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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is the most capable model the public can use today — topping SWE-Bench Pro and excelling at vision and long tasks. It is also the priciest major model and ships with hard safety guardrails. Our first-look verdict.
BitsMinds Reviews
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At its Payments Forum in San Francisco, Visa and OpenAI agreed to embed Visa's rails into ChatGPT — so AI agents can discover products, check out, and pay across any Visa-accepting merchant, with spending caps and approvals built in.
SiliconANGLE
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Anthropic brought its Code with Claude developer conference to Tokyo on June 10 — its first stop in Asia-Pacific — with three tracks on research, the Claude platform, and Claude Code, plus an Extended builder day on June 11. The move plants a flag in Japan's enterprise market before rivals do.
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The Beijing startup behind the Kimi chatbot is in talks to raise up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation — its third financing in half a year. In December it was worth $4.3 billion. The leap captures just how hot China's AI funding race has become.
TechNode
Read more →Google dropped its mid-tier Gemini subscription from $7.99 to $4.99 a month and doubled the storage to 400GB. The discounting that started in India has now reached the US — and analysts are calling it the start of AI's commoditization era.
TechCrunch
Read more →Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — the first publicly available model in its powerful Mythos class — scoring 80.3 on SWE-Bench Pro (vs 69.2 for Opus 4.8), priced at $10/$50 per million tokens, with classifier guardrails that block cyber, bio, and distillation requests and fall back to Opus 4.8.
Anthropic
Read more →Google's new Gemini 3.5 Live Translate streams near real-time speech-to-speech translation in 70+ languages while preserving the speaker's tone, pace, and pitch — rolling out across the Translate app, Google Meet, AI Studio, and the Gemini Live API.
The London startup behind "Large Physics Models" — pretrained AI for high-fidelity engineering simulation — closed an oversubscribed $300 million Series C at a $2.4 billion valuation, led by Temasek with backing from NVIDIA, Siemens, and Applied Materials.
PhysicsX
Read more →China's planners are reportedly drafting a roughly $295 billion, five-year program to build a nationwide network of AI data centers — with a rule that at least 80% of the core technology, chips included, come from domestic suppliers like Huawei, effectively shutting out Nvidia and AMD.
Bloomberg
Read more →Prediction markets put it near 94%, a tech reporter says it lands June 9, and internal checkpoints named claude-fable-5 have surfaced — but Anthropic has confirmed nothing. Here is what the noise around Claude Fable 5, the rumored public release of its Mythos model, actually amounts to.
Reporting: Alex Heath; Polymarket
Read more →On the same day it confirmed a confidential IPO filing, OpenAI published a manifesto from Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki declaring a "third phase" built on three goals — an automated AI researcher, accelerating the economy, and a personal AGI for every person on Earth.
OpenAI
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MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed broke the 1,000 tokens-per-second barrier on a one-trillion-parameter model using a single eight-GPU commodity node — roughly 15x faster than GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus, and without a line of custom silicon.
MarkTechPost
Read more →No math required. An illustrated walk through how a large language model turns your words into tokens, vectors, and attention — and predicts its answer one word at a time.
BitsMinds
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Flourish, co-founded by Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon, raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation to reverse-engineer the brain's 'core algorithm' — betting that neuroscience, not more silicon, is the way past AI's energy wall.
SiliconANGLE
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At Tim Cook's final WWDC keynote as CEO, Apple confirmed a rebuilt Siri running on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model — and a new Extensions system that lets users pick Gemini, ChatGPT, or Anthropic's Claude to power Apple Intelligence.
BuildFastWithAI
Read more →Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads on demand to specialize at a task. Here’s how they work, how to build one, and why they’ve become a cross-vendor open standard.
Anthropic
Read more →xAI's Connectors plug Grok into the apps people already work in — GitHub, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Notion, Linear — plus any MCP server. The sharper move is Grok Skills: instead of building a rival format, xAI reads Anthropic's Claude Code conventions directly, loading CLAUDE.md and .claude skill packs with zero configuration.
xAI
Read more →OpenAI is recasting Codex as an agent for every knowledge worker, not just engineers. A June 2 update adds six role-specific plugins bundling 62 apps and 110 skills, a prompt-to-app builder called Codex Sites, and Annotations that now reach documents, spreadsheets and slides. Codex is at 5 million weekly users, with non-developers its fastest-growing cohort.
OpenAI / VentureBeat
Read more →OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode strips ChatGPT down to a more defensive core — switching off live web browsing, agent mode, deep research, web images and file downloads — to make it harder for hidden prompt-injection attacks to exfiltrate sensitive data. It's rolling out beyond enterprise to Business and personal accounts, but OpenAI is candid that it doesn't stop injections outright.
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WeRide and Uber are making their first joint move into Europe with a commercial robotaxi pilot in the Region of Madrid, booked through the Uber app and operated with fleet partner AVOMO. It starts with safety operators later in 2026 and is meant to scale to hundreds of fully driverless cars.
WeRide / Uber
Read more →The Chinese lab says its new open-weight model pairs frontier coding, a 1M-token context window and native multimodality on a sparse-attention architecture that cuts long-context compute 20x — but the weights and technical report are still days away, so every number is company-reported.
The Decoder
Read more →The enterprise market-intelligence platform nearly doubled its valuation to $7.5 billion, crossed $600 million in annual recurring revenue, and made Accenture its first strategic channel partner — while launching an always-on research agent called SuperAnalyst.
AlphaSense
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Elon Musk's rocket company is becoming an AI landlord. A SpaceX filing reveals Google has agreed to pay $920 million a month — roughly $29 billion through mid-2029 — for access to about 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs at the Colossus complex, the second nine-figure compute deal SpaceX has struck this spring.
TechCrunch
Read more →A model identifier, claude-oceanus-v1-p, surfaced in Anthropic's console on June 3 and went to vetted red-team testers — then, within hours, an unknown actor allegedly resold access through a Chinese API proxy. None of it is officially confirmed, but it offers an early look at the next model in the Mythos line.
Cyber Security News
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