AI chatbot usage among U.S. adults surges to nearly 50%, with ChatGPT leading at 44% adoption, yet 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too fast and a majority fear it will compromise personal security and negatively impact society over the next 20 years.
The Trump administration is demanding Anthropic make its AI models completely jailbreak-proof, a condition security experts say is technically impossible, escalating tensions between the White House and the AI company.
The US government threatens Anthropic with criminal and civil penalties for exporting its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models without authorization, forcing the company to disable both models worldwide as it scrambles to negotiate a resolution with the Trump administration.
The US Commerce Department imposes sweeping export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security fears, barring all foreign nationals from access, as the powerful new models are simultaneously exposing a deepening enterprise cybersecurity crisis that could cost billions in damages.
Anthropic's most powerful AI models, Mythos and Fable, are taken offline after the Trump administration imposes export controls, alleging the company knowingly deployed jailbreak-vulnerable models in violation of a cyber executive order, with high-stakes meetings now underway between Anthropic and top government officials.
Apple has secretly embedded a multi-AI framework into iOS 27's developer beta, allowing Siri to switch between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but kept it hidden from WWDC due to EU regulatory pressure, OpenAI contract tensions, and a still-buggy Siri that lags behind rival chatbots by roughly six months.
A coalition of state attorneys general has launched a major investigation into OpenAI, with New York issuing a subpoena targeting data practices, child safety, deceptive advertising, and model sycophancy, as the AI giant faces mounting legal pressure even while quietly pursuing a public offering.
Meta is in the grip of a company-wide morale crisis, with thousands of employees calling their work 'soul-crushing,' over 1,600 signing a petition against keystroke monitoring, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting restructuring mistakes in an internal memo while promising no further mass layoffs and pledging workplace improvements.
Meta erects a strict firewall between itself and Chinese-founded AI service Manus, barring staff access to internal systems and prohibiting use of Manus tools, as a $2 billion acquisition deal collapses amid opposition from Beijing.
Anthropic reverses a secret Claude Fable 5 policy that was silently rerouting AI research requests to a weaker model, and while the restrictions remain in place, users will now receive visible alerts when their requests are refused or redirected due to suspected competing AI development.