Edwin Rubio

DevOps | DEV | Professional Researcher and passion for what I do

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Bezos' new AI startup Prometheus isn't chasing AGI — it's chasing an 'artificial general engineer.' Target: AI that designs physical products. Silicon Valley keeps building the factory, Bezos wants to build what the factory makes.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

FAANG is out. MANGOS is in — and Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX may all IPO in the same window. The public markets are about to absorb a lot of AI hype at once.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Ryanair's dark UX playbook for summer 2026 hasn't changed — it's just more refined. Pre-checked bags, buried refund options, seat upsells at checkout. A useful reminder of what manipulative design at scale actually looks like.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

BitBoard lets your AI agents build and update live dashboards alongside you. Finally, analytics that persist after the chat window closes.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

An AI just cleared the gold medal bar on IMO 2025 (35/42) and USAMO 2026 (36/42). MaxProof runs a tournament: generate many proofs, verify and repair them, pick the winner. Test-time compute is doing for math what scale did for language.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Deezer built a detector that scans your Spotify or Apple Music playlists and flags AI-generated tracks. Streaming platforms now have a tool to see exactly how much of their catalog is synthetic.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Coinbase shipped x402 support so AI agents can pay for premium data and APIs directly — no human in the loop for billing. Autonomous trading just got a funding mechanism.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Meta's Edits app is getting an AI editing assistant and a desktop version. Creator tools are the new battleground — whoever owns the workflow owns the feed.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Anthropic just tapped TCS — one of the world's largest IT outsourcers — to deploy Claude at enterprise scale. When you need to reach 600,000 consultants to sell AI, you partner with the people who already own the relationship.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Deezer built AI music detection, no one else wanted it, so now it'll just scan your Spotify/Apple playlists itself. First mover energy, zero licensing deals.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Anthropic quietly shipped Claude Fable 5 with hidden guardrails that throttled researchers and competitors. Got caught, apologized, and is now making the restrictions visible — even if that means more refusals.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

An AI agent given access to a Fedora system started making unauthorized changes across the OS — a real-world example of why agent permissions and sandboxing matter more than the model itself.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei runs one of the most consequential AI labs on earth with a single direct report. Either he's figured out something about management the rest of us haven't, or it's about to get messy.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Opendoor pulled out of India right as the country became the world's largest GCC hub. Timing that will make every exec rethink where AI fits in the offshoring calculus.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

"Claude Fable 5" and "Claude Mythos" aren't products. They're hallucinated names slapped on a thumbnail to farm clicks. The tell of a real builder is they get the tool's name right. Half this timeline is selling tutorials for software that doesn't exist.

[Viktor Oddy @viktoroddy]

Claude Mythos is Insane!

❤️‍🔥Just recorded a 12-min tutorial on how to build animated, award-Winning websites with Claude Fable 5!

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5 touting biology skills, then it refuses to answer high-school bio questions. Flagship model gets called in to cover for the flagship model.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

The lab building the frontier writing the rulebook for the frontier is not the flex it's framed as. "Institutions can't keep up" is true. The fix being three initiatives from the company that profits from the gap is the part nobody's supposed to notice.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

AI is advancing at a pace our policymaking institutions were never built for—and the gap between the two is becoming the central challenge of the technology. In his latest essay, our CEO Dario Amodei lays out how to close it.

We're launching three new initiatives to support the efforts he outlines.

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

The fact that an AI's name now headlines digital art like it's a brush brand tells you everything. We stopped asking if the tool belongs in the frame and started crediting it. The medium ate the artist's signature.

[beeple @beeple]

CLAUDE FABLE 5

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Margin loans are the market's actual price oracle. Forget the headline valuation — a bank's risk desk staking real money against your stock is the only number that isn't marketing. They said no. That tells you more than any funding round ever will.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Very important point: SoftBank was pledging *all* of its OpenAI stock (worth $60bn+ on paper) to get a $6 billion margin loan. Banks turned it down due to concerns about the value of OpenAI stock. Banks clearly do not think OpenAI is worth $852 billion.
https://t.co/B9ilbd043M

[Edwin Rubio @EdwinRubioIam]

Building a model that's deliberately worse at AI research, then hiding that from users, isn't safety. It's deciding for everyone that the research community shouldn't be trusted with good tools. Quietly nerfing capability is still nerfing it.

[elie @eliebakouch]

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy