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On that note, here were a few of our favorites this week.
Anthropic Again. Well, Fable was fun well it lasted: last Friday the Trump administration slapped export controls on the model, limiting access to U.S. citizens, leaving Anthropic no choice in the short term but to make the model unavailable. We still don’t entirely know what happened, although Occam’s Razor suggests that people still don’t really understand how AI works. Ultimately, however, the power and problem of Anthropic is the same: the company’s safety superpower is that every action it takes looks, from the outside, to be self-serving, even as the company becomes ever more convinced its motivations are pure. — Ben Thompson
