Alyssa Villanueva

Storytelling

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Assuming open models continue to lag about 8-12 months behind closed source (at least in coding), the countdown to hardening IT systems against Mythos-class models is now at 4-8 months

Having publicly available and relatively safe defensive Mythos-class models today is important

[Katerina Dimitratos @KDimitratos]

World Cup tourists have discovered New Jersey deli:

[Frederik Gregaard @F_Gregaard]

Great to talk with @CamiRusso at @DefiantNews about what real decentralised governance looks like and the important work happening on Cardano. An in-depth read on the @Cardano_CF roadmap, the Cardano 2030 Vision and multiple community initiatives.
The work continues.

https://t.co/F66MoSb34U

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

An advantage of the humanities — of reading & seeing a wide range of great works from many perspectives & cultures — is that you develop your sense of taste.

In a world where anyone can produce a flood of writing & visual output is for cheap, that has never been more important.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% pay raise https://t.co/GD2rKbyWmZ

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

Nearly 81,000 people responded in one week—the largest qualitative study of its kind.

Read more: https://t.co/tmp2RnZxRm

[Jazmin Vargas @jazrvargas]

Huge.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today we're releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.

[Congressional Hispanic Caucus @HispanicCaucus]

This is unacceptable, full stop. @SenAlexPadilla attended an open press conference to engage in debate, to represent his state, to do his job.

We demand a full investigation and consequences for every official involved in this assault against a sitting US senator.

[Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere]

Padilla was in a government building, would have gone through metal detectors to verify he was unarmed, the action prompting his removal was asking a question and disrupting a press conference, and he had identified himself as a senator -- prompting this response:

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

“Buried in the House’s budget reconciliation bill — now pending in the Senate — is a legislative provision that takes aim at the federal judiciary. Section 70302, titled “Restriction on Enforcement,” would undermine federal judges’ authority to enforce court orders by limiting their ability to hold government officials in contempt, a key tool for compelling compliance with court orders.”

[Sara Eisen @SaraEisen]

“The idea that it was new and totally different is overblown. The cost has been going down for some time…. People have been spending more and more though to get models smarter and smarter” - @DarioAmodei of Anthropic on DeepSeek

[Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch]

Em dash slander!!! I’ve been overusing the em dash since 2016!!!

[Alyssa Villanueva @LyssVilla]

@timothywhite77 @sarahbgannett This so beautiful -- thank you for sharing your story and his words!

[Jake Abbott @jabbotthabit]

Respectfully, if you feel this way, maybe this line of work isn’t for you.

Ask for better pay, better benefits, and more opportunities to grow and make a difference. Don’t ask to work less than the people you represent.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

When California had the drought a decade ago I asked during a Mother Jones editorial meeting where the water had gone and everyone laughed at me and said “everyone knows where it went” and I said “I don’t know where the water went but I know that it didn’t disappear so it went somewhere” and they said “I don’t have time for this” and ran away and it became a running gag internally because I was like “they can’t answer this basic question” and was so obstinate about it that when I ended up having to edit any stories about the drought I would constantly add edit notes like “must answer: where did the water go” and they would have to wait and find another editor to avoid me because they were like “this editor is a moron” and then after five years or whatever I got this text from one of them and they were like “I was talking to a scientist recently and one thing led to another and I mentioned that there this prick at the company obsessed with where the water went and they said ‘actually we just found the water’ and they sent me the study and there is an answer to your question.’”

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

It’s going to take time to sort through what happened Tuesday. But I've read a lot of takes the past few days (some good, many bad), and I've had a lot of people ask how I won one of the toughest districts in the country by over 13%.

Here are some thoughts: 🧵

[@AliciaMenendez on Bluesky & Threads @AliciaMenendez]

As you ask what happened with Latino voters, some favorite journos/story tellers/explainers who have been telling this story for years: @sabrod123 @NatashaSAlford @Carrasquillo @realcpaz @jherrerx @paoramos @drnoriega

[Tom Carper @TomCarperforDE]

Excited to see @lisabrochester win the U.S Senate seat tonight to represent Delaware!