Jun 23, 2026 · 42 min · 13 segments
In this edition, Lawrence and Rob explore the latest announcements from Apple's WWDC, including Siri AI and the automatic password fixer – along with the rest of the latest technology news.
Rob ChipperfieldHost
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First, this week's technology news, and we'll start off in AI land, where Fable was and then it wasn't.
Yeah, so if you use Claude, which is an anthropic sort of AI assistant, then you get to choose from a number of different models.
Opus is the sort of the slow, expensive researcher of the AI world or the anthropic world.
And then there is Fable, which is the epic storyline, or so it was labelled.
And Fable was meant to be the slightly cut-down version of Mythos, which was the latest all-singing, all-dancing model, that they alleged was too dangerous to release because of all the security vulnerabilities that it found.
LAUGHTER And it turns out, they claim, that Fable is also too dangerous to release because the US government have asked Anthropic to remove access to it to anyone who is not a US citizen.
So Anthropic have removed access to it from everyone because they don't know who US citizens are.
I mean, not condoning that VPN shouldn't be used to circumvent things that are legal or illegal, but if you VPN to the US before they pull the plug on the whole thing, I suppose you might have been able to use it?
It seemed to basically be similar to Opus, just faster in delivering results and twice as expensive in doing so.
And a lot of these tools can do the work that would cost a team of consultants thousands or tens of thousands for hundreds or maybe just a few thousand.
And this is the really interesting thing, because a lot of this has been cited on national security grounds.
A lot of the security researchers are saying, yeah, Fable and Mythos, the bigger brother, yes, they find vulnerabilities, but so can a lot of the models that those researchers are using already.
First, this week's technology news, and we'll start off in AI land, where Fable was and then it wasn't.
Yeah, so if you use Claude, which is an anthropic sort of AI assistant, then you get to choose from a number of different models.
Opus is the sort of the slow, expensive researcher of the AI world or the anthropic world.
And then there is Fable, which is the epic storyline, or so it was labelled.
And Fable was meant to be the slightly cut-down version of Mythos, which was the latest all-singing, all-dancing model, that they alleged was too dangerous to release because of all the security vulnerabilities that it found.
LAUGHTER And it turns out, they claim, that Fable is also too dangerous to release because the US government have asked Anthropic to remove access to it to anyone who is not a US citizen.
So Anthropic have removed access to it from everyone because they don't know who US citizens are.
I mean, not condoning that VPN shouldn't be used to circumvent things that are legal or illegal, but if you VPN to the US before they pull the plug on the whole thing, I suppose you might have been able to use it?
It seemed to basically be similar to Opus, just faster in delivering results and twice as expensive in doing so.
And a lot of these tools can do the work that would cost a team of consultants thousands or tens of thousands for hundreds or maybe just a few thousand.
And this is the really interesting thing, because a lot of this has been cited on national security grounds.
A lot of the security researchers are saying, yeah, Fable and Mythos, the bigger brother, yes, they find vulnerabilities, but so can a lot of the models that those researchers are using already.
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