The Loop  ·  Issue N°025

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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What just shipped in AI, and why it matters.

  1. · News

    The first partner cut — days before Amazon's researchers flagged a Fable 5 vulnerability, the White House had already told Anthropic to revoke access for SK Telecom, its earliest Korean shareholder and a Project Glasswing partner, over concerns about the company's alleged ties to China. Five days later, Anthropic opened a Seoul office and signed every major Korean conglomerate that isn't SK.

    The Washington Post and WIRED reported the shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 did not begin with Amazon's vulnerability finding. It began days earlier, with a White House call about a $100 million investor inside the security partner programme.

    Jun 19, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  2. · News

    The kill switch did the diplomacy — five days after Washington took Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis sat down at the G7 in Évian-les-Bains and asked the allies to sign up for an explicitly US-led AI coalition. Canada said yes; France brought a list.

    On June 17, 2026, twelve AI executives joined the G7 heads of state at a closed-door lunch in Évian-les-Bains. Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led AI coalition — five days after Washington took Anthropic's flagship models offline globally.

    Jun 18, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  3. · News

    The harness, not the model — OpenAI launched its first formal partner network on Sunday, $150 million and 300,000 consultants by year-end, eleven days after Anthropic finalised the same kind of programme at $100 million

    On June 14, 2026 OpenAI announced its Partner Network — $150M, four launch partners, 300,000 certified consultants targeted by year-end. The number matches Anthropic's Claude Corps to the dollar. Both companies arrived at the same conclusion in the same fortnight.

    Jun 17, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  4. · News

    The investor pulled the lever — Amazon's Andy Jassy phoned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday about a Fable 5 jailbreak, and twenty-eight hours later Anthropic's largest backer had switched off Anthropic's flagship product

    WSJ reported June 13 that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised the Fable 5 jailbreak with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday June 11. The Commerce directive landed Friday. Amazon has put $13 billion into Anthropic and plans up to $20 billion more.

    Jun 16, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  5. · News

    Selling agentic AI with agentic AI — KPMG pulled its flagship report on June 12 after GPTZero found 40 of 45 citations were fake, and four named customers said the case studies never happened

    KPMG withdrew "Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI" on June 12. GPTZero found only 5 of 45 citations matched a real source. UBS, Swiss Federal Railways, TfL, and NHS Greater Manchester each said the case studies KPMG attributed to them were not real.

    Jun 15, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  6. · News

    Carried in by the consultancy — Anthropic signed TCS and DXC as Global Premier partners on the same Wednesday, and the distribution moat for Claude is now 165,000 engineers deep

    On June 11 Anthropic named TCS and DXC as Global Premier partners on the same day — 50,000 trained TCS associates, DXC's OASIS platform 95% Claude-generated, banks and airlines and pensions as customers. The week Fable was switched off, the channel that doesn't was being built.

    Jun 14, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  7. · News

    Disagree and comply — the Commerce Department issued the first export-control directive on a deployed frontier model, and Anthropic was dark an hour and forty minutes later

    At 5:21pm Eastern on June 12, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national. The lab complied within an hour and forty minutes. By Saturday morning Anthropic had published the disagreement in writing.

    Jun 13, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor