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attempting code, stuff in SierraChart, enjoooyer, cogitating in latent space🪠

[Commander DC @nzpoliticsgroup]

Alert: Chris Hipkins shows off new TATTOO 🚨🚨🚨

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@Aella_Girl There are other things to do with time and free will

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@simonw It is precisely this, Lutnick apparently signed the letter, so they didn’t bother asking their supposed AI czar? Seems so dumb you could do what was done with Fable with near any prior model

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@MrnllMtt Great read - thanks 👍

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@hqmank That’s fine, just give me my dear Fable back

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https://t.co/i05dMyo0FZ

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@AlexanderKnigge @MistralAI Why bother doing this fakery, cool idea though

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@TheNzRocketeer Struggle to understand them

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@noble_vii15205 @mattpocockuk Jesus even the free stuff of Matt’s has been brilliant value

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@systematicls More like “totally accidentally” get regulated so that competitors have to show their hand

But what good is a model you can’t release

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

A short history of how we got here, because the chronology is the whole story.

January: the Pentagon demands unrestricted use of Claude for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. Anthropic says no.

February: the President orders every federal agency to drop Anthropic. The Defense Secretary bans Pentagon contractors from doing business with them. A rival announces its classified-network deal within hours.

March: the Pentagon designates an American company a "supply chain risk" under a statute written for foreign adversaries. A federal judge blocks it.

May: the Pentagon signs AI deals with seven companies. Anthropic is not one of them.

June 9: Anthropic releases Fable 5.

June 12: Commerce issues an export control directive over a jailbreak that, by the government's own account, was demonstrated verbally, came with no written explanation, and involves a capability you can get from other publicly available models today.

Two things are true at once.

First: Anthropic spent months marketing Mythos as too dangerous to release. Sam Altman said it was "incredible marketing to say we have built a bomb." The Commerce Department has now formally agreed it is a bomb. If you describe your product as a munition in every press release, eventually a government takes you at your word. They wrote the legal predicate themselves and called it a brand.

Second: we have run this experiment before. In the 90s the government classified encryption as a munition under ITAR. Activists defeated it by printing PGP's source code as a book, because books are protected speech and floppy disks were arms exports. A t-shirt with three lines of RSA Perl was legally a munition. The controls collapsed because math does not stop at customs.

The new wrinkle is the "deemed export" rule: showing controlled technology to a foreign national inside the US counts as exporting it abroad. Which is why Anthropic's own foreign-national employees are now locked out of the model they built. The munition is in the building and the people who made it are not allowed to look at it.

The jailbreak is the paperwork. The refusal was in January.

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@AnthropicAI

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@AnthropicAI Congrats you’re winning the regulation you badly desired to stifle your competitors- this is so great for you, you pack of nilly clowns

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@DotaMasterPro @Oliviafans9 Thank you 🥰

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

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@SemiAnalysis_ @DanielleFong Guess we’ll still have to learn to code

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@RichardDawkins A Church van that stalks you Richard, never gets close just sits round every corner and trundles off before you can catch the denomination

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@netanyahu Yeah go on pick a fight with the Turks too Bibi