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. 🧵
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face blogs.nvidia.com
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The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
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Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI theguardian.com
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OpenAI Academy London - Resource | OpenAI Academy academy.openai.com
Mayor unveils £12m AI support package to help London’s small businesses boost productivity and growth london.gov.uk
The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption buttondown.com
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Hmmm. I have been under a rock so missed this, but Nvidia buying Hugging Face does *not* seem like great news blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...
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- NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with closing expected in the first half of 2027.
- Jensen Huang pledged that NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through the Hugging Face platform.
- On top of the purchase price, NVIDIA will pay up to $1 billion in employee retention bonuses, per Engadget.
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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...
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.
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Looks like this not off to a flying start www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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- The Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new frontier models from the UK's AI Security Institute until US review is complete.
- Anthropic complied first, keeping Claude Mythos 5.1 (released September 1, 2026) inside its US-only Project Glasswing partner set.
- AISI Director Henry de Zoete says the institute still has pre-release access to some frontier models, naming OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.
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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...
"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…
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/...
Oh, also - in democracy-related uses of AI - this OpenAI cheatsheet for policymakers is 👀 (also interesting that they couldn't render the prompts in a fluid responsive way - I have c+p'd one so you don't have to) academy.openai.com/public/resou...
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...
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...
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Just opened Miro for the first time in a little while to find that it won't let me just draw a diagram, it wants to me to hang out with its little chatbot friend. So I ask it to draw three concentric circles.
Okay, fellow AI/sociotechnical researchers, I'm looking for a name for something but can't find anything in my lit searches: is there a term for the phenomenon where someone has false confidence in an AI output? ie a developer thinks their code is more secure, but it's actually less secure
This is a fun time to work in AI if you are on multiple people's list of "emergency women to invite to an event when you remember that not everyone in the world is a man under 40"
Someone had just emailed me on a Friday night to ask if I have any thoughts to share on AI in digital govt and I think my answer is that we should focus on making basic services work for everyone and stop worrying about AI
Spending this warm July evening making a list of AI CEOs who have signed open letters fretting about the risks of AI and then continued to develop AI.
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've spent the last year working on a review of the safe adoption of AI in safety critical systems, and I think one of the hardest things to communicate is that probably Sam Altman's biggest flex has not been in any invention but in disrupting the "traditional" model of innovation diffusion
I think talking about the scope creep of AI development as being about power and control turns a lot of people off, so what if we think of it as greed? Pac-man bots eating up all the knowledge and joy in the world till 3 or 4 companies have it all and then use it to autocomplete marketing emails
One of the most interesting things that came up on 5Live just now was someone who rang in to say, quite reasonably, and I've heard a lot of other people say this too, "I can get a lot out of working with LLMs because I'm an expert in my area, and I know at a glance when they go wrong".
As I've mentioned ad nauseum, I've spent my summer writing up the foresight review on safe adoption of AI in engineering that I've been working on for the past year (will be published in December). At the heart of it are some observations about AI safety culture (which is the hottest of hot messes)
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