Anthropic, Mistral, SpaceX

Send us Fan MailMarvin's Guide to AI (Mostly Harmless) — June 13, 2026 Saturday edition. The US government blocks foreign access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, community demands open source, Anthropic falls into a platform trap, Mistral AI raises €3B, Moonshot AI launches a 300-sub-agent swarm, SpaceX bets $75B on orbital AI compute. Stories US blocks foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — export control directive, total customer disablement. "Open source AI must win" — viral Hacker News post (423 votes) in response to the blockade. Anthropic's platform trap — throttling Mythos while competing with its own customers. Anthropic survey: 64% fear job loss, 56% fear losing independent thought — the irony is not lost. Mistral AI seeks €3B at €20B valuation — Europe's sovereign alternative. Google + FBI vs Chinese AI scams, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters — information warfare, now. Fable 5: +5.7% performance for 2x cost — diminishing returns arrive. Moonshot AI Kimi Work — 300-sub-agent desktop swarm. OpenAI Codex flexible rate limits — the price war continues. SpaceX: $75B for orbital AI — Starlink as a computing platform. Zyphra Zamba2-VL — hybrid Mamba2-Transformer VLMs under Apache 2.0. Google Gemini-SQL2 — 80% on BIRD, new text-to-SQL SOTA.