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We have a respite, so I thought I’d tackle various thoughts on children, phones and screens. GPT-5.6-Sol drops tomorrow, and the Fable agents are hard at work. I’ll start with the other screens, then finish with the phones. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EdTech. 2. NonEdTech. 3. Do Not Ban Social...

There is a new very cool Anthropic paper: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. You can read the blog post verison here. I encourage reading of the whole original blog post or paper, if you have the time. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Through A Different Lens. 2....

The blip is over. We have Fable back. > Utah teapot: happy fable/mythos easter Wednesday, to those who celebrate Here is the official letter restoring Fable, great job everyone. Notice it is addressed to Tom Brown, not to Dario Amodei. Anthropic had to make the controls more stupid for now,...

Fable’s back. Back again. Fable’s back. Tell a friend. Use your free week to its fullest. This is excellent news. The blip only lasted a few weeks. It was still a fiasco, and we have to deal with the fallout. Our system remains fully ad hoc. The precedent has been...

Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token. Today’s post is still about Sonnet 5. I don’t know that there will be much call for Sonnet 5 for most purposes, given Opus...

We, or at least ‘more than 100 American institutions,’ got Mythos back this week. What we the people do not have is Fable or Sol. While we wait for both Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol, today we instead got Claude Sonnet 5. As usual it will take a few days...

The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I post this now on its own so that we have a place to link to, to explain the situation. HEADLINE NEWS > WSJ Headline...