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● Trump revives the AI sovereign wealth fund idea/Altman drew the line at giving away half of OpenAI/OpenAI's $500B Ohio campus would be the largest ever built/NVIDIA backstops a data center deal for the first time/Ohio's 40-year data center tax giveaway sparks fury/New York and Seattle move to pause data centers/Texas could set the template for sane data center rules/● Trump revives the AI sovereign wealth fund idea/Altman drew the line at giving away half of OpenAI/OpenAI's $500B Ohio campus would be the largest ever built/NVIDIA backstops a data center deal for the first time/Ohio's 40-year data center tax giveaway sparks fury/New York and Seattle move to pause data centers/Texas could set the template for sane data center rules/
Today's Edition — The Main Episode

Why Fable 5 Is the Most Controversial AI Release Ever

Anthropic walked back a Fable 5 policy in under 24 hours — but the silent nerfing, the data retention, and Dario's manifesto opened a much bigger wound: a lot of people just woke up to how much power one AI lab might have over who gets to build the future.

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// The past week

Recent Editions

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Jun 10 · Wed · 39 min · ▸ read
Fable 5 Raises the Bar for AI Ambition
Anthropic's Fable 5 may be the best model ever — but the bigger story is the controversial guardrails, the usage-based reality, and a new skill called task imagination.
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Jun 09 · Tue · 30 min · ▸ read
OpenAI Declares the Next Phase of AI
OpenAI files to go public and declares its third phase the same day — while Apple's fine-but-minimal Siri reboot asks whether consumer AI and work AI are still the same technology.
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Jun 08 · Mon · 26 min · ▸ read
How We Use AI Is Changing
ChatGPT's rumored super-app overhaul isn't just an IPO story — it's a sign AI use is shifting from chat to agents, coding tools, and loops. Plus: Trump confirms the government wants equity in the big labs.
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Jun 07 · Sun · 22 min · ▸ read
10+ Things You Should Build With AI Instead of Sending Files
AI makes it possible to build richer versions of the files knowledge workers send every day — decks, memos, reports, proposals — as living, shareable links. A practical Operator's episode inspired by Codex Sites.
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Jun 06 · Sat · 5 min · ♪ listen
This Week in AI for Ridiculously Busy People
A fast five-minute briefing on what mattered in AI this week, for people who don't want the full firehose.
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// Worth passing on

Most Sharable

◆ The TakeJun 11

Texas could set the template for sane data center rules

Greg Abbott directed utilities to require new data centers to fully fund their own infrastructure so costs aren't passed to ratepayers, plus mandatory closed-loop cooling and water/electricity reporting. NLW: if you want to avoid moratorium-driven AI inequality while respecting communities, a popular destination like Texas leading on standards is "kind of optimistic."

The AI Daily Brief · Jun 11
◆ The TakeJun 11

Fable 5 is the most controversial model launch ever

NLW argues the backlash to Anthropic's Fable 5 makes the GPT-5 / 4.0 deprecation drama look like nothing — and it took less than 24 hours of intense response for Anthropic to walk back a core policy.

The AI Daily Brief · Jun 11
◆ The TakeJun 11

The real story is the power, not the policy

NLW's throughline: set aside the specific decisions and the clumsy communications — there's an inherent power in Anthropic's position that people are finally grappling with, one that could give a private corporation more control over people than any company has ever had.

The AI Daily Brief · Jun 11
◆ The TakeJun 11

NLW's advice: fix the enterprise data retention policy fast

With the LLM research policy resolved, NLW says Anthropic should move quickly on enterprise data retention — because the corporate users who made Anthropic a juggernaut may not care about the research question, but won't stick around if their data is subject to Anthropic's whims.

The AI Daily Brief · Jun 11
EnterpriseJun 11
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The 30-day retention policy is not fine at all.

— Prins, lawyer and AI user, on X. Lawyer and AI user Prins flagged that the policy applies even to zero-data-retention customers, and that Anthropic employees can view prompts and outputs "flagged for potential serious harm" — a vague phrase defined at Anthropic's sole discretion. "If my law firm were using Claude, I would tell IT to lock us out immediately."

The AI Daily Brief · Jun 11
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