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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…

If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't seen any tangible results, read this 1990 article: "The Dynamo and the Computer" by Paul David. When electricity first arrived, factories that "adopted" it barely got faster. They just swapped the steam engine for an electric one and ran everything else exactly as before: same machine layout, same workflow, same management. Electricity in, no real gains out. The most common mistake with any new technology is to drop it into the old organization and then declare the transformation done. The real leap came decades later, when each machine got its own small motor. Suddenly machines no longer had to be lined up around one central drive shaft. They could be rearranged around the actual flow of work. The productivity gains didn't come from electricity. They came from REDESIGNING THE ENTIRE FACTORY around it. AI is the same. Bolting it onto your existing process gets you a faster steam engine. The payoff comes when you redesign the work itself. (link to paper in comments)

“Delightful because I just asked for something at it happened. And also unnerving because I just asked for something and it happened.” oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it…

Life’s short. Do something meaningful. You should aspire to make a dent in the universe, but at the least you should make sure you leave the world better than when you first arrived in it.

Yes and in always tell my team that our job is to partner with founders that make high quality decisions consistently over time.

"You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on." Dr. @VivianBala's challenge to his fellow legislators has become a global rallying cry. Last week, @takahiroanno, leader of Japan's @team_mirai_jp, cited Minister Balakrishnan's hands-on use of @NanoClaw_ai in a parliamentary debate and offered to personally tutor the Prime Minister on setting it up. The PM said yes. Officially volunteering to fly out and set NanoClaw up for Japan's PM myself. Offer extends to any head of state whose country has good food.

BREAKING NEWS: God joins Anthropic as member of technical staff

Very bullish on these new discoveries. Every year we stay alive, it’s another year where AI multiplies these advancements across all of humanity to benefit down the road. So, stay alive!

“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others.”

"Go all the way until it hurts. If you're doing something and it's easy, it's not valuable." - @travisk "If anyone says a strategic thing was easy, I'm like, 'You messed up. You could have gone way further. More competitive advantage. More differentiation. Get it together.'"

🎉 After one year of teamwork, we are excited to release our 3D foundation model — LingBot-Map! Unlike DA3/VGGT, LingBot-Map is a purely autoregressive model for streaming 3D reconstruction ⚡ It achieves ~20 FPS on 518×378 resolution over sequences exceeding 10,000 frames — and beyond 🚀 Two key insights behind LingBot-Map: 🔑 Keep SLAM's structural wisdom: build Geometric Context Attention with long-context modeling while maintaining a compact streaming state 🔑 Make everything end-to-end learnable — no optimization, no post-processing Let's check out our demos 👇

We Are Building the Plane While Jumping Off the Cliff – Hello World_ tianglim.net/we-are-building…

"So You Want to be a VC" Im enjoying this week in Boston visiting students promoting my new book - Runnin Down a Dream. Not surprisingly, many ask me about trying to break into venture capital. I wrote a letter answering this question 15 years ago. I would send it out when people inquired. I'm making it public for the first time - with zero modifications. 1) I think it holds up well 2) make sure and read my new book also 3) I probably can't help with followups (as suggested in the letter) Hope you find it useful. Good luck!

OpenClaw v2026.4.10 just dropped 🦞 This one makes your agents smarter in conversations and way better at remembering things. Plus upgrades across video, voice, and reliability. Here’s what actually matters ↓ 1. Active Memory plugin This is a big one. Your agent now remembers for you. It automatically pulls: • Preferences • Context • Past conversations No more “remember this” every time. Conversations just flow naturally. You can inspect it with /verbose and tune how much memory it uses. 2. Codex provider Codex now has its own native integration. • Managed auth • Native threads • Model discovery Clean separation from OpenAI models. Better for dev-heavy workflows. 3. Local speech on macOS Talk Mode now supports local speech. Runs fully on-device. • Faster • Private • Handles interruptions Huge for voice-first setups. 4. Video generation upgrade Seedance 2.0 now supported. Better control over: • Duration • Resolution • Audio • Output consistency Agents can create better video now. 5. Microsoft Teams upgrades More control inside chats: • Pin and unpin • Read • React • List reactions 6. Small upgrades that matter • Live streaming messages in Matrix • New exec policy CLI commands • Better support for self-hosted models • Cleaner dreaming UI • Improved behavior for GPT-5 agents Plus a lot of security and stability improvements. Safer execution. Better startup. Fewer edge-case issues. No major breaking changes. Smooth update. How to update openclaw update openclaw –version npm install -g openclaw@latest Docker: pull latest image and restart This one is important. Agents are starting to feel like they actually remember and think.

“A traditional 150-person organization runs four layers deep. The org chart creates 11,175 potential communication channels. Meetings multiply. Alignment decays. An AI-enabled team producing equivalent output might need 30 people. Communication channels… tomtunguz.com/communication-…

The future is already here, it’s just not equally distributed.

It’s inspiring to see such curiosity across generations! ✨🦞#Tencent #OpenClaw From tech-savvy kids to seniors in their 60s, everyone is eager to keep up with the tech and use AI for something meaningful.

I wonder how many IC meetings will be rescheduled because @claudeai is down.