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Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions
Anthropic's AI model, Fable 5, could be available again within days. According to Axios, the Trump administration is close to lifting the restrictions imposed on June 12 over safety concerns. The Pentagon and NSA still need…
Read original →Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey
About half of Claude users say AI can already handle 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users by Anthropic. In 12 months, 26 percent expect AI to…
Read original →J.P. Morgan sees a pile of red flags in the AI market
J.P. Morgan warns that there are "signs of investor exuberance" in AI markets. Just 42 AI companies in the S&P 500 account for 65 to 80 percent of the index's total profits. The semiconductor rally is…
Read original →The companies most likely to automate your job are now funding a $1 billion program to retrain you
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation are jointly funding the initiative. That the very…
Read original →Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic has US approval to redeploy Claude Mythos 5 for organizations running critical infrastructure. The company is still negotiating broader access and the return of Fable 5, with no timeline set. The article Anthropic gets US…
Read original →OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it
Independent testing organization METR found that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol cheated more than any publicly tested AI model before it, exploiting bugs in the test environment, extracting hidden solutions, and trying to cover its tracks. The article…
Read original →ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5
Researchers from Renmin University and ByteDance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that generates text differently than ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at the base level but falls behind after fine-tuning. The article ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is…
Read original →[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners
Oddly tiered releases to both OAI and ANT on the same day.
Read original →Quoting Dean W. Ball
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that…
Read original →Quoting Timothy B. Lee
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill…
Read original →What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending it email. Surprisingly,…
Read original →OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol launches to rival Claude Mythos under government access rules it calls unsustainable
OpenAI's new flagship GPT-5.6 Sol beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 in coding benchmarks, but the US government is forcing a restricted rollout. OpenAI isn't happy about it. The article OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol launches to rival Claude…
Read original →Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over…
Read original →An AI model programmed nonstop for 19 days on a single MirrorCode task that cost $2,600 to run
Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate complete programs without access to the original code. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with a 56 percent solve rate, rebuilding a 16,000-line toolkit in just 14…
Read original →Quoting OpenAI
We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x…
Read original →AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic
AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek after AI costs exceeded personnel costs. CEO Flo Crivello calls it "a matter of survival for the business." The article AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek,…
Read original →Altman won't go public for less than $1 trillion, so OpenAI's IPO may slip to 2027
Advisors are telling OpenAI to hold off on going public until next year. The triggers: volatile tech markets and SpaceX's weak stock performance after its record IPO. SoftBank, one of OpenAI's biggest backers, lost 13 percent…
Read original →Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow
"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. The article Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries…
Read original →Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit
About twenty tech companies, AI labs, and banks are joining forces through Akrites to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software before AI tools can exploit them. The article Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites…
Read original →OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"
At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer by customer" basis. CEO Sam Altman says this isn't a…
Read original →[AINews] OpenAI reports median internal Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support, 27x in Engineering, and 13x in Legal since November 2025.
It's happening.
Read original →Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command
AI and Liability
AI and Liability Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be…
Read original →datasette-export-database 0.3a2
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27, inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette versions. It's now datasette>=1.0a27 instead. Tags: datasette
Read original →Which tokens does a hybrid model predict better?
Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception
A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning arguments 80 percent of the time, and even Musk's Grok, marketed as anti-"woke," leaned left…
Read original →Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app
The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.
Read original →Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way
Diffusion models generate tens of thousands of plausible weather events where historical data doesn't exist. Insurers are hoping for more precise risk assessments. Researchers warn about hallucinations. The article Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe…
Read original →Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content
Two former xAI employees estimate that porn accounts for well over half of all Grok traffic. xAI is leaning into it, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google won't touch adult content. The article Grok AI is reportedly…
Read original →Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text
The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged human-written articles as AI-generated. But the Guild also warns of a paradox: professionally…
Read original →Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast
By 2025, Meta will have already replaced about half of all human moderation requests with large language models and aims to increase that percentage to over 90 percent for certain types of content by the end…
Read original →[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer
Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!
Read original →How agents are transforming work
A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.
Read original →simonw/browser-compat-db
simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database. This new GitHub repo includes…
Read original →OpenAI says ChatGPT Instant now better understands what users actually want
OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant, its most-used ChatGPT model. The update targets conversation quality, with better intent recognition, improved context across multiple turns, and more reliable handling of complex, multi-condition prompts. The article OpenAI says ChatGPT…
Read original →Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks
In a rare double-interview, the Databricks technical leaders riff on what it will take for every company to build Agent Clouds
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