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The singularity will be seen in hindsight as an interregnum

Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1.

As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)

This week saw the releases of, among other things:

The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead

I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have changed again.

200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.

GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus — and its org chart — in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040."

Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts.

There is a new very cool Anthropic paper: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. You can read the blog post verison here.

Is this the beginning of a new world?

Fable’s back.

AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them

Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.

How work changes along the exponential

The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects.

What eras bookend our interregnum?

While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America’s Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.

We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.

Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon (45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now available.

Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?

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