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...
Who's Who of AI
James Grimmelmann
I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
What they're sharing
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | OpenAI openai.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class nytimes.com
nytimes.com
cdn.openai.com
I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend wired.com
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive simonwillison.net
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International amnesty.org
arxiv.org
Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated "Viking Rappers" Garnering Millions of Views are Real People futurism.com
Articles & links
These are the days of miracle and wonder. openai.com/index/model-...
Bad content drives out good. www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
Bad content drives out good. www.wired.com/story/future...
The chef’s kiss in this essay about how ambition is destroying education at Stanford is the note at the end, where we learn that the author, a Stanford senior, has a forthcoming book on the subject. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
Bad content drives out good. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...
The companion paper contains a version of the (dis)proof in the level of detail expected by the mathematical community, and some of the mathematicians whose comments are included there have the expertise to vouch for its correctness. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus. www.wired.com/story/google...
This is extremely unsettling. simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...
I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to free expression and in deep tension with substantive equality. www.amnesty.org/e…
This is the best thing I've read on baseball's new ABS system. Balls and strikes are made, not found. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.16237
Bad content drives out good? futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Recent commentary
The Anthropic export ban is brought to you by the same people responsible for the TikTok import ban, the U.S. government Anthropic use ban, and dialing pre-release review of A.I. models from 60 days down to 30. There is no coherent underlying theory of AI regulation.
Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.
My best guess is that the government quickly "clarifies" its position on what counts as an export or negotiates a compromise with Anthropic that defines the safeguards around acess to Fable/Mythos, so that they will continue to be available with some access controls, even if they're somewhat leaky.
There’s never any trouble in AI bubbleland, AI bubbleland, AI bubbleland …
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