Good Morning. Anthropic just released an AI model so capable it locked the original away for two months over real-world danger. We break down Mythos going public.

We also cover Meta's blue-collar pivot, FIFA's empty hotels, the iPhone baby bust, and a checklist for your next dollar (forwarded this email? Join 523k readers).

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 yesterday, a Mythos-class model for paid subscribers and enterprises. It arrives two months after the company kept the original Mythos private over fears its abilities could do real damage.

New safeguards make the wide release possible, blocking high-risk requests in areas like cybersecurity and biology. Ask how to make ricin and the model refuses, defaulting to the tamer Claude Opus 4.8, which scored 10% lower on some benchmarks (explained).

The launch lands days after Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO. Its revenue run rate has jumped to $47 billion from roughly $10 billion a year ago, and a recent round valued the company at $965 billion. Learn more about Mythos.

With the 2026 World Cup about to kick off, FIFA has dumped a flood of US hotel rooms it mass-booked, cancelling roughly 75% of the blocks it placed across host cities. Kansas City got hit hardest.

In Kansas City alone, FIFA reserved up to 5,000 rooms a night for peak dates around its six matches, at least 30,000 total. About 22,000 came back to hotels, with no cancellation fee paid (is the event a “colossal dud?”)

Local officials described the scale of cancellations as unusual. The timing stings: hotel bookings are running below normal nationwide, and the tournament is already struggling to fill stadiums, with several games still unsold days before kickoff.

▲ Meanwhile, UFC White House event to be staged at Lincoln Memorial

Meta launched a free, five-week "Workforce Academy" that trains Americans to build its data centers and guarantees graduates a construction job. The pivot comes just weeks after the company laid off 8,000 white-collar workers.

Meta is committing $115 million this year and piloting in Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana, and Texas. The driver is a severe trades shortage. Industry estimates say construction needs 349,000 net new workers this year alone, especially electricians and HVAC techs.

There's a catch worth noting: data centers need armies to build but few to run, so the boom may fade locally once construction ends. Meta's separate fiber-training program drew 35,000 applications in its first week.

Most people throw spare cash at whatever feels urgent, a little extra on the mortgage, a little into stocks, and end up optimizing nothing. The Money Guy Show's Financial Order of Operations is a clear, nine-step sequence for what to do with your next dollar: grab the full employer match first (free money you're leaving on the table), kill high-interest debt, build a reserve, then fill tax-advantaged accounts before taxable. It turns "am I doing this right" into a checklist.

If your knees bark going down stairs, or you've quietly stopped doing certain leg work, the fix is probably the opposite of resting them.

Ben Patrick, the "Knees Over Toes Guy," overcame debilitating knee and shin pain and surgeries by training the exact ranges most lifters avoid, then built the ATG system around it. The payoff is knees that take real load again, which matters more every year past 35.

▲ The iPhone may be accidental birth control, with researchers tying a 22% fertility drop to less in-person time and sex

▲ Drone boat pulls two US pilots from the sea in a first-ever rescue after Iran downs their Apache

▲ Rob Reiner's son seeks the $1.5M trust fund to defend against charges he killed his parents

▲ Pilates is America's fastest-growing workout, and Peloton is building tech to grade your form rep by rep.

▲ Reverse-aging drug begins its first human trial as Bezos, Altman, and Big Pharma pour billions into beating death

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