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The OpenClaw community has officially entered the podcast era. The Clawcast launched June 25 with its inaugural episode, bringing together two of the project’s core contributors and one of its most prominent community creators for a conversation that spans skills, marketplaces, and deployment security — all the things that matter to people actually running OpenClaw in production. Who’s on Episode 1? The hosts are Hannes Rudolph, OpenClaw’s Community Manager, and Patrick Erichsen, a developer and Member of Technical Staff involved closely with ClawHub. Their guest is Adam from GosuCoder (@GosuCoder), a YouTuber who’s built a significant following by documenting hands-on experiences with OpenClaw and similar tools. ...

OpenClaw shipped its most ambitious stable release of 2026 this week — and followed it up almost immediately with a beta teaser that has the community buzzing. v2026.6.10 stable landed on June 24 with 279 commits, 17 contributors, and a suite of features that fundamentally change how personal AI agents operate across chat channels. Then, barely days later, v2026.6.11-beta.1 dropped with operator-level capabilities that hint at where OpenClaw is heading. ...

In a week that’s already rewriting the rules of frontier AI deployment, OpenAI launched its latest model suite under conditions nobody would have anticipated just a year ago: US government oversight as a precondition for release. GPT-5.6 arrived Friday in limited preview — less than 24 hours after news broke that the Trump administration had requested a staged rollout for national security vetting. That’s not a delay. That’s something new. ...

Numbers don’t lie — and the numbers OpenAI just published about its own workforce are extraordinary. According to a new research paper and blog post released June 25, 97.9% of OpenAI employees now actively use Codex agents as their primary AI tool for work. That’s up from roughly 40% in August 2025. The transformation happened in under a year. More striking than the headline figure is what’s driving the growth: it’s not engineers. The fastest-growing segment is non-developers. ...

Legal tech has been talking about AI disruption for years. Perplexity just stopped talking and shipped something. The company announced Computer for Counsel this week — a multi-model agentic system built specifically for legal professionals. It extends Perplexity’s well-known search and research capabilities into a full agentic layer: not just finding information, but acting on it through workflows for contract review, legal research, and document drafting. Gunderson Dettmer, the prominent Silicon Valley law firm, is among the named early adopters. ...

⚠️ Editor’s note: This article is based on an Axios exclusive sourced from insiders “close to the talks.” As of publication, Fable 5 remains fully offline for general users. The outcome described here is anticipated but not confirmed. We’re covering it because Axios has a strong track record on this story and the timing is time-sensitive. The second shoe may be about to drop. One day after the White House greenlit Anthropic’s Mythos 5 for a controlled re-release to 100+ US organizations, Axios is reporting that Claude Fable 5 restrictions could be lifted as soon as this coming week — pending final sign-off from the Pentagon and the NSA. ...

After weeks of tense negotiations between Anthropic and the Trump administration, the most powerful AI model the company has ever built is back — at least for a select group. The US government has formally cleared Anthropic to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 for more than 100 US organizations, ending a roughly two-week blackout that sent shockwaves through the enterprise AI world. What Happened On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department issued an export-control directive citing national security concerns about Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — two of Anthropic’s most capable models. The directive forced Anthropic to take both models fully offline globally, including for US customers, to ensure compliance. The shutdown was unprecedented in scope for an AI model. ...

AI inference costs have been the quiet ticking clock for enterprise AI adoption. The promise of AI transformation is compelling, but when the compute bills exceed your payroll, something has to give. For Lindy — the 25-person AI agent platform founded by Flo Crivello — the breaking point arrived, and the solution was a complete migration away from Anthropic Claude to DeepSeek v4. The result: approximately 90% reduction in inference costs, with performance on core use cases that Crivello described as improved, not just maintained. ...

Anthropic doesn’t usually publish research about its own business or the broader economic impact of AI. That’s what makes their 2026 research suite — spanning labor market impacts, agent adoption trends, and agentic coding patterns — notably different from typical company research. This is Anthropic turning the analytical lens on the world their technology is reshaping, and the data is worth examining carefully. The key word is “suite.” This isn’t a single titled report. It’s a collection of related research releases that together paint a detailed picture of where the AI agent economy stands in mid-2026 — and where it appears to be heading. ...

Two weeks after the Trump administration abruptly suspended deployments of Anthropic’s most advanced cybersecurity AI, the restrictions have been lifted. The US government notified Anthropic on June 26 that Claude Mythos 5 — its most powerful model purpose-built for cybersecurity applications — can be redeployed to more than 100 US organizations operating and defending critical infrastructure. The news caps a tense standoff that exposed just how deeply AI systems have been woven into the fabric of national security and infrastructure defense — and how quickly policy can pull that thread. ...