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[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Iranian state media says the military is targeting US ships near the Strait of Hormuz

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

So this confession by an Epstein victim actually naming Trump as one of her rapists is why we are back at war with Iran…funny how war works

[Haider. @haider1]

anthropic's model-release trajectory is clearly exponential

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Very pleased to hear Anthropic have walked back this policy https://t.co/8eOBDzTbCs

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Here's a simple loop: Tell codex to maintain your repos, wake up every 5 minutes and direct work to threads. That makes it easy to parallelize+steer work as needed.

I use a orchestrator skill combined with my triage+autoreview+computer use skills, so some work can land autonomously. https://t.co/FbBoJTIcfd
https://t.co/8389roVnOm

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Simplify until there is nothing to simplify

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

We’re rolling out changes to make Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development visible.

Starting this week, flagged requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8—the same as our safeguards for cyber and bio. You will see this every time it happens. On the API, any flagged requests will return a reason for their refusal (coming to server-side fallback in the next few days).

We wanted to deploy Fable 5 to our users quickly and safely. Visible safeguards can be probed, so they have to be robust, which takes time to get right. Invisible safeguards can be targeted more narrowly, allowing us to ship quickly with very few false positives. We went with invisible safeguards for this reason—and that was the wrong tradeoff. You should have visibility into the safeguards we have in place, and why. We’re sorry for not getting the balance right.

Making the safeguards visible makes them easier to work around, so keeping them robust to jailbreaks will unfortunately mean more false positives while we improve the classifiers. We're also tuning our bio and cyber classifiers to trigger less often on harmless requests. We know this is frustrating and we’ll do our best to keep this period as short as possible.

If you think a request has been mistakenly flagged: run /feedback in Claude Code, click thumbs-down on the fallback in https://t.co/LtktniD5HY or Cowork, or file the safeguard appeal form for API requests. Your reports help us tune these classifiers and we appreciate your feedback.
https://t.co/TDAAYRGqDt

[Dylan Patel @dylan522p]

Usage share of OpenAI grew vs Anthropic yesterday despite Mythos 5 / Fable 5 launch
Multiple power users at SemiAnalysis tried Mythos / Fable
Got refusals for nonsensical reasons
Got pissed off at Anthropic
Gave Codex a legitimate try
Now they actually prefer it to 4.8 Opus

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Can confirm we saw a strong spike in growth of token consumption for Codex over last 48 hours. Unusual when we don't launch something.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program matching people early in their careers with US nonprofits.

We'll teach 1,000 people to use Claude, and pay them to use AI to advance their hosts’ missions.

https://t.co/QI6JmlAdSr

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If your bank forced you to legally put a certain amount of your paycheck every payday for 30 years into a savings account for your "retirement," didn't give you interest, then when you were getting ready to retire, said "we're only going to give you 70% of your money back, because we can't afford to pay you the full amount."

Would you accept that?
Vote every Republican out.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Seeing how SOTA models are evolving: becoming more restrictive in usage (decided by the company), less transparent (you cannot tell if the AI lab nerfed your model) + less private (your prompts are stored, no opt out) makes me much more interested in open models + local inference

[Citrini @citrini]

I think we’ve reached the point where normal people can’t really determine whether new models are better than previous ones. Like Fable doesn’t seem that much better to me, but every 150 IQ person I know is like “wow the singularity came sooner than I thought”.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Here we go. Trump and Hegseth saying we're going back to not only bombing Iran, but hitting their critical infrastructure. We already hit their water reservoirs yesterday. Trump also announced we've been sneaking ships through the Strait. So, war is back on. Disaster unavoidable.

[Kentucky Statesman @ky_statesman]

Our first Jewish President is destroying America for Israel.

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

The most messed up thing about Anthropic sandbagging research is that they’ve almost certainly been sandbagging us on other things they consider morally necessary but not important or impactful enough to warrant disclosure

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Few things in Washington are more predictable than Congress renewing surveillance powers and promising to reform them later.

I spoke on the House floor against the “temporary” clean reauthorization of the unconstitutional FISA 702 program.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

According to a new report released today by the Miami New Times, Trump threw and funded underage sex parties at his Palm Beach golf course.

The president was made aware of the pending publication 2 days ago.

Maybe now you understand why we struck Iran last night.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

BOOM

*OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating Costly War For Users With Anthropic -- WSJ

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Dario Amodei warns countries without powerful AI could be like medieval swordsmen facing World War II Marines.