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[James Wise @Jameswise]

The NHS does ~500,000 MRI scans a month. It’s one of the largest uses of diagnostic resources in the UK.

If the below scanner works as they are suggesting, we could roll these out and waiting lists for diagnostics would be slashed over night.

Take off.

[The Design Thinker @IanHSmith]

@garryjohnson01 RENEGADE

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

唐辛子を横取りしたイッヌに罰が当たった瞬間

[The Design Thinker @IanHSmith]

This is an insightful post. Focusing on the idea that we have human capital and token capital as a way to define the IP of an organisation, where humans are always in charge.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Two days ago a company shipped the most powerful AI model ever released to the public.

Friday night, the United States government ordered it shut off. Worldwide. Every user, every country, gone by morning.

The trigger was not an attack. A rival showed the government a way around one of the safety locks. That was enough.

The company is Anthropic. The models are Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the most capable systems it has ever built, live for barely 72 hours. At 5:21 on Friday evening, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent the CEO a letter placing both under export controls, citing national security. The order, on its face, only barred foreign nationals. But Anthropic cannot separate foreign users from everyone else in real time, so to comply it had to pull the plug on all of them. The most advanced AI on earth went dark for the entire planet because of a sentence in a letter.

Here is the trigger, and it is the part that should stop you.

By Anthropic’s account, the government reviewed a single demonstration in which the model was asked to read a codebase and fix its flaws, and it surfaced a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. That is the capability at issue. Finding bugs in code. The same kind of capability that, two weeks ago, a researcher used to catch a four-year-old hole in Zcash before it could be drained. The thing that makes the model a world-class defender is the exact thing that got it called a national security risk.

And Anthropic’s rebuttal lands clean. It says the identical task runs on OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, which sits under no such control at all, and that defenders already use this technique every day. One company’s model is pulled worldwide. A rival’s model, doing the same thing, stays online. National security is the reason given. Competitive accident is the result delivered.

This did not come from nowhere. The same administration spent the spring trying to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company refused to let its models be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. A judge blocked that. The two sides had only just begun to thaw. Anthropic had filed to go public at a $965 billion valuation. On June 2 the President signed an order giving the government early access to frontier models. Then a rival demonstrated a jailbreak, and the most powerful model in the world was switched off three days after launch.

Step back and the pattern is the one that keeps repeating. A zero-knowledge proof hid a four-year flaw. A clean audit hid a redemption gate. A safety wall the company built to look responsible became the precise lever the state used to flip the switch.

The safest lab in AI built a model too powerful to fully release, warned the world it was dangerous, filed to go public at $965 billion, and got it shut down by its own government over a bug-finding trick a competitor can run untouched.

Anthropic calls it a misunderstanding and says it is working to restore access. As of Friday night, the most powerful public AI on earth is a black screen, and the kill switch turned out to belong to the state.

[The Design Thinker @IanHSmith]

In UK we need to out-innovate these fascists from USA.

[Robert Youssef @rryssf]

🚨 the us government just banned the most powerful ai model on earth. three days after it launched.

anthropic says the order is legally unsound. and almost nobody is connecting it to what already happened with the pentagon.

this is leads to the biggest ai story of the year ↓

[The Design Thinker @IanHSmith]

It's what happens when you vote for a bunch of fascist thugs to run your country.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Andrej Karpathy (not a US citizen), the top AI scientist at Anthropic, is now barred from accessing Anthropic's top AI model.

This is beyond stupid.
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[The Design Thinker @IanHSmith]

Yes. This is 1937 again.

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

The US just did something that should be a wake-up call for every business and policymaker in this country.

We’ve just witnessed that a frontier AI model can be switched off worldwide, overnight, by a single government directive.

Anthropic didn't choose to switch off our access. This came from Washington.

Britain is in the process of building its productivity story, its public services and its future labour market on AI it doesn’t own, cannot govern and cannot switch back on. The compute is elsewhere, the models are elsewhere, and the off switch is elsewhere.

We learned this with gas supply in recent conflicts. We are about to learn it again, in the one technology that actually matters to us for the next decade.

What this shows us is that we don't have an AI strategy. We have a hosting arrangement. And the host just showed us the terms.

This may blow over and get switched back on. But questions regarding national self-sufficiency and resilience, in a world where alliances are more fragile, should be screaming in the minds of our politicians this morning.

[The Design Thinker @IanHSmith]

Tom turn your excellent points into action. The new Labour leader will listen!

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.

This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.

Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.

What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.

Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.

I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

I’ve warned for months that America would soon restrict access to state of the art frontier AI models for national security reasons.

THIS HAS NOW HAPPENED.

Thanks to the catastrophic energy policies pursued by the Tories and Labour, Britain has virtually ZERO sovereign AI capability.

Now we will be cut off from the most powerful AI models, and will soon end up being TOTALLY AT THE MERCY of China America and others who will be able bring to bear intelligence capable of defeating all our security systems in short order.

WE MUST CHANGE COURSE NOW

[DS | Wild Bloom 🌿 @DSWildBloom86]

When the bell rings and Jerry Lewis steps into the ring… it’s over before it starts!
From Sailor Beware (1952), this man turned boxing into pure, unadulterated chaos. Who else grew up replaying this exact scene on loop? Jerry Lewis was truly unmatched.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Dud Starmer is in the bunker with Baldwin and Hermer -- two of the worst people in SW1 -- issuing Operation Nero orders while officials clutch their heads and try to limit carnage.
It's like Trolley in there at the end with Huawei Hari.
Labour MPs must remove him in weeks not months, new PM by July latest

[Luke Powell @lukew_powell]

🔵🟠Shrewsbury Town have unveiled their new commemorative kit to mark the club’s 140th anniversary. Navy with a white sleeve trim and collar, and a badge change...

What do you think #Salop fans?

[Chris H @RuytonShrew]

Could our new kit look something like this??? Hints in the graphics point to navy and white - possibly in a half and half design as used in the 1890s... #Salop

[Spencer Vignes @SpencerVignes]

Good looking lad, isn't he (the man in the frame, not me)?

He's George Robledo, the first overseas star of English football.

I'm Spencer Vignes & I've written his biography, 'Postcards From Santiago'.

Available from all good bookshops & @BackPageShop where this shot was taken.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This kangaroo fakes fainting to get food from people

[karen ❤️‍🔥🕉🌹 @karenwa25048088]

The Floridian heat has turned Pickford into Albert Steptoe 🤪

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: This mother uploaded footage of her 15-year old son sounding nearly identical to the legendary Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life” has left viewers across the internet speechless, his name is George Robinson.

[Wealdstone FC @WealdstoneFC]

To all of today's #wealdstonefc would-be heroes, here's a message from a hero of Lower Mead - the club's all-time record goalscorer George Duck!