The Ad Hoc AI Licensing Regime

Today on the AI Weekly Brief, meet your ad hoc AI licensing regime. AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. We are back with another five minute AI weekly brief. Use this episode to catch up on what you missed or to forward along to someone who needs to know what's going on, but isn't quite at the daily episode stage yet. Quick note before we get into the show. After recording and editing this episode, we got some big news updates on Friday afternoon and evening. What you're about to hear is the episode that happened before that news came out, and stick around at the end for a few thoughts on the latest on Mythos and GPT 5.6. This was a week where the hallmark was there was at no point any one huge story in AI, but instead, every single part of AI from politics to markets to models had something happen that inched us along towards a future that, in many cases, not everyone is loving. Certainly, the big background noise continues to be the Fable five story. Last weekend, people started chattering about a quote from senator Mark Warner, who reported that the NSA had told him that Mythos had been able to break into their classified systems. Now many people took this as Mythos literally breaking into NSA's classified systems when, of course, what it actually was was that during a red teaming exercise, in other words, a controlled experiment to figure out just how dangerous Mythos could be, the NSA saw much more significant capabilities than they had seen before. And this really set the tone for the week when it came to Fable and Mythos, in that everyone wanted to latch onto any small rumor or comment as an indicator of when we were actually going to get this thing back. One big whipsaw throughout the week was in the prediction markets, which started very bleary, but then had a single day where the likelihood of Fable five returning by July 1 jumped all the way up above 60%. Now it appears that the source for that were reports that the White House was having a better time interacting with anthropic cofounder Tom Brown after CEO Dario Amade had been sidelined in the conversations. And yet the week closed on the most important and most substantive news in all of this, which is that, yes, indeed, this is not just a personality clash between the White House and anthropic, but a new ad hoc, informal, unaccountable, and seemingly not particularly technically competent licensing regime. The newest news is that GPT 5.6 is indeed being delayed by the Trump administration as well. In a Wednesday company q and a, Sam Altman told OpenAI that GPT 5.6 would not be coming to the public but would instead be released in a limited preview to a small group of partners. The reason …