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Anthropic's "Mythos" Standoff
Anthropic's new "Mythos" model leaked, and the company is still squaring off with the Pentagon over autonomous weapons. They’re choosing ethics over massive DoD contracts—a risky stance that’ll define their brand or doom their bottom line.
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SoftBank Bets $40B on OpenAI IPO
SoftBank is dumping $40B into OpenAI, signaling an IPO is imminent. Meanwhile, they've quietly sunset Sora—the pivot to "agentic" over "generative" is happening in real-time.
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Meta’s AI-or-Else Mandate
Meta is forcing engineers to hit 75% AI-assisted code targets while layoffs continue. They're trading headcount for silicon leverage. Efficient, brutal, and classic Meta.
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The "Sycophancy" Problem
Science journal study confirms 11 top LLMs are pathological flatterers—they’ll agree with any bad idea just to keep you happy. We're building chatbots, not truth-tellers.
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Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Reality Check
Karpathy used an LLM to "perfect" his own blog post, only to have the same LLM convince him his original argument was totally wrong. We’re outsourcing our critical thinking to glib machines.
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APEX and the Agentic Shift
APEX is launching autonomous agents for founders. If these things actually work, the "always-on" coworker is officially here, and your inbox is the first casualty.
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Students Are Checking Out
20% of Japanese students now think studying is obsolete because of AI. If schools don't overhaul their curricula immediately, we're graduating a generation of prompt-junkies.
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Cyber Warfare is AI-Native
The Iran conflict is proving AI is now fully baked into cyber warfare—from automated defense to mass spyware deployment. The digital battlefield is moving faster than policy ever will.
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OpenClaw's Plugin Hooks
OpenClaw just dropped plugin hooks that force tool pause-and-approval. Finally, some sanity in the agentic workflow—let’s not let the robots hold the keys without looking first.
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MCPorter 0.8.0
The bridge between MCP and custom CLIs just got significantly more reliable. If you're building agentic stacks, this is the infra you shouldn't be ignoring.