
Michael Spencer
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Michael Spencer
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Emerging tech analyst, AI News, Techno-realist, future tech enthusiast. Space-Tech, datacenters, quantum, semiconductors. Curator and blogger. In 🇹🇼 From 🇨🇦






GLM-5.2 on KingBench (3). Thoughts: The model has superb taste. It is greater at UX than UI. The code is always very clean. It is great at One-shot wonders. I asked it to fine-tune a whole local model and it did it in 30mins! This is just a great model to use all-round. 1/n










The following seems undisputed: - Senior USG officials called Dario Amodei, asked him to roll back Fable 5. - Amodei responded only that he wants more time and more information. Presumably, he was asked again in no uncertain terms to pull the model. Presumably, he said "no". - Bessent then "told Amodei directly that he was making a 'bad decision'". - At this point, the call that seems to have been intended as a difficult conversation between partners clearly turned adversarial. Amodei still didn't change his mind and still didn't agree to pull Fable 5. The key takeaway is that whatever trust the USG still had in Anthropic generally and Amodei specifically before this incident should have now completely evaporated. No matter the circumstances, you cannot, as a government official, tolerate a company that flatly tells you "no" after you informally contact it with a national security concern. I remain hopeful that this situation can still be deescalated, but fear that this might be a pivotal moment for Anthropic.






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…


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…










