NOW Fable's Back?

Anthropic said Commerce lifted export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5, restoring access Wednesday, and launched Sonnet 5. Sony is ending PlayStation game discs in 2028, a 140-company group unveiled Open USD, and Meta's building a cloud business.

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Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (x.com/anthropicai/status/2072106151890809341) (X)

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Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intellige…) (BleepingComputer)

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work (anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5) (Anthropic)

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work (thenewstack.io/claude-sonnet-5-launch) (The New Stack)

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Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 2028, ending physical game discs (gamefile.news/p/sony-drops-playstation-discs-2…) (Game File)

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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves (theblock.co/post/406736/visa-stripe-coinbase-j…) (The Block)

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Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/meta-is…) (Bloomberg)

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SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-30/spacex-…) (Bloomberg)

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