Google Cuts AI Plus Subscription Price to $4.99

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model available to the general public via TechCrunch and CNBC. It is state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark with its biggest lead on long complex tasks. Queries touching high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology get automatically rerouted to the less capable Opus 4.8. A separate version, Mythos 5, with fewer restrictions goes only to vetted cyberdefenders in Project Glasswing. The coalition includes Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google and Cisco. SpaceX prices its IPO Friday at roughly a 1.75 trillion dollar valuation per its SEC filing. OpenAI announced it will go public. Anthropic confidentially filed last week after a Series H that valued it at 965 billion dollars. Google cut its AI Plus plan from 7.99 dollars to 4.99 dollars per month while doubling storage via TechCrunch. Microsoft shipped the largest Patch Tuesday in the program's history. It covers roughly 200 CVEs or 571 counting bundled components via BleepingComputer and ZDI. Priorities include CVE-2026-41091, a Microsoft Defender privilege escalation flaw already exploited in the wild, CVE-2026-45657, a CVSS 9.8 Windows kernel remote code execution bug, a BitLocker The 2026 World Cup opens tomorrow in Mexico City. Check Point reports criminals spent over a year pre-building fraud infrastructure aimed at financial services, tourism and betting platforms with fake hotel sites making up over half of impersonation attempts. ESET catalogs eight active scam categories from cloned FIFA sites to a fictitious World Cup visa.