AI in Brief — Saturday, 13 June 2026

SpaceX's initial public offering raised a record sum and saw shares rise 11 percent on their debut, paving the way for a wave of enormous offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The blockbuster stock market debut of Elon Musk's rocket company marks the largest IPO ever. Source

Anthropic said it is taking its Claude Fable 5 model offline after the federal government ordered it to shut down Mythos and Fable systems, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak vulnerability. "The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5," the company said in a blog post. Source

Google sued a Chinese cybercrime group that used the company's Gemini system to create hundreds of fake corporate and government websites as part of a scam operation. The tech giant accused the group of automating fraud through the use of Google's artificial intelligence system. Source

Mistral, a French artificial intelligence startup, is raising €3 billion at a valuation of around €20 billion, nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion. Source

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, is launching Prometheus, a new AI startup that aims to develop an "artificial general engineer" by creating AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical products. Source

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