Weekly Intel - 2026-07-05

This week brings a new mid-tier Claude model, a proposal to hand the US government an equity stake in OpenAI, and lifted export controls on two Anthropic models. It also brings price-fixing cases against egg and memory-chip producers, Spain&rsquo;s move to push Palantir out of its state companies, Virginia&rsquo;s new limit on geolocation-data sales, a 50-year low in labor force participation, and…