Source: Understanding AI
by Timothy B Lee

“On Tuesday, Anthropic released two new models — Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5. Under the hood, the two models are very similar. Both are variants of Claude Mythos Preview, the model Anthropic announced — but didn’t release publicly — two months ago. What differentiates them is how they’re being released. The new version of Mythos, like the original, will only be available to handpicked organizations under Project Glasswing. These trusted partners will have relatively unfettered access. Fable, in contrast, is available to the general public. But it comes with some significant restrictions.” (06/10/26)

https://www.understandingai.org/p/anthropic-has-caught-up-to-openai

Source: Reason
by Meagan O’Rourke

“The U.S. has led the world in several innovations in recent decades: the iPhone, Facebook, and artificial intelligence. But when it comes to sunscreen, Americans have been living in the Dark Ages compared with Europe and Asia. That could be changing. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added bemotrizinol (BEMT) to its list of permitted active sunscreen ingredients, updating the list for the first time since 1999, according to National Geographic.” (06/10/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/10/the-fda-finally-approved-a-new-sunscreen-ingredient-it-only-took-over-25-years/

Source: Persuasion
by Kateryna Kibarova

“What does a typical day look like? An air raid alert goes off while we’re at work. Just like in any office, we have one designated ‘alarmist’ who monitors all the Telegram channels to figure out exactly which direction the attack is coming from and when it’s expected to reach us. The moment we know a Shahed drone is approaching our office, everyone scrambles toward the exit. We head down to the shelter, wait for the drones to pass, and then we go right back to our workstations. In other words, we’ve adapted to living in absolute chaos. When a specific situation arises — say a café gets bombed or something similar — people help out.” (06/10/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/ukrainians-will-never-be-the-same

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The U.S. is not defending itself or its forces when it launches more attacks on Iran. It is continuing the war of aggression that it began alongside Israel over three months ago.” (06/10/26)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/attacking-iran-has-nothing-to-do

Source: Independent Institute
by Robert M Whaples

“How can we safeguard the human person in the time of artificial intelligence? Pope Leo XIV offers two broad pathways in his new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. Its most persistent warning is that AI is putting too much power into the hands of too few people, especially those who design AI programs and run the AI giants. … the encyclical suggests that ‘one viable path is … to establish social criteria for innovation. Here, every introduction of automation and AI should be accompanied by verifiable measures to protect the employment, retraining and participation of workers.’ … Would the State, which already has immense powers, use these additional powers wisely? Could it?” (06/10/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/10/two-paths-forward-in-pope-leos-ai-encyclical/