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The AI Model Washington Switched Off Is Back in Your Plan

Anthropic just extended no-extra-cost access to Claude Fable 5, its most powerful model, through July 12. You still need a paid plan, and Fable 5 drains your weekly usage limit faster than any other Claude model.

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Dell Hiked PCs 20%. Lenovo, HP, Acer, ASUS Are Next.

Dell raised commercial PC prices 15 to 20 percent in mid-December. Lenovo and ASUS followed in early January. IDC now reports all five major OEMs are signaling another 15 to 20 percent hike for the second half of 2026. DDR5 spot prices are up roughly 70 percent year-over-year, and memory makers are reallocating capacity to AI data centers. The buyer pays the difference.

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Fable 5 Lasted 3 Days. One 5:21pm Letter Shut It Down

The US government used an export control directive to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 12, three days after launch. The claimed jailbreak, per Anthropic: asking the model to fix software bugs. Two days earlier, Anthropic had publicly asked for exactly this kind of government power.

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Tesla Promised 4 Million Cars Could Self-Drive. They Can't.

Tesla confirmed on its Q1 2026 earnings call that Hardware 3 cannot achieve unsupervised Full Self-Driving. Roughly 4 million cars are affected. The fix requires replacing the computer and cameras, and Tesla plans to build micro-factories to handle the volume. Meanwhile, HW4 Plus was announced in the same call, starting the same hardware obsolescence cycle over again.

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Energy & Policy

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America Bombed Iran for a Month, Then Greenlit $300 Billion

The United States went to war to end Iran's nuclear program. The deal it signed on June 17 commits to lifting every sanction, clears the way for at least $300 billion to rebuild Iran, and leaves that program standing. The decision was not made on the battlefield. It was made in the oil market, where a closed Strait of Hormuz threatened to drag the West into recession.

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Pakistan Got Iran to Yes. Trump Burned It in 5 Days.

On April 7, Pakistan's Prime Minister and army chief talked Trump out of a threatened civilization-ending bombing run and into a two-week ceasefire on terms Iran wrote. Five days later, Trump posted an AI image of himself as Jesus, attacked the Pope for opposing the war, and ordered a naval blockade. The ceasefire died. The CIA now gives Trump 90 days to deal. The problem is no longer finding a mediator. It is finding a mediator who will stake their reputation on Trump's word after April 13.

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Iran Outlasted Carter 444 Days. CIA Gives Trump 90.

A confidential CIA assessment delivered to the White House this week says Iran can outlast the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months and still holds 70% of its missile stockpile. The last time Iran sat on a U.S. president's clock, the regime ran out the calendar and timed the release for the next administration's inaugural. The math is in the leak.

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