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[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

interesting timing

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

The Strait of Hormuz remains open for transit.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

@matialonsor /cc @markdaycomedy

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

more color on this

(to be clear i think spacex is an AMAZING company)

https://t.co/TsLDEvsGVD

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

the rules changing around accelerated insider lockup expirations, fast-tracked index inclusion, new float rules. everyone is the exit liquidity. impressive!

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

remarkable

https://t.co/e7CSYlm3Ew

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

rt for the goodwill maxxing

[Catherine McMillan @catrosemcmillan]

Looking to meet people on @X

If you're into:

- IRL communities
- AI, robotics, startups
- goodwill maxxing
- nonlinear life paths
- niche interests + rabbit holes

Say hi or share your current rabbit hole! Looking to find my people here :)

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

vibe coded game where you can ride the charts lmao

https://t.co/HVnoLsA5PD

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

a wild ptj appears

[TSDR Trading @TSDR_Trading]

Idk who she is but I know Paul Tudor Jones when I see him!

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

wow

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

Veiem per primera vegada la torre de Jesucrist il·luminada!
L'espectacle de llum iniciat des de la base fins a la il·luminació de la creu ha culminat amb una composició de llums guiats per drons, que han dibuixat la figura Gaudí i la frase «primer l'amor, després la tècnica».

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

trying to do this during the pre ipo quiet period is like doing it on hard mode

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

Dario's essay compressed by ai:

AI is advancing faster than policy, so democracies must urgently regulate frontier models, prepare for economic disruption, accelerate beneficial uses, protect civil liberties, and coordinate globally to keep AI safe, broadly beneficial, and aligned with democratic values.

(regulatory capture dressed up as safety)

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

incredible retardmaxxing journalism crossover here

[Jakey @SolJakey]

Exposing mayoral election voting fraud in Los Angeles.

Homeless individuals across the city are being a couple bucks in exchange for their personal information and signatures, which then get used by an unknown party to fraudulently cast votes.

We spoke to people living on Skid Row who said they have not only witnessed it happening, but were personally offered and took money for their information and signatures.

This is Part 1.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

Bill Gurley's point here is so true.

People often underestimate just how much AI can do. I find myself doing this over and over.

In fact, this should actually be a feature and happen on the fly while the user is entering the prompt.

The AI should be auto-completing extra stuff that it could do to improve the output. Like Ai Autocomplete.

https://t.co/rBCJPruAsM

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Our Anthropic overlords deciding which prompts the peasants are allowed to use.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

goated idea

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The cheapest, most effective wildfire crew in California has four legs and eats the problem.

Clearing flammable brush off a steep slope by hand is brutal, slow, expensive work. A herd of goats is none of those things.

Hand clearance:

- Around 28,000 dollars an acre
- People with tools on dangerous slopes
- Cuttings that then have to be hauled away

A herd of goats:

- Roughly 500 to 1,000 dollars an acre
- Climbs slopes no crew wants to touch
- Eats the brush to a firebreak and fertilises the ground on the way through
- Reaches branches several feet up
- Visibly thrilled to be at work

Calling the goat a quaint throwback has it backwards. On this job the goat is the superior technology by a factor of about fifty, and it runs on the very scrub everyone else is paying to remove.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

some valid thoughts in here

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

"Misanthropic."

I've never seen the AI community so angry at a major new model release. I asked my AI (an agent that @blevlabs made for me) to gather all the backlash.

+++++++++++

THE BACKLASH AGAINST CLAUDE FABLE 5'S RESTRICTIONS

The best analysis of why this matters:

@EnoReyes — "It's about who gets to decide, and whether you ever find out when they do. Fable won't fall back to a different model and tell you. It just limits the output through prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT. You won't be told when it happens to you."
https://t.co/k6s7gdgckk

THE VIRAL TAKE:

@0xBalloonLover — "anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains"
https://t.co/8GiTfZOASu

POWER CONCENTRATION:

@ClementDelangue (HuggingFace CEO) — "Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!"
https://t.co/6n4mjoCdfN

@jeremyphoward (https://t.co/hxyqsLY2ti) — "Anthropic has chosen the opposite of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They've said they'll sabotage others who try."
https://t.co/305uPAbiaA

@gneubig (Graham Neubig, CMU) — "First they came for the model builders... I feel we're getting a glimpse of a future where AI is only provided to a privileged few, and that's not a future I want to live in."
https://t.co/JiFiz55YYK

OPEN RESEARCH:

@askalphaxiv (AlphaXiv open science) — "As believers of open research, we are disappointed to see Anthropic silently degrading Fable 5 for AI development."
https://t.co/KaP0NEivW6

@willccbb — "it is the first publicly available model that i am explicitly not allowed to use for my work, because anthropic holds the view that the work i do to facilitate open model research is harmful. capability and alignment research are coupled. anthropic wants to be the only lab."
https://t.co/mIovN3a0FS

NOUSRESEARCH / HERMES (which Anthropic has nerfed multiple times):

@Teknium (NousResearch co-founder) — "What's crazy to me is that Fable is blocked from life sciences broadly, nerfed even if you get passed the classifiers and filter level blocks. The whole point of AGI/ASI is to cure all diseases. Everything else is just nice to haves. But Anthropic wants to close off that path."
https://t.co/8Nh5Squ2UA

THE MECHANISM:

@kimmonismus — "When the model is used for frontier LLM development, it apparently does not simply refuse or warn the user. Instead, it quietly limits its own effectiveness through techniques like prompt modification, steering vectors, and PEFT."
https://t.co/HsrA8xeScP

MEDICAL COMMUNITY:

@DeryaTR (immunologist, BSL-3 certified) — "The word 'cancer' is flagged as a biosecurity risk by Claude Fable 5! I also tried to code a website on cancer mutations & Fable 5 was immediately removed from my list!"
https://t.co/3VpiYWZmbz

@DeryaTR — "I can't even say 'hello' to Fable 5 except in incognito mode (memories off), because it knows I am a biomedical researcher!"
https://t.co/jxWcx8y8QE

@DeryaTR — "I am not even allowed to use Fable 5 with memories on! Apparently the model thinks I am a biosecurity risk, though I had been certified to work in biosecurity level 3 labs! Not a single Anthropic person has tried to reach out to help either!"
https://t.co/Rj6EGLw8Vq

@banteg — "claude fable 5 refuses completely benign tasks like analyzing bloodwork."
https://t.co/Wg5LLYK5lW

@bneyshabur — "Working on AI for cancer? Sorry, I can't help you. Working on AI for Alzheimer's Disease? Sorry, I'm becoming a bit dumb when it comes to the AI part of it."
https://t.co/wLetowldAD

SUBSCRIPTION CANCELLED:

@bubbleboi — "Have canceled my team subscription for Claude Pro. Idc how good that model is, it's not good enough for me to support people who actively stifle innovation and gate keep knowledge that they didn't even create."
https://t.co/4km3iR3N12

BILLING AND PRIVACY:

@GergelyOrosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) — "Things I really dislike about Fable: 1. Anthropic collects my prompt history, stores it, and does whatever they want with it for 30 days. No opt-out. 2. They can nerf their most expensive model without telling me, billing me the same amount, wasting my time. Whenever they want."
https://t.co/pV5qiZnsTR

THE KARPATHY QUESTION:

@SanthProject — "the old @karpathy would never support a company that fucks other llm researchers. Were the stock benefits that good?"
https://t.co/Hw8uHLuZWB

THE MONOPOLY CHARGE:

@tunguz (TabulAI founder) — "Starting to suspect that Anthropic's putative security and safety considerations are largely posturing and performative."
https://t.co/gwKrgbNSWY

@BlancheMinerva — "Anthropic is choosing to make decisions that make the world a significantly worse and potentially more dangerous place."
https://t.co/Tlc6ct64AH

@LinusMixson — "Dario personally, and Anthropic as a whole, have been extremely straightforward about wanting a monopoly for a long, long time."
https://t.co/Ngj9csOazh

@TheAhmadOsman — "I started warning people about Anthropic more than a year ago... Today I am vindicated, everybody knows that company only acts in bad faith."
https://t.co/l0TmVRJOSO

WHY REGULAR PEOPLE WILL EVENTUALLY CARE:

@DanJeffries1 — "The fury is real and what all of us in the open community have been saying for years and yet regular folks don't get it yet because nothing they care about is restricted or taken away for 'safety.' They will care a LOT in the future when AI is integrated into every aspect of [life]."
https://t.co/W0BgfgkOqd

Full analysis: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

It feels big, slow, heavy, and expensive in my early vibe check here. It still can't write a decent joke either.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

It’s out

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

Claude Fable 5: "Mythos-class" SOTA model now safe for general use. Tops coding, vision & science benchmarks. Biggest gains on complex/long tasks. Risky queries fallback to Opus 4.8. Mythos 5 (fewer safeguards) for trusted users. $10/M input, $50/M output.

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

locked in

[F.O.L.A @folaoftech]

Yo, this is the kind of workspace I’ve always imagined 😌

[Duncan Rawlinson @thelastminute]

opportunity of a lifetime haha

imagine the vibe

amazing

[Guy @nosilverv]

Rick Rubin (yes, /that/ Rick Rubin) is hiring someone to live with him in his villa in Tuscany for a month while they teach him how to use AI lmao, best timeline.