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Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here.

The Trump administration approved a select group of users, but Fable 5 is still nowhere in sight.

After a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic's Mythos 5 is finally back in action - at least, somewhat, for a select group of organizations, according to a letter from the government to Anthropic that was viewed by The Verge. Fable 5, however -… Company News

They will get a 50% discount on access to Claude, as part of a “first-of-its-kind collaboration” that also includes complimentary workforce training, technical assistance, and “workflow input from Anthropic developers,” per a release. On the state level, government employees will use Claude to help draft and summarize documents, analyze information, and supplement day-to-day work, per the release. [Link: Governor Newsom announces a first-of-its-kind partnership, providing Anthropic tools to state agencies and improving services for Californians

A revamped data privacy bill would limit selling information to data brokers, including from chatbot services.

18 pts A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of…

The company’s new mid-tier model, the successor to Sonnet 4.6, can “make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that, just a few months ago, required larger and more expensive models,” Anthropic wrote in a release, adding that its performance “is close to that of Opus 4.8.” The company was also careful to include that it has a “much lower ability to perform dangerous cybersecurity tasks than our current Opus models.” [Link: Claude Sonnet 5

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic's consumer-facing Mythos-class model is back.

19 pts After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude…

A post on the Claude X account featured a video announcement. The reinstatement was announced last night, alongside a blog post by Anthropic about the weekslong negotiation process leading up to it. [Link: Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return