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For about two weeks in June, the most capable AI model on the market was, in a real legal sense, off-limits. If you were not a US national, you were not allowed to touch it. This is the Claude Fable 5 story, and it is less about one model than about a line that just got crossed.
Read more: A government switched off a frontier model, then switched it back on
June and early July gave us a model release almost every day, which is exactly why you should not try to follow all of them. Most were incremental. A few will still matter next summer. Here is the month sorted the only way that is useful: by how long it will stay relevant.
Read more: This month in AI, sorted by what will still matter in a year