The Rundown AI is reporting that Anthropic and the U.S. government remain at an impasse over export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models. It said Bloomberg released a letter from U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, warning Anthropic against distributing these models to "foreign persons." The New York Times obtained internal messages showing employee concern about being "unfairly targeted." The Washington Post reported that the list of companies with Mythos access had "ballooned," including a South Korean firm with suspected ties to China. Anthropic's Dario Amodei, along with Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, are attending the G7 summit in France to discuss AI regulation and safety with world leaders.
The Rundown AI is also reporting that Pew Research released its 2026 data, indicating that while Americans are using artificial intelligence more, their trust in it is declining. It said about half of U.S. adults now use a chatbot, with a quarter doing so daily, a significant increase from 2024. However, nearly 40 percent expect AI to worsen society over the next two decades, with only 16 percent believing it will improve things. Young adults under 30 use AI most frequently but trust it the least. ChatGPT remains dominant, used by 44 percent of adults, while Gemini is at 24 percent and Claude at 6 percent.
Additionally, The Rundown AI is reporting on an Anthropic study of 400,000 Claude Code sessions, which found that a user's field expertise is more critical than their general coding skill for success. It said users made approximately 70 percent of planning decisions, while Claude handled about 80 percent of execution. Experts achieved significantly higher success rates and extracted more actions and words from Claude compared to novices. Lawyers, managers and scientists with no formal coding job titles nearly matched software engineers in coding tasks.
In other developments, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis reportedly proposed a "U.S.-led AI coalition" at the G7, focusing on international cooperation for model access, chip exports and safety risks. OpenAI reported $3.7 billion in cash burn against $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, with both figures tripling year-over-year, according to documents seen by The Information. Jensen Huang told The Associated Press that the AI age necessitates "new social norms." Odyssey raised $310 million at a $1.45 billion valuation to develop general AI world models, and ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 mini, a lower-cost variant of its AI video model.