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AI Step-Change Alert!

Tech Brew Ride Home

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**Podcast:** Tech Brew Ride Home

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Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, March 27th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, is Anthropic about to release an AI model that will be a true step change? Is Apple about to open Siri up to everyone, not just ChatGPT? Is OpenAI already making serious bank from ads? Is Elon trying to open the SpaceX IPO to normies? And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Man, another news-packed Friday. Let's jump right in. A U.S. judge has granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DoD's decision to blacklist the company, quoting CNBC. Judge Rita Lynn issued the ruling on Thursday, two days after lawyers for the artificial intelligence startup and

the U.S. government appeared in court for a hearing. Punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the government's contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation, Lynn wrote in the order. A final verdict in the case could still be months away. During Tuesday's hearing, Lynn pressed the government's lawyers about why Anthropic was blacklisted. Her language in Thursday's order was even sharper. Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion

that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government, she wrote. Following the ruling, Anthropic said it's grateful to the court for moving swiftly. Meanwhile, the interwebs have been buzzing about what might be waiting in the wings at Anthropic, quoting Fortune. AI company Anthropic is developing and has begun testing with early access customers a new AI model more capable than any it has released previously,

the company said following a data leak that revealed the model's existence. An Anthropic spokesperson said the new model represented a step change in AI performance and was, quote, the most capable we've built to date. The company said the model is currently being trialed by early access customers. Descriptions of the model were inadvertently stored in a publicly accessible data cache and were reviewed by Fortune. A draft blog post that was available in an unsecured and publicly

searchable data store prior to Thursday evening said the new model is called Claude Mythos and that the company believes it poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks. The same cache of unsecured publicly discoverable documents revealed details of a planned invite-only CEO summit in Europe that is part of the company's drive to sell its AI models to large corporate customers. The AI lab left the material including what appeared to be a draft blog post announcing a new model in an unsecured public data lake,

according to documents separately located and reviewed by Roy Paz, a senior AI security researcher at Layerx Security, a computer and network security company, and Alex...

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