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White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6
We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.
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AI #174: You're It
Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon (45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now available.
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The Once And Future Fable #4
It does look good, actually.
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Monthly Roundup #43: June 2026
Your monthly hit of all the things that are fit to print without a better place to live.
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GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model
GLM-5.2 arrived last week.
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities
Only three days after the release of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic was forced by the United States Government to make it unavailable, when a jailbreak was brought to its attention, rather than the previous situation of ‘yes obviously experts can jailbreak anything if they care…
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AI #173: AI Pauses
A lot of things are always happening.
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The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code
The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world.
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Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare
Fable and Mythos are currently unavailable, but likely will return within a few weeks. I will continue to cover that fiasco, but in the meantime I will also finish my review of Fable, as if it were available, including use of the present tense.
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The Once And Future Fable #2
On Friday evening the United States Government has forced Anthropic to take down all access to Fable and Mythos.
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American Government Takes Down Claude Fable
No good policy gets announced shortly after 5pm eastern on a Friday.
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card
First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.
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AI #172: The First Fable
A lot happened this week, including a great trip out to Lighthaven.
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Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum
The big story today is the release of Claude Fable 5, the version of Claude Mythos that Anthropic believes they can safely distribute to the people.
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AI #171: False Flag
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.
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Trump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To Frontier Model Releases
Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.
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Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions
You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
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Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card
Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.
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AI #170: Lack of Executive Order
Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.
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RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is
Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration.
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AI #169: New Knowledge
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.
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Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2
I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids.
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Dating Roundup #12: Sex and Violence
No more burying the sex stuff under an avalanche of other stuff so no one notices.
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Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026
At least we probably won’t have another pandemic.
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AI #168: Not Leading the Future
This is what a lull looks like at this point.
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Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance
The real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime is going to look like.
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Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math
We did reading yesterday.
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Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading
Reading is the most fundamental thing in education.
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Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
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AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins
The era of training frontier models and then releasing them whenever you wanted?
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The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins
The White House has ordered Anthropic not to expand access to Mythos, and is at least seriously considering a complete about-face of American Frontier AI policy into a full prior restraint regime, where anyone wishing to release a highly capable new model will have to ask for…
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Housing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters
So many are under the strange belief that there is something terrible about not owning the house in which you live.
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Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That
Why can’t you build it?
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AI #166: Google Sells Out
This was the week of GPT-5.5.
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The Most Important Charts In The World
We all need a break so: What is the most important chart in the world?
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GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions
The system card for GPT-5.5 mostly told us what we expected.
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GPT 5.5: The System Card
Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro.
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AI #165: In Our Image
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.7.
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Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare
It is thanks to Anthropic that we get to have this discussion in the first place.
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Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions
Claude Opus 4.7 raises a lot of key model welfare related concerns.
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Opus 4.7 Part 1: The Model Card
Less than a week after completing coverage of Claude Mythos, here we are again as Anthropic gives us Claude Opus 4.7.
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AI #164: Pre Opus
This is a day late because, given the discourse around Dwarkesh Patel’s interview with Jensen Huang, I pushed the weekly to Friday.
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On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
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