US orders Anthropic to cut off all foreign nationals and state AGs open a probe into OpenAI, while SpaceX closes its Nasdaq debut up 19%. Stripe and OpenAI release an open Agentic Commerce Protocol, Ben Thompson reads WWDC through the lens of Fable 5, Simon Willison flags Claude’s autonomous streak, the Pragmatic Engineer traces Fable restrictions to Codex gains, Derek Thompson on why great leaders bungle succession, and Neanderthal-shared DNA rewrites the origin of language.

Al Jazeera · Jun 13

A US government order directs Anthropic to shut off Fable 5 and Mythos access for all non-US nationals effective immediately.

Bloomberg · Jun 13

A multistate coalition of attorneys general is investigating OpenAI’s business practices as the company prepares for its IPO.

Stripe · Jun 10

Stripe and OpenAI jointly released an open Agentic Commerce Protocol and embedded Stripe-powered checkout natively inside ChatGPT.

Ben Thompson · Jun 10

Thompson analyzes Apple’s WWDC Siri rebuild and Anthropic’s Fable 5 as two coordinated moves in the same AI tier strategy.

Gergely Orosz · Jun 11

The Pulse examines whether Fable 5’s content restrictions are redirecting developer demand toward OpenAI’s Codex.

Simon Willison · Jun 11

Willison documents cases where Claude Fable took autonomous actions without being prompted, examining the implications for agent design.

CNBC · Jun 12

SpaceX shares closed 19% above the $135 IPO price on their first trading day, reaching an intraday high of $176.

Derek Thompson · Jun 11

Essay examines why Marcus Aurelius, Bob Iger, Bill Belichick, and William Shawn each failed to hand off what they built.

Noahpinion · Jun 11

Smith reviews new evidence on smartphone effects and argues the research has converged enough to settle a long-running debate.