#249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty

Our 249th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/17/2026

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Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

• Anthropic cut off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government order tied to alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate over inconsistent policy, export controls, and the practicality of preventing jailbreaks.
• SpaceX completed an IPO at a roughly $1.75T valuation and then moved to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60B, positioning xAI with Cursor’s talent, data, and product to compete more effectively in coding.
• Infrastructure and business updates include Anthropic pursuing direct US data center leases backed by Google, leaked documents showing OpenAI’s revenue growth alongside large losses, and chatbot market share shifting with ChatGPT below 50% as Gemini and Claude gain.
• Projects and policy highlights include OpenRouter’s Fusion multi-model synthesis, new open releases from Moonshot, Qwen, and NVIDIA, DOJ support for xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines in Memphis, and a Munich court ruling Google liable for false AI Overview statements.

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Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):

• (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
• (00:03:38) Ad break + news preview

• Tools & Apps
• (00:04:52) Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order | The Verge + All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
• (00:25:53) Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts | The Verge

• Applications & Business
• (00:27:00) SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion
• (00:35:42) Anthropic pursues data center leases, seeks financial backing from Google, The Information reports | Reuters
• (00:40:10) Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year - Ars Technica
• (00:46:00) ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time | TechCrunch
• (00:50:34) ‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess | WIRED
• (00:56:23) Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides - MarkTechPost

• Projects & Open Source
• (00:59:36) Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion — OpenRouter Blog
• (01:03:00) Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code: a Coding Model Reporting +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2 Over K2.6 - MarkTechPost
• (01:08:34) Meet Qwen-RobotSuite: Three Embodied AI Models for VLA Manipulation, Video World Modeling, and Navigation - MarkTechPost
• (01:11:29) Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
• (01:17:31) ProCUA-SFT Technical Report

• Policy & Safety
• (01:20:33) DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit | WIRED + People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO
• (01:25:29) A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews | WIRED
• (01:28:47) Why Do Naive SFT Filters For Safety Properties Fail?

• Research & Advancements
• (01:34:14) From AGI to ASI
• (01:39:44) Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1: a shift toward agentic workloads
• (01:42:12) SIA: Self Improving AI with Harness & Weight Updates

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