The Claude Startups program is expanding to more founders.
Members can get a year of Claude Team, API credits, special offers on the tools a startup runs on, and office hours with Anthropic’s Applied AI team.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family.
It’s a clear upgrade over Sonnet 5, runs more than 30% faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
i shipped reposcape v0.1.0
i wanted something local that could help me open a codebase and see how the pieces connect
built it with @droid by @FactoryAI, then ran it on a few repos. it caught scanner and rust bugs, fixed those before release
check it out
github.com/Codebrother1/repo…
shipped factory-shipcheck v1
a reusable factory skill that runs preship checks
-git state
-tests
- lint
-build
-docs
-security |config
before you ship, it gives you the verdict
-ready
-not ready
-incomplete
-blocked
built with @FactoryAI
try it on a repo before you ship
if it gets anything wrong, let me know !
github.com/Codebrother1/fact…github.com/Codebrother1/fact…
been running fable
this is the one i’ve been waiting on
sol is different pressure
max reasoning
subagents
terminal-bench 2.1 lead
the model that started behind a government preview wall
hits thursday
repo ready
the department of commerce lifted export controls on fable 5 and mythos 5 tonight
anthropic says access starts coming back tomorrow
the arc:
june 9
both models launch
june 12
shut down with 90 minutes notice
june 27
mythos 5 partially restored
june 30
all controls lifted
19 days
fable 5 is back in the path
gizmodo.com/claude-fable-5-w…
trump signed a new ai executive order
it creates a covered frontier model category
for the most capable systems
and a voluntary pre-release review process
before broad deployment
voluntary on paper
but after anthropic got a 90-minute shutdown call
the message is pretty clear
frontier model launches now have a government review layer
openai is already launching gpt-5.6 through it
anthropic is still working its way back from the older version of the same pressure
reuters.com/legal/litigation…
anthropic sent a letter to the senate banking committee on june 10
it accused alibaba of running the largest known distillation attack on claude
nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts
28.8m exchanges
april 22 to june 5
the targeted capabilities:
agentic reasoning
software engineering
long-horizon task performance
anthropic's line:
"these distillation attacks turn hundreds of billions of dollars in american investment and r&d into a massive subsidy for our geopolitical competitors"
in february, anthropic accused deepseek, moonshot, and minimax of a combined 16m exchanges
this alibaba campaign was almost 2x that
cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropi…
spacex is buying cursor for $60b
cursor gets access to colossus
xai's memphis supercluster
spacex gets distribution to expert software engineers
cursor competes with claude code and codex
but still depends on larger labs underneath it
that is the tension
apnews.com/article/spacex-cu…
google is moving gemini code assist individual users to antigravity cli
deadline:
june 18
affected:
google ai pro
google ai ultra
gemini code assist for individuals
if your scripts or setup depend on gemini cli
check the migration path now
same week anthropic changed sdk billing
and retired model strings started returning api errors
the tools are moving fast
the integrations around them have to keep up
developers.google.com/gemini…
new detail on the anthropic shutdown
amazon researchers found the fable 5 issue
andy jassy raised it with u.s. officials
that helped trigger the 90-minute ultimatum
the company that invested billions into anthropic
also surfaced the report that got its models pulled
anthropic is now in washington
trying to restore access
wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-di…
new details on the anthropic shutdown
the trump administration gave anthropic 90 minutes on friday
to pull fable 5 and mythos 5
the call came at 1pm
national security threat
no further details
anthropic says fable had already received explicit government approval
they asked for specifics so they could fix the issue
the government held firm
by 5:30pm
the commerce department letter arrived
prior approval
then a 90-minute shutdown demand
with no technical details shared
yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…