Commerce reclassifies the UAE for license-free advanced AI chip exports
The US Commerce Department reclassified the UAE to enable license-free exports of advanced AI chips, formalizing the Gulf as a neutral compute corridor.
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Claude Sonnet 5 arrives at near-Opus performance for half the cost
Anthropic dominated the day with Claude Sonnet 5 launching at near-Opus performance for half the cost, while the US lifted export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Sakana AI and 360 Group launch frontier models into the gap left by export controls
Asian AI startups Sakana AI and 360 Group launched frontier-class models to fill the gap left by U.S. export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5.
GPT-5.6 Sol ships under the first government-managed access list for a frontier model
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 Sol under the first government-managed access list for a frontier model, releasing to roughly 20 approved partners.
Midjourney's first hardware product is a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner
Midjourney unveiled a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner as its first hardware product, G7 leaders demanded AI sovereignty guarantees following the Anthropic export ban, and Hugging Face launched an open protocol for agents to discover capabilities at runtime.
Experts say the Fable 5 'jailbreak' behind US export controls was a request to fix code
Cybersecurity experts confirmed that the Anthropic Fable 5 'jailbreak' triggering US export controls was simply asking the model to fix code, while Salesforce signed a $3.6B deal to acquire Fin.
OpenAI launches a $150 million enterprise Partner Network
OpenAI launched a $150 million Partner Network to accelerate enterprise AI adoption as Anthropic's technical team met with White House officials to negotiate restoring access to Fable 5.
Amazon's Andy Jassy personally flagged the concerns that triggered Anthropic's ban
The Anthropic model suspension story deepened as WSJ reported that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally flagged security concerns to US officials that triggered the crackdown on Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
US export directive orders Anthropic to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a narrow jailbreak as a national security risk.