







“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
Open models are decelerationist - Erlend’s notes
people and planet need open models to win
Better Models: Worse Tools
About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5
Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.


Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card
First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.

Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.

“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…

The AI Model That Was Too Dangerous to Release: Meet Claude Mythos
Anthropic just built the most powerful AI in history. Then decided the world wasn’t ready for it. Here’s everything you need to know.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable, a version of Mythos, days after warning AI is becoming too dangerous
Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

Claude Mythos #2: Cybersecurity and Project Glasswing
Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.

Plato’s Warning Has Been Vindicated
We now believe that our newest tools, once perfected, will relieve us of the need to be informed at all.
Ursula's list
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model …

Asking the wrong questions — Benedict Evans
With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.

Epistrons: Knowledge Artifacts for Hyperproblems - Hyperproblems
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
