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On June 12 2026 the US government suspended Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals over a single narrow jailbreak. Anthropic's own testing found eight other models, from Claude Haiku 4.5 up through GPT-5.5, could do the same thing. Three days after launch, a control aimed at the dangerous model denied the safe one to everyone, including US customers.
Kaggle's free 2x T4 accelerator became hard to get this month. I traced why: 53 YouTube tutorials with 612,813 views teaching people to run LLMs on Kaggle around the clock, 80% of that reach landing in a single 16-day format-cloning wave. Here is the full anatomy of how a shared resource gets eaten.
Part 5 closes the AI Pipeline deep dive: the full stack laid bare as a chain of seven monopolies, the evidence on whether AI is producing real value, what every layer's kill switch means, why nothing about the current arrangement is stable, and what a country that owns none of it can do.
Part 4 of the AI Pipeline deep dive: AI compute hubs exist in only about 30 countries, and India is the world's biggest consumer with almost no ownership. 20% of global data, 3% of data centers, the 1989 Mohali fire, a fab starting two decades behind, and the first credible counter-moves in decades.
Part 3 of the AI Pipeline deep dive: the three clouds and five labs that buy everything parts 1 and 2 make, NVIDIA's software moat, the custom-silicon rebellion, and the full four-year timeline of export controls, mineral curbs, and counter-moves between the US and China, with Russia as the cautionary tale.
Part 2 of the AI Pipeline deep dive: the ASML EUV machine that prints the world's chips, the Zeiss mirrors polished to below one atom of roughness, TSMC's 70% foundry grip, the HBM oligopoly, and the single suppliers (including an MSG company) hidden inside the machine.
Part 1 of the AI Pipeline deep dive: before AI is software, it is sand, quartz, rare earths and gallium from a handful of mines, drawn into chips by three American software companies on two proprietary architectures. The ground floor of the most concentrated supply chain humans have ever built.
Cloudflare Workers AI serves 50+ models from its edge network with 10,000 free Neurons a day. Since July 2026 the frontier coding models need the $5/mo Paid plan, but the free tier still covers real daily coding through OpenCode. What is free, what moved to Paid, and how I wire it up.
I ranked nine free GPU notebook platforms against Google Colab in 2026. Kaggle (Tesla P100, 30 hrs/week, 29GB RAM) and AWS SageMaker Studio Lab (T4, 4 GPU hrs/day, persistent storage) take S tier, Paperspace Gradient is A tier with persistent storage, and Colab itself lands B tier for vague limits and 2-3 hour disconnects.
