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The Trump administration is beginning to lift its export restrictions on Anthropic, according to a letter from the Commerce Department viewed by The Information. The decision will allow Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos model to more than 100 U.S. institutions, including companies and government agencies, Semafor first reported. It does not apply to Fable, a version of Mythos that Anthropic designed for public release. The move comes two weeks after the White House first imposed export controls on Anthropic, which restricted access to its models by foreign users, including some of the company’s own employees. The Trump administration argued at the time that Anthropic had not addressed security concerns over its frontier models. In response, Anthropic withdrew customer access to Fable and Mythos. Friday’s letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, addressed to Anthropic co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown, states that Anthropic’s efforts to find an agreement with the White House have “yielded significant progress.” It adds that a license will no longer be required for certain companies to access Mythos, as well as Anthropic’s foreign national employees. While Anthropic and the Trump administration have worked to reach an accord, the White House’s export control has created confusion over the process for AI companies to release new models. The government asked Anthropic’s chief rival OpenAI to do a staggered release of its new model, GPT 5.6, The Information reported on Thursday. “We are working to provision the approved set of providers and restore their access to Mythos 5 as quickly as possible,” a spokesperson for Anthropic said. “We are pleased to see this progress and continue to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again.” A spokesperson for the Commerce Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/white-house-lifts-export-control-anthropics-mythos?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

The article argues that declining birth rates are not a mystery caused by feminism, careers, or women “forgetting” their biological role. Carlyn Beccia’s thesis is that birth rates fall when women gain education, contraception, economic options, and the ability to delay or refuse marriage and motherhood. In her view, conservatives are misdiagnosing the problem because they do not want to admit that high historical fertility often depended on women having fewer choices.  if conservatives genuinely want more babies, they should stop shaming women and instead make parenthood easier: affordable housing, sane childcare costs, universal healthcare, safer pregnancy, real paid leave, and more equal fatherhood. The essay’s punchline is that women are not refusing civilization; they are refusing the unpaid bill that civilization keeps handing them. https://carlynbeccia.medium.com/conservatives-are-breaking-their-brains-over-declining-birth-rates-b99f5d0c6945

the number of books completed is a vanity metric. Reading makes you smarter only when it leaves a durable imprint, helps answer a real question, or creates new connections in your mind. Read slower, abandon more, follow curiosity, and optimize for what stays after the book is closed. https://code.likeagirl.io/why-reading-more-books-wasnt-making-me-smarter-5fad5a2cad03

Meta is building a prediction market app that could rival offerings from Polymarket and Kalshi, The New York Times reported. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/meta-prediction-markets-app.html?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-17338&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Europe is hastening its breakup with US tech (https://sherwood.news/power/eu-proposes-tech-sovereignty-package-to-bolster-domestic-ai-and-chip-industries/?utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260604&utm_content=dc930db90c4bd4a0f1898cc4c363a29d ) as the Trump administration’s grip on American tech companies tightens