Rachel Coldicutt

This a classic case study for anyone working in tech policy www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m.... I don't pretend to know anything about international trade law but there is a bunch of interesting stuff here. 🧵

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com

Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...

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The AI Resist List is here airesistlist.org - so much hope and positivity for crafting positive, different futures in the room and on the list.

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org

I do find this whole thing a bit weird. Anthropic could, literally, stop or change what they are doing at any time www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI theguardian.com

"They are arguably the modern-day railroad,” Schulte said. “It makes sense for them to issue longer maturities because AI is a long-term infrastructure." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... I'm v sympathetic to long-term infra development, but what if hyperscale AI is as flying…

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This interview with Simon Johnson, chair of the new UK AI Economics Institute, is interesting not so much because it is very revelatory but because his views will presumably shape policy and ministerial opinions giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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It's also interesting to see early AI adopting businesses regretting at leisure giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... just as the Mayor of London rolls out a £12m package to support AI adoption www.london.gov.uk/mayor-unveil...

Mayor unveils £12m AI support package to help London’s small businesses boost productivity and growth london.gov.uk

Quite something when the FT is publishing this kind of article about Palantir giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... have Karp and Co actually finally crossed the imaginary line (I mean, I doubt it, but live in hope)

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Something I cut out of this, because it was too much of a digression, is that I think technology adoption suffers from a lot of macroeconomic post-rationalisation. Because some people are always making money, it is presumed it must make sense buttondown.com/justenoughin...

The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption buttondown.com

It's also interesting to see early AI adopting businesses regretting at leisure giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... just as the Mayor of London rolls out a £12m package to support AI adoption www.london.gov.uk/mayor-unveil...

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Some pretty solid reporting in the Guardian on what is going on with AI Growth Zones and data centre build out that should make pretty interesting reading for whoever is thinking about technology and local growth in the new govt www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre theguardian.com

I've done the same "understanding the consequences of AI" talk twice today, and sometimes it's still a surprise even to me just how wide-ranging and varied the harmful impacts of technologies can be when they are badly made and rolled out without care and attention.

I sometimes use Popular LLMs to test their capabilities for routine tasks/find out what they're good at and bad at. One of the *worst* aspects is that they nearly all suggest a next task, which is almost NEVER the next most useful task, but I can see how it send folk down rabbit holes.

Thinking a little about the hot mess of the "discourse" on climate and AI and why there are so few moves to ensure transparency. At the moment, every time the environmental footprint of data centres is raised, the pro-AI lobby bends over backwards to minimise the impact and scoff at concerns

Over on Threads (and, I gather X) there is a huge meltdown happening about use of genAI on AO3; notwithstanding the fact that fans can be the most intense/least forgiving people ever, it is super interesting how cross/betrayed folks are that sthg they loved might be AI generated, even in part

Prob the main thing on lots of people's minds re: AI just now is "is it making me more stupid?" Am having regular conversations about that with nearly everyone I have a work meeting with. (The answer is: probably, yes.) With that in mind, is fascinating to sit in the barbers and watch them at work

Just following on from a group chat with some other senior women in tech about how Claude is suddenly getting very superior and bossy, I can't help but wonder if it also bosses around people it thinks are men? You hear a lot about AI sycophancy but not so much about AI bossiness.

There are totally deranged video ads at London Bridge station for something called Legora, in which Jude Law is giving come hither looks to camera over his shoulder with the strap lines READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH LAW? and LAW NEVER LOOKED THIS GOOD and what if this is not a legal AI platform

It seems funny to me the gossip is that the tech carve-up happened as so many ministers wanted a bit of AI razzle-dazzle, but what are they getting? Waning social license, not enough water for data centres, the risk of the US bubble bursting, financial upside for the big US labs

I find myself working on this sunny Sat afternoon, and the *absolute* PITA of people sending long generated messages that have too much extraneous information to sensibly understand, and so must in turn be parsed by other LLMs to get to some approximation of sense - the echo of an echo of a thing

Been offline since Thursday and wouldn't it be great if online newspapers had a "last 24 hours" summary, laddering up to "in the last week". (And yes, I'm aware I could ask an LLM to do this for me.)