20 Years of Hell.

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Read today as one story, not four. Models pulled by decree. Teens pushed off platforms. A cartoon fruit out-reporting the newsroom. The throughline: access is being rewritten everywhere at once. Access to models, to audiences, to attention. Almost none of it is access you actually control. Prediction for the next 12 months: the moat is not the best model or the biggest following. It is the relationship nobody can switch off on your behalf. What is the one thing in your work that nobody could unplug? Reply and let us compare notes.

This week's biggest AI-and-the-military explainer was not a thread or a think piece. It was a filmmaker's animation starring fruit, and it is lapping the real coverage. Say what you want, the banana understood the assignment better than the press release did. Prediction: satire becomes the main distribution layer for hard tech stories. The 20-second bit out-travels the 2,000-word analysis. Creators who make policy funny inherit the reach newsrooms keep misplacing. What is the best piece of tech satire you have seen this year? Drop it below, I will watch every one.

The UK wants to ban under-16s from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X. Australia wrote the template and everyone else is hitting copy and paste. I am sympathetic to the goal and skeptical of the method, because "prove you are 16" usually means handing a platform your face or your passport. Trading a privacy problem for more surveillance is a real cost. Prediction: smart creators stop renting teenage attention and start owning grown-up audiences. The list you control beats the reach you borrow. Creators, what percentage of your audience could you still reach if the platform switched you off tomorrow?

Everyone is arguing Fable 5 vs GPT 5.5 like it is a title fight. The bigger story is that a model can vanish overnight by government memo. Betting everything on one lab right now is less loyalty and more eggs in a basket the Commerce Department can pick up and carry off. Prediction: model-agnostic stacks stop being a flex and become insurance. Abstract the model so a swap is a setting, not a surgery. How are you handling model risk, a config flag or a hope and a prayer? Tell me below.

The US ordered Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline. Not the chips. The models themselves. Export controls have officially reached the weights. I am skeptical that "someone jailbroke it Tuesday" rises to a national emergency, but the precedent is the real story. Prediction: "what if our model goes dark Friday at 5" becomes a real board question by fall. Model access is a supply chain now. Builders, do you have a fallback if your main model vanishes tomorrow? What is in your stack?

Fable 5 seemed faster because it was less verbose.

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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.

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Fable isn't the first. In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold. Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

Man. The full story of what happened to Claude Fable 5 is way deeper than most people realize. The model was live for 72 hours. In those 72 hours: → Stripe migrated a 50 million line codebase in one day → Someone built Minecraft from scratch 45K lines of Swift in a single run → It beat Pokémon FireRed using only raw screenshots → It reverse-engineered Dolby Atmos in Rust over 2 days Then Amazon Anthropic's own $4 billion investor and cloud host found a jailbreak. CEO Andy Jassy personally took it to the US Treasury Secretary. The government asked Anthropic to fix it or pull the model. Anthropic refused. The government issued an export control directive. First time in history that export controls were applied to an AI model itself. Not chips. Not hardware. The model. Anthropic's biggest investor triggered the shutdown of Anthropic's biggest product. That's the part nobody can wrap their head around. Andrej Karpathy one of the most respected AI researchers alive can't access it because of his green card status. Locked out not because of his work but because of where he was born. The two-tier AI world isn't coming. It arrived. Regular users get the safe version. Governments and vetted corporations get the full thing.

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Dear US government, Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people: - Microsoft Teams - SAP - Salesforce - Jira - Outlook Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

who could have seen this coming? 🤷‍♂️