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

LWiAI Podcast #249 (June 17 2026) reports that Anthropic halted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a U.S. government order over alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate on export controls and the feasibility of blocking jailbreaks. The episode also covers SpaceX’s $1.75 trillion IPO and its $60 billion acquisition of AI‑coding startup Cursor to strengthen xAI’s coding capabilities, along with Anthropic’s pursuit of U.S. data‑center leases and OpenAI’s revenue growth against large losses, while the chatbot market shifts with ChatGPT falling below 50 % share as Gemini and Claude expand.

Source: Last Week in AI | 2026-07-21