Sergey Prokhorchuk🇺🇦

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

Anthropic is a company wrapping a business model in moral language, then using that language to justify opaque model behavior, anti-competitive access rules, regulatory pressure, and a future where builders, startups, researchers, and Opensource communities stay downstream of a few blessed frontier labs.

If a coding or research model secretly changes the quality, direction, or reliability of an answer because it classified the user as doing disallowed frontier work, the tool is no longer merely "safe." It is untrustworthy.

Anthropic's moat is being a permission regime. On daily basis, competitors and acquisition targets discover that access can disappear. The company asks governments to bless safety frameworks, deployment gates, incident reporting, evaluation regimes, and even future pauses that incumbents are best positioned to survive.

Imagine a compiler that emits worse binaries when it thinks you are building a competing compiler. Imagine a microscope that blurs certain samples because the manufacturer dislikes the research direction. Imagine a debugger that lies only when your codebase resembles a future rival.

The fight is whether intelligence becomes something people can own, inspect, modify, run locally, fine-tune, study, route, and improve, or whether it becomes a subscription permission layer run by companies that can refuse, degrade, surveil, retain, revoke, reroute, or lobby away your access.

Anthropic can learn from the internet, copyrighted books, code, public knowledge, user feedback if permitted, synthetic data, and its own models. But if a developer uses Claude to bootstrap a competitive open assistant, Anthropic calls foul. The company argues that safety controls may be lost and that competing models undermine the investment required to build frontier systems.

If Anthropic wants to be treated like a public-interest safety institution, it cannot behave like a hypersensitive platform monopolist whenever a customer gets too close to building alternatives.

Yes, companies protect their IP. But Anthropic is not selling a normal SaaS widget. It is selling cognition as infrastructure. Once cognition becomes infrastructure, anti-competitive access control stops being a normal vendor dispute and becomes a social bottleneck.

Anthropic repeatedly converts safety, security, and responsible deployment into mechanisms of control over who may build and what could be built.

We cannot trust them.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Yesterday, the President of Poland noted that the Order of the White Eagle is not an ordinary award. It is a symbol of the highest trust of the Republic of Poland. It signifies a special bond with the Polish state and the special gratitude of the Polish People. Such a symbol requires not only merit, but also respect for the values that form the foundation of our community.

Therefore, if it is considered that this special symbol may remain with Catherine II, Benito Mussolini, and Gerhard Schröder, then we in Ukraine will not argue with that.

Ukraine is grateful to the Polish People for their support and cooperation, which play a significant role in the struggle for our and your independence from Russia.

Ukraine never forgets solidarity and understands that cooperation between states and peoples in our region is one of the tangible security guarantees for Ukrainians and for each neighboring state.

Ukraine will continue to defend itself in this war unleashed by Russia, and we will undoubtedly achieve a dignified peace.

Ukraine is grateful to all peoples, states, and leaders who will continue to stand with us in the defense of freedom and who, together with Ukraine, will serve as guarantors of postwar peace in Europe and a new, real security.

Ukraine will remain open to all meaningful formats of engagement with Poland in order to try to avoid conflicting interpretations of the difficult and painful chapters of our shared past and to ensure proper respect for all innocent victims of the 20th century.

And Ukrainians are doing everything in our power to ensure that Europe does not suffer defeat in this century.

I am proud of our people and of EVERY Ukrainian warrior – of the millions of Ukrainian men and women who deserve unquestionable respect for the heroism the Ukrainian People have shown in defending themselves against Russian aggression.

We believed that the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 2023, was meant for the Ukrainian People and our army. That is what was said at the time. Today, I sent the Order back to the President of Poland.

I believe the future will confirm the respect Ukrainians deserve.

Glory to Ukraine!

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Today, Russia damaged:

- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a nearly 1,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site;
- The Mystetskyi Arsenal cultural complex in Kyiv;
- The Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv;
- The Kharkiv Art Museum;
- The House of Chamber and Organ Music in Dnipro.

These are not military targets. This is Ukrainian culture, history, art, and identity.

So tell us again, what exactly is Russia fighting for? Or is it fighting against the very existence of Ukraine itself?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

More than 500 personnel of the State Emergency Service have been involved in dealing with the aftermath of Russia’s overnight attack on our cities and communities. The main strike was on Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings and other purely civilian infrastructure were damaged again. Tragically, four people have been reported killed. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. At this moment, 38 people are in hospitals in the capital, and all of them are receiving the necessary care.

In Dnipro, a search and rescue operation is ongoing at the site of a four-story apartment building. Part of the building was essentially demolished. Nine people were killed in this attack, including a child. Thirty-five people were injured in the city. The fate of six more people remains unknown. The search for them will continue for as long as necessary.

The Russians also struck energy facilities in the Kharkiv region and critical infrastructure in Kharkiv. Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions also came under attack.

In total, overnight Russia launched 656 attack drones and 73 missiles of various types at our people – ballistic, cruise, and anti-ship missiles. A large-scale attack and an absolutely clear statement from Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue. Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defense so that this war can finally be brought to an end. And assistance from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems is absolutely necessary. We are counting on the support of our partners and on effective responses to today’s attack.

And I thank all Ukrainian men and women for not ignoring air raid alerts.

Glory to Ukraine!

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

I’ve been in Odesa, Ukraine for the Black Sea Security Forum. The Ukrainian people are resilient and they’re not giving up, even in the face of attacks on civilian infrastructure. We have to continue standing with Ukraine in their fight against Vladimir Putin and Russia.

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

.@ZelenskyyUa : Putin can’t even pronounce the word “hurrah” clearly anymore – slurs and mumbles – yet he is still vanquishing residential buildings with his missiles. Launched three Russian missiles against a water supply facility. Burned down a market. Damaged dozens of residential buildings. Hit several ordinary schools. Launched his “Oreshnik” against Bila Tserkva. They really are unhinged.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A rescue operation is currently underway in Kyiv at the site of a Russian drone strike on a nine-story residential building – an entire section of the building has been completely destroyed. Dozens of people have been rescued. Tragically, one person has been killed. My condolences to their family and loved ones. People may still be trapped under the rubble.

Overnight, the Russians launched more than 670 attack drones and 56 missiles against Ukraine. Ballistic, aeroballistic, and cruise missiles were used in the strikes. The main target of this attack was Kyiv. There is damage at twenty locations across the city – ordinary residential buildings, a school, a veterinary clinic, and other purely civilian infrastructure. Destruction has also been reported in the Kyiv region, while similar terrorist strikes targeted energy infrastructure in Kremenchuk, as well as port and residential areas in Chornomorsk.

In total, since midnight yesterday, Russia has used more than 1,560 drones against our cities and communities. These are definitely not the actions of those who believe the war is coming to an end. It is important that partners do not remain silent about this strike. And it is equally important to continue supporting the protection of our skies. The PURL initiative is needed so that Ukraine can defend itself against ballistic strikes like these. And likewise, in the interests of everyone seeking peace, pressure on Russia must continue. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

After yesterday’s savage strikes against our cities and communities – Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kramatorsk, and others – the Russian army continued active hostilities and terrorist shelling throughout this day as well. Russia’s choice is an obvious spurning of a ceasefire and of saving lives.

Assaults continue across all key sections of the front, and since the start of this day alone, the Russian army has already carried out nearly 30 assaults. More than 20 air strikes using over 70 aerial bombs have been recorded just overnight and this morning.

Throughout the night, the Russian army also launched strikes with various types of drones. In particular, Ukraine’s Defense Forces neutralized nearly 90 attack drones alone. There were also missile strikes. In total, as of 10 a.m., the Russian army had committed 1,820 violations of the ceasefire regime – shelling, attempted assaults, air strikes, and the use of drones.

I am grateful to our warriors for defending Ukrainian positions. Ukraine clearly stated that it would act in kind, taking into account Russia’s persistent appeals through the media and social networks asking for a ceasefire during the Moscow parade. It is obvious to any reasonable person that a full-scale war and the daily murdering of people are a bad time for public “celebrations.”

Russia must end the war it is currently waging. Even with the internet shut down and communications blocked, it is perfectly clear to most Russians that their leadership can come out of the bunker and choose peace. The Russian side has our diplomatic proposals, and the only thing needed is Russia’s willingness to move toward real peace.

As of today, we can confirm that the Russian side has disrupted the ceasefire regime. Based on the evening reports from our military and intelligence, we will decide on our further actions. Glory to Ukraine!

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Take a moment to fully appreciate what you are witnessing: the President of the United States is campaigning so aggressively for a pro-Russian autocrat that he has reached the point of effectively attempting to bribe the entire nation into re-electing said pro-Russian autocrat.

[Eric Lengyel @EricLengyel]

New blog post: A Decade of Slug
This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain.
https://t.co/xWEz0q2c4N

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

За що виплачують рекордні зарплати директорам МОК, які отримують більше грошей, ніж усі олімпійські чемпіони та найкраще оплачувані олімпійські федерації?

Крістоф Де Кеппер (генеральний директор) $1 426 699 + $196 078
Кіт МакКоннелл (спортивний директор) $1 022 639 + $101 947
Крістоф Дубі (виконавчий директор Олімпійських ігор) $994 766

Порівняльно із директорами мільйонерами, Президент МОК працював ну майже за дурно. У свій останній повний рік на посаді - 2024 - Президент Бах отримав $350 000. Це менше ніж $ 1000 на день - невелика цифра порівняно з футбольними організаціями. Того ж року ФІФА виплатила своєму президенту Джанні Інфантіно $ 5,2 мільйона доларів зарплати та бонусів, а також інші витрати. Тобто більше $14 тисяч доларів за кожний день року. Він також є одним із 109 членів МОК і може вимагати 7000 доларів щороку на офісні витрати 🤯🤣 та 450 доларів добових під час «олімпійських» відряджень.

Президент УЄФА Александер Чеферін 2024 року отримав майже $ 4,3 мільйона доларів оподатковуваного доходу, включаючи $ 300 000 доларів від ФІФА як один із її віце-президентів.

Міжнародний олімпійський комітет (МОК) не виплачує призові гроші безпосередньо олімпійським чемпіонам. Натомість він надає медалі, дипломи за вісімку найкращих місць та фінансує національні олімпійські комітети (НОК).

МОК стверджує, що пряме розподілення призових коштів створить нерівність між країнами з більшим та меншим фінансуванням. Це окрема тема.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

France is committed to the sovereignty and independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere. This guides our choices. It underpins our commitment to the United Nations and to its Charter.

It is on this basis that we support, and will continue to support Ukraine and that we have built a coalition of the willing for a robust and lasting peace, to defend these principles and our security.

It is also on this basis that we decided to take part in the exercise organized by Denmark in Greenland. We fully assume this decision, because security in the Arctic and at the outer edges of our Europe is at stake.

No intimidation or threat will influence us—neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations.

Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context. Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner should they be confirmed. We will ensure that European sovereignty is upheld.

It is in this spirit that I will engage with our European partners.

[Mouad @nadzi_mouad]

Okay so I need to talk about what’s happening with Yann LeCun because this is genuinely one of the wildest exits I’ve ever seen in tech.

For those who don’t know—LeCun is one of the “godfathers of AI.” Not a marketing title. The man literally won the Turing Award (basically the Nobel Prize of computer science) for helping invent deep learning. He’s been at Meta for over a decade as their Chief AI Scientist. An absolute legend.
So here’s what happened.

Zuckerberg got frustrated. Llama wasn’t moving fast enough. The AI race was heating up and Meta felt like it was falling behind. So what does Zuck do? He drops $14 BILLION on Scale AI and hires its 28-year-old co-founder, Alexandr Wang, to run a brand new “Superintelligence Lab.”

And then—and this is the part that still blows my mind—he makes Wang… LeCun’s boss.

Think about that for a second. A 65-year-old Turing Award winner. Four decades of groundbreaking research. The guy who helped BUILD this entire field. Now reporting to someone whose company… labels data. (Scale AI is impressive, don’t get me wrong, but they don’t actually build AI models. They annotate training data for other companies.)
LeCun just did an interview with the Financial Times and honestly? He chose violence.

Called Wang “young” and “inexperienced.” Said he has “no experience with research or how you practice research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher.”

And then dropped this absolute gem: “You don’t tell a researcher what to do. You certainly don’t tell a researcher like me what to do.”

I mean. The man said what he said.

But wait—it gets better. Or worse, depending on how you look at it.

LeCun straight up confirmed that Meta’s team “fudged” the Llama 4 benchmark results. Like, actually manipulated them. Used different models on different tests to make the numbers look better. Remember when everyone was suspicious about those benchmarks back in April? Yeah. Turns out they were right to be.

Apparently Zuckerberg was furious when this came out internally. LeCun says he “lost confidence in everyone who was involved” and basically sidelined the entire GenAI team.

And here’s the thing that really gets me—LeCun has been saying for YEARS that LLMs are a “dead end.” That you can’t get to real intelligence just by predicting the next word. That we need “world models” that actually understand physical reality, not just language patterns.

Everyone at Meta wanted him to stop saying this publicly. Bad for the narrative, you know? But LeCun refused.

His exact words: “I’m not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks I’m wrong. I’m not wrong.”

That’s not arrogance. That’s a scientist who’s seen enough hype cycles to know when something doesn’t add up.

So now he’s out. Launching his own company called AMI Labs—Advanced Machine Intelligence. They’re targeting a $3 billion valuation. Building those world models he’s been talking about. Says he’ll have a “baby version” ready within a year.
Oh, and apparently French President Macron personally texted him after the news dropped. LeCun won’t say what the message said but like… the man is getting DMs from heads of state now.

I don’t know if LeCun is right about everything. Maybe LLMs will surprise us. Maybe Meta will figure it out. But when one of the three people who literally invented modern AI walks out the door saying your entire strategy is fundamentally flawed?
I don’t know man. I’d at least ask some questions.

The AI wars just got very, very interesting

[Arseny Kapoulkine 🇺🇦 @zeuxcg]

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0!

This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Release announcement with more details on past, present and future is below; please RT!

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A Russian drone strike hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv – after a massive attack overnight. Unfortunately, one person has been killed – my condolences to the bereaved family. As of now, seven people have been injured and are receiving medical care. All the children have been evacuated and are now in shelters. Preliminary reports indicate that many are showing acute stress reactions.

There is no justification for a drone strike on a kindergarten, nor can there ever be. Clearly, Russia is growing more brazen. These strikes are Russia’s spit in the face to everyone who insists on a peaceful resolution.

Thugs and terrorists can only be put in their place by force.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Another night proving that Russia does not feel enough pressure for dragging out the war. Our air defense forces, mobile fire groups, and drone interceptor crews were working all night and into the morning. Ordinary cities have been under fire, primarily our energy infrastructure, but many residential buildings have also been hit. There were fires in Zaporizhzhia and hits on homes in Kyiv. The Kyiv, Odesa, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy and Sumy regions were under attack. As of now, 17 people are known to have been injured. Unfortunately, 6 people were killed, among them 2 children. My condolences to their families and loved ones.

Russian words about diplomacy mean nothing as long as the Russian leadership does not feel critical problems. And this can be ensured only through sanctions, long-range capabilities, and coordinated diplomacy among all our partners. It is high time the European Union adopted a strong sanctions package. We also count on strong sanctions measures from the United States and the G7, from all those who seek peace. It is very important that the world does not remain silent now and that there is a united response to Russia’s vile strikes.

Everyone who is now helping Ukraine with air defense systems and missiles for them is protecting lives. We are grateful for that. And everyone who helps Ukraine with long-range capabilities will bring the end of the war closer.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Nah, let’s wait for another three years inventing new excuses as Lviv burns — and then inevitably close the skies of West Ukraine and help Ukraine shoot down Russian missiles and drones anyway — years too late again.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, a Russian strike on one of our energy substations in Slavutych caused a blackout lasting more than three hours at the former Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant facilities. This included the New Safe Confinement, which protects the environment from remnants of reactor 4 after the 1986 explosion, as well as from radioactive debris and dust. It’s also a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, holding 80% of all the spent fuel accumulated during the NPP’s operation – fuel assemblies weighing over 3,250 tons in total.

The Russians could not have been unaware that striking facilities in Slavutych would have such consequences for Chornobyl. And this was a deliberate strike, involving more than 20 drones – preliminary estimates indicate Russian-Iranian “shaheds.” Some of these drones were shot down, but the attack was specifically executed as a wave to complicate the facility’s defense.

Meanwhile, the blackout at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant continues into its eighth day. It began due to Russian shelling in the area of the plant, and the Russians are doing absolutely nothing to rectify the situation or allow Ukrainian specialists to restore external power to the ZNPP, which should normally operate continuously. Russia is intentionally creating a risk of radiological incidents, taking advantage, unfortunately, of the weak stance of the IAEA and Director General Rafael Grossi, as well as the dispersed global attention.

Half-hearted or weak measures will not fix the situation. Every day that Russia prolongs the war, refuses to implement a full and reliable ceasefire, and continues striking all objects of our energy infrastructure – including those critical to the safety of nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities – is a global threat. In addition to the Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia facilities, Ukraine has five nuclear power plants, and each of them could become a target for Russian drones and missiles.

It is crucial that European countries, the United States, and the G7 and G20 nations take real action for peace and security to the fullest extent possible. Strong response and appropriate pressure on Russia are required to protect human life. I am grateful to everyone in the world who refuses to remain silent.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

How unfortunate that since 2022 no one has ever proposed the idea that European forces could help Ukraine close the skies and shoot down Russian missiles and drones over Ukrainian territory — so they wouldn’t have to be intercepted in NATO’s airspace.

Ah yes, of course: shooting down missiles and drones over Ukraine would be a “terrible escalation” and “entry into war against Russia,” but destroying those very same Russian drones just a bit further west, already over Poland (and soon perhaps missiles as well) — that is not escalation and carries no risk.