The new iPhone that munches every business model in its path: Anthropic said to blind-side partners by launching competing products - The Information
Anthropic's Fable 5 model outperforms ChatGPT 5.5 by 20% on the Frontier Code Benchmark and can migrate a 50-million-line codebase in one day. - Geeky Gadgets
Claude Fable 5 autonomously built a multi-step debugging workflow from a single screenshot, deploying browsers, JavaScript injection, and a custom HTTP server - Simon Willison’s Weblog
Anthropic launches $150 million Claude Corps program placing 1,000 AI fellows at nonprofits at $85,000 salary. - TNW | Anthropic
Startups are mixing AI models to cut costs up to 95%, routing work to cheaper Chinese open-source models and pressuring OpenAI and Anthropic - The Wall Street Journal
OpenAI- and Anthropic-linked groups spent $16 million on a New York House primary, signaling a broader 2026 midterm spending campaign - The New York Times
The people who run the world to attend the G7 summit in France (Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei) - Bloomberg
Herding cat agents as a science: Google DeepMind and partners commit $10 million to build the academic field of multi-agent safety research, warning agent deployment is months away - MIT Technology Review
SpaceX to start trading today, should be interesting. was 4x oversubscribed at price specified a couple of weeks ago, which is not that much, considering. most knowledgeable folks like are super skeptical of a $2t valuation, seems like there might be a lot of insider exits to bigger suckers, needs a lot of suckers. but if it stays high might as well merge Tesla too b/c why not.
this type of concentration is a serious test of index investing, one wonders if Buffett would even recommend broad indexes at this point. there’s sort of a curve where if too many people index and people can game and front-run the index at scale, it becomes a sucker’s game. Supply of suckers appears adequate, so far.
Where’s my new Walkman? China's EV supply chain has propelled it to dominance in humanoid robot components, leaving Japan scrambling for niches - The New York Times
Police officers are using Flock Safety's AI license plate reader system to stalk and harass individuals. - Daily Kos
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, an agentic coding tool it claims outperforms Claude Code on long multi-step tasks. - VentureBeat
Developers using AI were 19% slower in their own codebases in a randomized trial but estimated they were 20% faster - Hacker Noon
Graph expectations: Neo4j guy thinks your enterprise needs a knowledge graph, unsurprisingly - TechRadar
the notion of an ‘enterprise AGI memory’ that knows everything seems powerful but needs a very powerful agentic team of editors. would maybe start with Karpathy wiki LLMs that are human-readable knowledgebases and turn them into graphs if you need deep multi-hop traversal.
Wealth management experts recommend investing in the AI and robotics ecosystem rather than pure-play companies to manage risk. - Wealth Management
Jeff Bezos launches Prometheus, a $29B startup backed by $12B to build AI tools that automated engineering and invention. - The New York Times
Nvidia and Eli Lilly back Abridge's push to build the first AI model trained on clinical conversations, now live at 300+ health systems - The Wall Street Journal
Fields Medal winner Terry Tao has become a leading advocate for using AI and formal proof systems in mathematics. - Quanta Magazine
A new training optimizer cuts computational overhead 40–50% on trillion-parameter AI models using smarter matrix math - tridao.me
Two New York comedians spent $200 making fake AI startup ads for the subway that went viral with 3 million views. - Business Insider
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