TechSambad Jun 13, 2026: Fable 5 Grounded, SpaceX Soars, and the AI Gulag Unmasked

A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.

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2 Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,"...

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3 SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to...

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4 Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

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5 Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code: a Coding Model Reporting +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2 Over K2.6

Moonshot AI has open-sourced Kimi K2.7-Code under a Modified MIT license. It is a coding-focused, agentic model built on Kimi K2.6, with a 256K context window and roughly 30% lower...

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6 A Coding Implementation on Spatial Graph Neural Networks for Urban Function Inference Using city2graph, OSMnx, and PyTorch Geometric

We build an end-to-end spatial graph learning pipeline using city2graph. We collect urban POI and street network data from OpenStreetMap, with a synthetic fallback for reliability. We engineer spatial features,...

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7 Google Releases Gemini-SQL2: Gemini 3.1 Pro Text-to-SQL Scores 80.04% on BIRD Single-Model Leaderboard

We look at Gemini-SQL2, the text-to-SQL capability Google Research announced on June 12, 2026. Powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro, it posted 80.04% execution accuracy on the BIRD single-model leaderboard. We...

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8 15 Probability and Statistics Interview Questions Every Data Scientist Must Master

You probably solved Bayes’ Theorem in college and decided you’re “good at statistics.” But interviews reveal something else: most candidates don’t fail because they can’t code. They fail because they...

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9 Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

Article URL: https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513728 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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10 There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513536 Points: 29 # Comments: 4

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