are expected to reach valuations of a trillion dollars or more.

Read more: OpenAI’s message, Reuters, CNBC, Engadget, and TechCrunch.

Apple unveils «Siri AI» at developer conference, powered by Gemini

Apple’s new Siri can take all kinds of actions across apps. (Picture: Apple)

Apple finally revealed their new AI features at the Worldwide Developer Conference, conveniently packaged into «Siri AI» and as system-wide Apple Intelligence in the 27-series systems, due in beta later this fall.

The new Siri app brings wide world knowledge from Google’s Gemini and does all the things you’d expect, like carry natural language conversations, answer specific questions and do a web search. It can also scan your messages, emails, pictures «and more,» Apple says.

The feature can be invoked by swiping down from the Dynamic Island or by traditional methods, lies «on top» of the OS, understands «personal context» and has «on-screen awareness,» meaning it can read your app screens.

Also from the systemwide Apple Intelligence, iOS/macOS 27 gains enhancements in the camera app and writing tools, as well as a slew of handy AI features across Safari, Messages, Mail, Calendar and Phone apps.

The tool is English-only, requires an iPhone 15 Pro or later and is not available in the EU or China at launch «later» this year.

Read more: Apple presentation, Apple’s release, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and The Verge.