Chris Campbell:

Cybersecurity Vets Protest ‘Dangerous’ U.S. Government Ban on Anthropic’s Most Powerful Models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models.

According to the open letter, “this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders” who now can’t use the models to find vulnerabilities and make their software and products more secure.

As of this writing, the letter is signed by 76 cybersecurity experts, including Alex Stamos, former Facebook chief of security; Casey Ellis, the founder of bug bounty platform Bugcrowd; and Jon Callas, famed cryptographer and former Apple security design and architecture manager.

On Friday, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to limit the export of Fable and Mythos, citing national security concerns, without explaining the specific reasons behind the order, according to Anthropic. In response, the company suspended access to the models to all users worldwide.

When Mythos launched as a preview in April, Anthropic claimed it was so powerful at finding security vulnerabilities that the company needed to tightly restrict access to prevent malicious hackers or foreign adversaries from using it to cause havoc on the internet.

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Greg Guenthner:

Stocks Soar as U.S. and Iran Reach Deal To Open Strait of Hormuz, End the War

Oil prices are falling and stock futures are up after the United States and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump announced the deal on Truth Social on Sunday evening, saying toll-free access to the strait would resume and the U.S.’s naval blockade would be lifted. This comes after both sides exchanged attacks last week, escalating tensions to some of the highest levels since the U.S. and Israel struck Iran in late February.

“Ships of the World, start your engines,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. “Let the oil flow!”

The full details of the agreement have yet to be released. Trump told The New York Times that the U.S. would resume strikes if Iran failed to reach a nuclear accord.

Shehbaz Sharif, prime minister of Pakistan, where the negotiations took place, said in an X post that the agreement would be signed on Friday at the G7 Summit in Switzerland.

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James Altucher:

Your Money Blueprint: Why You Keep Earning and Losing the Same Amount | T. Harv Eker

In this episode of The James Altucher Show, James sits down with T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, to examine why earning money, keeping money, and feeling secure about money are three very different skills.

Harv recounts cycling through 14 jobs and 12 businesses before building a successful chain of fitness stores – and then losing much of what he had earned. That experience forced him to confront what he calls a person’s “money blueprint”: the beliefs about wealth, work, success, and self-worth that are often absorbed long before we recognize them.

Harv explains how to separate your identity from your financial results, challenge inherited beliefs, create income that does not depend entirely on your time, and recognize the thoughts that quietly keep you inside your comfort zone.

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