Bezos Bets $41B AI Means More Jobs, Anthropic Apologizes Over Fable, AI Joins the World Cup
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 12th, 2026. Jeff Bezos revealed more about Prometheus, his AI startup building an “artificial general engineer” for physical machines like jet engines, raising $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation — while making the contrarian case that AI will create more than 10 times the job opportunities it displaces, not fewer. Anthropic issued a public apology after Fable 5’s safety filters were caught invisibly downgrading answers on AI development topics without telling users, with scientists reporting they couldn’t even say hello to the model…
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