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How religious are beliefs in the singularity?

Only three days after the release of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic was forced by the United States Government to make it unavailable, when a jailbreak was brought to its attention, rather than the previous situation of ‘yes obviously experts can jailbreak anything if they care enough’ and ‘yes obviously you can ask Fable to fix your code.’

A lot of things are always happening.

And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus

On Friday evening the United States Government has forced Anthropic to take down all access to Fable and Mythos.

Where are your agents right now?

No good policy gets announced shortly after 5pm eastern on a Friday.

First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.

Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead

A lot happened this week, including a great trip out to Lighthaven.

Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives

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.

Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI

When will markets price the singularity?

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.

After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem

Also: how pitch a book to an AI!

This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.

Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.

Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net

You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.

Everything impacts everything.

Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?

Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.

Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.

After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026, and more!

Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order

If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:

His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.

What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?

Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark, Omni turns images, audio, and text into video, Musk loses OpenAI court battle

Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration.

At Google I/O, new features bring AI agents into the inbox and YouTube in ways that further strain the relationship between publishers and platforms

Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.

OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API, Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time, and more!

Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?

I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids.

Musk vows to appeal; the judge vows to throw that case out, too

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