The takeaway from Fable 5 being BANNED by the government: GET GOOD AT LOCAL MODELS SO YOU HAVE 100% CONTROL. My entire weekend was going to be building my craziest ideas with Fable 5. That's now cancelled. So instead of building with Fable this weekend, I've decided I'll go deep on local models: 1. Start with the runtime. Download Ollama or LM Studio first. This is the thing that actually runs models on your machine. 2. Match the model to your hardware. A model's size is measured in billions of parameters (7B, 32B, 70B). Bigger is smarter but needs more memory. Rule of thumb: a 7B model runs on almost any laptop, a 32B needs a good Mac with 32GB RAM, a 70B needs serious hardware like a DGX Spark or a maxed-out Mac Studio. 3. Know which model for which job. Qwen 3 is the best all-around choice for most tasks. DeepSeek for reasoning and coding. Gemma 4 when you need something tiny that runs on a phone. Llama when you want the biggest community and the most fine-tunes. 4. Quantization. You can shrink a model to run on weaker hardware with barely any quality loss. Look for versions labeled Q4 or Q5. This is how a model that "needs" a server runs on your laptop. Learning this one concept changes everything. 5. Connect it to your agent. Point Hermes or your agent stack at a local model. 6. Context window is your real constraint locally. Cloud models give you huge context for free. Local models make you pay for it in memory. A bigger context window eats RAM fast. Keep your sessions tight and your prompts lean or your machine chokes. 7. Learn to give local models tools. A smaller local model with web search, file access, and code execution beats a giant model with none. The capability gap closes fast when you wire up the right tools. The model is the engine but the tools are the wheels. 8. Fine-tuning is more accessible than you think. You don't need this on day one, but know it exists. You can take an open model and train it on your own data so it gets good at your specific domain. I'll probably do a breakdown at some point on this @startupideaspod if people are into it. The lesson from this ban is basically don't build your entire workflow on something that can disappear with a single letter. Own part of your stack. Local models are insurance. It reminds me when people realized they don't own social media accounts. And then you saw people build email lists etc. I remember running a startup and my biggest traffic source was organic FB. All of a sudden, algo changed, and I lost 99% of my traffic. Same sorta moment (but bigger) for AI. This is a wake up call.

This is, perversely, good news for Britain, Australia, Japan, Europe, and other countries being cut off that would once have seen themselves as close allies of the United States. It shows us what the future may hold if AI is the strategically and economically decisive technology of the 21st century and is controlled by the US and China. It is good news because *it may be happening early enough to give us time to act.* I think this will be rescinded pretty soon, but it’s a sign of things to come. In a future where frontier models cannot be used outside the US, our industries and economies will fall behind and American businesses may not be able to operate overseas. We won’t be able to defend ourselves militarily with defence systems built on obsolete software. Europe 2031 is a good scenario of what a future like this could mean: europe2031.ai Some of the things we need to do are ‘no regrets’ measures we should do anyway. But some are genuinely costly and risky. We need cheap electricity – powered by gas, coal (this is costly, coal is very bad), deregulated nuclear fission – whatever can provide *cheap, reliable, 24/7* power. This almost certainly excludes wind power, which is enormously expensive and unreliable. We need projects to be able to connect to the grid in days rather than years by paying for fast-track connections. We need to make it incredibly easy to build data centres, with the property taxes retained locally and hypothecated for local tax cuts so there is some direct benefit for locals. This doesn’t need to be nationwide. We need to create new regulatory regimes for innovative businesses that give them the right to hire and fire staff with ease. The difficulty and cost of firing staff is one of the main reasons Europe has fallen behind so badly. We need to create a parallel employment regime that companies and workers can opt in to: worksinprogress.co/issue/why… Even though I think it will probably fail, I think we should probably try to create a good, non-American frontier AI lab. I am quite pessimistic about this – even extremely well-resourced, innovative software companies are struggling to do this. But the stakes are so high that not trying seems foolish. One thing that might work in our favour is the number of brilliant AI engineers who are not US citizens, who under the current export controls do not have access to Mythos/Fable even if they live and work in the US. What happens to Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, and the many other Europeans, Canadians, etc who are working on AI models in Britain and America who are affected by this? I do not think we should force our own companies to use model, because this would exacerbate their economic weakness – this lab should have to compete on an even playing field. I am deeply sceptical that this can work, but we cannot rule it out. If we do it, it has to be able to pay US salaries, operate without political constraints. worksinprogress.co/issue/how… It is cope to tell yourself that Trump is an aberration or that these export controls are a one-off. To repeat, I think these specific controls will be lifted quickly and it will be easy to move on and forget it happened. But this is a look into a potential future. Every one of us that is not a US citizen is at risk. The standard political divides do not apply here; the question is whether you grasp the enormity of AI as a technology. We have to act!

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

"Mercedes-Benz hat im Werk Berlin-Marienfelde die Großserienproduktion seines neuen elektrischen Axialflussmotors gestartet. Damit feiert der kompakte Hochleistungsmotor im neuen Mercedes-AMG GT 4‑Türer Coupé seine Weltpremiere in einem Serienfahrzeug." ingenieur.de/technik/fachber…

🇮🇷 So FIFA has withdrawn its World Cup ticket allocation to Iran 🇮🇷 just days before the tournament begins Can all the nations playing at the World Cup 🏆 return home please. Football is supposed to be free of politics, it’s supposed to unite people all over the world unfortunately that’s not the case anymore and it has lost its purpose and should be cancelled

As a World Cup host, the U.S. shouldn't be flippantly barring officials from entering the country to do their jobs. It's terribly backward. It's also counterproductive. Global sports competitions should improve international exchange and relations, not the reverse.

GPS jamming has reached space, and from orbit a single source can blank an entire continent at once, far beyond any jammer on the ground. Scientists traced short GPS outages across Europe, from Iceland to Italy, to three Russian satellites in at least 3 of 75 cases logged since 2019, NYT. 1/

I'm not sure the Irish understand the damage the recent story of their pumping economic support into Putin's war machine is doing to their reputation in Central/East Europe. The idea of Ireland standing on the side of the oppressed against imperialists is gone, probably forever.

‼️🚨 German police have been buying commercial location data, harvested from phone apps and resold by data brokers, to track phones without a warrant. An investigation confirmed at least two state criminal offices did it. Experts call it likely unlawful; a data-protection authority is now investigating.

Sie haben zuviel Zeit. Heute kommt nichts mehr. Tun Sie sich keinen Zwang an, Ich lese zwar meist ganz gerne was Sie so schreiben, aber Ihr Ausfluss zu Volt ist einfach nur Witzig. Schönen Abend

Ireland’s alleged “military neutrality” is a blatant lie. In the first quarter of 2026, 83 percent of Ireland’s alumina exports went to Russia. This is not a “neutral” economic relationship; it is active complicity in a war of aggression against Ukraine. The Irish government knows this full well. Investigations by The Irish Times, the OCCRP, and others have conclusively traced the supply chain all the way to Russian arms manufacturers. Ireland—once a symbol of independence and moral clarity—has made itself Putin’s useful idiot. While Ukrainian children die, the Irish elite counts profits and votes. This is not neutrality—it is cowardice, greed, and a betrayal of European values.

Evrey company rushing to replace receptionists with AI is about to get a harsh reality check. Sharon at the front desk wasn’t just answering phones, she was the only person who actually knew where everything was, who to call, and how shit really worked. She handled 120 interactions a day, remembered every vendor, fixed 40% of probelms before they reached anyone else, and held decades of unspoken institutional knowledge. AI can’t replace that tribal knowledge. One day they’ll realize the $85k salary was the cheapest insurance they had

The Trevi Fountain marks the exact endpoint of a 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct, where ancient engineering still pours fresh water into the heart of the city every single day. Aqua Virgo was constructed in 19 BC by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Emperor Augustus.

Mein sehr guter Strafverteidiger Carsten Hoenig hat nochmal was zu "Shooting the Messenger" und warum wir dringend den Hackerparagrafen reformieren müssen aufgeschrieben. hoenig.de/2026/shooting-the-…

Josef Prusa of Prusa Research has raised serious concerns about Bambu Lab’s Bambu Studio slicer software. The program, a fork of the open-source PrusaSlicer, incorporates a closed-source networking plugin that Prusa describes as an unauditable “black box” downloaded from a CDN and capable of remote replacement. Prusa says this is dangerous because Chinese laws require companies to help their intelligence agencies and share encryption keys, and slicers handle sensitive 3D design files used in research labs, universities, and defense work. He also claims that Bambu Lab is breaking the open-source license rules by adding this closed part.

im Zuge der Freigabe weiterer UFO-Akten wurde nun auch dieses bislang unter Verschluss gehaltene Dokument aus Deutschland veröffentlicht......😁😁

A sperm cell contains about 37.5 megabytes of information and there is about 100 million cells per milliliter. The average ejaculation is about 2.25 milliliters and takes about 5 seconds. This makes the average bandwidth of the human penis 1,687 terabytes per second. I know....thats a lot of information to swallow.