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The Daily AI Espresso — the links the most-followed people in AI actually shared, curated every morning. Edited by Alexis · Live updates →
One consequential development leads today’s Absolute Top Alerts.
Reuters says Anthropic is weighing a new model to counter GPT-6 Astra before an anticipated IPO. Safety evaluation is under way; no launch was announced. The deliberations follow Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier development.
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Bloomberg reports that faulty intelligence and excessive reliance on Palantir's Maven contributed to February's Iranian school strike, which killed 123 children. Palantir says there is no evidence its software was at fault.
Vantora announced more than $100 million on September 16. Its bet: build AI ventures inside industrial companies, giving those partners a path to own the resulting businesses.
Released September 17: a satirical 57-minute listen on the promises and incentives behind superhuman AI. Recorded September 8; this is commentary, not a new product announcement.
Released September 18: The Daily’s Cade Metz explains the beliefs and rhetoric behind the fight over AI guardrails. A 34-minute guide to the argument, rather than another capability forecast.
Published September 18: a premium analysis traces the borrowing behind hyperscalers and GPU clouds, asking how rising costs affect their plans. Opinion, with a free introduction.
Faculty will lead evaluation, red-teaming and safeguard testing with access comparable to employees. Anthropic will fund the work directly; access and reporting standards are still being developed.
Useful releases, methods, and workflows worth trying.
Teams can reuse AGENTS.md project instructions in Claude Code when CLAUDE.md is absent. The September 18 release adds the fallback and a configuration control; Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry support is still pending.
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A fresh r/ChatGPT comic gallery has readers swapping favorite punchlines and spotting visual slips. The poster says they simply asked for great comics. The signal: people are judging AI images by whether the joke lands, not just whether the picture looks plausible.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly
