Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card
First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.
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AI #172: The First Fable
A lot happened this week, including a great trip out to Lighthaven.
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Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum
The big story today is the release of Claude Fable 5, the version of Claude Mythos that Anthropic believes they can safely distribute to the people.
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OpenAI Offers A New Policy Blueprint
Right after a new Executive Order seems like an excellent time to offer OpenAI’s new document: Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A Blueprint For A Federal Framework.
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AI #171: False Flag
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.
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Trump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To Frontier Model Releases
Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.
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Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions
You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
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Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card
Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.
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AI #170: Lack of Executive Order
Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.
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RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is
Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration.
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AI #169: New Knowledge
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.
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Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2
I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids.
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Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026
At least we probably won’t have another pandemic.
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AI #168: Not Leading the Future
This is what a lull looks like at this point.
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Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance
The real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime is going to look like.
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Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math
We did reading yesterday.
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Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading
Reading is the most fundamental thing in education.
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Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
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