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July 2026 has been one of the most eventful months in the tech industry so far this year, revolving around three axes: the wave of models, the infrastructure race, and security and management.
After nearly three weeks of being "frozen" due to a US government export control order, the most powerful AI model ever widely released by Anthropic — Claude Fable 5 — has officially resumed operations globally as of 1 July 2026.
In less than a week, Anthropic experienced two contrasting historic milestones: launching the most powerful AI model ever publicly released, then being forced to shut it down entirely by order of the US government.
Anthropic launches Claude Mythos Preview — the first AI to autonomously exploit zero-day security vulnerabilities, released only under controlled access via Project Glasswing. OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Instant with higher accuracy and fewer hallucinations. Google unveils over 260 announcements at Cloud Next '26, including Gemma 4 and the 8th-generation TPU.