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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

20 June 2026 at 02:40
For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
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Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

19 June 2026 at 20:08
Just as last weekΒ was ending,Β the US governmentΒ forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.Β  Cybersecurity researchers haveΒ since signed an open letterΒ callingΒ the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models.Β SoΒ is […]

β€˜Queer Eye’ life coach Karamo Brown launches KΔ“, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

18 June 2026 at 20:55
After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey β€” from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth β€” Brown wants to help others do the same.Β 

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

18 June 2026 at 00:17
TokenmaxxingΒ wasΒ the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as farΒ as it would go.Β Then the bill came due. UberΒ reportedly blewΒ through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard.Β  This tension between […]

Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

17 June 2026 at 20:30
Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interactions.

The smartphone era created an attention crisis β€” slow tech is fixing it

18 June 2026 at 21:16
β€œPeople just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”
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