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…

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Shopify launched to the public 20 years ago today

some thoughts on kirkland building its own harvey 1) kirkland is spending $500m over four years in order to build its own internal ai legal tools; kirkland intends to spend $100m this year 2) i suspect that kirkland is doing this because they have told themselves that they have valuable data and because they want to appear differentiated 3) i think the first issue is that kirkland probably does not have differentiated data from other elite law firms; at least, not at the level a harvey would absorb 4) all the elite firms probably have similar internal workflow data and so long as some of them defect, that is enough to commoditize the data kirkland wants to use for its platform 5) and, to the extent that they do have different internal workflows, harvey and legora will end up representing a better version of them and this will put kirkland at a disadvantage 6) moreover, companies like kirkland will have difficulty building their internal legal platforms because they do not have experience with software development 7) and, there are both cultural and structural issues with them managing software developers, like they cannot give non-lawyers equity in the firm due to regulation 8) so, i think firms like kirkland are better off using tools like harvey and legora and then looking to focus on where their value really is now: client relationships, local knowledge (litigation, regulation) and legal r&d (novel structures, etc...) 9) anyway, this seems to me like a phenomenon that ai creates across a lot of industries, where firms that were previously vertically integrated become unbundled due to ai because part of the intelligence gets moved to the labs or otherwise gets commoditized 10) and so, a new set of companies are created whose job it is in order to provide services complementary to the labs: forward deployed like harvey and legora and data providers like mercor, surge and handshake

Harvey and Legora are probably thinking of pivoting to law firms. Or at least acquiring an “AI native” law firm subsidiary like Carta. It’s the only way that they can provide a narrative for how they will survive, now that: 1) Biglaw firms are building their own AI application layer/fine tuning models; and 2) OpenAI and Anthropic are going after their customers and they don’t have a differentiated product. But the moment they do so, they will enrage all of their customers who all have opt out clauses embedded in their contracts, thereby triggering an immediate ARR collapse. Truly a difficult dilemma.

Lawyers, your biggest barrier to AI isn't AI. It's that your data lives in 6 places. Dropbox. Drive. Email. Hard drive. A spreadsheet only one person can find. Fix that first.

I predict an "AI is reportedly pushing Latham & rival big law firms to rethink the billable hour, as clients are "questioning the value" of their rates/advice" headline in the next couple months

From "System of Record" to "System of Intelligence" In the next decade, you want to own the system of intelligence that pulls from the system of record, becomes the user’s one-stop shop for gaining context and taking action, and turns the SoR into something that’s primarily consumed at the API layer. The reasoning layer that sits above the database is where a new generation of companies is being built, and it’s where the majority of the next decade’s enterprise value of GTM software will end up. Full piece from a16z's Gio Ahern, Steph Zhang, and Alex Immerman: a16z.news/p/from-system-of-r…

This is exactly right. Lawyers, clerks and paralegals need to see the diff to trust the output on top of their precedents.

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Lawyers, don’t panic… “In 1979, VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, was released for the Apple II. It could do in minutes what previously took teams of accountants days. There were predictions of mass unemployment for bookkeepers. Instead, the number of accountants quadrupled over the next 40 years. “The spreadsheet didn’t replace the accountant,” Eldar Maksymov writes. “It unleashed latent demand for financial intelligence that had been there all along, waiting for costs to fall far enough to be satisfied.”

we were spending too much time "carrying water" between agents - here's a spec build it - address the pr comments - fix the failing CI so we made an agent for overseeing the SDLC e2e (Autobuild) we invited 10 startups to use it last week in SF (NYC next week!) what it does: - plans out entire feature builds across dozens of PRs - oversees the coding agents as they work - babysits PRs and addresses human and agentic review - conducts security, performance, and architectural reviews - QAs the work and records videos of the outcomes - monitors logs for issues after staging release - collects ux feedback from humans and address them - indexes all the concepts in your codebase - automatically writes updates to your team about what shipped - knows the current rollout state of features - maintains running sandboxes with a full dev env - dogfoods features before reporting success - engages with you in slack as it builds - automatically fixes reported issues - nags you for PR reviews when needed - optimizes your CI so it's not shit (big bottleneck for velocity) we're planning on making this the most insane building experience for established companies with a focus on quality/safety and human collaboration while accelerating velocity by 1-2 orders of magnitude if you want to join us in NYC next week (Thur/Fri - May 7/8) or future workshops lmk - we're onboarding up to 50 companies at a time by helping you ship 12 weeks of roadmap in 2 days - a sort of reset on baseline velocity no cost to attend beyond the inference you burn (you'll build a lot so not for the faint of heart)

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