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Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple Maps now displays “Lake America” for U.S. users, “Lake Ontario” for Canadian users, and both lakes for all other regions, a change prompted by a recent executive order. Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5.1 for general availability and Claude Mythos 5.1 for trusted partners with cybersecurity and life-sciences safeguards. OpenAI announced that its upcoming Astra model, featuring “recurrent depth” technology, will be released to select partners before a broader public rollout.