#219: Claude Fable 5, OpenAI IPO, Apple Siri AI Finally Unveiled & Is the Era of Affordable AI Over? artwork

#219: Claude Fable 5, OpenAI IPO, Apple Siri AI Finally Unveiled & Is the Era of Affordable AI Over?

The Artificial Intelligence Show

June 16, 2026

The U.S. government forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from general availability just days after they launched as the most capable models publicly available.
Speakers: Paul Roetzer, Mike Kaput
**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
So whatever it is that's so bad that we have to shut down a model today, it's gonna be universally available within the year. And what do we do then? The government obviously isn't prepared for this. So the future models are gonna get more advanced and more capable, and the jailbreaks are always going to be an issue. Welcome to The Artificial Intelligence Show, the podcast that helps your business grow smarter by making AI approachable and actionable. My name is Paul Roetzer. I'm the founder and CEO of SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute, and I'm your host. Each week, I'm joined by my co-host and SmarterX Chief Content Officer, Mike Kaput, as we break down all the AI news that matters and give you insights and perspectives that you can use to advance your company and your career. Join us as we accelerate AI literacy for all.
Welcome to Episode 219 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are recording Monday, June 15th, around 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
The anthropic situation may change by the time you listen to this. Who knows? We are going to address Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and the government actions that forced Anthropic to remove it from general availability. That's going to be our first topic today. But as I said, that what we say to start off may have changed by Tuesday morning.
We're going to hustle through today. I have to catch a flight to New York right after this this morning. We have an immense amount to cover in a short amount of time today. We're going to dive right in. Today's episode is brought to us by AI Academy by SmarterX which helps individuals and businesses accelerate their AI literacy and transformation through personalized learning journeys, and an AI-powered learning platform. New educational content is added weekly, so you're always up-to-date with the latest AI trends and technologies. The AI for Departments collection features eight course series and certificates that are designed to jumpstart AI understanding and adoption. Those eight certificates series include marketing, sales, customer success, HR, finance, operations, legal and as of last week, right Mike?

**Mike Kaput** (2:23)
Yeah.

**Paul Roetzer** (2:24)
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**Mike Kaput** (2:40)
I think we've got seven or eight now.

**Paul Roetzer** (2:41)
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All right. So our AI Pulse, if you're new to the weekly podcast, we do these Pulse polls each week. It's like an informal survey where we ask our audience feedback based on a topic from that week's episode, and then we share the findings the following week. So last week we asked, Anthropic says, more than 80 percent of the code it ships is now written by its own AI. How much of your day-to-day work is AI already doing? Okay. So we have 43 percent say a meaningful share, 25 to 50 percent of their work. Wow. 32 percent, a little under 25 percent, 13, 14 percent, most of it. Wow. Okay.
One of those people are just working less around. So over 50 percent. So 14 percent of our listeners said that AI is doing more than 50 percent of their work every day, and then 11 percent say none of it, which is interesting. The second question was, should the US government take financial stakes in the country's top AI labs? This is unusually split. I would have expected this to be pretty dominated. Okay. So we have 39 percent say no, the government shouldn't own equity in AI labs.
Twenty-five percent only in specific national security cases. This is going to become relevant today. And then our discussions, 23 percent say not sure. That's good. I would kind of expect that. And then 14 percent, yes, taxpayers should share in the upside.

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