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Yesterday in AI | June 12, 2026
Corporate Feuds, Hidden Data Policies, and Why Microsoft Just Blocked Fable 5
The relationship between the world's biggest AI power players is getting openly adversarial. Today's episode breaks down the massive shockwave running through enterprise tech as Microsoft blocks Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 model from its internal systems over data retention policies.
Plus, we unpack OpenAI's significant new acquisition of Ona to unlock persistent, round-the-clock background agents for the enterprise. We also cover a groundbreaking court ruling from Germany that holds tech platforms directly liable for AI-generated text, the first-of-its-kind whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former xAI safety engineer, and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's public takedown of Anthropic's stance on AI consciousness.
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