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Andy Jassy raised security concerns about Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to Trump officials—despite Amazon being Anthropic's largest investor and cloud partner.

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly told Trump officials that Fable 5 could be used for cyberattacks, triggering a Commerce Department export control ban on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 12, 2026.
• Amazon is Anthropic's largest investor (over $4 billion invested, up to $33 billion committed) and its primary cloud infrastructure partner—yet lobbied to restrict Anthropic's flagship products.

The Patreon CEO rejoins The Verge's podcast after five years to discuss how the creator economy has shifted in an era of AI-generated content.

• Patreon CEO Jack Conte appeared on The Verge's podcast to discuss creators and artists in the 'AI slop era.'
• Conte last joined the show in summer 2021, making this a five-year check-in on the creator economy.

The partnership brings Getty's rights-cleared visual library into ChatGPT search results — and a Getty spokesperson confirms it's display-only, with no AI training rights granted.

• Getty Images and OpenAI signed a multi-year display partnership bringing licensed photos into ChatGPT search and discovery results.
• Getty spokesperson Julia Holmes confirmed the deal is 'display only,' excluding AI training rights — matching the structure of Getty's earlier Perplexity AI agreement.

From 'AI 2027' to 'Europe 2031,' fictional AI scenarios are moving markets and reaching the Vice President's desk.

• "Europe 2031" is the latest viral speculative fiction document in AI circles, authored by eight self-described AI researchers, think-tankers, and investors focused on European policy.
• Earlier viral pieces include "AI 2027" (superintelligence kills humanity; reportedly read by the U.S. Vice President) and Citrini Research's "The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" (white-collar unemployment story that reportedly caused stocks to dip).

A new tool from Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn scores how well major AI models remember you—without peeking at the web.

• In the Weights, created by Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, scores how well AI models recall a person from training data without web search.
• The site queries models including Grok, Gemini, multiple GPT versions, Claude, and Llama, then clusters responses and assigns a strength score.

The AlphaFold co-creator's exit—coming just days after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI—marks another high-profile defection from Google's AI lab.

• John Jumper, 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry and AlphaFold co-creator, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, where he is expected to focus on AI safety, reliability, and interpretability.
• His departure follows Noam Shazeer's exit from Google for OpenAI days earlier, and AlphaGo/AlphaZero researcher David Silver's departure to launch his own startup—marking at least three high-profile exits from Google's AI division in a short period.

The 69-year-old aviation enthusiast was piloting a Cessna 421 that crashed on approach to La Baule Airport, killing both people on board.

• Claude Guillemot, 69, died June 19 when the Cessna 421 he was piloting crashed near La Baule Airport on France's Atlantic coast.
• A flight instructor aboard also died; the crash cause has not yet been released and the investigation is ongoing.

As AI-powered fraud grows more convincing, caution and data hygiene remain the strongest defenses.

• CNET published an advisory on June 20, 2026, warning that AI-driven scams share identifiable red flags.
• The core guidance is to stay cautious and never hand over sensitive data.

The Norwegian government is scaling back the use of technology, including AI tools, in its education system.

• Norway is cutting back on technology, including AI, in classrooms.
• Specific policy details, scope, and enforcement mechanisms are not yet clear from available reporting.