Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to determine the global standards and rules for AI in a closed-door meeting this morning at the G7. Dario Amodei also said in his address that the coalition should structure access to frontier models and hardware - including both chips and other critical components - in a way that excludes China.

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Evan Spiegel showing off the new Specs AR glasses to the public for the first time.

SBF’s sleepless prison nights just got worse... In 2022, Alameda (FTX) dropped $200k into Cursor pre-seed → ~5% stake at a ~$4M valuation. FTX bankruptcy sold the entire position back at cost. Today, that 5% would be worth $3B - a 15,000x return.

Gentlemen listen to me. Life is not complicated. It’s just a battle between Good and Evil. Pick a side and then fight like hell for it. And when they carry you off the field, think of your wife and kids. That’s all this is.

What an awesome experience. I have seen the Big Boy before, but never experienced anything like it coming out of that tunnel. The amount of air 4014 pushed out in front of it combined with the sound was truly incredible. Pictures to follow soon.

From my friend: “UNION PACIFIC 4014 BIG BOY hits PA” The people yearn for rail.

Real talk At hospital to deliver our 5th today. Asked for the room above the loading dock. Now I can verify empty & return on the compactor was done right

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…

Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him theglobeandmail.com/business…

It is a moral failure of our country that we changed the rules to create a trillionaire while doing nothing about the 771,000 homeless and over 18 million who do not have enough to eat.

Real talk. Our third child, a beautiful baby boy, was born 48 hours ago. It's hard to express the joy we are feeling, and our other two kids cannot wait to welcome him home today. Yesterday at the hospital, there was a last-minute work conference call. We have to make a critical and time-sensitive decision with large implications - and that was when everyone else was available to talk. So, I made sure my wife and the baby were good, and I stepped out of the room. I would not that the call if it was not urgent. People can relay their opinions on those calls - but only I can make the final decision. While leaving the hospital to pick up my son from school so he doesn't feel like his new baby brother immediately means sacrifice for him, another important work call came in. I let it go to voicemail, but called back when I got home. I headed home with him to pick up his sister so we can all go visit my wife and our newborn - time-sensitive questions were coming in by email and text. Yes, we have help of course, any my mother in law flew in for the week, and if you have been following me for a bit you know that nothing means more to me than my family, and to be there for my wife -- AND yes I know what some people are thinking right now... Somebody asked me about paternity leave and how much time off I'll be taking. Paternity leave? Of course that would be amazing. I would love to turn on an away message and check out, and have a salary for the next few months while I spend time with my family the entire time. But it's not possible. It's not the life I signed up for. I have over 100 investors who have put their trust in me. We have a team of seven, with New York City and California payrolls. There were offers the team had to send out, and I needed to review and approve terms. Your entire year, and the success of your business that year usually comes down to just a few deals that happen or don't. And minutes of waiting too long will allow somebody else to jump in. Those other buyers don't care what I have going on. They are not going to wait for me. Neither is the seller. There is nobody else that can sign off on our final pricing. There is nobody else our investors point to if we get it wrong. A tenant prospective tenant made a last minute request on a lease with big implications for our fund, and nobody else can make make that call. So I get a text. None of this is a surprise. It's part of the sactifice. You try to do everything and be superman because you have no chice and because you're already used to this. You signed up for it a long time ago. You understand the sacrifice. You know how great it can be and the heights you can reach, and you love it - but you also know the cost. Entrepreneurship is the ultimate freedom? Please. An employee who can check out has that. Not us.

I’ve talked to 3 hardware entrepreneurs in the past week who aren’t filing patents because it’s a “instruction manual” to be ripped off by the Chinese.

This is the best way to use Claude Fable in Claude Code without immediately hitting your limits. 1. Model set to Fable 5 2. Reasoning on Max 3. Instruct Claude to run a dynamic workflow where: 3a. Fable is the orchestrator 3b. Opus does the reasoning heavy phases Fable is so overpowered that you don't need its intelligence for every step. Let it orchestrate Opus or even Sonnet.

This shows yet again how this limitation was never about "safety" but about Anthropic doing stuff just because they thought they can. I am increasingly sceptical Anthropic really cares about safety, and not just their business interests (limiting competition where they can)