“To disagree well you must first understand well. You have to read deeply, listen carefully...You need to grant your adversary moral respect; give him the intellectual benefit of doubt .... #Opinion | The Dying Art of Disagreement - The New York Times nytimes.com/2017/09/24/opini…

⚡️Satya is describing the new balance sheet of the firm. The old firm owned people, processes, software, customer relationships, brand, data, and IP. The new firm will own a compounding cognition loop. Every workflow becomes a training surface. Every decision becomes a trace. Every expert judgment becomes reusable signal. Every internal correction becomes model improvement. Every model run becomes a chance to turn human judgment into institutional intelligence. That is what “token capital” really means. It is accumulated machine-operable cognition. A company’s expertise becomes executable, queryable, evaluable, improvable, and portable across models. That is a massive shift. The most important line is the one about switching out the generalist model without losing the company veteran expertise. That is the entire enterprise AI war. Model providers want the firm’s knowledge to flow into the model layer. Enterprises need that knowledge to stay inside their own loop. Whoever owns the loop owns the future economic rent. Satya is laying out Microsoft’s answer to the frontier-model monopoly problem. If all company knowledge flows upward into a few foundation models, the foundation model labs become landlords of the entire economy. They absorb everyone’s expertise, commoditize every workflow, and capture the value created by every firm’s learning process. That equilibrium will trigger political backlash, customer resistance, regulatory pressure, and corporate revolt. So Microsoft’s doctrine is: every company should build its own AI learning system on top of frontier models, while Microsoft owns the infrastructure where that happens. That is elegant and self-serving. Microsoft does not need to own the single best frontier model forever. It needs to own the enterprise control plane: identity, security, permissions, data, workflow, evals, agents, memory, developer tools, cloud, compliance, and model routing. If the model becomes swappable, the platform underneath the firm’s learning loop becomes the durable asset. Satya is quietly saying the frontier model alone is unstable. A world of a few models eating every company’s expertise breaks the political economy. A world where every company builds firm-specific AI capital on top of models is more stable, more defensible, and much better for Microsoft. The “human capital gets more valuable” line is partly true and partly corporate diplomacy. High-agency humans become more valuable. People with taste, judgment, relationships, domain intuition, ambition, and the ability to direct agentic systems become much more valuable. Routine cognitive labor loses bargaining power. The future firm does not need every human equally. It needs humans who can generate high-quality signal for the loop. The human becomes a trainer, judge, strategist, relationship node, taste layer, and goal-setter. The work that cannot feed the loop or direct the loop gets compressed. This also connects directly to the Anthropic crisis. If frontier model access can be restricted, pulled, nationality-gated, or subordinated to state power, then enterprises cannot allow their intelligence layer to live entirely inside one external model. They need portability. They need private evals. They need internal memory. They need their own traces. They need model-agnostic learning systems. The model can change. The firm’s cognition loop has to survive. That is the new sovereignty test. A company that only buys AI access is a renter. A company that turns its workflows, judgments, corrections, and outcomes into a private learning loop is building capital. The deeper implication: the future economy splits between firms that compound cognition and firms that leak cognition. Firms that compound cognition will get stronger every time they operate.

Powerful insights by the Microsoft CEO on Ai and what it means for companies … a lot here, but this particular caught my attention “You can offload a task, or even a job, but you can never offload your learning. The future of the firm is the ability to compound that learning across people and AI”.

She’s so desperate to be white (or be seen to be) 🤦‍♂️

WTF!!!!! Trump is f-cking using Honor Guards at a UFC event on the Lincoln Memorial. No this is NOT ok. Don’t you dare call yourself a “patriot” while supporting this crap.

Brazilian football is pure art. 🙌⚽ #BRAZIL

NEW: Inside the 24-hrs before WH slapped export controls on Anthropic - Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about Fable jailbreak to Trump admin - Friday AM, Sean Cairncross, Bessent, Susie etc. held WH call to discuss - Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat. - When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett. -Amodei tried to clear up what he assumed was a misunderstanding. He defended the guardrails and distinguished between universal and non-universal jailbreak - Cairncross and Bessent were unmoved and asked Amodei to take down Fable and work with the admin to fix the vulnerabilities. (A WH official said Amazon’s findings were run past the NSA and they felt they had “proof.”) - Amodei asked for more time and info, but he made no commitments to pull the model - Bessent told Amodei directly at one point that he was making a “bad decision” - By Friday evening, the Trump admin imposed its export controls. - “Export controls were a last resort after begging them for hours to work with us,” senior WH official said. W/ @cheyennehaslett politico.com/news/2026/06/13…

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Trump's new claim of a deal being signed tomorrow, saying the insistence on signing the deal on specifically Sunday is engineered around his own birthday, calling it a "propaganda event" that Trump is trying to turn into a unilateral "symbolic occasion" for himself, along with his UFC White House event, per Fars. The Iranian negotiating team says it "will not permit such a media and ceremonial manoeuvre," explicitly stating that the memorandum of understanding has not been finalized and no signing will happen.

Thank you for sharing this Edris. So much to learn here I have spent the last hour so really taking it all in.

I don’t know about stylish 🤦‍♂️… most extra maybe 🙈

Kennedy Center says it has fully removed Trump's name from its building. cnn.it/4xqbIYD

Today, I launched a campaign to tackle traffic congestion in Kampala by promoting modern transport solutions, including proposed hydrogen-powered trains and elevated tram systems. I also met with key stakeholders to discuss investment, infrastructure development.

Hon. Professor @KamuntuProf , I forgot to tell you, please don’t tolerate any form of extrajudicial killings especially by some few rogue officers in the Crime Intelligence Directorate.

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models. Here’s what this means for you: Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error. On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models. We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

🚨 BREAKING: England’s team equipment has been stolen including players’ boots/shoes, training gear, coaching staff equipment, balls and uniforms. The England camp is now working with police to find the stolen items or replace them quickly so the team can train as planned. [Daily Mail] #WorldCupwithMicky #ThreeLions #FIFAWorldCup

The UAE "had agreed to release a total of $10 billion, more than $3 billion of which had already been delivered" Two other sources "put the total funds involved at $20 billion, adding that the move had been agreed in return for a halt to Iranian attacks on the UAE" Remarkable U-turn by Abu Dhabi reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

The UAE is releasing billions of dollars to Iran as part of a deal to reduce bilateral tensions and assist with reopening the strait. It could be as much as $20 billion. $3 billion has already been delivered, confirming rumors from earlier this week. The move comes after the emirates emerged as the single largest target for Iranian missiles and drones during the war. From confrontation to accommodation. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

Professor @KamuntuProf , that’s risky, remember he was abandoned by his father on the cross. 😂

Minister of Works and Transport Fred Byamukama has set a March 2027 deadline for the completion of the Mityana–Mubende Road, warning Serbian contractor EnergoProjekt that the contract could be terminated if progress does not improve. The minister made the ultimatum during a site visit, underscoring zero tolerance for delays and poor workmanship. #NTVNews

Finally something is being done about noise in Kampala!! I hope @KCCAUG and @nemaug @nemaugED are serious this time!!! We deserve a restful sleep! If they can’t sound proof their premises, they have no business operating entertainment places! We all follow rules and regulations of our businesses! youtu.be/7NZGxHKEGsg?si=riP_…