Bogdan Gecic

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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Royal Bank of Canada CEO reveals AI now gives him reports “in about four seconds” that used to take a week.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence from Carl Jung hits hard.

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Leading deepfake expert says he no longer trusts his own eyes in the age of AI, warns that within years our visual system could become “utterly useless.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Ayn Rand on creativity:

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: The White House reportedly has suspicions that China has accessed Claude Mythos.

[Naval @naval]

Science is not a process, a credential, or an institution.

It is the unflinching pursuit of truth, carried out by the few, co-opted by the many.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Has there been anything good written about the failure of Mistral to keep up with both the Big Three and Chinese labs?

They have talent and national backing, but despite being Europe’s only frontier lab (Google Deepmind’s UK lab aside), they haven’t been able to close the gap

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Euractiv @Euractiv]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa during high-level talks in Mexico – breaking ranks with the EU's official diplomatic line.

This is bigger than a slip of the tongue. Here's why it matters. 🧵 1/6

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇨🇭 Switzerland to vote today on plan to cap population at 10 million.

Switzerland's population has grown rapidly since 2002, when it stood at 7.3 million. Now it is 9.1 million, 27% of whom are Swiss residents who were born abroad.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Amazon researchers are reportedly behind the jailbreak report that led to the U.S. crackdown on Anthropic’s top models.

[Michiel Bakker @bakkermichiel]

In our scenario, frontier-model export controls were a 2028 event. It took two days for it to happen 😢. The most capable US models are now legally off-limits for non Americans. The silver lining is that it's getting very hard for European policy makers to keep ignoring this.

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

JUST IN: Andrej Karpathy, a top AI scientist at Anthropic, is reportedly barred from accessing the company’s most advanced AI model because he is not a U.S. citizen.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

Happy now, @DarioAmodei? You got your wish for government regulation after constant fearmongering to slow AI progress.

@AnthropicAI has done tremendous damage to AI advancement; they succeeded in realizing this nightmare scenario. It’s a sad & grave day for America & humanity.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Pretty accurate

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Arnold Schwarzenegger's rule on complaining:

“No complaining about a situation unless you're prepared to do something to make it better. If you see a problem and you don't come to the table with a potential solution, I don't want to hear your whining about how bad it is. It couldn't be that bad if it hasn't motivated you to try to fix it.”

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

A point I keep making about China's rise in biotech is that it is marked by making genuine innovative leaps.

They've got a mountain of human firsts, not just copy-cat 'me too' drugs.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

About 8 months ago, I warned that “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” This take was controversial at the time; now look how many people are saying it.

[Michiel Bakker @bakkermichiel]

"What will happen to Europe if it keeps ignoring AI?"

Three American labs each (!!) operate more AI compute than all of Europe combined. Today we're launching Europe 2031: a story of what might happen if that doesn't change.