AI #171: False Flag (opens in new tab)

This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8. , then concerns, and finally . It’s a good model, sir, an incremental but real improvement over Opus 4.7, and it is now my clear daily driver. , officially putting us in the prior restraint era of frontier model releases, even if they do not call it that. There are some worrisome details, especially around putting too much responsibility on the NSA rather than CAISI and classifying the testing process, and things could go in very bad directions, but I am ...