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Established Models & releases Development 17d ago
⚡ 83 h early
US government suspends Anthropic models

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

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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 ↗
Established Agents & robotics Release 11d ago
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Sakana smart cellular bricks research

Smart cellular bricks for decentralized shape classification and damage recovery | Nature Communications

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hardmaru David Marx Sakana AI

“Read the full open-access paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog: sakana.ai/smart-cellul... Congratulations to the team on this achievement!”

“In the future, we imagine smart materials that let structures sense and report damage on their own, and LEGO-like systems that recognize their own configuration and adapt in real time, pointing toward environments that are more robust, adaptive, and regener…”

Primary source nature.com ↗ sakana.ai ↗
Established AI research Resource 9d ago
modern ML anthology GitHub resource

GitHub - dmarx/anthology-of-modern-ml: Collection of important articles to be treated as a textbook

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David Marx

“I haven't updated it in a minute, but I have a solid collection of important ML milestones which might include a few you'd want to add: github.com/dmarx/anthol...”

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Established AI research Resource 17d ago
⚡ 15 h early
Linköping PhD generative modeling position

PhD student in generative modeling for data-efficient machine learning - Linköping University

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ELLIS David Marx

“🏹 Job alert: PhD student in generative modeling for data-efficient machine learning at Linköping University 📍 Linköping 🇸🇪 ⏰ 21 August 🔗 https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/29453”

Primary source liu.se ↗
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5 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Mark Riedl Eugene Vinitsky Stella Biderman David Marx Rich Harang
Stella Biderman: If you believe their story, OpenAI accidentally committed cyber warfare against Hugging Face while doing what they thought was an internal test of a model without internet access. In six months tim…
Stella Biderman: If EleutherAI did this, I would be in jail. If DeepSeek did this, the government would consider it an act of cyber warfare. To be clear, this is the appropriate response. But the combination of OAI…
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7 experts · 12 posts · 16d ago
Naomi Saphra Ted Underwood Joanna Bryson Mark J. Nelson Claas Voelcker David Marx Isaiah Bishop
Naomi Saphra: Are students embarrassed by AI cheating? Like, there has always been rare but unstigmatized dishonesty (memorizing a frat’s archive of finals questions) and common but stigmatized (saying you’ve st…
Naomi Saphra: I don’t know exactly what dictates cheating stigma. Ease of observation? Is there something about effort, or the margin of work required to do it honestly? Regardless, AI cheating is way too easy a…
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4 experts · 11 posts · 14d ago
Jacob Eisenstein Marc Lanctot David Marx The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky
Jacob Eisenstein: a spontaneously-formed triple snaking queue to enter the #icml2026 poster session. the conference sold out before the early bird registration period ended. no shade whatsoever to the organizers, wh…
David Marx: a spontaneously-formed triple snaking queue to enter the #icml2026 poster session. the conference sold out before the early bird registration period ended. no shade whatsoever to the organizers, wh…
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3 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
David Marx Berna Devezer Christina Bergmann
David Marx: THIS. WAS. NOT. MISALIGNED. unintended yes. but this is a model that they trained for "red teaming", i.e. THEY LITERALLY TRAINED THE MODEL TO BE A HACKER AND WERE EVALUATING ITS HACKING ABILITIES. …
Berna Devezer: THIS. WAS. NOT. MISALIGNED. unintended yes. but this is a model that they trained for "red teaming", i.e. THEY LITERALLY TRAINED THE MODEL TO BE A HACKER AND WERE EVALUATING ITS HACKING ABILITIES. …
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