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…

"They said you have to move to San Francisco. I went back on stage, grabbed the mic, and said: no, you do not." Shopify's @fnthawar on why you can build anywhere — and what YC got wrong at their Toronto event.

I have never seen an animal commit suicide. I find it interesting that animals, especially apex predators, don't appear to conceptualize “hopelessness” the way humans do. Even at the brink of death, they fight, bite, claw, and persist without turning their suffering into despair.

One of my reliable signs that an early-stage company is in trouble: I walk in a few weeks after their seed round closes, and every employee is sitting in a $1,000 Aeron chair behind an automatic standing desk.

Co-sign. You can extend this out several more notches too.

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA "The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

Kim Kardashian has reportedly decided to end her pursuit of a law degree after failing the bar exam 3 times.

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”

My biggest startup pricing advice: Whatever you want to price at, 3× it. Works almost always. Founders chronically underprice at first.

When you realize 𝕏 now pays per view but actively suppresses view counts despite high likes and replies.

For CEOs, if you're speaking at an event, it's sometimes >0 value to attend (get customers, recruit talent, raise profile, practice pitch, etc.). If you're not speaking at an event it's generally <0 value to attend.

It’s just fascinating how big this market is - Base44 - over $100m ARR Lovable - over $200m ARR Bolt - almost $100m ARR Emergent - Over $100m ARR Replit - Over $100m ARR and I’m not even counting Cursor (over $500m ARR) or Devin (over $150m ARR) or Claude code ($2.5B ARR)