Fable got banned. The moral isn’t good. – #18

Author: neil.watkins@leadingai.co.uk

Published: 23/06/2026

This week in Leading AI podcast

By the time Kieron listened to last week’s episode, Fable had already been released and banned. That’s the pace of AI right now.

This week: why the US export ban on Anthropic’s frontier models should worry every business that’s quietly become dependent on one provider, the bid that went brilliantly until a customer who didn’t believe a 100/100 score was real, and the KPMG AI report where 40 of 45 case studies turned out to be entirely made up. Plus a school AI alliance doing something genuinely smart with output grading, and a qualification-design tool that turns weeks of regulatory mapping into minutes.

Two mates. A bar. Thirty years of business between them. And all they want to talk about is AI.

Pull up a stool — we’ll get the beers in. 🍺

 

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