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The US government issued an export control directive on June 12, 2026, forcing Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models worldwide. Anthropic is complying but publicly disputes that a narrow jailbreak technique justifies pulling a model deployed to hundreds of millions of users.
With H200 GPU shipments to China blocked by export controls, Nvidia is pitching its new Arm-based Vera CPU to Chinese cloud giants including Alibaba and ByteDance. Orders expected to ship August 2026.
A federal appeals court rejected Bankman-Fried's bid to overturn his FTX fraud conviction, calling him the main driver of 'one of the largest frauds on record.' His direct appeal path is now closed.
A global outage hit Meta's core platforms Thursday, locking out users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads for several hours. Over 120,000 DownDetector reports filed at peak.
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest in the company's monthly update history: 200 vulnerabilities patched, 38 rated critical, and six zero-days — three with exploit code already public. Researchers say AI-assisted bug hunting is why, and that this volume may not be a one-time event.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, its most capable publicly available model, alongside Claude Mythos 5 — the same underlying model with its security safeguards lifted, available only to vetted partners through Project Glasswing.
Fable 5 is the same model as Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5, wrapped in safety classifiers that block cyber and bio misuse. It beats Opus 4.8 by double digits on benchmarks — and it's free on paid plans until June 22.
Google and Mandiant confirm the hacking group targeted over 100 organizations — mostly US universities — using an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw with no patch currently available.
Prometheus, the physical AI startup Jeff Bezos co-founded in November 2025, closed a $12B Series B today led by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock — the largest private AI funding round of 2026. The company targets industrial engineering, promising to compress design-to-manufacturing cycles by a factor of ten.
South Korea's PIPC issued a 624.68 billion won ($409M) fine to Coupang today — the largest data privacy penalty in Korean history — after finding the e-commerce giant exposed 37.5 million users' personal data through negligent security practices and secretly tracked 11.17 million additional users across third-party websites.
CVE-2026-35273 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.61 and 8.62 that ShinyHunters is actively exploiting. The University of Nottingham has confirmed a breach; nearly 500,000 student records are exposed. Oracle has issued an emergency out-of-band security alert.
Helix Digital Infrastructure launches today with $10B+ committed capital, backed by KKR, Nvidia (as DSX infrastructure partner), Vistra (preferred power provider), and Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund. Adam Selipsky, who ran AWS from 2021–2024, will serve as co-founder and CEO.