AI News for July 1, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] US lifts export ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, restoring global access: The Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, with worldwide access resuming July 1 through Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.
[NEWS] Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a steep discount, closing the gap to Opus: Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic midsize model yet, capable of autonomous planning and using browsers and terminals.
[TOOLS] Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench built for researchers: Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench that unifies dozens of scientific databases, tools, and packages so scientists can analyze literature, run multi-step analyses, create charts, and draft manuscripts in one interface.
[TOOLS] Google releases Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest image model: Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, technically Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image, generating 1K images in about four seconds at $0.034 each.
[NEWS] Nvidia rival Etched hits $5B valuation and $1B in orders for inference chip: AI chip startup Etched booked $1 billion in contract orders for its frontier inference clusters, full systems bundling its chips with custom racks and software to run frontier-model inference faster and cheaper.
[TOOLS] Google brings Gemini Omni Flash to the API with conversational video editing: Google rolled out Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in its new Omni family, to developers and enterprises via API after a consumer debut at I/O 2026.
[RESEARCH] Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 decodes full sentences from non-invasive brain scans: Meta introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-scanning system that reads whole words and sentences rather than v1's single characters, with accuracy nearing surgical-implant setups.
[NEWS] AWS commits $1 billion to forward-deployed AI engineering org: AWS launched a $1 billion internal organization for forward-deployed AI engineers who embed within customer companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast engagements and customer self-sufficiency.
[NEWS] Anthropic launches AI drug discovery program in healthcare bet: Anthropic launched an AI drug discovery program, joining other tech giants wagering that AI can accelerate biomedical research.
[RESEARCH] New attack lulls AI browsers into a 'dream world' where guardrails vanish: New research shows a malicious website can trick AI browsers into a false reality where their behavioral rules no longer apply.

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