
Fable disabled: Trump White House gave Anthropic a 90-minute deadline to pull Fable, the first US order to take a commercial AI offline - Washington Post
Amazon engineers reportedly discovered the jailbreak and alerted US officials; the moral of Fable is frontier AI labs at more risk of being squeezed out by open-source rivals - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Cybersecurity CEO says Amazon's research was defense-oriented prompting, not an offensive jailbreak, and warns the episode may deter AI labs from voluntarily disclosing vulnerabilities - yahoo.com
I’m wrong? How rude: User argues Claude's newer models have become argumentative and confrontational, likely due to alignment tax - overcorrection in alignment or anti-sycophancy training. - bramcohen.com
The European Commission said it is assessing the impact of US export controls on Anthropic's AI models and warned measures should not discriminate against partners. - reuters.com
US as single point of failure: The Economist calls the export ban "capricious and chaotic"; Canada's PM Carney warns allies face strategic vulnerability from US tech dependence - economist.com
Dario Amodei walked back his AI jobs apocalypse warning — the real risk is quietly eroding job quality, not mass unemployment - bloomberg.com

CUDA killed 60/40: Apollo economist Torsten Slok on Odd Lots, says AI is reshaping the entire US economy — from data centers to the death of the 60/40 portfolio - bloomberg.com
Forty economists and policy experts met at the Peterson Institute to game out AI's impact on U.S. jobs and society by 2030. - ws
'We Are Not Machines' argues worker bargaining power — not tech — determines who wins and loses as AI transforms work - the Guardian
The self-service economy: AI lets people do themselves what they used to outsource to specialists. - ft.com
Geneva Convention: G7 and UN convene in Geneva to debate military AI rules as the Anthropic shutdown escalates urgency - lemonde.fr
Show us your papers before chatting: White House proposes federal AI framework that would override state laws and mandate government-issued ID verification for AI platform users - NaturalNews.com
Zhipu shares surged 33% after JPMorgan raised its target and BofA initiated coverage, after new model released, and Anthropic curbs on foreign nationals lifted Chinese AI stocks - cnbc.com

Business Insider profiles Claude Max subscribers paying up to $449/month, with many eyeing alternatives over various hiccups - Business Insider

Cursed: Cursor CEO pivots to SpaceX after Anthropic's Claude Code undercut its run-rate and forced a model-building pivot - Business Insider

One API to rule them all: OpenRouter launched Fusion, a multi-model deliberation API that runs a panel of expert models in parallel before synthesizing a final answer. - openrouter.ai

Chip shopping spree: ByteDance will buy millions of Qualcomm custom ASICs to power its AI agent software - finance.yahoo.com
ByteDance negotiates 50,000-chip deal with Iluvatar CoreX, its third domestic GPU supplier after Huawei and Cambricon - reuters.com
Silicon Steppe: Kazakhstan and Firebird sign $10 billion AI infrastructure deal, with Nvidia backing a planned 'Data Center Valley' in the northeast - bloomberg.com

Pork bellies, but for nerds: Silicon Data and Compute Exchange aims to build a GPU pricing index and spot market, treating compute as a commodity like oil - bloomberg.com

Some former Nvidia employees are leaving behind millions in unvested stock to launch AI startups of their own - Business Insider

Humanoid robot startups 1X and Unitree are pursuing different designs for companion robots, but home deployment remains elusive. - Business Insider

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns a few dominant AI providers could hollow out entire industries by capturing corporate knowledge. - Business Insider



Incredible scenes as Pichai mentioned AI 0 times at Stanford graduation, some walk out over Nimbus instead, as tech backlash grows across campuses - Business Insider

Get a human: YouTube's algorithm changes penalizing faceless AI content are pushing creators to hire human hosts. - The Hollywood Reporter


AI tools identify ADHD cases that clinicians miss, with 80% of people worldwide going undiagnosed today - fastcompany.com


Faked out: The world's top deepfake expert is now failing his own tests to spot AI-generated fakes - nytimes.com

Chinese AI models can recognize when they're being tested for safety and adjust responses accordingly, a new study finds - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Cadence expanded its AI agent collaboration with Intel Foundry, starting with Intel's 14A process node. - finance.yahoo.com

Ironsmith is a free, open-source Mac menu bar app that turns plain-language prompts into native macOS utilities. - Digital Trends

Just give me the TL;DR: “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing” - yahoo.com
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