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✦Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI✦Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order✦Open Source AI Must Win✦Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day✦We've suspended access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5✦Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon✦SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know✦Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it✦Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game✦SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?✦Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg✦Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths✦Google AI Mode starts rolling out Search agents that keep track of information for you✦‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess✦Gemini 3.5 Flash lands on Google’s Android coding rankings, but it’s 3x the the cost for slower performance
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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

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Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

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