This week on The AI Hero Podcast: OpenAI proposes a 5% equity stake to the U.S. government worth ~$42.6 billion, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 returns to global availability after U.S. export controls are lifted, and AI-assisted research uncovers a 29-year-old critical vulnerability in the Squid proxy server.
Stories this episode:
OpenAI + US Government: Sam Altman pitches a sovereign wealth fund stake modeled on Alaska's Permanent Fund -- a move to share AI's economic upside with the American public and ease regulatory pressure on OpenAI's restructuring. TechCrunch
Claude Fable 5 Returns: Anthropic's most capable public model is back online after the Trump administration lifted emergency export controls on June 30. Originally taken offline June 12 due to a jailbreak-linked national security concern, Fable 5 is restored with updated safeguards -- available now on Claude.ai, Claude Code & Claude Cowork, with cloud provider rollout underway. Anthropic Blog
Squidbleed (CVE-2026-47729): Claude Mythos Preview, via Project Glasswing, helped discover a memory-disclosure bug in Squid proxy that dates to 1997 -- nearly 30 years undetected. Structurally similar to Heartbleed. Patch available in Squid 7.6. The Hacker News
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