Kevin Connell

[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.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

You can now chat with apps in ChatGPT.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Developers (and those who would like to become developers), set your alarms.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Less than 29 hours ago, OpenAI dropped o3 & o4-mini with agentic tool use.

Minds are blown. And people are already coming up with wild use cases.

10 examples:

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

The California State University System is bringing AI to 500,000 students and faculty in the largest deployment of ChatGPT to date.
https://t.co/IMo2eEO4Iv

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@scottmelker @scottmelker do exchanges report active SL orders externally? How do whales access this data? Thx!

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

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[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@MalcolmNance Good hunting.

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

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[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

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[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

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[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@PeterMcCormack Not too late..

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@scottmelker And/or throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks?

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

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[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@crypto_iso White Claw tastes like 2020...

High Noon is the future.

Your welcome.

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@scottmelker TD9 on the daily close as well.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Universities have become overbought luxury goods that exploit exclusivity, exclusion and judgement to drive up revenues and endowment AUM.

They went from “places to learn” to “places to perform” with the promise of monetary rewards for complying and paying sky high tuition.

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

Nailed it.

[Rahim S. Rajan @bleuguy]

This is spot on. It is way past time for empty words and empty promises.

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@scottmelker @tradingview Holy crap we are charting this?

[Kevin Connell @KevinMConnell]

@scottmelker I wonder what the fish net is for?