I think both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 get approved for general release next week, and for use outside of the United States as well. But people should remember this moment and remember this feeling, because it is almost inevitable that we eventually reach a point where approval does not arrive.
Capitalism is going to tip the scales this time. I doubt they will approve one model and not the other, because doing so would be seen as incredibly anti-competitive. Fable and GPT-5.6 will probably receive the same clearance, probably on the same day. I also doubt they want to restrict sales outside the US, because that would be seen as anti-business and would trigger a major backlash against American closed-source AI. The rumblings of which you can already hear today. There is also a plan now taking shape on both the US left and right to create some version of an AI public wealth fund that pays a dividend directly to American citizens. That fund needs to be fed by the global sale of the big labs top models to people outside the US. So I think there will be no freeze on their use outside the United States this time.
The other reason is that allowing this will make people happy, and it will soften the fact that Mythos, as was announced yesterday, is available only to a vetted group of US agencies and companies. I do not think that this basic structure will change from here on out. Mythos may eventually be made available to certain allies, but only after the US government, its agencies, and then some chosen American companies have access to Mythos-2, Sol-2, or whatever the new uber-model turns out to be.
I do not think this gap ever closes again, not even for allies. And that means the US will increasingly possess an intelligence advantage that touches almost everything: voting, markets, corporations, academia, infrastructure, and the internal operations of foreign states. Having Mythos-n will always be trumped by whoever has Mythos-n+1. Anthropic themselves have said within nine months Mythos will look like a toy. That advantage, standing at the top of this tower, is too large to give up voluntarily. It also means that many things will become suspect. People will see shadows everywhere. Barring espionage, a deliberate leak, or the emergence of a non-US competitor at the top end of the scale, this structure will persist for some time. The public fight is about access to models. But the real fight is about access to the future. And from this point forward, whoever holds this power will also become increasingly capable of keeping it for themselves.
Restricting new frontier AI models to a select few companies is outrageous and blatantly anti-competitive. It means some companies get early access, become even more powerful, and the entire startup ecosystem gets pushed out before it can compete. This is hopelessly unfair.
It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity
🇺🇸 A Texas biotech company just hatched 26 live chicks from 3D-printed artificial eggs with no shells and no hens.
First time in history a complete bird embryo developed in a fully artificial system.
And that's just the warm-up.
Colossal Biosciences is using this same tech to bring back the South Island giant moa: a 12-foot-tall, 250 kg bird that went extinct 600 years ago.
No surrogate exists on Earth big enough to hatch one. So they built the technology to do it without one.
De-extinction just went from science fiction to a construction project.
Source: @WallStreetApes
GOOGLE IS NEGOTIATING WITH SPACEX TO LAUNCH DATA CENTERS INTO ORBIT
Not servers in a building. Not a cloud. Literal satellites carrying AI chips. Circling Earth, powered by raw sunlight, organized in 1-kilometer arrays of 81 satellites at a time.
It's called Project Suncatcher. First prototypes up by early 2027.
The reason is simple and enormous: AI is consuming Earth's power grid faster than humanity can build power plants to feed it. Space has a star.
And stars don't send electricity bills.
🇺🇸 SpaceX just launched a satellite for one of Starlink's biggest competitors.
Viasat basically paid Elon to put them into orbit.
They made a deal, now Viasat's constellation is complete.
That's how dominant SpaceX is in the launch market right now. Even your competition needs you to get off the ground.
@SpaceX, @Starlink, @elonmusk
@ishikasharma253 Being on Vancouver Island, almost every moment feels like being in the 'right place at the right time.' It is beautifully carved, like God's own heaven.
#vancouverisland
It’s happening! #ArtemisII is lifting off and Canada is on board. CSA Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen launches alongside Reid Wiseman NASA, Christina Koch NASA and Victor Glover NASA for a Lunar Flyby. Send the crew your support below! 🚀⬇️
For the first time in over 50 years, humanity is heading back to the moon.
Among the crew is @Astro_Jeremy, who will become the first Canadian to travel to lunar orbit.
A historic achievement and a proud moment for Canada’s space program.
Wishing Jeremy and the entire crew of Artemis II a safe mission and a successful return.