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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.

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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 Culture, work & education Signal 9d ago
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Economists ai threat jobs

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Olivia Guest Rachel Coldicutt Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Paul Hünermund

“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...”

“I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?”

5 experts discussed this · 29 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: 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.co…
Rachel Coldicutt: Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
Hagen Blix: Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to he…
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 2d ago
Andy Burnham Labour cabinet formed

Who's in Andy Burnham's new Labour cabinet?

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Rachel Coldicutt

“In what I believe is a change from last night, BBC reporting the AI Minister will be between Cab Office and DBIST (and not DDCMS) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (what will make up the Digital component of DDCMS, I wonder? wrong answers only, as they are as l…”

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Rachel Coldicutt: So tech policy is being split between DDCMS which gets digital, DBIST which gets science and innovation, an AI Minister who is between both. Meanwhile GDS may either go back to the Cabinet Office o…
Rachel Coldicutt: This is basically a roll back to the structure under the Theresa May govt which seems like ... a ... very unusual choice (not much has happened in tech since 2019, eh?) and I would LOVE to know who…
Rachel Coldicutt: Also, one of the big problems of tech policy is that AI is, definitionally, a hot mess. The term means everything and nothing, so sthg I'd love to see is some attempt to define what Narayan will ac…
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Primary source bbc.co.uk ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago
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Rachel Coldicutt ana valdivia Stefanie Hane

“LLMs including AI agents are killing forums. This is deeply sad. I learned many coding tricks on Stack Overflow. www.ft.com/content/cec8...”

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ana valdivia: LLMs including AI agents are killing forums. This is deeply sad. I learned many coding tricks on Stack Overflow. www.ft.com/content/cec8...
ana valdivia: "A paper [...] questioned [...] whether models would become less effective from Stack Overflow’s absence. Now he [the author] believes that this was the wrong way of thinking about the problem. “Th…
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): I’m surprised that the decline began back in 2014
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Primary source ft.com ↗