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Anthropic confirmed it has disabled access to its Fable five and Mythos five AI models following a directive from the U.S. government tied to export controls. The move signals Washington is tightening its grip on frontier AI distribution, and it puts immediate pressure on Anthropic's enterprise relationships abroad.
Shifting to commodities, arabica coffee futures closed up more than one percent Friday, with robusta surging nearly four percent, as persistent rainfall in Brazil threatens to push the harvest timeline further out. Supply disruptions out of the world's largest coffee producer have a direct pass-through to input costs for food and beverage companies, and traders are watching the Vaisala forecasts closely heading into next week.
And in venture capital, the SpaceX IPO is drawing attention not just for its scale but for what it represents structurally. Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and Valor are among the biggest winners, and the event marks a generational payoff for a VC industry that has grown enormously since Elon Musk founded the company in two thousand two, when the entire sector deployed just over twenty billion dollars in a single year.
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