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June 16, 2026 In this episode of Hashtag Trending, Jim Love examines new reporting suggesting Amazon raised concerns with U.S. officials before the government restricted access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, raising questions about why more...

June 15, 2026 On June 15, 2026, host Jim Love reports that Anthropic shut down its Mythos-5 and Fable-5 models worldwide after a US national security directive demanded removal of access for all foreign nationals on 90 minutes’ more...

June 13, 2026 Project Synapse Weekend: When Cheap Local Models Hallucinate + Anthropic’s Fable-5 Controversy Jim Love and Marcel host the Project Synapse weekend edition without Jon Pinard, discussing Jim’s three-month experiment building his Nexus AI agent. Trying more...

June 12, 2026 Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending for Friday, June 12, 2026, with a special look at a week of technology stories that range from bizarre to genuinely concerning. It starts with a personal experience involving a more...

June 11, 2026 Europe is accelerating its push for digital sovereignty with the launch of EuroOffice, a cloud-based alternative to Microsoft 365 backed by German hosting giant IONOS and other European technology companies. But the launch has sparked more...

June 10, 2026 Jim Love covers three headlines for June 10, 2026: OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for a US IPO, with Reuters suggesting it could come as early as September amid a broader wave of potential blockbuster more...

June 9, 2026 Jim Love covers four headlines: hackers exploited Instagram’s AI support bot to hijack over 20,000 accounts by abusing account recovery and password reset links, prompting Meta to disable the tool, remove faulty code, and add more...

June 8, 2026 Jim Love reports the top tech stories for Monday, June 8, 2026: Anthropic, as it moves toward an IPO, calls for a global mechanism to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development if risks rise, more...

June 6, 2026 In this Project Synapse episode, Jim, Marcel Gagné, and John Pinard unpack Microsoft’s sudden wave of AI announcements, including seven new in-house models such as MAI Thinking 1 (a 35B-parameter reasoning model trained from scratch more...

June 5, 2026 Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance. In this episode of Hashtag Trending, Jim Love looks at new data showing technology companies announced more than 38,000 job cuts in May — the highest monthly total more...

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