OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned Tuesday that the company's new GPT-5.6 Sol model may face "hiccups" soon. Why it matters: The warning underscores that even one of the world's leading AI companies can struggle to scale the infrastructure needed to meet demand for cutting-edge AI. - Anthropic and SpaceX AI are also rolling out flagship models, intensifying competition for consumers and computing capacity. Driving the news: Altman wrote on X that the model's "growth is insane" and that "the inference team has done heroic work to be able to support demand." - But that demand may face scaling issues, he wrote. - "We are going to move mountains to continue to scale, but it is possible there are some hiccups soon," Altman said. Context: OpenAI…
Anthropic's Fable 5 model came back online for users on Wednesday, after the Trump administration lifted an export control late Tuesday. Why it matters: It's the most powerful publicly available AI tool — so capable that the U.S. government decided Anthropic had to add further safety measures in order to make it broadly available. Driving the news: Fable is available to all customers, Anthropic said, though queries it deems to pose security or safety risks may be routed to less powerful models. - For the most part, customers who want to use Fable will have to do so outside of any subscription plan, paying for the tokens they use. - Anthropic says that, until July 7, subscribers can tap Fable for up to half of their included data…
The Trump administration plans to lift export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model as soon as Tuesday night, a U.S. official tells Axios. Why it matters: The decision, eagerly awaited by AI developers, restores public access to the company's powerful Mythos-class model that had been pulled for security reasons 18 days ago. Driving the news: Last week, the Trump administration allowed Anthropic to restore access to Mythos 5 for a select group of government-approved organizations. - Sources also told Axios last week Fable 5 could return as soon as this week. The big picture: The U.S. government's desired role in regulating and evaluating frontier AI models before release is still up in the air — creating an ad hoc…
The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its powerful Fable 5 model, which has been offline for 15 days because of security fears by the government, a source close to the situation tells Axios. - Insiders expect the administration's limits on Fable 5 could be lifted as soon as this coming week, the source said. - A second source said conversations are expected to continue over the weekend, and Anthropic expects to restore Fable access soon. Why it matters: For developers and even non-technical early adopters, Fable 5's blackout was unprecedented and deeply jarring — a top-tier model, already in users' hands, pulled offline due to government intervention. The big picture: The progress toward…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit the release of its next model, GPT-5.6, to only a small set of government-approved partners before any wider release, citing security concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter. Why it matters: This marks the first time the U.S. government has preemptively asked an American AI company to restrict the launch of a model before release. Driving the news: The White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy asked OpenAI to limit the rollout of GPT-5.6 as the administration builds a framework for testing and evaluating the security of new models, per the source. - The Information reported earlier Thursday that OpenAI CEO Sam…
The Trump administration has made exporting American AI a key part of its plans for global AI dominance, but ad hoc policy decisions around the most advanced AI are threatening that effort. Why it matters: A flagship U.S. program designed to boost AI exports could be undermined by the very administration that created it. - "The government's willingness to arbitrarily and abruptly remove America's best models from all foreign use shows that the strategy behind the AI Export Program is no longer relevant to decision makers in the U.S. government," Dean Ball, a former AI adviser in the Trump administration, told Axios. Driving the news: The Trump administration slapped export controls on Anthropic's newest model Fable 5 due to…
The Trump administration says it wants American AI to dominate the world. - But its decision to force Anthropic to abruptly cut off access to one of its most advanced models risks sending foreign governments and companies a very different message: Don't build your future on U.S. AI. Why it matters: As the Trump administration shapes its AI regulatory regime in real time, the precedents it sets could reverberate far beyond an individual showdown with Anthropic. Catch up quick: The last month of AI policymaking has been a blur of zigs and zags by the administration. - First Trump delayed an executive order that would have created a voluntary reporting system for advanced AI releases. He said he didn't want to threaten America's lead over…
The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic's latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Friday, raising questions about how far the government is willing to go to regulate AI