The US Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Meta adds rate-limits to certain features on previously sold smart glasses, and Sony announces the end of physical discs for games beginning 2028.
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Anthropic announced on X the US Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and access will be restored to users beginning Wednesday. NBC News viewed a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying Anthropic agreed “on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable, and future models” and will “inform the U.S. government of any malicious activity.” Fable 5 and Mythos 5 initially went offline on June 12th following US officials claiming the models were severe cybersecurity risks.
Source: NBC News and Anthropic
In the social media addiction case filed by a 15yo boy, TikTok joined YouTube in settling before the case begins. Meta and Snap remain defendants in the case beginning July 27th. Snap settled in a previous social media addiction case, along with TikTok, in which a jury found Meta and Google liable in the verdict.
Source: The Next Web
Getty Images plans to terminate a merger agreement with Shutterstock following the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) imposing a condition that Shutterstock would be required to sell its editorial business. As Getty says it is not required to accept this condition under the merger agreement, the board voted against proceeding and instead voted to terminate the merger agreement on July 6th. The board may reconsider if the situation changes by the 6th in a Tuesday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The merger agreement was first announced in January 2025.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
On Tuesday, OpenClaw announced on X that the free open source AI agent OpenClaw is now available on iOS and Android. 9to5google reports the Android app is a currently bit wonky, with a very basic UI, while the iOS app is slightly more polished.
Source: 9to5Google
On Tuesday Business Insider sources claim Microsoft is planning to cut nearly 2.5% of the workforce, beginning as early as next week. Business Insider sources say the layoffs will impact sales, consulting, and the Xbox divisions. According to an SEC filing in 2025, Microsoft has approximately 228,000 employees as of June 30th, 2025. In June 2026 new CEO Asha Sharma along Chief Content Officer Matt Booty shared a memo including: “We have found ourselves over-extended […] Going forward, this cannot continue.”
Source: Business Insider
Meta is adding rate limits to features on previously sold smart glasses. In a help article, Meta states a subscription to Meta One Premium, which is $19.99/month, isn’t required for non-subscribers to be permitted use of certain AI features, merely rate limited. Specifically, the use of the Conversation Focus feature, which can amplify the voice of a person the user is speaking to, will be available for only 3 hours a month. Subscribers will be limited to 15 hours a month. The Verge notes this limit “is ridiculous” as Conversation Focus runs on-device, and The Verge was able to continue using Conversation Focus while disconnected from the internet. Meta has not responded to a request for comment.
Source: The Verge
Sometime over the next month, Reddit web viewers will be forced to log in to the platform in order to view pages on old.reddit.com. Reddit claims “Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform”. This move is consistent with Reddit earlier limiting non-logged in visits on web, attempting to force more readers to the Reddit app.
Source: Ars Technica
On Wednesday, Sony announced the future shut down of the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in select regions this year, with more to come. The currently announced store closures in August 2026 include Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and “additional Latin American and Middle Eastern countries” will close in late 2026. Closure in more countries begin in July 2027. The PS3 launched in 2006, discontinued in 2016, and the PS Vita launched in North America in 2012, discontinued in 2019.
Source: The Verge
Sony also announced new games sold for PlayStation consoles will no longer have physical copies on discs beginning January 2028, which includes both first- and third-party titles. GameFile reports PlayStation games will still be available in physical stores in 2028 with a digital code in the box. In an earlier Sony investor report Sony claims four out of five purchases of games for PS4 and PS5 are digitally purchased.
Source: GameFile
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