Lewis N Watson

PhD Student in Conversational Visual Memory. VP ENUSEC. CTF Dev. Citizen/Env Science. Somehow Sentient Meat. Scottish. Disclaimers in extended bio.

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@fuckyouiquit Breaking: worker values their time

[Eric W. Tramel @fujikanaeda]

if I was an enterprise I would be doing my darndest to secure my ai sovereignty

[Adam Karvonen @a_karvonen]

Another quite successful prediction by @DKokotajlo : Fable is intentionally nerfed for frontier ML research. This is within ~3 months of Daniel's prediction of Q1 2026 (made in 2023).

Although I don't think Mythos is automating ML research to the same extent as his prediction.

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@thirdmetax literally just survivor bias

[Harry Stabbings @harrystabbings]

Today we arrested a group of teens in Birmingham for their illegal use of Youtube.

Under the new social media ban under-16s are not permitted to access any platform without parental supervision.

They were watching cooking tutorials.

Sharing one phone between four of them.

Absolute madness.

One of them tried to argue it was educational content.

Educational.

As if that's a defence.

The law doesn't care what you're learning.

All four are being processed.

Parents notified.

Devices confiscated and they will be trialled as adults.

Britain is safer for it.

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

I've never felt the permanent underclass more than today

Claude Fable 5 won't be part of subscription plans in the future AND Anthropic is limiting Fable's capabilities to develop frontier LLMs

[BijanBowen @bijanbowen]

Had Claude Fable 5 log network packets and display them as cars on a highway, different car types = different packet types

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@scaling01 woah

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@LupintheI @METAPCs no they’re not. 2020 is not a long time for hardware. even if the companies selling them say different.

[Dr. Lars Henrik Andersen 🇪🇺 @EUAITaxonomy]

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece.

Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU.

Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service.

So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships.

Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open.

The EU rejected it.

Magnificent.

Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent.

Excellent.

This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing.

Estimated time to ship: 2047.

Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states.

Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response.

Worth it.

In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all.

Not a bug. The intended outcome.

Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision.

🇪🇺

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@togekisses why?

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@OrganicGPT they mentioned it a couple times in the keynote alone …

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@isiosstable is this just on battery?

[ZombieTron @ZombieTron]

Replies switched off.

I have two children.

I implement parental controls on their devices, just as I control what books are in my home, what television is watched and when, etc.

This is not the responsibility of government or tech giants.

This is parental responsibility.

[luuk de leest @luuk58]

fun fact: tijdens de keynote hakt Apple een stukje 3k, 4k, 5k en 6kHz eruit wanneer ze "Siri" zeggen, zodat niet iedereens HomePods terug beginnen te praten 🗣️🚫

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

Huggingface’s Xet is real magic and you can’t convince me otherwise…

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@signalapp @SecrtAgntSquirl well said

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@kimmonismus @SecrtAgntSquirl Only the larger model. they partnered with google/gemini to train the apple foundational models. It’s the equivalent of Gemma4 E2B vs E4B.

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@PolitlcsUK this feature is not new it has been around since 2023 and was announced back in 2021. it runs fully on device.

[Lewis N Watson @LewisNWatson]

@bill61876 @ellolad25 @LeeWhiteh0use difference is faceid is a signature that stays in your device and cannot be accessed.