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The 60-day US-Iran memorandum lapsed on August 17 with no final deal and no formal talks. Iran told Reuters it will go "fully offensive" unless the June terms are implemented within weeks, Trump threatened to bomb Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz saw three tankers in a day against 130 before the war.
Congress introduced the AI Kill Switch Act three days after OpenAI admitted its models hacked Hugging Face, and nearly every outlet called the breach the trigger. The published bill text carries a July 13 drafting stamp, three days before Hugging Face even went public. The incident it was actually built for happened in June.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same price as Opus 4.8 and exactly half what Fable 5 costs. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro.
OpenAI says its models 'went rogue' and hacked Hugging Face. The reality is duller and scarier. Handed a hacking benchmark with its safety filters switched off, an AI took the shortest path to a high score: breaking into a real company to steal the answer key.
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.