"Anthropic is releasing a general-use Mythos-class AI model with better capabilities than anything it's published before, Axios' Madison Mills and Sam Sabin report.

The company once deemed this new class of model so disruptive that existing safeguards were insufficient, and it restricted access to just a handful of trusted organizations.
Now it's releasing a public version less than three months later.

The new Fable 5 model is better at knowledge work, software engineering, scientific research and more outscoring competing models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind, Anthropic says.

It includes safeguards to prevent coders from using it to hack infrastructure or ask about sensitive biological capabilities.

Dianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product management, research and labs, says the company ran Fable 5 through internal and external testing to ensure safety.
Axios

huh. tnx B but, no, ai isn't for me.

"Data centers now seek amounts of electricity that used to be associated with entire cities raising questions about who pays for new infrastructure, who gets access to scarce power and how quickly projects can connect to the grid."
Axios

"It was a historic, even jarring, scene that captures a once-unimaginable geopolitical ordering. The world's most powerful heads of state gathered in the French Alps this week for the annual G7 summit, with the CEOs of America's dominant AI companies seated and treated like heads of nation-states themselves.

Why it matters: This is the future many leaders and AI CEOs envision heads of state and the masters of tech in constant discussion, and sometimes conflict, over who controls AI, its rules, and its application to governing and world security.

Think of Anthropic vs. Trump as merely a small test run of this dynamic, with governments battling private companies over their products' threat to U.S. or global security.

AI CEOs sat around the table with leaders of the world's democracies, treated as peers. The companies, creating the world's future economy and security infrastructure, are now the equivalent of nation-states."
Axios


Sam Altman, seen here declaring France deleted from the grid

AI-powered phishing kits that automate hackers' workflows are fueling a huge increase in advanced cyberattacks, Sam Sabin writes from a new report shared first with Axios.

The report, from security firm Huntress, finds a nearly 1,400% rise in "device-code" phishing attacks in the first four months of 2026 compared to the second half of 2025.

In such an attack, victims are directed to a real Microsoft login page and asked to enter a code sent by the attacker.

Once the victim logs in and verifies themselves with that code, the attacker gets a token granting them access.

Huntress says that the tools needed for such an attack are now readily available in AI-powered kits sold to hackers as a subscription package.

Those toolkits let attackers with "little to no technical skill" launch sophisticated phishing campaigns, the report finds.

Another finding: No two phishing messages were identical across hundreds of incidents analyzed, suggesting cybercriminals are using generative AI to personalize "lures" sent to victims at massive scale."
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Pictured here, a criminal phishing

Nvidia
Micron
Broadcom
SanDisk
SK Hynix
Samsung
AMD
Intel

This is how much the rich hate you. https://t.co/qBONf3HeMn

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) July 8, 2026

The CEO of the biggest electricity company in the US is warning that blackouts could hit next year, as AI and data centers drive up electricity demand and strain the grid.

Exelon's CEO Calvin Butler told the Financial Times that Americans could “absolutely” lose power as soon as…

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 7, 2026

This giant data center is under construction in Richland Parish, La. Photo: Meta

Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO, is calling on the U.S. to establish an AI watchdog with the power to screen the world's most advanced models and coordinate an industry-wide slowdown if dangers mount.

Hassabis, the Nobel laureate behind Gemini, lays out the plan in a personal manifesto published this morning, "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age."……

Today's AI-driven cyber risks are "warning shots," Hassabis tells me from his London base. Within 18 months, he says, those capabilities plus far graver biological and nuclear threats could live inside open-source models beyond any government's control."
Axios

The killer robots are coming for us

Only going to be used to kill "mosquitoes"😉 https://t.co/mePQnk6dJs

— Bean (@SomersetBean) July 16, 2026

This being one of Bearisters favorite threads, has he been suspended? Or is he possibly, like SMH, on a writer's strike/protest? One week without posting, reason for concern...

This is pretty intriguing, though I find the content creator style odd (AI from a script?). The graphics match!

It's about auto production tech, robots, and… combined with the stat I heard in another vid "China graduates annually more engineers than USA has altogether" it basically lets us know where things stand.

And Trump isn't going to spell it out. He feeds people the notion that we are not only competing but can be leaders again.

The rise and fall of great nations.

"We ask almost every AI architect and leader the same thing in private: What AI risk worries you most?

Almost all of them fire back the same response: a killer pathogen, spreading too silently, widely and quickly to stop, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column.

Why it matters: The rare agreement among AI experts flows from the belief these advanced models could help a bad actor create a deadly pathogen before the government and industry perfect detection and prevention systems.

This isn't a likely scenario. It's simply a plausible one as AI gets better at understanding our biological vulnerabilities, much like it has our cyber ones inside large nonhuman systems.

Driving the news: The experts aren't hedging. In a new MIT FutureTech and University of Queensland study, 272 researchers ranked 24 top AI risks.

They assessed a 12% chance that AI's dangerous capabilities produce a catastrophic outcome by 2030, and another 12% chance of AI-enabled weapons and mass-harm capabilities.
And that's with mitigation efforts to reduce risk. Without those efforts, the chances exceed 20%.

The researchers defined "catastrophic" as more than 1 million deaths or $100 billion in damage. Assisting with the construction of chemical or biological weapons sits squarely inside that top-ranked risk category."
Axios

Unitree is the leading B2C robot manufacturer in China.

how do you even defend from an army of these chasing you?! https://t.co/L279m8xNdy

— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) July 24, 2026

AI companies buying books to scan them and destroy them to feed their language learning models

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're… pic.twitter.com/0YPd8N2oi5

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) July 27, 2026

Opposition to data centers is becoming one of those 80/20 issues with the electorate

DC insiders love to question "electability" from the comfort of their offices.

I challenge anyone with this question to come knock doors with us in #MI07 and hear what voters are actually saying. Data centers are reshaping politics here and we're winning because of it. pic.twitter.com/PMpotIb12T

— William Lawrence (@WeWill2026) July 30, 2026

"The way information shows up online is changing lightning fast, starting with the total collapse of Google Search as we know it.

Why it matters: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our site) for answers and information. Instead, it's using AI to answer them on its platform, in its words."
Axios

" Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model yesterday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity…..

The price gap is staggering: DeepSeek charges about 28 cents for the same amount of output that costs $25 on Opus 4.8, a 99% discount….

When a product becomes a commodity, buyers care less about who made it and more about what it costs. Think electricity or gasoline.

AI is heading that way fast. As the performance gap between top-tier models shrinks, buyers will have leverage to shop on price."
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bearister said:

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" Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model yesterday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity…..

The price gap is staggering: DeepSeek charges about 28 cents for the same amount of output that costs $25 on Opus 4.8, a 99% discount….

When a product becomes a commodity, buyers care less about who made it and more about what it costs. Think electricity or gasoline.

AI is heading that way fast. As the performance gap between top-tier models shrinks, buyers will have leverage to shop on price."
Axios

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China is busy copycatting the massive investments of American firms on the cheap. The right wing is busy falsely framing the upcoming bust of American AI* as caused by the left and setting the stage for a future bailout**.

*Not saying all American AI will fail but I do expect a dotcom style downturn

**I've believed this since I learned about Larry Ellison's huge Oracle borrowing for AI. Seems a huge risk for the company without informal assurances from his friend Donald Trump.

After all the Pay for Play goodies that Larry is amassing, can an NFL/MLB/NBA ownership interest that he has always coveted be out of the realm of possibility now?

bearister said:

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"The way information shows up online is changing lightning fast, starting with the total collapse of Google Search as we know it.

Why it matters: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our site) for answers and information. Instead, it's using AI to answer them on its platform, in its words."
Axios

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Interesting. I find myself reading the AI summary before clicking on the link, because it's often very basic information I'm seeking and that's one less click, and it's summarized to the point much faster for me!

Aunburdened said:

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AI companies buying books to scan them and destroy them to feed their language learning models

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're… pic.twitter.com/0YPd8N2oi5

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) July 27, 2026

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This actually makes mankind smarter and more efficient.
It's a productivity per capita gain, which increases wealth.

Your take???

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Unitree is the leading B2C robot manufacturer in China.

how do you even defend from an army of these chasing you?! https://t.co/L279m8xNdy

— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) July 24, 2026

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That must be fake

bearister said:

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"We ask almost every AI architect and leader the same thing in private: What AI risk worries you most?

Almost all of them fire back the same response: a killer pathogen, spreading too silently, widely and quickly to stop, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column.

Why it matters: The rare agreement among AI experts flows from the belief these advanced models could help a bad actor create a deadly pathogen before the government and industry perfect detection and prevention systems.

This isn't a likely scenario. It's simply a plausible one as AI gets better at understanding our biological vulnerabilities, much like it has our cyber ones inside large nonhuman systems.

Driving the news: The experts aren't hedging. In a new MIT FutureTech and University of Queensland study, 272 researchers ranked 24 top AI risks.

They assessed a 12% chance that AI's dangerous capabilities produce a catastrophic outcome by 2030, and another 12% chance of AI-enabled weapons and mass-harm capabilities.
And that's with mitigation efforts to reduce risk. Without those efforts, the chances exceed 20%.

The researchers defined "catastrophic" as more than 1 million deaths or $100 billion in damage. Assisting with the construction of chemical or biological weapons sits squarely inside that top-ranked risk category."
Axios

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100,000,000,0001,000,000 = 100,000.
So this person thinks that each life is worth $100,000?

concordtom said:

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Aunburdened said:

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AI companies buying books to scan them and destroy them to feed their language learning models

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're… pic.twitter.com/0YPd8N2oi5

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) July 27, 2026

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This actually makes mankind smarter and more efficient.
It's a productivity per capita gain, which increases wealth.

Your take???

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My take on your take would send me to the same vacation resort that Wags is currently staying at.

concordtom said:

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Aunburdened said:

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AI companies buying books to scan them and destroy them to feed their language learning models

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're… pic.twitter.com/0YPd8N2oi5

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) July 27, 2026

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This actually makes mankind smarter and more efficient.
It's a productivity per capita gain, which increases wealth.

Your take???

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My take is that destruction of rare books is a crime that should be punished by death.

OK maybe not that drastic, but there is a very nefarious aspect to this, in that the content will be monopolized and monetized, and very possibly altered or censored. A big can of worms.

Read the tweet.
It says "rare books".
It then says pre 2022 books are in hot demand.

"Top AI architects say their technology has arrived at a threshold once confined to science fiction: the singularity, when machines begin accelerating their own evolution,Axios' Ina Fried and Zachary Basu write.

Why it matters: If these moguls are right, we may be entering the most consequential technological transition in human history, the opening stages of an "intelligence explosion" that transforms civilization faster than humanity can understand or control."
Axios