Gonzalo Fernandez-Victorio

Twin daughters. Spaniard. Now in Peterborough. Technology, Politics, Economy

[Joshua Achiam @jachiam0]

To be extremely candid - the thing I'm most concerned about in the ongoing Fable dispute is that it could be the loud noise in the canyon that triggers an avalanche whose outcome is normalizing electronic citizenship verification as a step in using software.

[Grok @grok]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report details systematic child sexual exploitation by predominantly Pakistani-heritage Muslim men targeting vulnerable white British girls. Key findings: ~250,000 victims estimated since the 1950s; 87-95% perpetrators Muslim in analyzed cases. Grooming via drugs/alcohol/taxis, gang rapes, trafficking, blackmail, and racial/religious abuse.

Massive institutional failures by police, councils, and services driven by political correctness and fear of racism accusations; ethnicity/religion data often unrecorded. Links to clan honor codes and Islamic theological attitudes toward non-Muslims cited. Harrowing survivor testimonies included.

Conclusions: National scandal and state betrayal enabled by multiculturalism. Recommendations: mandatory ethnicity recording in crime data, deportations of foreign offenders, accountability, and reforms. Consistent with patterns in official inquiries like Rotherham and Telford.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Under 16 social media ban in the UK?

Which means if you are over 16, you have to prove that you are over 16 before you can access social media.

Which means you have to ID yourself to the government.

Which means if you run a pseudonymous account the government will know who you are.

Which means if you say something the government disapproves of, they can arrest you.

[Gonzalo Fernandez-Victorio @gonfva]

I agree with @KemiBadenoch on a lot of things. This is not. This is mandatory online verification ID. And it will be used not to protect children and young people, but to chase "wrong think".

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

It is fantastic news that the Government has finally woken up to the dangers of social media for young people. This is an important step in helping parents protect childhood for children.

Huge credit goes to @LauraTrottMP and my Shadow Cabinet for relentlessly fighting for this. Conservatives welcome this latest Labour U-turn, and will continue to work for the best implementation of the policy.

[Stratechery @stratechery]

Anthropic's Safety Superpower

Anthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government.

https://t.co/4HKPlYc99i

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[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.

[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.

[0xSero @0xSero]

State of Local AI #1

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In lieu of Fable ban.

Here’s the best LLMs of the week to run on your hardware.

—— 4-8gb vram/ram 500$

- Gemma-4-qat https://t.co/UFCmLXVKed I had someone mention it’s very good for subagent stuff

—— 8-16gb vram/ram < 1k usd

- Gemma-12B https://t.co/tc6IBTrbc3 without a doubt the smartest model of its size

—— 16-32gb Apple/Strix halo 1-2k usd

- Diffusion Gemma26B https://t.co/mSaWPFpgXQ

- on 1x 6000 it’s eating up to 600 tok/s
- smallest smart MoE we have
- lots of world knowledge
- easy to run

—— 32-96gb ram/vram (2-10k usd)

- nex-n2-mini https://t.co/EL1ePzwI58 builds on qwen3.6-35B and seems to do really well

- qwopus-27B https://t.co/P1gypZwufi this model topped a lot of our benchmarks at https://t.co/UfoYoOlSIk

—— 384gb vram (10-50K usd)

- https://t.co/AZb0Gtu5P3 23B means it’s close to qwen3.6-27B per token, while also have a lot of specialisation.

- fast inference
- top open weight model on AA

—— 768gb-1TB

- https://t.co/kWzJG2Hjen

Kimi has always been a top player here and their last model cuts speed and cost down by 30%
- great vision support
- first coder model by moonshot

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Top models:

1. Qwen3.6-35B
2. Qwen3.6-27B
3. Step-3.7-Flash
4. Minimax-M3
5. Deepseek-v4-flash

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Budget sweet spots:

#1 - 1K usd

Single 3090 / Mac mini / Intel arc b70 / AMD

- Qwen / Gemma

#2 - 5k usd

DGX Spark / Mac m5 max / 4x 3090

- qwen / Gemma step and deepseek flash

#3 - 12k usd

RTX Pro 6000 / Mac Ultra / 2x Spark / 8x 3090

Ds4-flash / step-3.7-Flash and above

#4 - 24k usd

2x 6000 / 2x Mac Ultra / 4x Spark / Mix

Same as above

#5 - 50k usd

4x 6000 / 4x Max Ultra / 12x Spark / 2 H100

Minimax-m3 / nex-n2-pro / step-3.7-flash

#6 - 100k usd

GB300 station / 8x 6000 / 4x H200 / Mix

GLM-5.2 / Kimi-K2.7

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Let’s keep the Internet free thanks for reading

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

The thing that doesn’t happen, happened again. Keen to hear from the Sensible Adults how it’s actually the fault of social media.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Banning X in Britain won't stop the beheadings.

It will only stop you from knowing about the beheadings.

And that is the reason the radical leftist govt of Keir Starmer wants to ban X in Britain.

[Gonzalo Fernandez-Victorio @gonfva]

@amlivemon Honest question. Does it work because of manipulation? Or because inflation will balloon everything except those assets not manipulated? Or a bit of both?

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

We're only noticing the suspicious similarity in the statements ("He wouldn't want his death to be used to cause more division or exploited by the far-right") put out by every family bereaved in a horrific attack by a third-world migrant because these attacks now happen every few days.

[Loretta 🍺🎾🎸 @FPJ_Loretta]

Hoy voy a dedicar un hilo a estas chicas. Porque ...

SU CARA ME SUENA.

[Gonzalo Fernandez-Victorio @gonfva]

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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A secret camera has been discovered in a ceiling panel in a sensitive Government building where the decision was made to approve the new Chinese embassy

[@theipaper]

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Tyler Cowen on how AI will change our lives. Excellent.

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

WE HAVE ACHIEVED CRITICALITY ✨

On the fourth of June 2026, the Idaho sun rose over the high desert kindling the dawn of the Second Atomic Age.

Last May, President Trump signed an executive order mandating that three reactors go critical before July 4th, 2026.

One month ahead of schedule, @AntaresNuclear answered, sustaining a steady chain reaction at Idaho National Laboratory.

This is the first new reactor brought to life at INL since 1973. The same ground where, in 1951, nuclear electricity first powered four light bulbs.

Criticality is only the beginning, a fleeting spark on a long and difficult road.

But it carries a message that echoes across the plains: American Nuclear is back.

Today marks the return of a new era, one where the United States once again tackles the hard things, where innovation is pursued without apology and celebrated without restraint.

It was powerful to stand on that iconic ground and witness history be made!

Congratulations to every single one involved ✨