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[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Maher on the Islamic slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: "They are literally trying to wipe out the christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this? They don't care because the Jews aren't involved"

He's 100% correct.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

A man yelling 'allahu akbar' stabbed a man in a kippah at 86th and Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side at 1:30 pm today, then likely stabbed someone else at 84th and Central Park West. Has apparently been caught. On the Jewish day of mourning. In Zohran Mamdani's city.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🔥 AWESOME! Elon Musk MIC DROPS this reporter accusing him of being "far right"

"It's actually just NORMAL PEOPLE...here are the principles. Which sound terrible? We should have secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending."

"Which of those 3 are 'far right?'"

"I'd like to admonish YOU and the MEDIA for the ABSURD characterization of the far right. It is FALSE, MISLEADING, and NONSENSE! KEEP THIS PART IN!"

LFG @ElonMusk!

"Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal. In fact, one of the tricks that I think is funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary, and then go to someone who's on the lunatic left, and say, 'what do you think of the speech by Trump?'"

"They're like, oh, wow, he's the worst person ever. Actually, that was the speech by Obama! Or Hillary!"

Nailed it.

[🇺🇸Roger Bernards🍊 @RogerBernards]

America!! I think AOC is on to us!!
😂😂😂

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.

To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection. Moonshot AI has also acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models.

The United States strongly supports the free and fair development of AI, including a thriving competitive ecosystem that spans frontier models, specialized systems, open-source frameworks, and open-weight models. Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.

[Bobby D🎙 @robertdunlap947]

I’ve come to a point in my life where whatever MSM and Demonrats say, IT’S THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE🤬! Tell me, why is it consistently shown to us that Demonrats are pedo’s yet scream that Republicans are🤔? Saul Alinsky would be so proud of their projection🇺🇸

[DR POOL @DRPOOLQ17]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk tells every citizen of America to NEVER forget the treason of Biden-Harris dispatching forklifts to open the border for criminal invaders as Texas tried to keep them out.

"Never." 💯💯

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

Happy anniversary and congratulations to Cuba on 60 years of rent control.

[calle @callebtc]

I have a report full of security issues of a software I'm working on.

Codex won't fix them because of Cyber guardrails
Fable won't fix them because of Cyber guardrails

Kimi K3 fixed them all. No restrictions, just gets the job done.

This will end badly for OpenAI & Anthropic.

[elvis @omarsar0]

Must-read research by Anthropic.

Here is the simple explanation and why this is a big deal.

We suspect LLMs perform "internal reasoning". But little is known or do good methods exist to understand it.

Anthropic claims that J-Space (which differs from chain-of-thought or scratchpad), emerged on its own through training and provides a window into how Claude "reasons" internally.

In other words, this shows that Claude has a sort of internal workspace where information gets held, combined, and passed between different parts of the model. They can read from it, and they can steer the model by changing it.

As it is the case with these reports, the consciousness angle will get all the attention. However, the bigger story is that for the first time you can point to a specific place inside the model where reasoning is staged, rather than guessing at it from the text that comes out.

This, of course, changes what interpretability can be. We spent years inferring what a model was doing from what it said. Now there's a mechanism to observe directly, and a direct lever to move. This could enable even more advanced levels of "reasoning" in LLMs and bridges gaps in frontier intelligence and world models.

If you can see where a model holds an idea, you can also verify it, audit it, and catch it working toward a goal you never gave it. You can implement better guardrails and predict dangerous/unwanted scenarios better.

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Governor DeSantis and Governor Pritzker each just signed their 8th state budgets. The contrast couldn't be starker. And the lesson is that who you elect matters. Change out the politicians and you get different policies.
For reference, Florida is 1.8x more populous than IL, 23.37m people compared to 12.71m people. Now consider these points:
1. FL general revenue budget is $52B, IL is $56B. Because state's have different ways of budgeting, lookimg at the total FY27 budgets, FL =$117B, IL=$130B. This doesn't make sense.
2. Pritzker advocated for and signed the largest budget in state history this year and in previous years. DeSantis has lowered the amount spent every year for the last four years and vetoed over $10B in spending during his time in office. Pritzker's budget is up $16B since he took office.
3. Pritzker brags about his credit upgrades, but IL has the worst state credit rating, FL has the best credit rating.
4. FL has a rainy day fund of $18B. IL rainy day fund is $2B.
5. FL is pushing $78B in road programs and moving planned projects ahead 5-15 years. IL can't even get projects planned, permitted and built in a timely manner, so many projects are left undone and money sits in an account collecting interest. And now that surplus interest is being sent to the CTA to bail them out.
6. DeSantis has given back over $9B in taxes. Pritzker has raised taxes every year for a total of over $77B according to IPI.
9. FL is giving $5,000 signing bonuses for police officers. IL politicians want to defund the police.
10. FL is on the cusp of eliminating property taxes for 60% of home owners and they have no state income tax. IL has the highest property taxes, plus individial income and estate taxes, high corporate taxes, and there's been no attempt to meaningfully lower property taxes.
Yes, elections have consequences. But, it can all ve reversed. DeSantis barely got elected 8 years ago. Your vote matters.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

For 60 years, experts said fusion was always 30 years away. Last week, Helion cleared Washington State regulatory approval for its Orion fusion plant, the first commercial fusion reactor in history. In the meantime, Fable 5 has returned with stricter guardrails accompanied by an interesting release of Sonnet 5.

-- Stripe used Fable V to overhaul 50 million lines of code in a single day. Months of engineering work, gone in hours.

-- 140 humanoid robot companies in China. Morgan Stanley revised projections three times: 14K → 26K → 50K this year, 500K by 2030.

-- StarCloud launched the first GPU in orbit and trained an LLM in space. StarCloud Two launches in January with 100x the power.

-- Grok 4.5 based on a 1.5 trillion parameter model. Elon plans to start a brand new pre-training run from scratch every month.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Harvard U: $56.9 billion in endowments
Princeton: $36 billion in endowments
UPenn: $24.8 billion in endowments
Cornell: $12 billion in endowments
Brown: $8 billion in endowments
Yale: $44 billion in endowments

These are the same people demanding Elon "end world hunger" (lol) with his money

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

DEI EXEC AT JPMORGAN CHASE GETS CANNED AFTER DUMPING KNICKS TRASH ON THE STREET — THEN STEALING THE BIN! 😂

Angie Báez, a top Diversity, Equity & Inclusion executive who worked as Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, went viral for the wild stunt during the Knicks championship parade. She was caught emptying a special Knicks trash can onto the Manhattan street before walking off with it — and was fired by the bank today.

Talk about irony. Actions have consequences.

How much more proof do companies need that DEI is a bad idea?

(Video: AI)

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

“The fraud is not real”

Today: 455 fraudsters charged, $6.5 billion exposed

*silent*

Society will never improve until people and the media can look at issues with a logical perspective of: Is this right or wrong to be happening?

EXPOSE IT ALL

[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.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

Net worths of politicians whining about Elon Musk’s fortune from SpaceX:

🔵 Ro Khanna: $250+ million (inherited)
🔵 Gavin Newsom: $30 million
🔵 Elizabeth Warren: $12 million
🔵 Bernie Sanders: $5 million (plus 3 houses)

A bunch of virtue signaling hypocrites.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

You are smarter than this Ro. Imagine if Bernie had taxed @elonmusk 100% on his PayPal capital gains. We would have no @Tesla or @SpaceX - none of those jobs or GDP. Who do you think allocated the capital better for society? He will already pay $100 B + in taxes - more than any human ever. I hope he donates some to kids via @TrumpAccounts to make every kid a shareholder in 🇺🇸 & continues investing all his heart, soul & money for the benefit of America & all humanity! 🇺🇸🚀🤍

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

The Iranian regime will lose the zero-sum game it is playing.

Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian Accounts.

Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts.

Every attack Iran launches will only deepen the economic and financial consequences it faces.