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Latest in AI

Anthropic releases Fable 5 and Mythos 5

🚨 Our Report

Anthropic released Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made generally available, alongside Mythos 5, a cybersecurity-focused sibling now in the hands of a small, vetted group of cyberdefenders.

Both models run at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, which Anthropic says is less than half the price of the earlier Mythos Preview.

🔓 Key Points

Anthropic says Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks -- software engineering, knowledge work, vision, and scientific research -- and that its lead widens the longer and more complex the task. In early testing, Anthropic says Stripe used it to run a codebase-wide migration across a 50-million-line Ruby codebase in a single day.

On Hebbia's benchmark for senior-level financial reasoning, Anthropic reports Fable 5 posted the highest score of any model.

Mythos 5 is the same underlying model with some safeguards lifted, released only to vetted cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers through Project Glasswing in collaboration with the US government. Anthropic claims it has the strongest cybersecurity capabilities of any model in the world.

🔐 Relevance

The price of frontier capability dropped: the most capable Claude yet costs less than half of the prior Mythos generation, which resets the cost math on agent-heavy workflows. Second, the capability itself crossed into day-long autonomous operation -- the same direction JPMorgan is building toward (see today's AI News).

If your vendor's model can now sustain a largely autonomous, codebase-wide migration in a day, your governance, review, and audit controls need to assume that scope, not the minutes-long task scope most AI policies were written for.

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THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: IT & OPERATIONS (powered by Upscaile)

West Monroe, a 2,000+ employee consulting firm where 80% of staff work onsite at client sites, was losing billable hours to IT delays, with software implementations taking 3 to 4 days each.

Tool used: Moveworks, an agentic AI platform that runs inside Microsoft Teams and Slack, connected to ServiceNow, Workday, and Salesforce to automate workflows end-to-end.

Result: 8,000 tickets resolved in year one, plus 4,000 more accelerated. MSP costs cut 40%, saving $1.4M annually. Software implementations dropped from 3 to 4 days to under 30 minutes. Deployed in under 90 days.

The lesson: AI IT support works when it connects directly to the systems that own the data. Moveworks resolved requests at speed because it automated workflows end-to-end across ServiceNow, Workday, and Salesforce -- approvals that previously required human handoffs happened automatically.

Steal this: Pick your single highest-volume IT request category this week (password resets, software access, onboarding tasks). Map every system it touches. That's your integration checklist before you evaluate any AI support tool.

TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI

Find your AI idea, build it, and test it on a real person tonight.

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Find your profitable AI idea and build it tonight. Not "learn the fundamentals." Not "play with prompts." In 60–90 minutes: from "I want to build with AI" to a working thing a real person clicked.

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→ A Claude skill that scores your idea against the SHIP framework
→ A Claude skill that builds a working prototype in 30–45 minutes
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THE POLICY CORNER

The EU orders Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for rival AI chatbots.

The European Commission on June 9, 2026, imposed interim measures under its antitrust powers requiring Meta to reinstate WhatsApp Business API access for competing AI chatbot makers at no charge. The order targets Meta's updated terms and conditions, which regulators found blocked third-party AI assistants from the platform while leaving only Meta's own chatbot available.

Meta had attempted to resolve the probe by charging rivals for access; Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera rejected that approach, stating the fee was "not economically sustainable for competitors." The measure stays in force until June 2029 or until the end of the investigation, which carries no fixed deadline.

Deadline: In effect now.

Risk: Non-compliance exposes Meta to fines of up to 10% of annual global revenue under EU competition law.

Your move: If your AI product relies on WhatsApp for customer reach, confirm with your API provider whether access has been restored -- the order reopens a channel that had been blocked. If you compete in AI assistants, put WhatsApp distribution back on your Q3 roadmap review before that window closes.

AI News

• 🏢 JPMorgan to deploy autonomous AI agents:
  Chief analytics officer says private-bank AI already drove a 20% rise in gross sales and could let each banker serve a 50% larger client base. FULL STORY

• 🏗️ China plans $295B Nvidia-free data-centre buildout:
  Beijing is drafting a blueprint to spend 2 trillion yuan over five years on a national AI data-centre grid. FULL STORY

• ⚖️ Judge cancels trial after all four lawyers on both sides used AI: Mississippi judge issued fines of $1,000 to $3,500 each after lawyers on both sides cited hallucinated, nonexistent cases in a dispute. FULL STORY

• 🌐 Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate across 70+ languages: The latest model for speech-to-speech translation rolls out today to the Gemini Live API in public preview, with ride-hail partner Grab already testing it across more than 10 million monthly driver-traveler voice calls. FULL STORY

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A curated look at the AI tools quietly transforming how teams work.

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2. Tangle: Tailored ERP software for manufacturers, enabling quick deployment and customization to meet specific requirements.

3. ENSO Connect: AI-driven platform enhancing guest experiences for hotels and vacation rentals.

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⚡️ Why pay for 4–6 separate AI tools at full price when the AI Executive’s Pass fixes that?

The Money: AI is collapsing the cost of running the IT stack

Two rounds closed within 24 hours on the same bet: enterprises are drowning in IT complexity and AI spend, and the platforms that cut that cost at scale are where capital is concentrating.

Deals to know:

• NinjaOne (Series C extensions, $12.3B valuation) -- Unified IT operations platform embedding AI across endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access to reduce tool sprawl and IT spend. Investors: Wellington Management, Teachers' Venture Growth, BDT & MSD Partners, Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, Hedosophia, NEA, Washington Harbour Partners, CapitalG, Pinegrove Opportunity Partners

• PointFive (Series B, $60M) -- Agentic cloud and AI efficiency platform that surfaces root-cause waste across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and AI workloads, then routes fixes directly to engineers. Investors: Accel (lead), Salesforce Ventures, Entrée Capital, Perpetual Growth, Vesey Ventures, Sheva Ventures, Index Ventures

Signal: As global cloud and AI spend tracks from $350B in 2025 toward $1T by 2030, capital will chase platforms that close the loop between waste detection and engineering action.

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