🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I used to track AI news like it was a competitive sport — Anthropic drops a model, OpenAI responds, Google jumps in. But something shifted in the last few weeks that made me realize the game itself has changed. It’s not about which company ships the best model anymore. It’s about which models the government will let you use at all. ...
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last Friday, the US government imposed export controls on Anthropic’s newest AI model — Fable 5 and the underlying Mythos model it’s built on. Foreign nationals working at Anthropic in the US couldn’t access it. Anthropic pulled the model offline for everyone. By Monday, Fable was still unavailable. If you opened Claude, you saw a message: “Fable 5 is currently unavailable.” No timeline for return. No detailed explanation. Just gone. ...
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Over 81,000 tech jobs disappeared in the first three months of 2026. Microsoft let go of 15,000 people; Intel cut 24,000. A ResumeBuilder survey that same quarter found 58% of companies planned more layoffs, with most pointing to AI-driven restructuring as the reason. But a CNBC report from early 2026 revealed a twist: employers who cited AI as the reason for cuts are already reversing course, because they fired the people needed to run the very systems they just bought. ...
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