# AI Policy Shifts, Cloud Infrastructure, and Mobile Agents

**Podcast:** TechCrunch Daily Crunch
**Published:** 2026-07-02

## Transcript

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Looks like Uncle Sam's lifted a requirement that Anthropic obtain a license before exporting its Mythos and Fable models abroad, a requirement that effectively cut off public access to what are widely considered the most advanced AI models released to date.
The AI lab said it would begin restoring access to the models on Wednesday, July 1st.
You see, on June 12th, the U.S.
government had added the products to its list of export-restricted technologies, meaning they could no longer be made available to foreign nationals without special approval.
Complying with that rule proved impractical at scale, forcing Anthropic to end public access to the models altogether.
Well, now after weeks of talks, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models, to work diligently with the U.S.
government on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable, and Future models, and to inform the U.S.
government of any malicious activity.
Now, Anthropic had already publicly pledged to do much of this voluntarily months before the export rule existed.
That's part of why cybersecurity experts were skeptical of the restrictions in the first place.
To them, the ban looked less like a security fix and more like leverage, a way for the Trump administration to punish Anthropic for its executives' public criticism of how the government and the president's political opponents might use the technology.
Last week, Lutnik cleared Mythos to be released to select customers approved by the White House.
OpenAI's latest models were also released to a group of organizations approved by the Trump team instead of the public.
The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
An executive order issued in June that signaled a desire to review models ahead of release was criticized by influential analysts like Dean W.
Ball, who recently started a policy position at OpenAI.
In other news, Meta has spent billions of dollars developing AI and building out data centers to support it.
But now, the company may be preparing to put those data centers to a more immediately profitable purpose.
You see, on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to both AI compute power and models.
The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
And finally, the automation crustacean is scrolling to a mobile device near you.
By that, I mean OpenClaw, the free open-source AI agent that captivated the internet earlier this year, is finally available as an app on iOS and Android.
OpenClaw announced the news on X on Tuesday.
On both platforms, you can pair your phone with the OpenClaw Gateway, a kind of routing layer that connects your requests to AI agents and the tools and skills those agents draw on to get things done.
The takeaway is that you'll be able to run your OpenClaw agents from your pocket, and if you've programmed them correctly, they may be pretty helpful at getting things done.
OpenClaw users have put it to work in everything from coding to meal planning, although some have reported less than desirable results.
OpenClaw went viral earlier this year around the launch of MoldBook, a social media site purportedly populated entirely by agents.
In February, OpenClaw's creator, Peter Steinberger, announced that he had joined OpenAI.
The MoldBook spectacle was later revealed to have been partially the work of humans impersonating agents, according to researchers, effective theater that doubled as marketing for OpenClaw, whatever its credibility cost.
Still, the stunt pointed toward the agentic future, which has since kept expanding.
Agents are now embedded across the AI landscape and are showing up in more places by the day, including your phone.
And folks, that's your Daily Crunch.
Today's stories were reported by Tim Fernholtz, Rebecca Balan, and more awesome TechCrunch journalists.
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