Anthropic's Best Model Got Banned in 72 Hours
Anthropic shipped the most powerful AI ever released to the public on June 9, 2026. By June 12, the US government made the company pull it back from every foreign national on earth, including Anthropic's own engineers. The most capable model anyone could touch became a regulatory dependency in 72 hours.
That's the cold open. From there, Oscar and Matt filter the week's AI noise — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 landing at less than half the old price, Commerce placing both under export controls, OpenAI filing confidentially for a near-trillion-dollar IPO, OpenAI wiring itself into Oracle Universal Credits — get practical about running AI agents in production with the Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, and Temporal, and close with two hot takes you won't hear anywhere else.
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