The content team at the MSP Summit site tracks stories of interest to the managed services provider community. Anyone selling managed services or partnering with MSPs will want to know about these developing stories or catch up on stories they have missed. All links are current as of June 15.
Pax8 Builds Token Tracking to Help MSPs Bill for AI
As Big Tech continues to pour billions a day into large language model training and infrastructure, the channel is still fishing around for a practical way to charge for the fruits of that spending. Pax8 has set its sights on a solution. The cloud-based IT marketplace is building token-tracking capabilities into its MSP operations platform and working with Microsoft to deliver a multi-tenant control panel for the Copilot AI assistant. Read the Channel Dive story.
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 suspended: "The Ball is in Anthropic’s Court"
Anthropic suddenly disabled its new flagship models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, last week after the U.S. government became aware of a way to perform a specific jailbreak on Fable 5 and put it under an export control order. Since this order applies to all foreigners, including those in the U.S., Anthropic had no other choice but to disable these models for everybody. It remains unclear what this jailbreak entailed, and Anthropic argues that what the government showed were “minor vulnerabilities” that “all appear relatively simple,” and that don’t go beyond the capabilities of other publicly available models. Read The New Stack story.
How Amazon and the White House Ended Anthropic's Fable
Axios looks at Amazon’s role in the takedown of Anthropic's much-anticipated, powerful Fable 5 AI model. The incident raises questions about why Amazon would strike such a disruptive blow against a company in which it is a major investor. It also extends a battle between the Trump administration and the company over what its models can do and how they can be used — offensively as well as defensively. Read the Axios story.
NinjaOne Valuation Surpasses $12B
Cloud-based IT management platform NinjaOne completed a series C funding round, raising more than $400 million and bringing the company’s valuation to $12.3 billion. NinjaOne competes with Kaseya, ConnectWise and other platform providers in a race to provide managed service providers with unified endpoint management and security. NinjaOne’s capitalization follows nearly 70% year-over-year growth in 2025 and the company’s first profitable quarter. Read the Channel Dive story.
Cybersecurity Pricing and Packaging Strategies for MSSPs
For Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs), pricing can be a tough balancing act. It needs to be simple enough for buyers to understand, flexible enough to match client risk, and disciplined enough to protect margins. Read this practical pricing guide on ChannelE2E.
Partners Can Help Secure AI and Increase Trust
The channel continues to react to the emerging opportunities around balancing the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and the increased risk it brings. Recent research from Context and Veeam underlined the challenges and importance of securing artificial intelligence, while Arrow took steps to increase partner skills around the technology. Read the Computer Weekly Microscope story.
Channel Leadership Moves June 8 to June 12
Mitel and Hatz AI are among the channel companies that made leadership changes last week. Read the ChannelE2E story.