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It’s like they know that I need to wrap up my annual Internet Law casebook revisions in the next few weeks. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why 404media.co
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots arstechnica.com
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying theguardian.com
China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own wired.com
China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto dexerto.com
Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals arstechnica.com
Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content arstechnica.com
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools simonwillison.net
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TL;DR: The working theory is that stories about this archetype/character made up a high proportion of what was left in training data after "dangerous" stories were removed. So a small sample of "safe" content ballooned in importance.
The Anthropic v DoD/DoW case is coming up soon in my AI & the Law class. So, it seemed fitting that today in class I got to point my students to recent reporting about how an AI hallucination “almost” started WWIII.
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- A US special operations command analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese ship's manifest, and it falsely reported nuclear weapons components.
- Armed troops were preparing to board the vessel and planes were airborne before officials caught the error and halted the operation.
- The chatbot fused open-source and classified signals intelligence, and the analyst then used AI again to package the report for wide dissemination.
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"CONCLUSION" doesn't lend itself to an AKA. So, I'll go with, we're all in this together and "... it is imperative to cultivate hearts that love the truth, prefer what is right despite the most appealing content and pursue wisdom rather than immediate results." www.vatican.va/…
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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More than any other public voice, Doctorow's AI take comes closest to articulating how I feel about the whole thing. Is it a bubble? Yes. Does that mean it's worthless? No. Do I worry about copyright? Mostly no, though I worry a lot about labor & monopolies, not to mention bia…
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- Sequoia calculated the AI sector needs roughly $600 billion in annual revenue to justify current infrastructure spending, while OpenAI generated about $3.4 billion last year.
- Doctorow argues bubble mechanics route risk to ordinary pension holders because insiders exit first, leaving market-based pension holders to absorb the correction.
- His deflation prescription targets root structure: stronger antitrust enforcement, sectoral bargaining rights, unemployment cushions, and public procurement favoring open AI models.
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It’s a good complement to this week’s reading on the kill chain.
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- Baker names Palantir's Maven Smart System as the targeting platform; Claude was added late 2024 as a natural-language layer, not the target selector.
- The Shajareh Tayyebeh school sat on a Defense Intelligence Agency target list for years despite being visible in Iranian business listings and on Google Maps.
- Maven is built to sustain roughly 1,000 targeting decisions per hour, about 3.6 seconds each, leaving no room for verification searches.
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A story in two acts: - China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own: www.wired.com/story/china-... (2026-01-20) - China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... (2026-07-18)
A story in two acts: - China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own: www.wired.com/story/china-... (2026-01-20) - China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... (2026-07-18)
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I’m reminded of this.
If an AI proves a theorem in the forest, does it make a sound?
Fun fact: The whole thing happens in your browser (i.e., the tool is just an HTML file with some JavaScript calling Bluesky's public API) which is only possible because it's CORS enabled! See simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...
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Now hear me out, but I'm starting to think the term AI might have been used in such a way as to render its meaning not only functionally useless for reasoned discussion but that its lack of definition might actually be at odds with such. Just a thought.
Every time someone explains their approach to AI I hear this old George Carlin bit in my head, "Have you ever noticed that when you're driving that anyone who's driving slower than you is an idiot, and that anyone driving faster than you is a maniac!?"
What am I to make of folks who criticizes AI for making people forgo deep reading dunking on the provocation from an essay and using it to attribute to an author the exact opposite of their conclusion?
Just realized that I described ML as the OG AI on a call, and I can’t decide if I should cringe or hold my head high.
I was working on a website with a colleague recently, and they asked if I inserted some typos to prove the site wasn’t made with AI. I was like, “No. I’m dyslexic, and my code editor doesn’t have spell check.”
I was working on a website with a colleague recently, and they asked if I inserted some typos to prove the site wasn’t made with AI. I was like, “No. I’m dyslexic, and my code editor doesn’t have spell check.” I also said, “thank you,” and meant it.
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