Security is always top of mind for large customers. So despite having our own cloud, we offer: - customer-managed compute - BYOC - on-prem - and all the different variations

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…

Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.

AI is making kids dumber. It should be making them geniuses. Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

OpenAI lost the enterprise war before it even started. Committing to Azure was the biggest strategic mistake in AI history. While OpenAI locked itself into one cloud, Anthropic ran natively on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure simultaneously. Enterprises don't switch clouds for a better model. They pick the model that fits their infrastructure. Distribution beat intelligence. It always does.

OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively telling the market they can't solve every problem with a generic AI coworker. You don't pour billions into massive forward-deployed joint ventures if you think the next model release is going to take care of it. In the cloud supercycle, semis led and software followed (and you didn't need Qualcomm or ARM to tell you the value was migrating up the stack). In AI, the infra layer itself is telling us the application layer is a separate, massive opportunity they can't fully capture. a16z's @joeschmidtiv on why the app layer isn't dead: a16z.news/p/avoiding-death-o…

At YC we got the advice of posting on LinkedIn At first ngl I thought it was bullshit because I’ve never liked or engaged with the platform before But holy shit, Ive tried to post x5 a week and its mostly been slop like this, but it’s pure gold for driving inbound & sales

First rule of business: Don't do work for free.

Founders often ask me what to listen for in customer calls to know if they have a hair-on-fire problem. This is the wrong question. Can you run their business? If you were CEO, would this be a top 2 priority? Because most businesses never get to #3. Rather than pitching your idea, learn the business so well you could run it yourself. You'll know exactly how big the problem is and what they'd pay. And if this is going to 100x their business and they still won't buy? You just discovered the AI version of their company.

I hope with fewer people managers in big companies, the culture of treating ICs as grown adults comes back. This culture of unnecessary regular 1:1s is so soft & therapy-coded. Be an adult, sort it out by communicating as needed.