Episode 62

In this news roundup for AI for the Humanities, we cover developments from April through the first week of July 2026: the fastest model release cycle in recent memory, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 export control saga, xAI's launch of Grok 4.5, OpenAI's similarly government-gated release of GPT-5.6, a cluster of copyright cases (Anthropic and music publishers, Scott Turow's suit against Meta, and the Supreme Court's decision to keep Copyright Register Shira Perlmutter in office), and a split screen moment in education policy as Norway bans generative AI in elementary schools while American college students scramble to find an AI proof major.

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