Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first Mythos-class AI model released for general use — but a more powerful sibling, Mythos 5, stays locked behind a vetting programme. This plain-English explainer breaks down what each model does, how the safety tiers work, and why the dual-release strategy matters beyond just one company's product launch.

The Trump family reportedly collected roughly $500 million from its crypto ventures while outside investors absorbed steep losses — a structural asymmetry that goes beyond politics. The gap between insider gains and retail outcomes is now drawing regulatory scrutiny and reshaping how Washington approaches Trump crypto conflicts of interest.

Bitcoin has shed more than $1 trillion in market value over eight months, reigniting familiar debates about crypto's future. But the bitcoin price decline narrative most people are absorbing misses the more consequential structural story underneath.

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark chip at Computex 2026, marking a direct push into the consumer AI PC market against Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, and AMD. The combined CPU-GPU superchip is designed to run AI agents locally on Windows devices, shipping later this year through Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and HP.

A United Nations report has put credible figures on AI data centre resource use — electricity rivalling mid-sized nations, vast cooling water demands, and an economic paradox that makes efficiency gains backfire. Here is what it means, in plain English, and why serious institutions need to act now.