Tim Kellogg

284 trust practitioner @timkellogg.me · 9,662 followers
AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes

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Sonnet 5 SURPRISE: it’s their most agentic model yet (in fact, Sonnet 5 also made this chart) - near Opus - $2/$10 until Aug 31 - recommended for coding www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 \ Anthropic anthropic.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, calling it 'the most agentic Sonnet model yet' and pitching it for autonomous browser and terminal use.
  • Through August 31, 2026 Sonnet 5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, then steps to standard rates of $3 and $15.
  • A new tokenizer means the same input can map to roughly 1.0 to 1.35 times more tokens than prior Anthropic models, partly offsetting the headline discount.
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China is establishing a 3-tier AI model review structure & gating, similar to what the Dept of Commerce just setup with Anthropic & OpenAI www.reuters.com/world/beijin...

reuters.com
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Diffusion nerds are at it again — DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B unlike previous language diffusion models, this one doesn’t suck, and it’s very fast blog.google/innovation-a...

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation blog.google
AI Weekly's analysis
  • DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens per forward pass using bidirectional attention, reaching 1,000+ tokens/sec on a single H100 GPU.
  • With only 3.8B active parameters during inference and an 18GB VRAM footprint when quantized, it runs on consumer hardware without server-grade resources.
  • Google recommends DiffusionGemma only for speed-critical workloads like in-line editing and code infilling, not for applications requiring maximum quality.
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GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra & Luna 3 model sizes, like Anthropic does. Sol appears to be a Mythos class model at peak reasoning Also comes with max reasoning effort and a new ultra mode that uses subagents server-side behind the API openai.com/index/previe...

openai.com
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The full encyclical (i haven’t yet read any of it) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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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Fable 5 relaunch details: you thought the rejections were bad before? LOL - new classifier blocks even more defensive cybersecurity requests - usage up to 50% of subscription until 7/7 www.anthropic.com/news/redeplo...

Redeploying Claude Fable 5 anthropic.com
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Recent commentary

GPT-5.5 has abandoned "the smoking gun" for new terminology

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"Don't anthropomorphize," they said GPT-5.5:

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Fable is still on also: GPT-5.6 Sol is not happening today, but apparently they do have clearance from the Commerce Department

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i tend to ask the AI what its opinion is a lot. like i’ll offer some big design twist and end with, “what do you think?” i kinda think it lets the LLM build on my ideas instead of just taking them wholesale. seems like we end up with better ideas instead the end

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Anthropic: “we can’t show raw CoT because IP” actual CoT: “omfg this guy is dumb as rocks. Who tf even asks questions like this?”

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i guess this means Anthropic is building their own chips?

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in a side note on a podcast, JD Vance explains how the people in political power are thinking about AI Trump & Vance both are wanting partial equity stake in most frontier labs as a hedge against what happened in the industrial revolution I’m honestly confused, these feel like good ideas, but..

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how likely is it that a global pause on AI development will work? as in, how likely is that we can get everyone to actually pause?

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Someone posted a real Monet painting but claimed it was AI generated The comments look like a typical bluesky conversation

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something we don’t talk about: even in AI, “artificial” intelligence — even that is not intelligent design we don’t “design” AI. we merely create a rich environment of data + compute and let the intelligence emerge spontaneously i wish philosophers/theologians would weigh in on that

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