Anthropic's international head said Fable 5 would return "in coming days" as The Washington Post revealed SK Telecom's suspected China ties triggered the June 12 export control ban — prediction markets now price 57% odds of restoration before July 1. OpenAI acquired Astral, makers of Python tools uv and ruff, for integration into Codex, raising open-source licensing questions from a community that adopted both on that trust. MCP gained Zero-Touch enterprise OAuth, finally solving the authorization overhead blocking wide organizational deployment, while the export control incident accelerates enterprise evaluation of open-weight alternatives.