AI News: Claude BAN, Fable 5, GLM 5.2, KIMI K2.7 + Fusion

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Claude just got banned, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mifos 5 both pulled, not by a glitch, but by the United States government. And if that sounds wild, it is, because it happened in the same seven days that China dropped two new AI models that started beating Claude at its own test. The same week, a new trick showed up that lets cheaper AI models work together and match the best models on the planet. And on the same week, the three more tools quietly got upgrades to change how you do search and run tasks whilst you sleep. This is the My AI News Roundup, one week, eight big stories, and every single one of them matters far more for your business, whether you're in an agency, whether you sell products online, whether you're a creator trying to get more done in less time. So let's start with the one that nobody saw coming, which is the Claude BAN. On Friday evening, the US government sent Anthropic a letter, Anthropic makes Claude. The letter told them to block all access to their most powerful models, Fable 5 and Myphos 5, for any foreign national. That means anyone who isn't a US citizen, whether they're inside the United States or outside it, even Anthropic's own employees who aren't citizens. Now, here's the problem. How do you let only US citizens use a model and block everyone else? You can't really, it's too hard to check. So what did they do? Anthropic said the only way to follow the order was to shut both models off completely for everyone. The letter actually came from the Commerce Department, citing national security.
Anthropic got it at 5:21 p.m. Eastern time, and the letter didn't even see exactly what the concern was. Anthropic pushed back hard. They said the following the order, but they don't agree with it. They argued that pulling a model used by hundreds of millions of people sets a very scary standard. If that rule got applied to everyone, they said it will basically freeze all new model releases across the whole industry. So think about what that means. The models are now so capable that a government stepped into control, who gets to use them? That has never happened before, not like this. And here's what it means for you. The tools you build your business around can change overnight. One day Fable 5 is the most powerful thing you ever used. The next day it's gone and you didn't do anything wrong. You just wake up and it wasn't there. So the question becomes, what do you do when the tools you depend on disappears? That's exactly the trap that most people fall into. They pick one AI tool, they learn from it, they build everything around it, and then it gets pulled or worse, something better comes out or they're just totally stuck. They're starting over. That's the whole reason I keep telling people not to just marry one tool. Inside the AirPort for Boarding, we actually built something called the Agent Operating System. So you want to think of it of like a dashboard in one place. You can build this yourself or you can get my setup inside there. It's got Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, all of them into one place with shared memory. So if a model like Fable 5 gets pulled, which you just did, you don't panic. You just switch to another model and have the same system that keeps working. So Fable 5 gets pulled, which leads to the next obvious worry. If the best Claude model is gone, what do you even use right now? And there's funny enough time in that because the answer actually showed up the same week from China. The first one is Glm 5.2 came out in June the 13th from a company called Jerpu, also known as ZAI, and it's a coding and building model. It's got a million token context window, which means it can hold a massive amount of information in its head at once without forgetting. Now I actually tested Glm 5.2 against Opus 4.8, which is the Claude model that's still up. Same prompt, same test, and honestly actually surprised me. So we've got Opus 4.8 over here, we've got Glm 5.2 over here.
We asked all of them to build like a simple game where a character runs through a city dodging blocks. And Glm 5.2 actually made a better game. This is way more fun to play with than what you'll see from Claude and Opus 4.8, which is like super basic and boring, right? So it's more fun, it's more polished. Opus 4.8's version actually fell very slow and basic. Now we did another test here where we tried to create a landing page, right? A launch page, you know, the kind you see from a big tech company. And Glm 5.2 actually nailed it if we take a look at this. So clean design, working menu, the whole thing. Opus 4.8 is actually a lot thinner and more boring. It's plainer, right? Now out of about five tests like that, Glm 5.2 actually won most of them, which is why because Glm 5.2 is a cheaper plan. You can plug it into your AI agents and it's beating the model that most people thought was untouchable. Now, one honest note, there's no official benchmarks. So I can't tell you if it's proven better on paper. I can only tell you what I built with it and what I saw on my own screen as you can see right now. And if we have a look at this example, so this was a neon arcade game like you can see. And this one is super basic from Claude Opus 4.8. If we check out the results from Glm 5.2, you can see that this game is maybe 10 times more fun, right? Looks crazy, interesting, fun to play with, a lot better design.