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TODAY’S TOP AI NEWS — ILLUSTRATED
SUNDAY · JUNE 21, 2026 · ISSUE #9
#1
FABLE 5 STILL DARK: US EXPORT BAN ENTERS DAY 9POLICY
JUNE 12: BAN DAY U.S. GOV’T EXPORT ORDER DISABLED Fable 5 & Mythos 5 pulled offline globally. All users. All countries.
WHY THE BAN? JAILBREAK FOUND Model leaked cyber- attack-useful data. Anthropic disputed. Pentagon called it "SUPPLY CHAIN RISK"
JUNE 21: STILL DARK DAY 9 API ERROR 503: claude-fable-5 unavailable ANTHROPIC MD SAID: “Within days.” — June 17 Still waiting…
THE STORY Nine days after the US government’s June 12 export-control directive, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain disabled worldwide. The models were pulled after a jailbreak was flagged that could extract cyberattack-useful data. Anthropic’s Managing Director said on June 17 the models could return “within days,” but no restoration occurred.
Sources: Fortune · Al Jazeera
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#2
GEMINI 3.5 PRO: 9 DAYS FROM GOOGLE’S SELF-IMPOSED JUNE DEADLINELAUNCH
ALMOST HERE 9 DAYS LEFT GEMINI 3.5 PRO Google I/O promised a June 2026 launch. Clock is ticking.
WHAT’S COMING 2M TOKENS Biggest context window DEEP THINK MODE Extended reasoning MULTIMODAL Text + images + video LIMITED PREVIEW ONLY Vertex AI enterprise only. Public launch: any day.
THE PRICE TAG EXPECTED PRICING INPUT OUTPUT $15 $60 per 1M tokens 10x PRICIER THAN FLASH But 2x the context window WHO GETS IT FIRST? ✓ $250/mo Ultra subs ✓ $20/mo Pro subs Deep Think = Ultra only.
THE STORY Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro was 9 days from its self-imposed June 2026 deadline, still in limited preview. Confirmed features: a 2-million-token context window, a “Deep Think” extended reasoning mode, and frontier multimodal capability. Pricing expected around $15/$60 per 1M tokens with Deep Think for $250/month Ultra subscribers.
Sources: TechTimes · Codersera
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#3
AMAZON KILLS SAM ALTMAN FILM — BECAUSE OF ITS $50B OPENAI DEALDRAMA
THE $50B DEAL AMAZON AWS cloud OPENAI AI partner $50 BILLION announced in 2026 Amazon becomes OpenAI’s biggest CLOUD PARTNER. But then came the awkward part…
FILM: CANCELLED UNTITLED SAM ALTMAN FILM AMAZON PULLS PLUG Film was nearly done. Too awkward with their new $50B AI partner.
AWKWARD! 🧔 BEZOS 🧑‍💻 ALTMAN Film about you? Nope. At least we got $50B! MONEY > MOVIES Hollywood can wait.
THE STORY Amazon dropped a nearly-finished Hollywood film about Sam Altman — reportedly because of the awkwardness created by its new $50 billion cloud partnership with OpenAI. The film was close to completion when Amazon and OpenAI sealed one of the largest AI infrastructure deals in history.
Sources: Build Fast With AI · TechCrunch

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