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I agree with @KemiBadenoch on a lot of things. This is not. This is mandatory online verification ID. And it will be used not to protect children and young people, but to chase "wrong think".

Anthropic's Safety Superpower Anthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government. stratechery.com/2026/anthrop…

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

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.

State of Local AI #1 ——— In lieu of Fable ban. Here’s the best LLMs of the week to run on your hardware. —— 4-8gb vram/ram 500$ - Gemma-4-qat huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma… I had someone mention it’s very good for subagent stuff —— 8-16gb vram/ram < 1k usd - Gemma-12B huggingface.co/google/gemma-… without a doubt the smartest model of its size —— 16-32gb Apple/Strix halo 1-2k usd - Diffusion Gemma26B huggingface.co/google/diffus… - on 1x 6000 it’s eating up to 600 tok/s - smallest smart MoE we have - lots of world knowledge - easy to run —— 32-96gb ram/vram (2-10k usd) - nex-n2-mini huggingface.co/nex-agi/Nex-N… builds on qwen3.6-35B and seems to do really well - qwopus-27B huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwop… this model topped a lot of our benchmarks at local.ai —— 384gb vram (10-50K usd) - huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min… 23B means it’s close to qwen3.6-27B per token, while also have a lot of specialisation. - fast inference - top open weight model on AA —— 768gb-1TB - huggingface.co/moonshotai/Ki… Kimi has always been a top player here and their last model cuts speed and cost down by 30% - great vision support - first coder model by moonshot ——— Top models: 1. Qwen3.6-35B 2. Qwen3.6-27B 3. Step-3.7-Flash 4. Minimax-M3 5. Deepseek-v4-flash ——— Budget sweet spots: #1 - 1K usd Single 3090 / Mac mini / Intel arc b70 / AMD - Qwen / Gemma #2 - 5k usd DGX Spark / Mac m5 max / 4x 3090 - qwen / Gemma step and deepseek flash #3 - 12k usd RTX Pro 6000 / Mac Ultra / 2x Spark / 8x 3090 Ds4-flash / step-3.7-Flash and above #4 - 24k usd 2x 6000 / 2x Mac Ultra / 4x Spark / Mix Same as above #5 - 50k usd 4x 6000 / 4x Max Ultra / 12x Spark / 2 H100 Minimax-m3 / nex-n2-pro / step-3.7-flash #6 - 100k usd GB300 station / 8x 6000 / 4x H200 / Mix GLM-5.2 / Kimi-K2.7 ——— Let’s keep the Internet free thanks for reading

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…

The thing that doesn’t happen, happened again. Keen to hear from the Sensible Adults how it’s actually the fault of social media.

Banning X in Britain won't stop the beheadings. It will only stop you from knowing about the beheadings. And that is the reason the radical leftist govt of Keir Starmer wants to ban X in Britain.

We're only noticing the suspicious similarity in the statements ("He wouldn't want his death to be used to cause more division or exploited by the far-right") put out by every family bereaved in a horrific attack by a third-world migrant because these attacks now happen every few days.

Hoy voy a dedicar un hilo a estas chicas. Porque ... SU CARA ME SUENA.

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Tyler Cowen on how AI will change our lives. Excellent.

WE HAVE ACHIEVED CRITICALITY ✨ On the fourth of June 2026, the Idaho sun rose over the high desert kindling the dawn of the Second Atomic Age. Last May, President Trump signed an executive order mandating that three reactors go critical before July 4th, 2026. One month ahead of schedule, @AntaresNuclear answered, sustaining a steady chain reaction at Idaho National Laboratory. This is the first new reactor brought to life at INL since 1973. The same ground where, in 1951, nuclear electricity first powered four light bulbs. Criticality is only the beginning, a fleeting spark on a long and difficult road. But it carries a message that echoes across the plains: American Nuclear is back. Today marks the return of a new era, one where the United States once again tackles the hard things, where innovation is pursued without apology and celebrated without restraint. It was powerful to stand on that iconic ground and witness history be made! Congratulations to every single one involved ✨

It is a common mistake for people to think no one in China knows about Jun 4. When reporters (who are being followed) go up to people on the street and ask them if they know about June 4, their lack of self awareness is a comic tragedy. In the west, we often think of rebellion as grandiose statements or actions. In an authoritarian state it is much more commonly in the mundane where rebellion flourishes so as to disguise its meaning. After living in China for a few years, I had a student explain that of course people knew about June 4. That's why Peking University would hold meetings every year in early May to tell everyone that even though there was no reason to hold the meeting, everyone should watch out for anything out of the ordinary and watch your speech more than at other times. It was just a coincidence. The student further explained that students who wanted to remember June 4th would all wear black shirts. Common enough so as not to draw attention, uncommon enough that most everyone wearing black shirts on June 4th would exchange knowing glances and nods. I remember the first year I wore a black shirt on June 4th, multiple students would stop surprised I knew their surreptitious act of rebellion. In China and other authoritarian states, rebellion is less overt acts and more defiance of mind and hidden motives for common acts. For all the criticism I lay upon the CCP and their minions at universities and think tanks here in the US, I hope for better day for China when they can be free from the CCP and their apologists. I hope my children can return to the place they grew up and see friends again.

Not fully convinced but definitely worth reading

What’s Easy Now? What’s Hard Now? 💯💯💯 "coding agents will find tasks with strong feedback loops easy, and tasks without them hard." brooker.co.za/blog/2026/05/1…

Watch in full: @KemiBadenoch's powerful response to the murder of Henry Nowak and the shocking police bodycam footage ⬇️

This body cam footage is extremely shocking. You can hear Henry Nowak’s pleas about being unable to breathe. And you can hear how the police dismissed them and failed to take action to try to save his life. This is not just about knife crime. This is about police failure, poor police training and anti- white racism. Who is going to be held accountable for this scandal? x.com/sotontimes/status/2061…

SHOCKING details read out by father Mark Nowak regarding the murder of his son Henry. - As blood filled his chest, Henry Nowak tried desperately to escape. Instead, he was chased and subjected to further abuse. - When police arrived, Henry was lying on the ground, unable to sit up and clearly suffering severe medical distress. - With his final words, he told officers nine times that he could not breathe. - He also repeatedly told them that he had been stabbed four times. - One officer responded: “I don’t think you have, mate.” - Police later claimed they had been misled by the murderer. - Henry’s father, Mark Nowak, believes the truth is far simpler. - Both Henry and a member of the public who called 999 told police that Henry had been stabbed. - Despite these warnings, officers failed to believe them. - Henry was dragged across gravel and placed in handcuffs. - Police arrested Henry for assault and read him his rights. According to his father, those were the last words Henry heard before he died. - Mark Nowak says his son was denied even the dignity of a proper death. - Henry should never have died on the streets of Southampton while in police custody. - Meanwhile, his killer, Vikram Digwa, was afforded a level of decency that Henry was not. Reports suggest he was not even handcuffed when arrested. - Officers reportedly took Digwa to the kitchen and allowed him to choose his own food.