Moments ago Anthropic wrote: Update June 12: We’ve suspended access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Please Use Opus 4.8 or another model. Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 is out, and I’m experiencing a mild anxiety I didn’t expect: I don’t have a killer app to throw at it.

It’s a civilian version of their previously announced Project Glass Wing - reserved for select organisations because of its potential for misuse in cyberwarfare and mass-scale hacking. Mythos ships with guardrails that prevent the most dangerous applications. One of those, naturally, is using it to train competing models.

They’ve made it free to subscribers through 22 June and reset quotas to give people more room to play. After that, anyone wanting to use Fable will need to pay for it based on API-like billing. Basically pay as you use, as opposed to drawing on your Anthropic subscription.

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Quoting Andrew Singleton who neatly sums up some of the current madness around AI valuations including the incestuous cross-investment that further muddies the picture. “Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports that his AI investments have generated $10 billion in revenue this quarter and that he owns 5 percent of a $100 billion business.

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Two years ago Apple demonstrated the new Siri. But that was just it - a demo. They didn’t show anything live. They didn’t let the media try it for themselves. It was a stitched together demoware concept. Fast forward to now and Apple have put a beta of Siri AI in developers hands. It works. According to accounts it works really well delivering on the promise Apple made in 2024 and more.

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Tempted as I am I will not, must not, dabble with beta software.

Perhaps I need this etched on my mouse to remind me?

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At WWDC 2026 this week, someone asked Siri to go through a folder of contractor quotes as PDFs, compare them, pick the best option and draft a reply email. Siri did it. Live, on stage, in front of an audience.

That’s not a kitchen timer. That’s not “Hey Siri, what’s the weather.” That’s the kind of task you’d currently hand to Claude or ChatGPT with careful prompting and a bit of luck. Apple just demonstrated it happening through a voice assistant most of us had written off.

It is worth understanding how they got there - because the architecture behind it is genuinely interesting, and a lot of it comes down to a clever solution to a very unglamorous problem: memory.

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Apple didn’t announce anything revolutionary at WWDC. For a company of this maturity, that’s not a criticism - it’s a read of the room.

The focus was platform optimisation and extension: making what already exists faster, smarter and less visually exhausting. Yes, they’ve walked back some of the Liquid Glass overload. Good.

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Twelve months ago the most capable model you could rent was Claude Opus 4, at $15 in and $75 out per million tokens. Today the flagship Opus costs a third of that: $5 in, $25 out. So the price of frontier AI collapsed over the year, right?

Not even slightly. It went up. You just have to know where to look, and who is paying.

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Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build, kicked off at 3am Melbourne time on Wednesday. I didn’t stay up to watch - but I’ve absorbed the media releases and technical docs, and there’s a genuine shift happening here that’s worth unpacking.

TL;DR for the non-technical: AI assistants are about to get much more capable, but that creates a trust problem - how do you let a smart assistant do things on your computer without giving it the keys to everything? Microsoft just announced that Windows itself will act as the security guard. It will control exactly what an AI assistant can see and touch on your machine, track what it does separately from what you do and run smaller AI models directly on your computer so your data doesn’t have to leave your desk. Think of it as giving your AI assistant its own office with its own keycard, instead of letting it wander freely through yours. The catch: it needs newer, more powerful hardware to work properly, and most of it isn’t shipping yet.

Now, the details.

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