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Last night, Anthropic was given its preliminary injunction, with a stay of seven days. Emil Michael is a very angry person right now. So is the Honorable Judge Lin. We were worried we would draw a judge that had no idea how any of this worked and would give the...

The major technical advances this week were in agentic coding, as covered yesterday. The major non-DoW political and alignment developments will be covered tomorrow. The DoW vs. Anthropic trial continues. Judge Lin was very not happy with the government’s case, which makes sense since the government has no case and...

Whatever else you think about Anthropic’s agentic coding department, they ship. The highlights of this edition are three related big upgrades. You can use Dispatch to command Claude Code and Claude Cowork from your phone, or use channels to do it via places such as Telegram or Discord. Claude Cowork...

These are all important, in their own way, call it a treasure hunt and collect them all… “Know thyself.” – The Oracle “Know thine enemy and know thyself; in a hundred battles, you will not be defeated.” – Sun Tzu “You don’t know me. You don’t know me at all.”...

Yesterday I posted Part 1. Read that first. This is Part 2 of 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Socratic Method. 2. The Paradox Paradox. 3. Rubber Ducking. 4. Coherent Extrapolated Volition. 5. The Cult Leader Breaks You Down. 6. The Cult Leader Builds You Back Up. 7. Did You...

The Federal AI Policy Framework has been released. Well, it is a four page outline. Mostly it just reiterates existing such outlines. But that is four more pages than we had previously. It includes the beginnings of actual policy proposals, some of which are highly welcome and actively good. Perhaps...

A lot happened, but by today’s standards this felt like a quiet week. I was happy for the break, and I hope that we get to continue relatively relaxing. The Anthropic PBC vs. Department of War case is working its way through the system. The government responded on Tuesday, and...