AI News for July 2, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Amazon researcher's jailbreak find triggered the Fable 5 ban; Sonnet 5 ranks fifth on Intelligence Index: Anthropic disclosed that the 18-day Fable 5 export ban traced back to an Amazon researcher's discovery of a jailbreak in the model, now blocked by a newly trained safety filter.
[NEWS] Meta builds a cloud business to sell its excess AI compute: Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to AI compute and models, putting it in direct competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
[NEWS] OpenAI floats giving US government a 5% stake: OpenAI has opened preliminary talks about handing the US government a 5% equity stake, according to the Financial Times.
[NEWS] Abu Dhabi's MGX raises $49B for one of the biggest AI funds ever: MGX, the Abu Dhabi firm backing OpenAI and Anthropic, closed a $49 billion fund dedicated entirely to AI deals, one of the largest ever assembled for the sector.
[NEWS] SpaceX shows investors a slim AI device prototype, Musk denies it: SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a slim, smartphone-like device running xAI technology, according to the Wall Street Journal, said to be thinner than an iPhone with its own operating system and a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip.
[NEWS] Nvidia offers startups token credits in exchange for revenue: Nvidia rolled out a revenue-sharing program that grants token credits to AI startups in exchange for a cut of their future sales.
[NEWS] Cloudflare forces AI crawlers off ad-supported pages by default: Cloudflare set a September 15, 2026 deadline for AI companies to separate crawlers used for traditional search from those used for AI agents and model training.
[NEWS] Venice AI hits unicorn status with $65M for privacy-first platform: Venice AI raised a $65 million Series A that vaulted it to unicorn status on demand for uncensored, privacy-preserving AI.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models: An OpenAI genomics benchmark paper listed three Pro variants of GPT-5.6 for the first time: Luna Pro, Terra Pro, and Sol Pro.
[NEWS] Twelve Labs raises $100M from Amazon for video AI: Twelve Labs is raising $100 million from investors including Amazon, NEA, and Naver Ventures to advance AI that searches and analyzes large troves of video.

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