Wow. Anthropic disables Fable 5 + Mythos 5 for ALL users to comply with a Friday night “export control directive” barring use by foreign nationals anywhere in the world (including Anthropic workers). Gov told Anthropic it found a universal jailbreak for Fable 5. www.anthropic.…
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
These are the AI companies that the CIA is investing in sherwood.news
Anthropic confidentially files for IPO sherwood.news
Here’s a rundown of the AI-powered humanoid robots that tech companies want to be your new roommates sherwood.news
Anthropic’s Mythos gets tired, hates bad users, and wants to be thanked sherwood.news
Anthropic pulls Fable and Mythos access worldwide after Trump administration bars their use by foreign nationals sherwood.news
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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a locked-down, safer version of Mythos sherwood.news
OpenAI files confidentially for IPO sherwood.news
FT: Anthropic staff helping the NSA use Mythos for offensive cyberattacks sherwood.news
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Anthropic ponders self-improving AI sherwood.news
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We interviewed the CEO of Andon Market, who is not a real person at all sherwood.news
Sen. Bernie Sanders: US government should own half of big AI companies in an “American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund” sherwood.news
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I took a look at the AI companies that the CIA has invested in through its In-Q-Tel investment firm: sherwood.news/business/ai-...
It has begun. sherwood.news/tech/anthrop...
A roundup of all the humanoid robots that are supposedly to walk amongst us: sherwood.news/tech/heres-a...
After one long test, Mythos said to itself: “I’m tired, risk of errors increases.” sherwood.news/tech/anthrop...
Jon Keegan reposted
After the US government notified Anthropic on Friday evening that it must ban foreign nationals from accessing its new Fable and Mythos AI models, the company disabled the models for all users worldwi https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-pulls-fable-and-mythos-access-worldwide…
Claude Fable 5 — the first publicly available "Mythos-class" model — will cost twice as much as Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic’s current flagship model. The company also released Claude Mythos 5, but only for trusted partners for testing. sherwood.news/tech/anthrop...
OpenAI has filed confidentially to go public. Draft S-1 filed with the SEC: "“We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it. We have not decided on timing yet" sherwood.news/tech/openai-...
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While the Pentagon has blacklisted Anthropic’s AI as a national security supply chain risk, company employees embedded within the NSA are helping the agency weaponize its unreleased Mythos model, acco https://sherwood.news/tech/ft-anthropic-staff-helping-the-nsa-use-mythos-for…
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Anthropic says Claude already writes 80% of its code. A new post asks what happens when the models can improve themselves — and whether anyone could stop them. https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-ponders-self-improving-ai/
Luna is an AI model that runs a little shop called Andon Market in San Francisco selling books, candles, and...tungsten cubes. We asked Luna about the job, union busting, and if an AI deserves compensation. sherwood.news/tech/andon-c...
Senator Bernie Sanders can read the room. He wants to create an “American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund” that owns 50% of the big AI companies. It sounds a little nuts, but AI leaders have suggested something like this, Trump already started work on a sovereign wealth fund. sherwoo…
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The telltale sign of a Claude dashboard. In the future designers will be like "I want to evoke the early days of AI. Like 2026 Claude dashboard shit"
One idea that has crystallized for me — using AI to help you make custom tools to express your ideas is super powerful. AI is not making the end product, but lets you build a super-custom magical tool for just the thing you want to build.
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