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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
⚡ 83 h early
US government suspends Anthropic models

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

34 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

34 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Justin Hendrix Suresh Venkatasubramanian Mike Masnick Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Sung Kim +26

“Well, this situation is confusing. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

“This is wild. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

5 experts discussed this · 40 posts
SE Gyges: us government has rendered it illegal to give access to fable or mythos to foreign nationals ^_^ www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
SE Gyges: this means nobody can have either of them btw. because they haven't KYC'd their customers hard enough.
SE Gyges: dario got what he wanted
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Developing Policy & governance Development 2d ago
⚡ 50 h early
China bans AI romantic companion apps

China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Marielza Dare Obasanjo David Colarusso

“The Chinese government has shown a lot of savviness in its understanding of both the benefits and risks of AI. Whether its courts ruling against laying people off to replace them with AI or these rules that limits how AI companions can create emotional depe…”

“A story in two acts: - China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own: www.wired.com/story/china-... (2026-01-20) - China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... (2026-07-18)”

Primary source dexerto.com ↗
Developing AI business Signal 2d ago
⚡ 713 h early

China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark J. Nelson David Colarusso

“did you see this one a few months ago?”

“A story in two acts: - China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own: www.wired.com/story/china-... (2026-01-20) - China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... (2026-07-18)”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI research Analysis 9d ago
scientists hoarding pre-AI content essay

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
David Colarusso
3 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Ted Underwood: Probably shouldn't admit this, but agentic tools make me better at data cleaning. I never used to connect books/authors to Open Library or Wikidata. If I even thought of it I would 🙄 at work involv…
Ted Underwood: Now, this is not to say Mike is wrong to worry! I bet four out of five people confronted w/ my present task will say "hey, Fable, deduplicate this list of books and web scrape something about their…
Pwnallthethings: Matters a lot *how* they are using LLMs right? Asking cc/codex to identify issues and clean them is not the same as using hallucinated or fully synthetic datasets
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Primary source arstechnica.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 14d ago
Target teen pregnancy prediction retrospective

Did Target Really Predict a Teen's Pregnancy? The Inside Story - KDnuggets

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
David Colarusso

“ICYMI, here's the Target story¹ and a throwing of cold water on said story.² That being said, @xusangyu.bsky.social's data really does pop. You've got to love a nice state space. ¹ www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi... ² www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/targ...”

Primary source kdnuggets.com ↗