June 18, 2026

Anthropic's AI Got Shut Down by the Government

1 hour 14 minutes

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down how Anthropic's most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ended up offline after the Commerce Department gave the company 90 minutes to comply with an export control directive. The story involves Amazon triggering the crackdown, political miscommunication between Anthropic and the White House, and an open letter signed by over 100 security researchers calling for the models to be restored.
Also in this episode: SpaceX IPOs at $2 trillion and acquires Cursor for $60 billion in stock, Snap and XREAL both announce consumer AR glasses shipping this fall, Jeff Bezos talks publicly about his $12 billion AI startup Prometheus, Allbirds pivots to AI infrastructure, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai skips mentioning AI entirely at Stanford's commencement. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 - Start

0:01:37 - Anthropic, Trump Officials Seek Deal on Restoring Powerful Model Access

0:03:23 - How a 90-minute White House deadline sparked Silicon Valley’s biggest AI fight

0:03:23 - How Anthropic lost the White House’s trust — and then its flagship product

0:34:12 - SpaceX market cap tops $2 trillion after shares of Elon Musk’s rocket company gain 19% on debut

0:39:17 - SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

0:43:20 - Introducing SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses

0:47:20 - XREAL’s Android XR glasses will cost under $1,500, which isn’t as expensive as it sounds

0:52:08 - Bezos opens up about AI startup Prometheus after $12 billion raise: ‘We’re not being secretive’

0:55:36 - 5 Things To Know As Allbirds Drops Shoes For Smartbird, AI And New CEO

1:00:44 - Dozens walk out as Google boss Pichai addresses Stanford graduates

1:02:48 - Elon Musk Loses Again to OpenAI as Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit

1:03:41 - Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub's AI-driven capacity issues

1:05:10 - DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

1:06:18 - DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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