/Dispatch #100
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline days after launch, citing a reported jailbreak. Anthropic disabled both worldwide—even for its own staff—and disputes the threat as minor.
Days after its record IPO, SpaceX is acquiring Cursor for $60B in stock, plugging xAI's coding gap against Claude Code and Codex. Cursor cited compute bottlenecks; the deal closes Q3.




+37Apple's new Siri shuts down flirtation outright—"Siri's 100% not into that"—and even locks threads after NSFW prompts. Federighi framed it against rivals chasing engagement; ChatGPT and Gemini offered softer rejections.




+7University of Florida researchers trained AI on retinal photos from 40,000+ patients to spot Alzheimer's risk factors decades early—a low-cost alternative to MRIs and PET scans, using images eye exams already capture.



Europe Scrambles for AI Sovereignty After US Cuts Access to Anthropic's Advanced Models
Tl;dr: Europe wakes up to its dependence—and to Mistral.
Anthropic Ban Triggers 30% Surge in Decentralized AI Tokens as Canada Warns of Centralization Risks
Tl;dr: Markets bet against a single point of failure.
Global poll shows China leads in AI capability as world opinion shifts against US dominance
Tl;dr: The world increasingly thinks China is winning AI.