🚨NEW: Bluesky will not be included in the under-16s social media ban

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…

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…

NEW: Juan Hernandez, a welder who says he took “just another contract job” at SpaceX for $28/hr in 2015, is now a millionaire as shares soar.

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My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation. We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years. Since then everything reverted to fake. Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud). The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets. MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets. All these chickens are coming home to roost. The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR. Ive said this 100 times for years. Also relevant to resignation -- In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!) They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!! We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc). After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers. The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE. This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'. HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles. And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement. HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'. The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works! The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'. But our enemies know everything everything I say is true! It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems. It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path... But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification... Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please! Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological! NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites! NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).' NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets! I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things. The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues. 6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered... All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public... Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?! Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer

My letter to the Prime Minister

'Watch out, the Conservatives are back.’ The Tories launched their new £14.3 million HQ last night, with speeches by Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Kemi Badenoch spectator.com/article/inside…

Mehdi Hassan just said he agrees with “every word the Conservative politician” Jeremy Hunt just said. He’s not a Conservative, that’s the Tory party’s problem in a nutshell.

The Sudanese "asylum seeker", who carried out the attack in Belfast, was let into the country at the same time Robert Jenrick was the immigration minister & Suella Braverman was the Home Secretary. They allowed him, and plenty of others, to come here, they had the power to do something then and they did nothing. And what's going to change if they had another try? - Nothing. They didn't have the ambition or vision then, so they definitely won't be able to stomach what is necessary to save this country: mass deportations. To those who kick up a fuss because I left Reform, here's one of the plentiful number of reasons why. I knew that Jenrick & Braverman did not represent the principles I believe in. Reform UK has let millions of grassroot voters down by allowing weak careerist politicians to take over the movement, and then gaslighting them into thinking it's fine. Real change comes with new people. Britain needs something new.

🚨NEWS: Keir Starmer has announced the UK Government will cover visa costs and subsidise companies hiring workers from abroad [@Telegraph ]

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