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Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama

Explore episode Jul 3, 2026
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De Facto Licensing Regime: The Hypocrisy Is Complete

Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I… · Jul 3, 2026 Technology

The same figures who spent years warning that the Biden administration would create an AI licensing regime to pick winners and losers have now implemented exactly that — with zero transparency, no known criteria, and no due process. Marc Andreessen, who claimed Biden officials told him they'd pick AI favorites, joined the Defense Policy Board the same week the administration was silently blocking model releases.

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The Reversal: Anthropic's Models Return — With a Warning Shot

At 9:49 · chapter starts 7:50

Kevin describes the resolution: a tentative deal allowed Mythos to return to some US clients, and on the Tuesday after the break, the Commerce Department officially lifted its restrictions, with Secretary Howard Lutnick sending Anthropic a letter crediting the company's risk-mitigation steps. Fable 5 went back online globally; Mythos 5 returned in limited form to approved US organizations. But Anthropic used its comeback blog post as a counterattack, naming GPT-5.5 and KIMI-K2.7 among models with identical capabilities — a pointed message that singling out Fable was arbitrary, and that any serious cybersecurity policy would have to address the whole frontier.

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