Brent Simmons, retired from commercial work, continues improving the open-source RSS reader NetNewsWire as a retirement project. Originally released in 2002 and made open source in 2018, the software remains actively developed without commercial pressure.
Andrej Karpathy announces the release of Claude Fable 5, the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. He calls it a major step forward, particularly for long problem-solving sessions on difficult tasks, and describes it as state-of-the-art on nearly all benchmarks with exceptional performance in software engineering, research, and vision.
Apple says Siri AI is delayed in the EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the DMA, claiming the regulation demands unsafe open access to user data. The European Commission rejected Apple's proposed safety measures, leaving no timeline for release.
The U.S. government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over national security concerns about a jailbreaking technique. Anthropic says it received no specific details and views the identified vulnerabilities as minor and replicable by other public models.
The US government ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its AI models. The author argues this shifts AI regulation from safety to nationalist control, treating technology as a weapon for Americans only, and warns Europe to build its own capabilities rather than rely on regulation alone.
A court has ruled Google can be held liable for AI-generated hallucinations produced by its systems, marking a significant legal precedent that could influence future cases and regulations in other jurisdictions.