Real Person / Lawyer-ish: New Yorker, LegalTech / LegalAI OG and CEO of LexFusion. Love science, technology, cats and sarcasm. Not necessarily in that order.

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Taking to ⁦@bloomberglaw⁩ about the M&A (boom?) in legal tech. “People are talking to me more about buying and selling than ever before,” said Joe Borstein, a partner at Baretz Brunelle who advises legal tech companies on business strategy.” news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-…
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KNICKS!!!!! You guys beat the Spurs and their dirty playing star, and the refs. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
I'm not a Spurs or Knicks fan, but I can't remember seeing officiating this biased in a playoff series. One team appears to be getting favorable treatment, and Wemby has seemingly avoided two obvious flagrant calls. The refs are undermining the integrity of the game.
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Did you know that if you start every phone call with “my battery is low,” you could hang up at anytime?
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Before AI: "I need a co-founder who can code" Now: "I need a co-founder who can distribute"
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This post by @DavidSacks about the Anthropic/Fable situation is noteworthy, but not for the reason most people think. Put the details aside for a second. Anthropic released a blog post with their side of the story a few hours ago. David is responding with a bullet point list in a tweet about a different side of the story. Years ago both sides would be jockeying to get mainstream reporters to tell their version of the truth and the American public would be fed some edited narrative that was filtered through a bureaucratic media organization. That world doesn't exist anymore. Now both sides share their versions publicly so the American people can hear directly from them. It is up to the individual citizens to make up their mind who they believe. I haven't read a single article about the situation, but rather just read the various players' statements. Fascinating how fast the world has changed.
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.
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mythos & mythos class models will generate more revenue for anthropic than all other models combined.
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This. This is the one I was waiting for The Comeback Rocky edit
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We do still build beautiful things
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Well put below. I’d put it another way. Law schools teach too much reverence for the legal system and not enough disgust. You need the fuel of disgust to energize you to make it better. And it needs to be better.
Law schools spend too much time teaching students how courts should work and too little time teaching them how courts actually work.
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Law schools spend too much time teaching students how courts should work and too little time teaching them how courts actually work.
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I've been using baby gates wrong my entire life.
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The New York Knicks can win the NBA title tonight. (Repeating, slower and louder, for effect). THE NEW YORK KNICKS. CAN WIN. THE NBA TITLE. TONIGHT.
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I wish the significance of the model came from more people actually using it and coming to their own conclusions But yes most people in the world learn about it through signifiers and not through interacting with that which is signified
contrary to the default reaction on this little website, this is absolutely incredible news for anthropic. i mean obviously yes, the operational disruption is real. but public & world perception wise, this could not be a bigger home run. could be a grand slam type situation. the fucking united states govt just looked at their model & effectively said.. yeah this shit is too powerful. you simply cannot buy that kind of aura. it elevates every other product by the company & it instantly reframes anthropic’s work as strategically significant, nationally relevant, & qualitatively different from the rest of the field. there is not a single institution on the planet that can buy or orchestrate this type of significance. absolutely ridiculous.
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becoming a U.S. citizen will eventually come with a free trial to a new claude model
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…
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contrary to the default reaction on this little website, this is absolutely incredible news for anthropic. i mean obviously yes, the operational disruption is real. but public & world perception wise, this could not be a bigger home run. could be a grand slam type situation. the fucking united states govt just looked at their model & effectively said.. yeah this shit is too powerful. you simply cannot buy that kind of aura. it elevates every other product by the company & it instantly reframes anthropic’s work as strategically significant, nationally relevant, & qualitatively different from the rest of the field. there is not a single institution on the planet that can buy or orchestrate this type of significance. absolutely ridiculous.
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Incredible. Congrats to @elonmusk and the entire SpaceX team on the 25 years of blood, sweat and tears to build a world-defining company. Amazing to have examples like this that push the future forward. The downstream implications of this are enormous.
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Legal AI is likely overfunded but not overhyped 👀 Harvey went from roughly $5B in mid-2025 to $11B in 2026. Legora jumped from $1.8B to $5.55B in a matter of months. That smells a bit like investors competing for category leaders rather than carefully underwriting cash flows. Still, Law is: document-heavy repetitive everything that happens is easily contained in text only expensive That's the perfect substrate for AI. The question is whether the winners are today's startups or incumbents like Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and the large firms building internal systems.
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Hahahahah.
Elon Musk didn’t become a trillionaire until age 54 Relax, you still have time
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This might be the funniest joke I've seen during this entire Knicks run

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You’ve never witnessed a fan experience like this in your lifetime… Just let us live #AlwaysKnicks in 5!

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