Not having any EU competitive labs (plural intended) is about to get very painful.
Honestly google is doing everyone a huge disservice by getting many people to conflate the worst model in the world with the current frontier of AI
I've had access to Claude 5 Fable for a bit. A genuine jump in capability, I could feed it a 15 page design document for a project and it would work for 9+ hours and deliver terrific results.
But working with it is weird & weirder is coming
Lots of examples: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
Henry and co-authors arxived a really exciting paper today (arxiv.org/abs/2605.21041) on a new paradigm for Gaussian Process regression where you can condition on (almost) ANYTHING, even LLM prompts!
there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out
Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.
Thinking about how this might go
Listener: My chains aren't converging
Andrew: Your model is bad
Aki: Your parameterization is bad
Richard: The Buddha teaches us that numerical integration is suffering
New blog post: Scholarship in the Age of AI
In which I use the recent debate on arXiv policies to ponder what it means to be a scholar now. Feedback always welcome!
#Academia #AI
bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/sc...
Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns (Anthropic)
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