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Anthropic Reverses Fable's Secret Handicap - TCR 06/11/26
Anthropic reversed a hidden safeguard that degraded Fable for rival AI researchers, apologized, and pledged visible refusals, as DeepMind shipped a faster open model.
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Anthropic Ships Mythos 5... Behind a Wall - TCR 06/10/26
Anthropic released its most capable Claude yet, full Mythos 5 to cyber partners and a guardrailed Fable 5 to the public, as JPMorgan readies hour-long agents.
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Two Frontier AI Labs Go Public in a Single Week - TCR 06/09/26
OpenAI filed for an $850bn IPO a week after Anthropic, opening the AI frontier's books as the UK, EU, and Apple race to own the stack.
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OpenAI Considers Burying the Chat App - TCR 06/08/26
OpenAI is recasting ChatGPT into an agent superapp as labs invade each other's markets and cheaper models reset the price of intelligence.
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States Vote to Cap the AI Buildout - TCR 06/07/26
New York banned hyperscale data centers and Illinois froze subsidies as communities push the cost of the AI buildout back onto the builders.
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Anthropic Shows AI Now Builds AI - TCR 06/06/26
Anthropic published the first measured evidence that AI is accelerating its own development, then called for a pause on a condition no frontier lab can meet.
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Companies Seed Reddit to Game AI Answers - TCR 06/05/26
Companies are seeding Reddit with posts built for ChatGPT and Google AI to scrape, and the first defenses against a poisoned answer layer are forming.
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AI Labs Push DNA Screening - TCR 06/04/26
OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Microsoft, and Meta backed DNA order screening while an open model powered a self-spreading worm.
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Trump's AI Safety Order Goes Voluntary - TCR 06/03/26
A federal AI safety order shrank to a 30-day voluntary review while binding rules keep hardening in statehouses and one lab arms 15 countries' defenders.
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Anthropic Files Record IPO as Google Raises $80B - TCR 06/02/26
Two of the largest capital raises in history landed in one cycle to fund frontier AI, while an AI economy growing thousands of percent a year stays invisible.
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US Plugs the Chip Leak to China - TCR 06/01/26
A year-old loophole sent hundreds of thousands of top Nvidia chips to Chinese firms abroad before Washington closed the gap, as open models spread.
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Frontier AI Goes Local and Free - TCR 05/31/26
Open-weight models that rival proprietary AI now run offline on a $400 laptop, a cancer injection erases tumours, and SoftBank commits €75B to France.