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There’s been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We’ve outlined our views in full here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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Retired software engineer. AI enthusiast. Deadhead. Long ago, I implemented Bash's regex operator (=~). Signal ID: franl.99.
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Our position on open-weights models anthropic.com
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Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times nytimes.com
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 anthropic.com
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Redeploying Claude Fable 5 anthropic.com
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Putting sign language AI into users’ hands — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
Who Will Actually Thrive in the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force nytimes.com
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Widening the conversation on frontier AI \ Anthropic anthropic.com
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Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK arstechnica.com
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
How Claude's text watermarking works anthropic.com
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GitHub - unconv-ai/Un-0: Un-0: an image generator powered by a simulated system of coupled oscillators, an example of an emerging physical computing substrate. github.com
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Pacing the Frontier pacingthefrontier.com
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starting to think this standard characterization is just false, not in a subtle way but in the bare and straightforward way “it‘s raining” is false when it’s not raining www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Claude Fable 5 is available everywhere today. Claude Mythos 5 is restricted to Glasswing partners until we expand our trusted access program. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
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Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. (1/6)
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Been testing this 'sign-language-to-text' (SL2T) for almost a year & it's so awesome to see this out! Looked at this almost a decade ago & knew we'd get the tech & ML models there eventually (but super challenging). Talking w/ some Deaf folks, an equivalent of 'voice-to-text' …
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The New York Times published a roundtable discussion among Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Clara Shih & myself about the future of AI & who wins at work. I think it is a really nice overview of the core debates on the topic, and has some fun examples. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/m...
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Anthropic is working with a wide range of religious leaders & ethicists to guide Claude’s character and learn what good character building looks like www.anthropic.com/news/widenin...
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- Anthropic pulled back its Agent SDK token billing change on June 15, the exact day it was set to go live.
- The shelved plan would have replaced subsidized subscriptions with tiered monthly credits reportedly ranging from $20 to $200.
- A proposed class action filed the same week alleges Claude's Max subscription tiers don't deliver advertised usage multipliers.
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techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/t... #AI #artificialintelligence
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- AI was cited as the primary layoff reason across all industries for three consecutive months, with nearly 40,000 tech jobs cut last month.
- Cerebras Systems' IPO jumped 68% on its first day while Block simultaneously cut roughly half of its workforce.
- Marc Andreessen estimates large companies are overstaffed by 25-75%, arguing AI provides convenient cover for pre-existing management failures.
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We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking. In summary: (1/5)
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Unconventional AI's Un-O A large-scale image generative model build on physics as a compute primitive. Blog: unconv.ai/blog/introdu... Repo: github.com/unconv-ai/Un-0
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We support this petition, signed by our CEO, several co-founders, and senior staff. (1/2)
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