The Slop Report - June 13, 2026
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1. Show HN: A Terrible Way to Consume Hacker News – AI Slop
Hacker News - · Jun 12
I'm probably not the only one who has been frustrated by my LinkedIn feed being almost entirely AI-slop thought-leadership lately. I had this thought that an entirely AI generated feed wouldn't be any less useful than my actual feed, so I built one. It scans the top 30 HN posts and takes a
2. The rise of ‘AI slop ‘ accusations is becoming a new form of gatekeeping
Hacker News - · Jun 12
3. Show HN: LinkedIn Unfiltered – Turn AI slop into readable posts
Hacker News - · Jun 12
I have also written a blog post about building it.<p>https://www.kjhq.dev/blog/creating-linkedin-unfiltered
4. OpenAI is facing investigation from a group of state attorneys general
Engadget - · Jun 13
A coalition of state attorneys general is asking OpenAI for documents about its activities.
5. Anthropic ‘Suspends’ All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access
Slashdot - · Jun 13
“Anthropic said on Friday it will ‘abruptly disable’ its most advanced AI models for all users,” reports Reuters, “after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. The company received the export control directive to suspe
6. US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall
The Next Web - · Jun 13
The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it received at 5:21pm ET on 12 June, cites national secur
7. Realistic Superintelligence
Hacker News - · Jun 13
Most of us are skeptics. HN, mostly, is composed of “most of us”, so it’s not surprising to see skeptics here. Perhaps the HAL level superintelligence parroted by CEOs is to IPO at a trillion dollars. So let’s instead talk about a “realistic superintelligence” vs the “Sauron superintelligence”. Some
8. Anthropic blocks all customers’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Engadget - · Jun 13
Anthropic has suspended all access to its new AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with a government order citing national security concerns.
9. Government Order Shuts Down Fable 5 Despite Anthropic’s Objections via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Search Engine Journal - · Jun 13
U.S. export control directive forces Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 access. The company disputes the security concerns. The post Government Order Shuts Down Fable 5 Despite Anthropic’s Objections appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
10. Anthropic Blocks Foreigners From Using Mythos and Fable AI
NY Times Tech - · Jun 13
The company said on Friday night that the federal government had ordered limits on its Mythos and Fable 5 A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.
11. The US government just hit the brakes on Anthropic’s most powerful AI models
Digital Trends - · Jun 13
Anthropic has disabled access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government directive raised national security concerns over possible jailbreaks and cyber misuse.
12. Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive
Ars Technica - · Jun 13
Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 “jailbreak” could be a national security threat.
13. Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
TechCrunch AI - · Jun 13
Anthropic isn’t hiding its frustration. “We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,” the company wrote in a blog post.
14. Scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI
Axios - · Jun 13
The Trump administration is blocking foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing Anthropic’s most advanced AI models . Why it matters: The move marks an escalation in Washington’s effort to treat cutting-edge AI systems as national security assets. Anthropic now finds itself on a P
15. What the SpaceX I.P.O. Means for OpenAI and Anthropic
NY Times Tech - · Jun 12
Strong investor interest in SpaceX could be good news for the A.I. rivals, which have signaled that they, too, intend to go public this year.
16. SpaceX Stock Rises 11% in Largest IPO Ever
NY Times Tech - · Jun 12
The blockbuster stock market debut of Elon Musk’s rocket company paves the way for a wave of enormous offerings that are coming from OpenAI and Anthropic.
17. SpaceX to list on US stock market at historic $1.77tn valuation
The Guardian Tech - · Jun 12
Initial public offering for aerospace and AI company made Musk the world’s first trillionaire as share prices jumped Share your views on SpaceX’s stock market debut SpaceX made the biggest stock market debut in history on Friday after nearly two and a half decades as a private company. Public tradin
18. Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’
The Guardian Tech - · Jun 12
Unidentified officer removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK A police officer is under criminal investigation over the alleged use of artificial intelligence and has been removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK. The officer, who
19. India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals
The Next Web - · Jun 12
Bangalore-based Avataar AI has launched Varya, one of India’s first homegrown video AI models. It generates video at roughly $0.005 per second, or 0.48 rupees. Founder Sravanth Aluru, a former Deutsche Bank investment banker and Microsoft and IIT Mumbai alum, says that is 27 times cheaper than compa
20. Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts
Slashdot - · Jun 12
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says us
21. SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok
The Next Web - · Jun 12
SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facility work for its own AI models. Bloomberg reported on Friday that SpaceX encountered latency issues when trying to connect the Memphis site to two other data centre campu
22. Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough?
Hacker News - · Jun 12
I fell into the rabbit hole of TTS models lately. Tried all major paid tools (ElevenLabs/InWorld/etc.), and all the newest open-source models.<p>I started asking myself: what happens when the voice is "solved"? E.g. it gets impossible to distinguish it from a human. Wanted to hea
23. Microsoft Surface Flaw Allowed Unprotected Devices To Be Bricked By a Single Packet
Slashdot - · Jun 12
Longtime Slashdot reader Dotnaught shares a report from The Register: For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot. And th
24. Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts
The Next Web - · Jun 12
Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise. The group used AI, including Google’s own Gemini, to generate phishing websites and send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands. It sent 2.5 million fr
25. Scammers used Gemini AI to power a massive phishing operation and Google just sued them
Digital Trends - · Jun 12
A Chinese scam network used Google’s Gemini AI to flood millions of phones with fake texts and build over 9,000 phishing websites, prompting a landmark Google lawsuit.
25 stories sourced from Ars Technica, Axios, Digital Trends, Engadget, Hacker News, NY Times Tech, Search Engine Journal, Slashdot, TechCrunch AI, The Guardian Tech, The Next Web. The Slop Report is published daily. Subscribe via RSS.