1. The Friday-night order that locked every foreign user out of Anthropic's top two models On Friday evening the US government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, both inside and outside the United States, citing national security concerns.

2. "Subscription Economy for Cognition" Lands 1,500 Hacker News Points in a Day A single-page document at opensourceaimustwin.com, signed by @TheAhmadOsman, climbed to 1,500 points and 463 comments on Hacker News.

3. Your iPhone Can Now Fill In Parts of a Photo You Never Shot Open the editor in iOS 27 and the iPhone offers to do things a camera was never supposed to do. Reframe widens a cropped shot, painting in scenery that was never in front of the lens.

In Brief

• State attorneys general open investigation into OpenAI State attorneys general are questioning OpenAI on matters spanning its advertising policies and its handling of health data. The states involved have not been named.

• KPMG retracts AI usage report over hallucinated content KPMG pulled a report on AI adoption after apparent fabrications turned up in the document itself. The retraction adds to a pattern of AI-generated errors in published research about AI.

• OpenAI backs EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency OpenAI said it will support the EU Code of Practice covering content provenance. The company committed to provenance standards and tools that label AI-generated content.

• Theker raises $85M for reconfigurable factory robots Theker raised $85 million to build factory robots that can be reconfigured for different tasks rather than locked to one form. The approach contrasts with fixed humanoid designs like Boston Dynamics.

• Avataar prices distilled video model at $0.005 per second Avataar AI released a distilled video generation model built for Indian-language scale. It charges half a cent for every second of generated video.

• DoorDash launches Ask DoorDash chatbot for prompt and photo ordering DoorDash added a chatbot that lets users search the app with their own words or photos. It replaces scrolling through restaurants and stores to build a cart.

• Opendoor's India exit reopens the AI-versus-outsourcing debate Opendoor pulled operations out of India, prompting debate over whether AI is displacing outsourced work. The exit comes as India becomes the world's largest global capability center market.

• Andrew Yang pitches cost-of-living startups as the next opportunity Andrew Yang argued the next startup wave will target what Americans overpay for — housing, food, and wireless. He listed those categories as the coming gold rush.

• Pool launches an app that turns screenshots into a searchable bank Pool released an app that sorts screenshots into collections and recovers the original links behind saved content. It helps users find products, recipes, and travel ideas they saved.

• WeaveBench tests computer-use agents across hybrid interfaces Researchers released WeaveBench, a benchmark of 114 tasks across 8 work domains for agents that mix desktop control, command line, code editing, and browsers. It targets long-horizon cross-interface orchestration that prior benchmarks test as separate skills.

• Tribeca 2026 coverage marks the limits of prompt-based AI filmmaking Reporting from Tribeca 2026 argued AI video models still produce only short clips, not feature-length entertainment audiences would pay for. The piece pushed back on claims that gen AI is remaking Hollywood.

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