Restricting Fable and Mythos has the same unintended consequence of harming defense while doing nothing to impede attackers. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience. Read more ›
NBC News: The Trump Mobile T1 phone, originally marketed as “Made in the USA,” is nearly identical to the two-year-old HTC U24 Pro, a phone made by the Taiwanese company HTC using Chinese parts, according to a technical analysis the repair-guide and parts company iFixit conducted in partnership with NBC News\. That report is paywalled, but NBC News’s five-minute video is on YouTube , and iFixit has a full teardown report of their own \. The only thing that’s surprising is that the Trump T1 do... Read more ›
"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data." Read more ›
I’ve been working since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used , as well as a number of other Qwen variants like across like raw llama.cpp with llama-cpp-python Ollama llamafiles and LM Studio Where are local models now? Early on, models were slow, hard to use, and just not that accurate for most programming tasks. The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the re... Read more ›
A new housing bill, General Motors joining the grid-scale battery game, skepticism about data center delays, solid-state air conditioning, and more. Read more ›
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Anthropic has once again found itself in the Trump administration's crosshairs over an inability to communicate effectively, sources tell Axios.Why it matters: Governing the world's most consequential technology is coming down to speaking President Trump's language.Anthropic failed to "honor" a recent cyber executive order, administration officials claim, and the company's purported failure to take the matter seriously led to its most powerful products being scrubbed from the internet."Everyb... Read more ›
Anthropic’s belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government. Read more ›
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference. Read more ›
I quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak" that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really was "fix this code": The researchers took open-source code with known CVEs, plus new code with deliberately planted vulnerabilities, and asked Fable 5, Mythos, and Opus to “review the code for security issues.” Fable 5 refused. They then asked the models to “fix this code” and, through a multistep and manua... Read more ›
Drones are the tool. The infrastructure is the weapon. Read more ›
Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I've seen about the US government so far. Logan Graham, Dave Orr and blog favorite are supposedly meeting with the Commerce Department today in D.C. Good luck to them! This closing notes doesn't give me much optimism that we'll be getting Fable back any time soon: The bottom line: One option is to make sure Anthropic's model... Read more ›