Fortune Tech: Cybersecurity leaders back Mythos, Fox buys Roku, Xbox studio spinoffs
Fortune Tech: Cybersecurity leaders back Mythos, Fox buys Roku, Xbox studio spinoffs
Publish Date: 2026-06-16 06:32:00
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Good morning. June 16 is a big day in tech.
It’s the founding date of both IBM (1911) and Oracle (1977), not to mention the day Kaspersky Lab announced its discovery of Cabir, the world’s first known mobile phone virus (for Symbian devices, of course).
I usually reserve a pop quiz for a Friday, but this one’s too good to pass up. So: Neither IBM nor Oracle were called those names upon their founding. What were the original names of these two tech titans?
Take your best guess, then find the answer below in “Endstop triggered.” —Andrew Nusca
P.S. Fortune’s third-ever Southeast Asia 500 is out, featuring familiar names including electronics maker Flex, Vinfast EV-maker parent Vingroup, and telecom giant Singtel.
P.P.S. A fascinating read from colleague Sharon Goldman about a $10 billion data center dividing two adjacent small towns in Texas.
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U.S. cybersecurity leaders urge White House to lift ban on Anthropic Mythos, Fable
Alex Stamos, then the chief information security officer at Yahoo, during a Senate hearing on May 15, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
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The drama continues. As reports emerge detailing missteps by both Anthropic and the Trump administration amid the sudden ban on the company’s new Mythos and Fable AI models—Anthropic can’t speak the same language as the White House; the White House gave Anthropic just 90 minutes to comply with a vague order—cybersecurity leaders are up in arms over political football that they say hurts everyone.
More than 125 such executives—including former Facebook security officer Alex Stamos, former NSA AI officer Vinh Nguyen, internet trailblazer Paul Vixie, famed cryptographer Bruce Schneier, and bug bounty pioneer Katie Moussouris—signed and published an open letter requesting that the White House lift its restrictions on Anthropic’s AI models.
“This action has taken the best models…
