Fable Got Banned, Open Source Delivered: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 & SpaceX Buys Cursor - June 18

Fable Got Banned, Open Source Delivered: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 & SpaceX Buys Cursor - June 18

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

June 18, 2026 · 1h 56m

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The episode discusses the ban on Fable 5 by the US Government and highlights new developments in Open Source AI models.

Hey yall, Alex here, let me catch you up! I came back from vacation expecting to cover Fable 5 after a week of using it. The first two days after we all first got access to a Mythos level model were super exciting! But then the news hit, US Government issued an order banning Anthropic from giving access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to any foreign national, causing Anthropic to pull the models completely (even internally to their employees!). So, this wasn’t the show I planned, but it turned into a great show about Open Source, as two models hit the top rankings and are both MIT licence, filling a Fable shaped hole in our hearts! GLM released 5.2 with folks really excited about it web building capabilities, and Kimi 2.7 Code released (and is available on CW Inference with crazy speeds!). We also saw the SpaceX IPO and Cursor $60B acquisition, Noam Shazeer joining Open and Midjourney, the image company, launching a new Ultrasound full body scanner to kill MRIs! Great show today with Dexter Horthy from HumanLayer, Chris Van Pelt and Adrian Swanberg from W&B announcing our new product HiveMind and Tanishq Abraham came back to help cover Midjourney’s new Ultrasound scanner! Let’s dive…

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