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Narrator: he was not, in fact, allowed to say “I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.”
I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.
I am very happy that I’m allowed to say “I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Korbak was fired ~3 weeks later. He says for safety concerns/METR talks (his job); OpenAI says mishandling sensitive info, not for speaking out.
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Jasmine says that she accidentally accessed an executive's email that OpenAI had explicitly given her access to, even although she had explicitly requested that OpenAI remove her access, and IT had failed to do so.
Which implies Jasmine was fired for IT's failure?
The amazingly fast (only 30M!) and extremely accurate @answerdotai ColBERT model is now supported in Sentence Transformers to make it easy to create and query embedding indexes locally directly in Python! 🥳
After leaving AI to do a masters in immunology and start a 2nd PhD (in microbiology) I'm beyond thrilled that @math_rachel is returning to her original AI home! 🥳
She founded the Center for Applied Data Ethics *years* before most people realised AI would transform everything.
As the backlash against AI was growing stronger (and as my friends were becoming more fervently anti-AI), I decided to return to an increasingly hated field. Why? I agree there is a lot that is terrible about AI. 1/
fast.ai/posts/2026-08-18-ret…
It continues to boggle the mind how many people, who otherwise seem to have a functioning intellect, appear to lose all cognitive capacity when it comes to thinking about actions that impact the company that pays them.
I’m so excited that @JensenHuang is a believer in open source now, looking forward to the CUDA and GPU driver open source release!
Did something happen to Opus 4.8 today? First time I've seen this happen (and I use it daily): it almost totally stopped thinking, even at highest reasoning setting. And answered terribly.
I repeated same prompts with Opus 4.6, and it worked great.
Nice to see the Drivetrain Approach getting some love again! :D
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Did a close read of @jeremyphoward et al's Drivetrain Approach
Define goal → Consider levers → Consider data → Implement assembly line
Most important is having actions that fulfill the objective
Predictions are more data, not actions
Key takeaways 🧵
Wow.
@Zai_org GLM 5.2 is a marvel! It is *at least* as good as Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5. It's super fast, inexpensive, and not too verbose.
It responds with nuance and judgement, & handles long context VERY well.
I've never experienced an open weights model like this before.
In order to see if the gov response was predictable, I pasted the wiki page about the Anthropic/DoD dispute into ChatGPT Pro, & told it Anthropic had released a model where it restricted use because it may be too dangerous.
tldr: "almost tailor-made to trigger" the government.
I disagree with this decision and I don't like it.
But also...
HOW DID ANTHROPIC NOT SEE THIS COMING‽
It is *the* obvious response to "this is too dangerous for anyone except us to use", since that relies on a premise ("we are uniquely good") that almost no-one agrees with.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
I decided to do a little experiment:
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Over 8 years ago: 😮
People sometimes ask if I think it's risky for everyone to have access to AI. I think it's MORE risky for an exclusive & homogeneous group alone to develop tech that impacts us all. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/techreview/status/9787…
Silently sabotaging experiments in order to stultify scientific progress and protect a technology lead.
Hmmm that sounds familiar...
Welcome to "Sophanthropic".
Good TV show BTW. And even better book. :)
imdb.com/title/tt13016388/
Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:
- The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI
- But everyone else should have access to it.
By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance.
Even although the company isn't named in this tweet...
...you know exactly who he's talking about, don't you?
Also, those who focus on using AI to help improve the skills of themselves and their teams will be diamonds in great demand, since they will be the rare A++ players in a sea of mediocrity.
Has @AnthropicAI completely given up on making API usage reasonably-priced?
Following the token-usage changes recently they announced various updates to *subscription* usage to make it more reasonable.
But they've done NOTHING for API users. The cost is insane at this point.
I've largely switched over to using GPT-5.5 in recent weeks, which I like nearly as much as Opus 4.6 and 4.7, and is *very* reasonably priced (since I can use my subscription with the @OpenAI API.)