Artificial Intelligence

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June Jobs Report and AI Layoffs 57,000 New Jobs, Four Months of AI-Led Cuts, One Frozen Labour Market

June Jobs Report and AI Layoffs: 57,000 New Jobs, Four Months of AI-Led Cuts, One Frozen Labour Market

The June jobs report showed 57,000 new jobs one day after AI led all US layoff reasons for a fourth month. The two datasets describe one frozen labour market.

Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted: Why Anthropic's Model Came Back One Government Decision at a Time

Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted: Why Anthropic's Model Came Back One Government Decision at a Time

Anthropic's Fable 5 returns on 1 July after the US lifted its export controls.

What Emma Got Right About Sovereignty, and Why Italy Should Be Embarrassed Anyway

What Emma Got Right About Sovereignty, and Why Italy Should Be Embarrassed Anyway

Emma's collapse looks like an AI joke. Read against Fable 5, Lagarde's Binance call, and UK sovereign AI, it reveals something Italy already had and ignored.

Anthropic Gets Permission to Bring Mythos 5 Back, Just Not for Everyone

Anthropic Gets Permission to Bring Mythos 5 Back, Just Not for Everyone

Anthropic confirmed the US government will let Mythos 5 return to critical infrastructure organizations. Fable 5 stays off, and the split says everything.

GPT-5.6 Government Approval Confirms What CAISI's Silence Already Revealed

GPT-5.6 Government Approval Confirms What CAISI's Silence Already Revealed

GPT-5.6 needs US government approval per customer. Paired with CAISI's classified pivot and Anthropic's Alibaba claim, the real goal comes into focus.

Amazon's AI Strategy and That Call to the White House

Amazon's AI Strategy and That Call to the White House

Amazon's AI strategy this week comes from the same company whose CEO's call to the White House triggered Anthropic's global Fable 5 shutdown.

Microsoft Pecos Datacenter: Why a 2 Gigawatt AI Campus Comes With Its Own Power Plant

Microsoft Pecos Datacenter: Why a 2 Gigawatt AI Campus Comes With Its Own Power Plant

Microsoft announced a 2 gigawatt datacenter in Pecos, Texas today, funding its own natural gas plant rather than drawing from the public grid.