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Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (@anthropicai)
https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2072106151890809341

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on

Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $31M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx

Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for $70-$100 million
The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel following the deal.

Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

Introducing Inkling-Small
An open-weights model that matches Inkling at a quarter of the size: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Fine-tune it on Tinker.

The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c2ace628-7bd9-4f3b-b835-970d6dd930bb

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price and substantially better agentic performance than Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5
Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.

Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits for Claude users from July 7, and is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

Redeploying Claude Fable 5
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 starting July 1 following the lifting of export controls, with updated cybersecurity safeguards and a new industry jailbreak framework.

LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/

China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.

Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung surge more than 20% in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/sk-hynix-samsung-ai-rally-chipmakers.html

SK Hynix and Samsung shares surge over 20% as AI rally roars back
South Korea's chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics soared more than 20% on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in U.S. technology stocks.

Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $200.6B, net income up 245% to $62.6B, operating income up 43% to $27.5B, and a $25B annual revenue run rate for chips (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260729379483/en/