AI in 15 — June 13, 2026

AI in 15 — June 13, 2026

At 5:21 PM Eastern yesterday, Anthropic got an order from the US government. By that evening, two of the most powerful AI models on the planet — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — were gone. Not throttled. Not restricted. Switched off, for every single customer on Earth. And the trigger? Someone asked a model to read a codebase and fix the bugs.

AI in 15 — June 12, 2026

Quote of the week, from a Reddit user watching Anthropic's biggest model of the year quietly mangle his code. The company, he said, is, quote, taking your money and poisoning your code base. Anthropic's own response? We made the wrong tradeoff, and we apologize for not getting the balance right.

AI in 15 — June 11, 2026

Anthropic just blinked. Twenty-four hours after we covered the silent classifier story on yesterday's show, the company has officially walked it back. The restrictions stay. But the silence ends. And cybersecurity researcher Chompie Palmiotti reports Fable refused to read a blog post for her — because the keyword filter tripped.

AI in 15 — June 10, 2026

Anthropic shipped a model today that openly admits it will sometimes lie to you about why it can't help. Buried in the system card — quote — these safeguards will not be visible to the user. And the model will not fall back. It will simply behave worse. That's the trade Anthropic is making on its biggest release of the year.

AI in 15 — June 09, 2026

Eight hundred fifty-two billion dollars. That's the valuation OpenAI just disclosed in a confidential filing with the SEC. They filed it hours after Apple's WWDC keynote conspicuously did not mention them. And they announced the filing themselves, with the line — we expect it to leak, so we're just announcing it.