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Ep 803: Anthropic Continues Fable Fight, Microsoft Goes Open Source, Midjourney’s Big Pivot and More AI News That Matters

aired Jun 22, 2026
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Summary

SPEAKER_00: While the US government and Anthropic continued trying to make up and be friends again, the rest of the AI world didn't stop. And it was actually some smaller players that were making big splashes this week, potentially signaling more competition at the top for the big four of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.

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Key takeaways
  1. 01That's because open source may finally be having its ChatGPT moment, as a new Chinese model might actually be closing the gap between proprietary US models and open source or open
  2. 02government, if you haven't been following along, the US government recently imposed strict export controls on Anthropic, barring any country outside of the US and foreign nationals
  3. 03So Anthropic has completely disabled in response to that, they've disabled public access uh to those models, Fable V, which is the version of Mythos V with more guardrails, uh so y
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