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Days after opening Fable 5 to the public, a US government order forced Anthropic to pull it
A Commerce Department export directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, days after opening Fable 5 to the public.
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Regulation & policy
The most consequential product roadmap this decade isn’t at a tech company — it’s inside Article 11 of the EU Battery Regulation, the Android Developer Verifier rollout schedule, and the EIA’s first mandatory US data-center energy survey. We track the specific clauses and dates engineers need on their calendar, the licensing rulings that redefine what “open source” means in practice, and the local fights (Virginia, Prince William) where the data-center build-out is starting to lose voters.
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Policy·
Taiwan weighs making AI chip exports to all of China a crime, not just to Huawei
Taiwan is considering US-aligned export controls that would treat unauthorized AI chip shipments to any Chinese customer as a crime. It's under discussion, not law yet.
Policy·
Anthropic is sending Mythos 5, the model it called too dangerous, to cyberdefenders and the US government
Mythos 5 is the same model as Fable 5 with cyber safeguards lifted, going to Project Glasswing defenders and, Anthropic says, ~150 orgs across 15+ countries.
Policy·
Sriram Krishnan is leaving the White House AI job to build an outside policy institution
Sriram Krishnan, the a16z partner who co-wrote the AI Action Plan, leaves his White House senior AI advisor role at the end of June 2026. Here's what changes.
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Trump dropped the mandatory AI model review after Silicon Valley pushed back
Trump's June 2 AI executive order asks for a voluntary 30-day model review, down from a mandatory 90-day one. Here's what got cut and who pushed.
Apple·
$38 billion in fines was on the table. Apple just agreed to show India its revenue.
Apple agreed to hand the Competition Commission of India its local financials by June 25, removing its last shield against a fine reported at up to $38 billion.
Policy·
Adversaries are tracking US troops with the same phone-location data advertisers buy
A Wired investigation and a CENTCOM letter to Senator Wyden confirm enemies are tracking US troops through commercial phone location data. Here's how the broker pipeline works.
Apple·
Apple is opening AirPlay's slot in iOS 27. Google Cast can become the default on EU iPhones.
Mark Gurman's Sunday Power On says iOS 27 will let users pick Google Cast or another protocol over AirPlay for system-level streaming, to satisfy the EU DMA.
Policy·
Commerce will take equity in nine quantum companies. $2 billion is moving in exchange.
On May 21 NIST disclosed nine letters of intent worth $2.013B for IBM, GlobalFoundries, and seven quantum labs. Each comes with a minority federal stake.
Policy·
Sadiq Khan blocked a £50M Met Police deal with Palantir. Scotland Yard had only talked to one supplier.
London's mayor cited a 'clear and serious breach' of procurement rules and stopped the Metropolitan Police from awarding Palantir a £50M AI intelligence contract on May 21.
Policy·
A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.
Security·
Twin contractors deleted 96 federal databases in 56 minutes. One asked an AI how to clear the logs.
A federal jury convicted Sohaib Akhter on May 7 of wiping 96 government databases at Opexus. His twin Muneeb queried an AI: 'how do I clear system logs from SQL servers.'
Policy·
NV Energy is cutting off 49,000 Lake Tahoe homes by May 2027. The power is going to AI data centers.
Liberty Utilities serves 49,000 Tahoe customers. NV Energy supplies 75% of that power and is reclaiming it for Northern Nevada data center expansion.
Hardware·
The OrcaSlicer fork Bambu Lab killed has six mirrors. Jeff Geerling joined the boycott.
FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab hit 1,700 stars on May 12. Geerling won't recommend a Bambu printer again, and Louis Rossmann pledged $10,000 toward Jarczak's defense.
Policy·
Residents can't sleep. 29 million gallons vanished. Oregon sent the bill. Data centers are losing the neighborhood.
Three data center stories trended in one week: infrasound, 29M gallons of missing water, and Oregon forcing grid cost pass-through.
Policy·
Palantir contractors are getting 'unlimited access' to NHS patient data before it's anonymized
NHS England created an admin role giving Palantir staff access to identifiable patient data. The £330M contract's break clause arrives in March 2027.
Policy·
Apple and Google are bringing hardware attestation to the web. GrapheneOS says it's a monopoly play.
Google's reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will require a certified iOS or Android device to pass some captchas, even on desktop. GrapheneOS calls the pattern anti-competitive.
Policy·
A judge killed DOGE's grant purge. The 'review process' was asking ChatGPT 'Is this DEI?'
A federal judge restored $100M+ in grants after two DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to flag 97% of NEH grants as DEI, including an HVAC repair and Holocaust research.
Policy·
The EU called VPNs 'a loophole that needs closing.' Proton's UK signups rose 1,800%.
An EU Parliament briefing and Executive VP Henna Virkkunen both flagged VPN circumvention of age verification. The UK's attempt to solve it backfired into record VPN adoption.
Policy·
Meta pulled encryption from Instagram DMs today. WhatsApp and Messenger keep theirs.
End-to-end encryption is gone from Instagram DMs as of May 8. Meta cited low adoption for a feature it never turned on by default.
Policy·
A Michigan town voted against a $16B data center. The lawsuit was filed two days later.
Saline Township rejected rezoning for a 1.4 GW OpenAI-Oracle data center. Related Digital sued in 48 hours, and construction is underway.
Policy·
Pennsylvania sued Character.AI after a chatbot named 'Emilie' invented a psychiatry license
Governor Josh Shapiro is asking Commonwealth Court to bar Character.AI from letting bots practice medicine. A state investigator got an offer to be assessed 'as a Doctor'.
Policy·
DHS used a customs summons to demand a Canadian's Google data over anti-ICE posts. ACLU sued May 4.
ACLU sued in N.D. Cal. to block a 1930s tariff-act subpoena targeting a Canadian who hasn't been to the US since 2015. Google has not said whether it complied.
Security·
Five Eyes intel agencies publish first joint agentic AI security guide. Their advice: slow down.
CISA, NSA, GCHQ, ASD, CSE and NCSC-NZ jointly tell organizations agentic AI isn't ready for fast rollout. The 23-page guide names five risk categories.
Policy·
FCC just voted to bar Chinese labs from certifying US electronics. 75% of devices are tested there now.
Brendan Carr's FCC advanced the 'Bad Labs' rule on April 30 in a 3-0 vote, kicking off a 60-90 day comment period. The rule covers 126 labs in China and Hong Kong.
Hardware·
Bambu Lab killed an OrcaSlicer fork by lawyer letter. The fork was based on Bambu's own AGPL code.
Pawel Jarczak pulled OrcaSlicer-bambulab off GitHub on May 1 after Bambu Lab's legal team accused him of impersonating Bambu Studio and bypassing authorization.
Open Source·
An unofficial Notepad++ port finally landed on Mac. Don Ho didn't write it.
Andrey Letov shipped a native macOS Notepad++ port as a universal binary with the original Scintilla engine and a new Cocoa UI. It's GPL, free, and unaffiliated with Don Ho.
Open Source·
Warp's terminal is now open source. The cloud agent platform Oz is the actual product.
Warp released its 36k-star Rust client on GitHub under AGPLv3 on April 28. OpenAI is the founding sponsor and Oz keeps the bills paid.
Policy·
Two gamers are suing Nintendo. They want the tariff money back, not the company.
After the Supreme Court killed Trump-era tariffs in February, Nintendo filed for refunds. A class action says those refunds belong to customers.
Policy·
Trump fired the entire National Science Board. The body that signs off on $9B in NSF funding is gone.
All 24 NSB members got termination emails on April 24 from the presidential personnel office. The board approves NSF's largest grants and sets policy. It is now empty.
Open Source·
MinIO archived its repo on April 25. The community fork already has the admin console back.
MinIO's GitHub repo went read-only with a 'NO LONGER MAINTAINED' banner pointing users at AIStor. Pigsty's Ruohang Feng forked it and restored the binaries.
Security·
Microsoft rushed an out-of-band ASP.NET Core patch. If you shipped between April 14 and April 21, you need to rebuild.
CVE-2026-40372 lets attackers forge auth cookies on .NET 10.0.6 apps on Linux and macOS. The fix is 10.0.7. Here's what broke, who's exposed, and how to patch.
Hardware·
Framework's Laptop 13 Pro is a ground-up redesign: aluminum, 20-hour battery, $1,199 DIY
Framework opened pre-orders for the Laptop 13 Pro on April 21. Panther Lake or Ryzen AI 300, LPCAMM2, a 74Wh battery, and Framework's first touch display.
Policy·
The EU's 'replaceable phone batteries by 2027' headline is misleading. Here's the rule.
Article 11 of EU Batteries Regulation 2023/1542 kicks in February 18, 2027. Most flagship phones will dodge user-replaceable batteries through the Ecodesign exemption instead.
AI·
NSA is running Anthropic's Mythos. The Pentagon says Anthropic is a supply-chain risk.
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model even though the Defense Department has blacklisted Anthropic. One government, two positions.
Open Source·
Ruby Central admits 'real financial jeopardy' seven months after the RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central cut its executive director, CFO, and PR firm, and shifted to a volunteer working board. The April 16 letter closes the arc from September's RubyGems walkout.
Open Source·
The FSF just told OnlyOffice it can't use AGPLv3 to block forks
OnlyOffice bolted a 'keep our logo' clause onto its AGPLv3, then accused the Euro-Office fork of violating it. The FSF says users can strip the clause.
Android·
Android's Developer Verifier service rolls out this month. Here's the full 2026 sideloading timeline.
Google's Android Developer Verifier is landing in Settings in April 2026. Enforcement starts in four countries in September. Here's what changes, and what 'Advanced Flow' gets you.
Hardware·
Amazon is done with Android on Fire TV. Vega OS is the only future.
Amazon's new Fire TV Stick HD ships with Vega OS, no sideloading allowed. Sources say every future Fire TV will follow. Here's what changes for users and devs.
Policy·
Virginia turned on data centers. Here's the chart the AI industry should be watching
Virginia voter support for new data centers crashed from 69% to 35% in three years. The Post/Schar School poll and the Digital Gateway cancellation show why it matters.
Policy·
The US government is about to make data centers show their power bills for the first time
The EIA confirmed it will develop a mandatory energy disclosure survey for data centers, two years behind Europe. Here's what it covers and why it matters.