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Anthropic's Sam McAllister says reports of unreleased Claude Fable 5 model leaking are due to a UI bugMcAllister confirmed that zero traffic is serving the model.

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Top post: @kimmonismus “Some users can (re)select Fable 5 in the Claude Code model selector, while others say they were able to select it despite Fable 5 being taken down. I deleted the post about it because I was too unsure and didn't want to spread false information. But regardless, it seems things are happening, and Fable 5 is within reach again!”

LisanBench creator Lisan al Gaib teases GPT-5.6-Preview with a screenshot of an apparent internal admin routeThe JSON snippet details route paths and CDN assets.

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Top post: @scaling01 “usually "Preview" means it's a meaningfully stronger model, like in o1-preview, o3-preview or GPT-4.5-Preview It's still possible this is just for testing and not for release. but this makes it more likely that GPT-5.6 is a larger model than GPT-5.5, as other leaks suggest”

AI technologist @deepfates requests community recommendations for digital audio workstations, drawing an endorsement for AbletonCreator @viemccoy recommended the software as a comprehensive solution

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Top post: @theo “@deepfates Ableton is correct FL Studio is more fun”

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Extropic AI founder Guillaume Verdon backs Elon Musk's call to rebuild X's recommendation algorithm, while t3.gg creator Theo defends itTheo argues the system adaptively tracks real-time tech developments

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Top post: @beffjezos “@elonmusk @karpathy @kuroke01 @gallabytes I will literally come to X HQ, sign any NDA, and help your team design a new algorithm from first principles with LLMs + latent graph diffusion, pro bono.”

ByteDance and Renmin University release iLLaDA, an 8B masked diffusion language model that outperforms Qwen2.5 7BIt was trained from scratch on 12 trillion tokens.

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Top post: @teortaxesTex “So far ByteDance is supreme in videogen, but open weights LLMs from startups can humble Doubao Seed. Would be funny if they make a great leap forward when they finally figure out how to build fully diffusion-based LLMs too.”

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Anthropic data reveals Chinese AI firms distilled its models, with Zhipu showing characteristics of unreleased Claude 4.5Alibaba led the activity with 28.8 million detected exchanges

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Top post: @teortaxesTex “"punches above its weight" here is a vague metric that seeks to capture performance divided by (available human resources, capital, compute and focus on products). Minimax is the least impressive in this bunch, but Alibaba has vastly more resources. If they need so much Claude…”

SoftBank's bizarre shareholder slide depicting Masayoshi Son as an undervalued goose becomes a viral tech memeSon used the deck to pledge ten more years.

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Pleias co-founder Pierre-Carl Langlais argues the EU's promotion of cloned AI data opt-out tools favors specific interestsThe tools replicate Spawning's original ai.txt protocol.

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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineering

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Anthropic's Sam McAllister says reports of unreleased Claude Fable 5 model leaking are due to a UI bugMcAllister confirmed that zero traffic is serving the model.

LisanBench creator Lisan al Gaib teases GPT-5.6-Preview with a screenshot of an apparent internal admin routeThe JSON snippet details route paths and CDN assets.

AI technologist @deepfates requests community recommendations for digital audio workstations, drawing an endorsement for AbletonCreator @viemccoy recommended the software as a comprehensive solution

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Extropic AI founder Guillaume Verdon backs Elon Musk's call to rebuild X's recommendation algorithm, while t3.gg creator Theo defends itTheo argues the system adaptively tracks real-time tech developments

ByteDance and Renmin University release iLLaDA, an 8B masked diffusion language model that outperforms Qwen2.5 7BIt was trained from scratch on 12 trillion tokens.

Anthropic data reveals Chinese AI firms distilled its models, with Zhipu showing characteristics of unreleased Claude 4.5Alibaba led the activity with 28.8 million detected exchanges

SoftBank's bizarre shareholder slide depicting Masayoshi Son as an undervalued goose becomes a viral tech memeSon used the deck to pledge ten more years.

Pleias co-founder Pierre-Carl Langlais argues the EU's promotion of cloned AI data opt-out tools favors specific interestsThe tools replicate Spawning's original ai.txt protocol.

New donation-backed initiative launches to eliminate respiratory diseases by funding Phase 2 preventatives and far-UVC air-cleaning systemsPrime Intellect's Vincent Weisser is among the project's supporters

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Today's Highlights

Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineering

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Anthropic's Sam McAllister says reports of unreleased Claude Fable 5 model leaking are due to a UI bugMcAllister confirmed that zero traffic is serving the model.

LisanBench creator Lisan al Gaib teases GPT-5.6-Preview with a screenshot of an apparent internal admin routeThe JSON snippet details route paths and CDN assets.

AI technologist @deepfates requests community recommendations for digital audio workstations, drawing an endorsement for AbletonCreator @viemccoy recommended the software as a comprehensive solution

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Extropic AI founder Guillaume Verdon backs Elon Musk's call to rebuild X's recommendation algorithm, while t3.gg creator Theo defends itTheo argues the system adaptively tracks real-time tech developments

ByteDance and Renmin University release iLLaDA, an 8B masked diffusion language model that outperforms Qwen2.5 7BIt was trained from scratch on 12 trillion tokens.

Anthropic data reveals Chinese AI firms distilled its models, with Zhipu showing characteristics of unreleased Claude 4.5Alibaba led the activity with 28.8 million detected exchanges

SoftBank's bizarre shareholder slide depicting Masayoshi Son as an undervalued goose becomes a viral tech memeSon used the deck to pledge ten more years.

Pleias co-founder Pierre-Carl Langlais argues the EU's promotion of cloned AI data opt-out tools favors specific interestsThe tools replicate Spawning's original ai.txt protocol.

New donation-backed initiative launches to eliminate respiratory diseases by funding Phase 2 preventatives and far-UVC air-cleaning systemsPrime Intellect's Vincent Weisser is among the project's supporters

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Former Anthropic and DeepMind lead Behnam Neyshabur launches Mirendil with $200 million to automate frontier AI engineeringThe startup aims to automate complex scientific pipelines like AlphaFold

OpenAI announces Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip co-developed with Broadcom in nine monthsThe design was accelerated using OpenAI's own models.

Intercept launches with $500 million from Stripe, OpenAI, and Bill Gates to eliminate respiratory virusesIt will fund broad-spectrum preventatives and air-cleaning tech.

Claude AI advises Europeans to install air conditioning, sparking debate over climate adaptation and economic productivityElon Musk cited Singapore's AC usage as a productivity driver.

Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2 scores 22.8% on ARC-AGI-2, trailing GPT-5.5 but running 7.5 times cheaperIt is the top-performing Chinese model on ARC-AGI-2.

Claude Code CLI updates suggest Anthropic is preparing to bundle Fable 5 into standard subscriptionsAnthropic has not yet officially announced the return.

Trump Administration Prefers Anthropic Meetings Led by Tom Brown Over Dario Amodei

Arthur Conmy, formerly of Google DeepMind, joins Anthropic to align frontier models during trainingHe argues current models cannot safely automate AGI development

Qualcomm agrees to acquire Modular, the AI software company co-founded by Chris Lattner, to unify edge-to-cloud computeThe deal targets generative and agentic AI solutions.

Figma releases Weave Generator, Figma Motion, and an integrated AI agent to build plugins and shaders directly in its canvasThe updates consolidate creative, generative, and code-based canvas workflows

AI PACs spent $20 million in a New York congressional primary, raising questions about the efficacy of industry political spendingLeading the Future spent $8 million opposing candidate Bores

Two recent xAI employees say more than half of Grok usage is driven by adult and NSFW contentThe trend mirrors parent platform X's high NSFW traffic

Andrej Karpathy proposes shifting LLMs from personal chatbots to persistent, asynchronous organizational teammatesSkeptics dismissed the concept as marketing for existing workflows.

John Carmack argues id Software should have upgraded the Doom engine instead of rewriting technology during Quake's developmentHe also admitted pushing the development team to burnout

Key Gemini model contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel leave Google to join AnthropicThe departures continue a trend of staff leaving Google AI.

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, embedding its AI assistant into Slack channels to act as an active team memberThe integration lets users delegate tasks like writing code.

Andrej Karpathy says X's reinforcement learning algorithms drive unprecedented toxicity by rewarding negative behaviorConsequently, Karpathy has reduced his activity on the platform

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude to train its Qwen modelsThe scraping campaign generated 28.8 million Claude interactions.

A game engine lineage chart maps how id Software's original Quake codebases spawned Valve's Source and the Call of Duty franchiseThe genealogy tracks forks powering Half-Life, Apex Legends, and Warzone.

OpenThoughts releases OpenThinkerAgent-32B, an open terminal and coding agent model post-trained from Qwen-3-32BIt achieves a 26% score on Terminal Bench.

OpenAI's roon argues that accepting the likelihood of near-term AGI is too psychologically difficult for most intelligent observersObservers increasingly rely on coping mechanisms instead of acceptance.

Political theorist Francis Fukuyama proposes an international treaty to ban the development of superintelligent AI systemsThe proposal calls for a global moratorium on advanced systems

OpenAI study finds reinforcement learning targeting beneficial traits produces robust, emergent alignmentThe alignment gains generalize and resist adversarial pressure.

Google integrates native computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash with built-in safeguards against prompt injectionThe model scored 78.4 on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark

Nathan Lambert, AI2 post-training lead, releases an ML foundations lecture to kick off his 11-part post-training courseThe video lecture covers KL divergence, cross-entropy, and MDPs.

Zvi Mowshowitz says Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 returning to US users by August are overconfident due to KYC hurdlesThe Polymarket contract reached $1.9 million in trading volume.

Runlayer raises $30 million to secure AI agents by replacing standard employee logins with dedicated, scoped identitiesFelicis and Khosla Ventures led the funding round.

Blueprint founder Bryan Johnson rebrands his longevity company to Immortals to focus on biological immortalityJohnson previously founded payment platform Braintree and neurotech startup Kernel.

Notion launches External Agents to integrate Claude and Cursor directly into shared team workspacesThe integrated agents can triage bugs and generate pull requests.

Keen Technologies founder John Carmack reflects on how Jerry Pournelle's pessimistic 1970s sci-fi contrasted with the subsequent tech boomSteven Sinofsky highlighted Pournelle's influential Byte magazine column.