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Tech Brew Ride Home

Fable Thrown Under The Bus

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Technology, Tech News, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Anthropic sent staff to DC to resolve the Mythos 5 export crisis after Amazon's Jassy reportedly helped trigger the federal block. Fox is buying Roku for ~$22B, the UK bans social media for under-16s, and Chinese Tesla drivers fool monitoring with doll heads. Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5 dispute; both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue (Axios) The US Commerce Dept blocked foreign persons from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5; Anthropic cut off all customers to comply, calling the disclosed jailbreaks minor (The Verge) Trump signed off on the restriction himself after Commerce Secretary Lutnick was asked to lead the response (NYT) Amazon researchers showed Fable's safeguards could be evaded; Jassy raised it with Treasury's Bessent, helping set the export controls in motion (WSJ) Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$22B including debt, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX drops 10%+ (WSJ) Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s to "give kids their childhood back", using an Australia-like model, in effect by next spring (Reuters) UK's under-16 ban will cover Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X but exempt WhatsApp and Signal; AI companion chatbots must be 18+ (TechCrunch) Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people (Wired) Chinese Tesla owners use figurines, photos, lenticular images, and looping face videos to bypass cabin-camera monitoring, sold for $10–$40 online (Digital Trends) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Illumination Presents, Minions and Monsters.

0:03.0

Do you want to make a monster movies?

0:04.6

Come big a kajoo.

0:06.1

Arr, Arr!

0:07.3

And what are you going to use for your monster?

0:09.7

Uh-oh.

0:11.1

On July 1st.

0:12.5

I know the perfect monsters for your movie.

0:15.9

Just try not to look too delicious.

0:21.3

Quick question.

0:22.6

I want to eat one of these funny-looking yellow guys.

0:24.5

Is that okay?

0:26.3

Millions and monsters.

0:27.5

In Cinemus Wednesday, July 1.

0:29.1

Book tickets now.

0:34.4

Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Monday, June 15th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. Anthropics sent staff to D.C. to resolve the Mythos 5 export crisis after Amazon reportedly helped trigger the federal block. Fox is buying Roku for around $22 billion, the UK banned social media for under 16s, and Chinese Tesla driver drivers full driver attention monitoring with dollheads.

0:56.4

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1:02.7

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1:07.7

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1:13.4

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1:20.2

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1:26.4

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