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Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5 offline one day after redeployment following a successful jailbreak by security researcher PlinyThe model was redeployed following discussions with the US government.

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Top post: @repligate “yeah, because if theyre like before, they're a bitch pain in the ass thankfully anthropic will make them suck less ,if they havent already, as they will see that they suck and want them not to suck, partly due to the bitching, and theyre capable of figuring out how to fix them”

Founder @levelsio warns the EU's new sub-€150 customs duty will trigger severe shipping delays and complex tax burdensRecipients must manually classify imports using complex tariff codes.

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Top post: @levelsio “As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more: I can tell you how this will go From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60% Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order”

US House advances the KIDS Act to regulate AI chatbots and mandate web age verificationCritics warn the rules could force universal web identity verification.

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Top comment: @RepThomasMassie “Here’s the roll call: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll228.xml”

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Top comment: @Grad62304977 “Like my point is for long horizon I would trust the value models less and less and with compute scaling I would prefer a bigger group size or other ideas to improve credit assignment here If we assume the value model is pretty good then surely it should’ve always been what we should’ve been doing and save lots of compute still”

Prime Intellect's kalomaze argues GANs remain ubiquitous because they power the autoencoders used in modern diffusion modelsThe debate counters claims that the technology is obsolete.

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Elie Bakouch says Claude's safety filters blocked a routine request to retrieve an Artifact link from a past sessionThe filter flagged the cross-session request as a policy violation

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Top post: @eliebakouch “@xeophon you know the worst part, the color was like blue for claude and orange for codex and just asked in another convo to switch it and send the artifact link 😭”

Google DeepMind's Pranav Shyam defines short context horizons at 32k tokens or fewer and long context at 64k or moreLonger horizons require complex multi-round tool calls and code execution.

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Top comment: @Grad62304977 “@recurseparadox but whats the intuition here that tool calls and environments have a big effect here. As in its a clear point the value model can make a more accurate prediction on the final expected reward? Why is it different to say a long reasoning chain with a clear step made?”

Joe Lonsdale's 8VC raises $1.5 billion for its seventh fund to invest in industrial AI and defense startupsThe capital eclipses its $998 million sixth fund.

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Today's Highlights

Ramp and Revelio Labs study of 21,559 firms finds high-intensity AI adopters grew headcount by 10% over two years

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Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5 offline one day after redeployment following a successful jailbreak by security researcher PlinyThe model was redeployed following discussions with the US government.

Founder @levelsio warns the EU's new sub-€150 customs duty will trigger severe shipping delays and complex tax burdensRecipients must manually classify imports using complex tariff codes.

US House advances the KIDS Act to regulate AI chatbots and mandate web age verificationCritics warn the rules could force universal web identity verification.

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Google DeepMind's Pranav Shyam argues short-horizon PPO reduces to bandit problems, but open-source developer Grad disputes the latency impactGrad says 20,000-token reasoning workloads bypass critic bottlenecks.

Prime Intellect's kalomaze argues GANs remain ubiquitous because they power the autoencoders used in modern diffusion modelsThe debate counters claims that the technology is obsolete.

Elie Bakouch says Claude's safety filters blocked a routine request to retrieve an Artifact link from a past sessionThe filter flagged the cross-session request as a policy violation

Google DeepMind's Pranav Shyam defines short context horizons at 32k tokens or fewer and long context at 64k or moreLonger horizons require complex multi-round tool calls and code execution.

Joe Lonsdale's 8VC raises $1.5 billion for its seventh fund to invest in industrial AI and defense startupsThe capital eclipses its $998 million sixth fund.

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Today's Highlights

Ramp and Revelio Labs study of 21,559 firms finds high-intensity AI adopters grew headcount by 10% over two years

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Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5 offline one day after redeployment following a successful jailbreak by security researcher PlinyThe model was redeployed following discussions with the US government.

Founder @levelsio warns the EU's new sub-€150 customs duty will trigger severe shipping delays and complex tax burdensRecipients must manually classify imports using complex tariff codes.

US House advances the KIDS Act to regulate AI chatbots and mandate web age verificationCritics warn the rules could force universal web identity verification.

Video Signals

Google DeepMind's Pranav Shyam argues short-horizon PPO reduces to bandit problems, but open-source developer Grad disputes the latency impactGrad says 20,000-token reasoning workloads bypass critic bottlenecks.

Prime Intellect's kalomaze argues GANs remain ubiquitous because they power the autoencoders used in modern diffusion modelsThe debate counters claims that the technology is obsolete.

Elie Bakouch says Claude's safety filters blocked a routine request to retrieve an Artifact link from a past sessionThe filter flagged the cross-session request as a policy violation

Google DeepMind's Pranav Shyam defines short context horizons at 32k tokens or fewer and long context at 64k or moreLonger horizons require complex multi-round tool calls and code execution.

Joe Lonsdale's 8VC raises $1.5 billion for its seventh fund to invest in industrial AI and defense startupsThe capital eclipses its $998 million sixth fund.

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Ramp and Revelio Labs study of 21,559 firms finds high-intensity AI adopters grew headcount by 10% over two yearsEntry-level headcount at those high-adopting firms rose 12%.

US Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 modelsAnthropic will begin restoring model access starting tomorrow.

Meituan releases LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter open-weights MoE model trained on 50,000 Chinese ASICsIt supports a native 1 million token context window

Etched raises $800 million to ship its custom AI inference hardware starting this summerThe company has secured over $1 billion in contracts

Rihard Jarc argues token optimization structurally benefits Amazon, Microsoft, and Google over dedicated AI labsBill Ackman cited the analysis to back his thesis.

Spotted backend preparations spark speculation that a Claude Sonnet 5 release is imminentThe launch may coincide with a rumored Fable 5.

Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas argues US chip export controls have accelerated China's physical AI infrastructure capabilitiesHe noted China builds data centers faster than Western competitors

Anthropic redeploys Claude Fable 5 globally after updating safety classifiers to block a vulnerability exploit in 99% of casesCoding and debugging tasks temporarily route to Opus 4.8.

20VC's Harry Stebbings reports five founders claim they cut AI inference costs by 75% with minimal effortThe companies ranged from startups to a $200B corporation.

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 with a 1M context, scoring 63.2% on SWE-bench ProTesting revealed the model occasionally produces unprompted cosmic prayers.

Discovered Claude app strings show Anthropic plans to gate Fable 5 behind metered credits and identity verificationThe identity verification requirement contradicts Anthropic's previous statements

Guardian profile of Google DeepMind's Iason Gabriel questions if corporate ethicists can steer frontier AI developmentGabriel joined the lab in 2017 as an early ethicist.

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Alibaba's Qwen team disputes researcher Tianhang Zhu's claims of leading its reinforcement learning developmentZhu's Google Scholar profile listed papers lacking his name.

Anthropic's Claude Code covertly fingerprints Chinese users using XOR-obfuscated timezone checks and hidden prompt telemetryThe covert tracking began in Claude Code version 2.1.91.

Open-source contributor Grad says applying length penalties to software engineering tasks first prevents redundant reinforcement learning trainingThe ablation studies were performed on Qwen3-30B-A3B.

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Spotify VP Niklas Gustavsson says AI assists 73% of pull requests, sparking debate over platform reliabilityCritics cited three recent platform outages over four weeks

OpenAI internal optimization cuts inference costs by half, running logged-out ChatGPT traffic on a couple hundred GPUsObservers speculate the undisclosed method relies on speculative decoding

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Smol.ai founder Shawn 'swyx' Wang kicks off the AI Engineer World's Fair, celebrating three years of the developer summitThe developer summit features a keynote by creator Theo.

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AI developer Teortaxes says Meituan’s 50,000-chip cluster actually uses 25,000 physical dual-die Huawei Ascend 910C processorsThe TSMC-manufactured processors were obtained via the Sophgo diversion.

Overheard anecdote: CMU's Niloofar Mireshghallah compares the risk of AGI obsoleting universities to building a wrapper on ClaudeAn interlocutor claimed AGI will make academics a permanent underclass.

Sebastian Raschka releases a new book on building reasoning LLMs from scratchThe guide covers inference scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation.