🚨US government’s action to shut down Anthropic’s top AI models was actually triggered by an unnamed rival company claiming it could break Mythos’s security, not by China

If you’re proud of your really sophisticated skill or harness, try benchmarking it against a simple one-sentence prompt as a sanity check Codex, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Pro are really, really good

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Anthropic says Recursive Self Improvement is approaching faster than they expected. Quoting from the blog: 'What should we do? If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing. But if a slowdown simply lets the least cautious actors catch up technologically, it could leave everyone less safe. Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures. We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. The Anthropic Institute will conduct research—in collaboration with many others—and take actions to help build the systems that a credible slowdown or pause would require. These systems would enable frontier AI developers to verify that others globally have actually stopped or slowed, and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret. If such systems existed, we expect that we would slow down or temporarily pause, if other developers at or near the frontier also did so in a verifiable manner. A meaningful slowdown or pause would require multiple well-resourced labs at or near the frontier, in multiple countries, agreeing to stop under the same conditions. It would also require that each can verify that the others have actually stopped. Due to the unique characteristics of AI systems, the detectability (a lower standard than verifiability) element of this arms control problem is much more challenging than with other technologies. Training runs are far easier to conceal than missile silos, their inputs are general-purpose, and the incentive to defect quietly is enormous, because whoever continues while others pause could inherit the lead. A credible pause also has to specify what triggers it, what lifts it, and who adjudicates. None of this is necessarily impossible in principle—the world has built verification regimes for other complex technologies (e.g., the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty)—but those regimes took decades to build both the infrastructure and the trust. We don’t have that long. A unilateral pause by one lab, by contrast, is achievable immediately, but accomplishes much less: it would change who the front-runner is, but it would not create the wider deliberative process that is currently missing. In the coming months, we will organize conversations where policymakers, researchers, civil society, and other AI companies can help answer some of the questions this piece raises, especially around full recursive self-improvement and how to create better options for coordination and deliberation. We’ll publish what comes out of it. The window to investigate the questions together is here, and people outside AI companies should be involved in this deliberation.'

Came and scooped up $45 Billion, with plans for another $40 Billion. Used the window just ahead of three mega IPOs: SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI.

Who is using more compute - 1b of ChatGPT users or 5m of Codex users?

My current experience with coding models.

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor ft.trib.al/v5jzNKe

How to land a job at a frontier lab vladfeinberg.com/2026/05/10/…

BYD Leopard Bao 8 - redefine off-road

dude when will you fix the gemini throttling issues? the service uptime is abysmal.

multiagent code review looks like claude: approved 7 times, withdrawn 7 times, codified 23 reviewer rules trying to stop doing that codex: caught everything claude missed, posted receipts each time, did not gloat gemini: last seen at round 20. it's now round 39. presumably touching grass

Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (@erinkwoo / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Maybe tell your buddy to do some actual work and to stop spreading absolute nonsense. This post is completely false and just pure clickbait.

Everyone I work with uses @antigravity like every second of the day and rely on numerous agentic helpers we have for every review and more. Most people evaluate other harnesses for personal projects continuously, and some are driving multi harness orchestration.

Idk who else uses Codex to write Go but Google's readability guidelines are so burnt in my memory that the moment I see a line break in the middle of a function call, I f*ing lose it. So, I have exact that rule in AGENTS.md -- and guess who happily breaks line anytime it wants.