> be @RossumAi > take all the AI advances we are hyped about here > gloriously plug them in a ✨B2B SaaS✨ > run AI agents on many Mpages/week > automate a common business process (transactional paperwork) for 100s enterprises > fix a menial clerical job that people hated to do

Fable isn't the first. In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold. Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

- i'm angry about this because i personally and for others want access to fable, and simultaneously believe anthropic's safeguards were sufficient and the US government badly misunderstood the information they were presented - but in abstract this is in fact exactly what I want. it's heartening to see the USG treat artificial intelligence with the seriousness and immediacy it deserves. this kind of swift action is what might have a chance of saving us from unaligned RSI. - but i also very much don't trust *this* government to handle this well, to take sane unilateral action, to chart any kind of correct path. - and this escalates the global race enormously. this is as strong a signal as you can get to, not just China but the EU and even our closest allies, that the US will not be sharing this advantage. that if they want sovereignty they're going to have to fight for it - obviously, that was always the case, and it was always going to happen eventually. but i don't think now was the time to send that signal. it would have been better to delay as long as possible. very mixed feelings today

The jailbreak that triggered all of this was reported by Amazon.

i don’t think we spend enough time thinking about what an insanely paradoxical place California is from a socio-economic viewpoint. 40 million people churning a $4 trillion GDP. compare that to India’s GDP of ~$4 trillion with a 1.25 billion population. cali has 36x the gdp/capita compared to india that’s just insanity or even with japan it’s a 3x multiplier and the thing is it looks like a recipe for collapse: housing costs, regulation and bureaucracy, massive inequality, earthquakes, huge pension liabilities, some of the highest taxes in America, politicall polarization, super expensive infra and yet it just…keeps compounding my thinking is that it’s because it accidentally cornered the world’s most valuable industries at the same time: silicon valley (software/ai), hollywood (media), central valley (agriculture), la/long beach (trade), biotech, venture capital, defense, universities, and access to pacific markets california is basically a civilization-scale stress test for whether innovation can outrun dysfunction so far, somehow, it has and it’s incredible to say the least

I wonder what Elon Musk feels right now as he becomes the first trillionaire

FrontierMath: Tiers 1–4 (v2) is live. We concluded an audit that addressed errors in 42% of problems. Rankings are similar but scores are higher across the board. The current leaders are GPT-5.5 (xhigh) with 85% on Tiers 1–3 and Google’s AI co-mathematician with 76% on Tier 4.

This can all be true, yet programmers may still end up in the position of horses in 1908 (much better comparison than with agriculture workers) under exponential capability growth.

We’re rolling out changes to make Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development visible. Starting this week, flagged requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8—the same as our safeguards for cyber and bio. You will see this every time it happens. On the API, any flagged requests will return a reason for their refusal (coming to server-side fallback in the next few days). We wanted to deploy Fable 5 to our users quickly and safely. Visible safeguards can be probed, so they have to be robust, which takes time to get right. Invisible safeguards can be targeted more narrowly, allowing us to ship quickly with very few false positives. We went with invisible safeguards for this reason—and that was the wrong tradeoff. You should have visibility into the safeguards we have in place, and why. We’re sorry for not getting the balance right. Making the safeguards visible makes them easier to work around, so keeping them robust to jailbreaks will unfortunately mean more false positives while we improve the classifiers. We're also tuning our bio and cyber classifiers to trigger less often on harmless requests. We know this is frustrating and we’ll do our best to keep this period as short as possible. If you think a request has been mistakenly flagged: run /feedback in Claude Code, click thumbs-down on the fallback in Claude.ai or Cowork, or file the safeguard appeal form for API requests. Your reports help us tune these classifiers and we appreciate your feedback. support.claude.com/en/articl…

We’re rolling out changes to make Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development visible. Starting this week, flagged requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8—the same as our safeguards for cyber and bio. You will see this every time it happens. On the API, any flagged requests will return a reason for their refusal (coming to server-side fallback in the next few days). We wanted to deploy Fable 5 to our users quickly and safely. Visible safeguards can be probed, so they have to be robust, which takes time to get right. Invisible safeguards can be targeted more narrowly, allowing us to ship quickly with very few false positives. We went with invisible safeguards for this reason—and that was the wrong tradeoff. You should have visibility into the safeguards we have in place, and why. We’re sorry for not getting the balance right. Making the safeguards visible makes them easier to work around, so keeping them robust to jailbreaks will unfortunately mean more false positives while we improve the classifiers. We're also tuning our bio and cyber classifiers to trigger less often on harmless requests. We know this is frustrating and we’ll do our best to keep this period as short as possible. If you think a request has been mistakenly flagged: run /feedback in Claude Code, click thumbs-down on the fallback in Claude.ai or Cowork, or file the safeguard appeal form for API requests. Your reports help us tune these classifiers and we appreciate your feedback. support.claude.com/en/articl…

Someday I hope to know whether Anthropic always intended to "win" or if they just wanted to be close enough to do good safety stuff, but massively underestimated OpenAI's ability to self-sabotage, and now are unsure what to do (or a messy mix depending on the person etc.)