Ask most AI companies about their training data and you get the same line: it’s all publicly available. Clearview AI says it. OpenAI has said it. hiQ Labs said it when it scraped half a billion LinkedIn profiles to sell “people analytics” to employers.
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the public as a safeguarded version of its more restricted Mythos-class system. Just days later, on June 12, 2026, the U.S. government issued a legally binding export-control directive that forced Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
A new wave of AI-generated scam books is targeting unsuspecting readers online, with books such as “Glow They Never Saw” and “Manifest the Unseen” as prime examples.
In late April 2026, multiple outlets reported that an AI coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude (Opus 4.6) accidentally deleted an entire production database and its backups at a startup called PocketOS — in 9 seconds.