JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

There's a whole lot more coming in visionOS 27 than what Apple announced in its keynote. Read our extensive rundown of all the biggest features & improvements: uploadvr.com/visionos-27-ann…

“I take my Vision Pro on literally every flight.” That’s what I’d say if it was half the size. The thing about Vision Pro is that there are many places where using it is a no-brainer. Flights. Hotels. Work sessions away from my desk. But it’s just too big to casually bring along. This is what Vision Pro doomers are missing. They see only the first-gen attempt from the outside, not understanding that Apple is close to crossing the size threshold where this thing suddenly starts making sense in everyday life. Quest 3 doesn’t feel the same to me. Cut the size in half and it’s more portable, yes. But the UX still isn’t strong enough that I’d suddenly want it with me everywhere. Vision Pro’s advantage can’t be seen from outside the headset. The UX is already good enough; the hardware just needs to get out of the way.

they turned claude into jesus: it died on friday, and it will resurrect on sunday

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…

While this is super cool, a lot of the crazy 3d demos I’ve seen for fable can be explained by the model finding an existing demo scene online and presenting it to the user. You cannot convince me fable is suddenly capable of such detailed 3d modeling.

Unprecedented. @BrianRoemmele warned everyone for the past two years that the government would take away our AI. That day just arrived. Was talking with an entrepreneur in San Francisco who was running Fable to build software and just turned it off while it was building. Tomorrow night Anthropic is throwing a Fable builders event in San Francisco. I wonder if that event is still going to happen? This hurts American national security. I know of several companies that were using Mythos to close all of their security holes because it is so powerful at finding weaknesses in software. That effort has not been completed, so there are many companies with many holes still open now. This throws that effort into question. It also means that China is emboldened because, you know, can you trust an American company to keep their systems up and running if the government is willing to shut them down so abruptly and with no warning? It also means that open source and running models on your own computers is now very attractive (if it wasn't already). Expect Apple Mac Studio sales to go up.

If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we *should* export advanced AI chips to China, which also wants to ban… Britain (and every other non-American on Earth)… from using our best models? I have no words.

Steam Frame is Poised for Launch as Units Begin Reaching the US See more 👉roadtovr.com/valve-steam-fra…

The recent SteamVR Betas have been extremely fast to boot up on my system compared to before. Almost night vs day in comparison I know Valve have been refactoring a lot of the super old code over the past couple years. Seems like it is really paying off Thank you, SteamVR Devs!

Siri AI’s visual intelligence on Vision Pro also works inside of Immersive/VR content I asked it to figure out the game playing on the virtual TV, what kind of restaurant the robots were eating at, and to translate some Japanese building signs

Spatial Wallpapers are here! I just got my first hands-on experience with the new Spatial Panoramas and Custom Environments features, and it's incredible how immersive these memories feel when they surround you with real depth. With just a few taps, you can save them to a new folder in the Environments view and use them as your own custom spatial wallpapers.

Today, we're releasing LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a device-optimized model designed to power real-life applications on phones, laptops, PCs, robots, and fast & lightweight server-side use-cases. > 8B MoE, 1.5B active > Expanded 128K context > LFM2.5 flagship hybrid MoE architecture > Trained on 38T tokens large-scale RL > fast, reliable tool calling, punching above its weight, comparable to models with up to 4x its size > customizable on a single GPU for any specialized task > LFM2 open-weight license 🧵

~10 years ago, back in 2014, Sony announced Project Morpheus (later Playstation VR). There was a spirit of intense competition, but also collaboration - Oculus and Sony always swapped demos. Sony actually paid for all the indie game dev booths at the Tokyo Game Show for many years, even ones that had nothing to do with Playstation. Even the ones who were only on competing platforms like Oculus! That is just the kind of guy @yosp was.

I find this discourse perplexing because the solution seems straigthforward: make university marks almost entirely dependent on lengthy in-person exams that combine handwritten essays with oral questioning. Why is this even a conversation? Are there implementation barriers or something?

UK-based VTuber and artist Mimi Yanagi was arrested on April 20 for her own drawings of anime-style characters. These drawings were 100% fictional, made up by her, with no real people involved. UK law still treats these kinds of drawings as illegal child pornography, police took all her computers and devices. She has now been released on bail, but she is not allowed to post any “adult” content. She must also use an account name approved by the police. The UK is lost, you can’t even draw now, they will put you in prison

Opus 4.7 is really good, except when: - You cross 200k tokens - Have any room for misinterpretation in your prompt - Steer too many times - You give it any reason to doubt itself, and it overthinks everything you said and burns through it's entire context window changing a bool

Shohei Ohtani, Nasty 72mph Curveball. 😨