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…

People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable as computing devices. @Google in collabration with @UCSD is exploring how to turn these old phones into cloud-computing “phone clusters”. Putting phones back in service in this way can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction, and taking advantage of the embodied carbon already incurred from manufacturing these devices, and modern phones actually are already quite powerful computers. Read more in the blog below ⬇️

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…

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

No data, no problem introducing agentic synthetic data generation with Cosmos 3 share a few examples, generate more data, automate model training, automatically deploy the latest version with no downtime in a benchmark run with Corning Incorporated's optical fiber manufacturing engineering team, a model trained on 8 real defect images plus synthetic examples generated by Cosmos reached 0.95 mean average precision and perfect recall on the toughest defect class, beating a baseline trained on real data alone. "The Roboflow Agent powered by NVIDIA allows us to generate the training data we need, fine-tune our models, and strengthen model performance and inspection quality while increasing the speed, scalability, and adoption of next-generation technologies,” - Jeremy Knopf, chief information officer, Corning Optical Communications

I'm convinced that adding "Open-" to your company name instantly 10x's your odds of success. OpenAI OpenEvidence OpenTable OpenRouter OpenCode OpenDoor OpenGov OpenWeb OpenText OpenView OpenSea OpenStore OpenFX OpenSpace OpenArt OpenHands OpenPipe OpenNote

Introducing Dynamo Snapshot, our approach for fast startup for inference workloads on Kubernetes, which reduces startup time from minutes to under 5 seconds. In production inference deployments demand fluctuates over time. Cold-starting inference workloads can take minutes, leaving idle GPUs that generate no tokens and serve no requests. Snapshot leverages GMS to enable concurrent weight restoration over a high-speed interconnect, while using Linux native AIO and parallel memfd restoration to accelerate CRIU restore performance.

This person has published 71 papers in 143 days so far in 2026. That is, 2 days per paper (source: Google Scholar). It's truly amazing. To see someone proud of this.

🎙️The 75th Washington AI Network podcast episode is OUT! @nvidia engineers @NaderLikeLadder and Carter Abdallah join @haddadmedia for a live conversation from PubKey DC on AI agents, open models, and the technologies rapidly reshaping how people live and work. 🧠 The two built Brev.dev before NVIDIA acquired the company in 2024. Now, they’re helping shape the future of developer technology inside one of the world’s most influential AI companies. What to expect from the episode: ▪️AI assistants managing calendars and paying parking tickets ▪️The debate around open source and American AI leadership ▪️A glimpse into where AI is heading next Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/f1OwgDDlFCI

Breaking news: Five people, including two teenage suspects, are dead after a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime due to its location, San Diego police chief Scott Wahl said. wapo.st/4deR99C

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.