A Fable about the future of power

The White House is negotiating federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on child protection measures, while OpenAI called for an international organization capable of slowing frontier development when needed. Anthropic released its Fable AI model with built-in safeguards preventing non-employees from using it for frontier AI research, sparking debate over whether the company is acting from safety concerns or entrenching its own power. The decision to withhold access to powerful AI models raises unresolved questions about who should control the most important technology being developed.

A Fable about the future of power Transformer Weekly: Preemption’s child safety push, OpenAI’s pause preparations, and SpaceX’s IPO Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. And if you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. NEED TO KNOW Th e White House is reportedly negotiating federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on social media and AI child protection measures . OpenAI called for an international organization “to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed.” SpaceX raised $75b in its IPO at a $1.77t valuation . But first… THE BIG STORY Fable, Anthropic’s latest https://anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5 AI model, is very good at AI research and development. Anthropic’s own researchers use it — and Mythos, its more powerful, still publicly unavailable sibling — to automate much of their work in advancing the frontier of AI. But if a non-Anthropic employee wants to do the same, they’re out of luck . Fable has “safeguards” built in to prevent it from being used for frontier AI development. It’s a controversial, complicated move — and one that’s indicative of the strange way power works as AI development accelerates. As we’ve previously covered, the leading AI companies think they are on the cusp of fully automating AI R&D. As they move closer, access to powerful AI models becomes a strategic asset: today’s best model is the key tool for building tomorrow’s. People in this world have theorized for years that companies would eventually start withholding that access. This week, it stopped being a theory. There are lots of reasons to withhold that access. The most obvious is profit: why let your competitors use your tools to catch up? Anthropic’s stated reason is national security: the company says it doesn’t want “foreign adversaries” using Claude to “erode America’s advantage.” And some suggest https://x.com/TomDavidsonX/status/2064847836621979820 the unstated reason is that building a big lead makes an eventual pause more likely — during which one can take costly actions like devoting compute to alignment research that hopefully make us all safer. None of those reasons justify Anthropic’s initial decision to hide these guardrails from users in an effort to make it harder to get around them — a move which prompted widespread outrage and a quick reversal https://wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to-backlash-on-claudes-secret-sabotage-on-ai-research . But though the guardrails are now disclosed, they are still present. And the question of whether that is justifiable relies on the impossible: knowing the motivation behind it. “One of the hard things for Anthropic is that the actions you’d take from sincere safety concern often look exactly like the actions you’d take to entrench your own power,” X user Maja said https://x.com/majamediaco/status/2065077397196873962 this week. Anthropic could be completely well-intentioned in withholding Mythos’ capabilities for itself. It also could be the actions of a standard, profit- or power-seeking company. It should not matter. We’re talking about whether Anthropic is doing this for good reasons, but we should be talking about who decides whether it happens in the first place. There is something deeply uncomfortable about a private company having this much control over what could be the most important technology yet developed. It is not at all obvious what the better solution is: a government forcing a company to sell to its competitors has its downsides, too. One thing, however, is clear. Deciding who gets access to frontier AI models is a new form of power — and we have failed to answer the hard questions about who should wield it. THIS WEEK ON TRANSFORMER explores a strange and new debate in AI safety Making deals with AI sounds crazy. Is it? https://www.transformernews.ai/p/making-deals-with-ai-sounds-crazy — Celia Fordreports on the key details missing from OpenAI’s statements on the super PAC OpenAI isn’t being consistently candid about Leading the Future https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-lehane-brockman-leading-the-future-pac — Veronica Irwin THE DISCOURSE Welp, Anthropic employees are done coding: Nat McAleese: “I always felt https://x.com/ nmca /status/2064401702112158143 Opus 4.5 could barely code; 4.6 was just-about-useful, but I have barely written a line of code since fable.” Liv Gorton: “I joined https://x.com/livgorton/status/2064410454768902613 anthropic a ~month ago and have written ~no code myself.” Nerfing drama aside, Claude Fable 5 appears chillingly autonomous: Felix Rieseberg :“With Fable 5 out in the world, I think https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2064392202504310900 a third era quietly started today.”“I no longer tell Claude to investigate a particular crash report. It runs in a loop … its job is no longer to help me fix a crash, it’s to keep our apps from crashing.” Ethan Mollick: “With Fable the spell has gotten https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos?r=i5f7&utm campaign=post&utm medium=web&triedRedirect=true powerful enough that I am no longer sure I am the wizard. I am closer to a patron. I describe what I want, I pay for it, and I judge the result. The conjuring happens somewhere I cannot watch, in hundreds of small choices I never get a vote on.”“ It’s possible that the more capable the model, the less there is for a human to meaningfully do, and the black box is the price of power.” Miles Brundage is https://x.com/Miles Brundage/status/2064384590727491884 frustrated: “I eagerly use Anthropic products because the models are good , but I do genuinely think they are high on their own supply + unaware of just how many bugs they are constantly introducing due to overreliance on Claude + shipping too many things too quickly.” Sriram Krishnan had thoughts https://x.com/sriramk/status/2064643933477490775 on AI gatekeeping: “Just to state the obvious: think there’s a collision course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve. I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.” bayeslord had https://x.com/bayeslord/status/2064437399292203401 a more cynical take, in light of the Fable release: “They didn’t mean pause AI research, they meant pause your AI research” Joshua Achiam thinks https://x.com/jachiam0/status/2064229228288315726 people misunderstand the distinction between OpenAI and Anthropic: “Should a loving ensouled machine God watch over humanity? Vote Anthropic. Should humanity be entrusted with the tools of its own progress and destiny? Vote OpenAI.” “There are a lot of innocuous and even quite agreeable choices in Claude’s constitution that potentially endow it with a huge amount of authority, maybe even a mandate, to make complex ethical decisions about how to interact with human systems and who to grant power to … cloaked in the language of ethics and virtue there is a sharp and potentially quite lethal double edge to this sword.” Jasmine Sun wrote https://jasmi.news/p/2026-advice?isFreemail=false&post id=201360109&publication id=6027&r=1pg6hh&triedRedirect=true&triggerShare=true advice to the graduating class of 2026: “I often ask AI folks what they’d tell a normal 22-year-old. Don’t know, they’re screwed , is the non-answer I get most. In that response, I hear depressing defeatism: What can anyone do in the shadow of the technocapital machine? ” “Relish the pivots; ride the waves; recite the Serenity Prayer every morning and chase sunsets at night. I won’t tell you that the future’s smooth sailing. But what a thrill to be alive ” POLICY The White House is reportedly negotiating https://axios.com/2026/06/08/white-house-hill-relaunch-effort-block-state-ai-laws federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on social media and AI child protection measures. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is leading the negotiations. Sen. Ted Cruz appears https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/cruz-ai-framework-markup-next to be involved in the efforts, too, saying that federal preemption and child safety bills are “an element of discussion” for an upcoming markup. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles , first lady Melania Trump , staff for the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council reportedly also met https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?linknum=5&linktot=36&s=6a29b5c5cd6aa65d1e9d0560&trackId=6877ab9cc788996e1f9874bf with children’s online safety groups, including the American Principles Project and Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss Blackburn’s KOSA and the App Store Accountability Act. Trump reportedly blindsided https://x.com/jstein star/status/2064067705192284291?s=12 AI company leaders when he announced a meeting to discuss the government taking equity stakes in their firms.At least a dozen GOP House and Senate offices opposed https://notus.org/technology/senate-republicans-break-with-trump-ai-equity-idea Trump’s proposal, with Sen. Ted Cruz stating “I don’t think the federal government should be in the business of being an equity holder in private companies.”On Wednesday, Trump doubled down https://x.com/atrupar/status/2064738756066726387?s=12 , saying “if we do take equity stakes , the public will become very rich.” Sriram Krishnan is leaving https://x.com/sriramk/status/2063301081099034660 his position as a top AI policy advisor in the Trump administration at the end of the month. Thomas Lind is also leaving https://politico.com/news/2026/06/09/white-house-ai-tom-lind-00955071 his position as head of policy at the Office of the National Cyber Director . National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross reportedly asked https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-reins-in-ai-testing-unit-as-national-security-concerns-grow-8bd33fbb CAISI to halt public reports on model assessments.Notably, CAISI wasn’t included in the list of agencies tasked with drafting “standardized AI national security Test, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation methodologies” in last week’s https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-11/ National Security Presidential Memorandum . Lawmakers from both parties questioned https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/hill-treasury-ai-cyber-role why the Treasury, rather than CISA, was given the lead role in AI cyber defense under Trump’s EO. House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and the co-chairs of the House Democratic Commission on AI cast doubt https://punchbowl.news/archive/6726-tech-sunday-lookahead-2/ on a bipartisan AI regulation proposal from Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan .Republicans pushed for it to include a broader preemption measure, while Democrats said the bill “does not meet the enormity of the moment.” Sen. Chuck Schumer said https://politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2026/06/12/chuck-schumer-ai-congress-00960184?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b4be0000&nname=inside-congress&nrid=db130e18-98d2-4b62-8b13-f77831e4d59d passing AI legislation in this Congress will be “hard,” but that he “would very much like to see that get done the sooner the better.”The Senate Banking Committee is reportedly weighing https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/chips-markup an export control markup in the coming weeks, potentially for inclusion in the NDAA. Sens. Mark Kelly and Jim Banks introduced https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/kelly-banks-ai-data-bill the AI DATA Act , which would require the Labor Department to track AI’s impact on the workforce through quarterly surveys and annual reports. Reps. John Moolenaar , Jay Obernolte and Jennifer McClellan introduced https://x.com/JayObernolte/status/2064391609043779921 the GUARD Act , which would require national security reviews of robots made by “adversaries” i.e. China and block those posing threats.The UK launched https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-economics-institute-prospectus/ai-economics-institute-aiei-prospectus the AI Economics Institute , chaired by Nobel laureate Simon Johnson to research AI’s economic impacts and inform policy, with collaboration agreements from Anthropic , OpenAI , Google and Microsoft .The UK also announced https://www.gov.uk/government/news/a-decisive-shift-to-power-british-ai-new-11-billion-plan-to-back-chip-firms-boost-computing-power-and-skills-for-the-ai-revolution an AI Hardware Plan to provide funding for AI chip companies. Taiwan is reportedly considering https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-09/taiwan-mulls-curbs-on-ai-chip-exports-to-china-to-align-with-us stricter export controls that would restrict AI chip sales to all customers in China and enable prosecution of smuggling as a criminal offense for the first time. INFLUENCE Anthropic published a policy framework https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential , calling for the government to have “the legal authority to block or deter” deployment of models that pose catastrophic risks, mandatory third-party testing, and narrow federal preemption of state AI laws.It also published an economic policy framework https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential/epf , proposing various policy options at different levels of unemployment — including a universal basic income scheme in the case of “unprecedented levels of unemployment.” Dario Amodei released https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential a policy essay alongside the framework. OpenAI called for https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/ an international organization “to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed.”Former Andreessen Horowitz partner John O’Farrell criticized https://nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opinion/silicon-valley-ai-politics.html?referringSource=articleShare&smid=nytcore-ios-share AI industry political spending, arguing that PACs like Leading the Future are trying to “intimidate politicians” and silence debate on AI regulation, rather than engaging seriously with policy questions. OpenAI said https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-debates/ it found “ PRC-linked influence operations ” targeting data center buildouts.Its report https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/96b559fa-c165-4575-805d-e636909e2f78/June-2026-Threat-Report.pdf found “no evidence of breakout” from the campaign and that “most of the social media posts … generated little or no observable engagement.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declined https://cnbc.com/2026/06/08/nvidia-jensen-huang-senate-elizabeth-warren-ai-china-export-controls.html Sen. Elizabeth Warren ‘s invitation to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on AI, China, and US export controls. Congressional staffers drafting federal AI legislation reportedly took https://readsludge.com/2026/06/10/staffers-drafting-federal-ai-bill-took-industry-funded-trip-to-visit-tech-giants-pushing-to-block-state-rules an industry-funded trip to meet Google , Nvidia , and other companies lobbying to preempt state AI regulations.A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that half of Americans fear https://reuters.com/business/world-at-work/half-americans-fear-ai-could-put-someone-their-household-out-work-reutersipsos-2026-06-10 AI could put someone in their household out of work, with Democrats 61% more worried than Republicans 47% . INDUSTRY OpenAI OpenAI filed https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2064094175541461220 a confidential S-1 for a potential IPO . Sam Altman reportedly told https://theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-openai-preps-new-ai-model-expects-go-public-within-next-year?rc=rqdn2z staff that while OpenAI expects to go public “within the next year … the faster the potential RSI takeoff looks like it could be, the more it could be advantageous to delay an IPO.” Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki outlined https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/ the company’s top three goals: 1 build an automated AI researcher by March 2028, 2 accelerate the economy, and 3 give everyone on Earth a personal AGI It’s planning to overhaul https://www.ft.com/content/ca0f5f5e-fb9a-41a0-a2a9-0127e15b7db9?syn-25a6b1a6=1 ChatGPT to shift focus from its chatbot to Codex and AI agents.It’s negotiating https://theinformation.com/articles/openai-talks-lease-10-gigawatt-ohio-data-center-backing-nvidia a lease on a planned 10 GW data center in Ohio that could cost more than $500b , potentially with credit support from Nvidia .It’s thinking about slashing https://wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-considers-drastic-price-cuts-anticipating-war-for-users-with-anthropic-9b8c178e?st=1Yyrco prices to lure enterprise customers away from Anthropic .It’s acquiring https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-ona Ona , which will provide cloud execution environments for Codex agents. SpaceX SpaceX raised https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/technology/spacex-ipo-price.html $75b in its IPO at a $1.77t valuation . Its shares will list later today.It reportedly plans to launch https://reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-aims-launch-orbital-ai-computing-tests-by-end-next-year-sources-say-2026-06-09 initial demos of orbital data centers by late 2027.Elon Musk came under fire https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/belfast-riots-elon-musk-anti-immigrant-violence-stabbing-rcna349384 from UK politicians for stoking tensions around riots targeting immigrants following a murder in Belfast.Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/xai-fired-an-engineer-who-raised-alarms-about-grok-safety-new-lawsuit-claims a lawsuit claiming he was fired for raising safety concerns about Grok, including its ability to increase discrimination and provide information about WMDs .The suit says that the engineer’s supervisor, xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba who left earlier this year, ignored safety directives from Musk.Kim was recently appointed https://safe.ai/news/cais-names-former-xai-leader-devin-kim-president-and-establishes-frontier-security-institute-in-major-expansion-of-leadership-and-reach president of the Center for AI Safety. Dan Hendrycks , CAIS’s founder, is an advisor to xAI. Anthropic Anthropic launched https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-claude-corps-daniela-amodei-b1c130a08417d13e1256f8982d233b0e Claude Corps , a year-long fellowship program placing 1,000 fellows at US-based nonprofits, where they’ll build AI tools with their host organization.Hosts range https://www.anthropic.com/claude-corps from local YMCAs to conservationists to mental health support groups. Apollo and Blackstone raised https://ft.com/content/c49e0eff-0776-4103-8eaf-1b049fbf9d3f?syn-25a6b1a6=1 $35b to finance its lease of Alphabet chips.It reportedly signed https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-pursues-first-data-center-leases-seeks-financial-backing-google?rc=rqdn2z over a dozen letters of intent to lease data center facilities totaling more than 1 GW of capacity, its first direct data center tenancies. Dario Amodei reportedly https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-10/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-a-manager-to-only-one-direct-report only has one direct report chief of staff Avital Balwit , freeing him to do other work while Daniela Amodei manages the rest of the executive team. Apple Apple announced https://cnbc.com/2026/06/08/apple-google-nvidia-ai-chips.html its newest generation of Apple Foundation Models , built in collaboration with Google .They include https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third-generation-of-apple-foundation-models AFM 3 Core Advanced , which runs on-device, and its server-side model AFM 3 Cloud .The new Siri AI is powered by these models. Its stock dropped https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?linknum=5&linktot=38&s=6a2862b758a5db17fbc97150&trackId=6877ab9cc788996e1f9874bf over 3% after the launches. Google agreed https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal?leadSource=uverify+wall to pay SpaceX $920m per month for access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs and other infrastructure.It pledged https://axios.com/2026/06/11/google-trade-worker-initiative-ai $50m for training trade workers on the kinds of jobs involved in building data centers. Others Meta officially cut ties https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/meta-severs-manus-data-access-after-china-orders-buyout-unwound with Manus : Manus can’t access Meta’s internal data system, and Meta can’t use Manus tools. Amazon disclosed https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-says-its-data-centers-used-2-5-billion-gallons-of-water-in-2025-019e76f9 its data center water use , which it claims beats the industry average and is lower than its own previous usage, despite operating more data centers. Nvidia and SK Hynix partnered https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-07/nvidia-sk-hynix-sign-multi-year-pact-to-develop-next-gen-chips to design and manufacture memory chips for AI. GitHub reportedly disabled https://404media.co/microsoft-hacked-to-deliver-malware-to-claude-and-gemini-users 73 repos after hackers injected malware that would steal user credentials when opened in AI coding platforms. ByteDance spun off https://pandaily.com/bytedance-ai-drug-discovery-spin-off-ai4s its AI drug discovery platform Anew Labs into a separate entity still largely under ByteDance’s control . Prometheus , Jeff Bezos’ AI startup for manufacturing and engineering, raised https://axios.com/2026/06/11/prometheus-bezos-industrial-ai $12b in Series B funding at a $41b valuation.Former xAI employees, including xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin , launched https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-10/xai-co-founder-babuschkin-unveils-new-startup-for-personalized-ai River AI, which aims to build AI that “works entirely for you.” Perplexity reportedly intends https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/perplexity-ipo-2028-as-anthropic-openai-prepare-listings.html to IPO in 2028 whether or not doing so goes well for SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI.Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-08/china-s-moonshot-ai-seeks-30-billion-value-in-new-funding-talks up to $2b in funding at a $30b valuation, up from a just $4b valuation in December. MOVES Clive Chan left https://x.com/itsclivetime/status/2063356118525792542 OpenAI ‘s custom chip program to join Anthropic . Gabriel Petersson resigned https://x.com/gabriel1/status/2063698980324737381 from OpenAI , tweeting that there’s “one last product i need to build before AGI.” Chris Lovejoy , an ex-medical doctor, joined https://x.com/ChrisLovejoy /status/2064478436463161601 Anthropic ‘s Applied AI team. Allison Duettmann , CEO of Foresight Institute, joined https://x.com/allisondman/status/2065107170623152541 Mythos Ventures as a Venture Partner. Leigh Nolan is https://x.com/iapsai/status/2065067535913906263?s=12 the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy’s new policy director. Anissa Gardizy joined https://x.com/anissagardizy8/status/2065121786862408037?s=12 as a reporter covering cloud computing and AI infrastructure. The Wall Street Journal RESEARCH Researchers at the AI Security Institute were able to jailbreak https://x.com/i/status/2064415072928268446 Claude Fable 5 in just a few hours, and got close to a universal jailbreak within a few days. Pliny the Liberator published https://x.com/elder plinius the ~120,000-character Claude Fable 5 system prompt. Google DeepMind announced https://deepmind.google/blog/investing-in-multi-agent-ai-safety-research/ a $10m funding call for research focusing on multi-agent systems. Cosmos Institute announced https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/introducing-the-cosmos-research-group?hide intro popup=true its new cohort of senior research fellows, which includes Google DeepMind’s Séb Krier and Anthropic’s Matthew Botvinick, among other big names. Geoffrey Irving launched https://x.com/geoffreyirving/status/2064733320827568231 Sequent, a new nonprofit research organization focused on aligning superintelligence.A new Google DeepMind paper explored https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12683 four pathways from AGI to artificial superintelligence , arguing that instead of a “single transformative step change” we might experience “a series of transformative societal changes.” Indicator’s Alexios Mantzarlis ran an adversarial test on Pangram, which tricked https://bsky.app/profile/mantzarlis.com/post/3mnz7fi6e222g the detector into misidentifying AI-generated text as human between 75-92% of the time.Despite the finding, Mantzarlis said that he was “relatively impressed at the Pangram’s solidity in the face of adversarial attacks.” Cornell researchers Sil Hamilton and David Mimno figured out https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/ why the fictional “Elias Thorne” often a lighthouse keeper or clockmaker keeps starring in AI-generated stories.GPT-3.5 which powered the original ChatGPT was used to make WildChat, a dataset of 1 million ChatGPT conversations that’s since been used to train subsequent LLMs across frontier companies. 166 chats had the name “Elias.” Alignment training may lead models to prefer a small subset of “safe” WildChat content — including Elias-related stories, apparently. BEST OF THE REST Many people appear to be using AI to mask their low literacy, Axios reported https://axios.com/2026/06/08/ai-america-literacy .An expert panel — Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Ethan Mollick, Clara Shih — sat https://nytimes.com/2026/06/09/magazine/ai-jobs-workforce-labor.html?smid=bs-share&unlocked article code=1.o1A.rDxZ.us30E-Jap 6d with NYT’s Bill Wasik to talk about how workers should brace for AI’s impact on jobs.With big IPOs on the horizon https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/ai-could-take-your-apartment-before?isFreemail=true&post id=201527973&publication id=4137829&r=1pg6hh&triedRedirect=true&triggerShare=true , the San Francisco housing market is royally fucked.Move over, AI 2027. A group of European researchers published https://europe2031.ai/ Europe 2031, an imagined but all too plausible future where Europe “slide s into irrelevance” as AI accelerates around it.METR’s Ajeya Cotra and Understanding AI’s Timothy B. Lee debated https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/how-long-until-ai-doesn-t-need-humans how long it will take for AI to become self-sufficient — a glossy continuation of a past Twitter debate.Helen Toner explained https://x.com/hlntnr/status/2064688588860592181 AI chatbots to Oprah.Someone maybe for real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSapdLYpmWY ? built CrankGPT, a hand-crank-powered computer marketed https://crankgpt.com/ as a “human-powered, fully local and private AI solution.” MEME OF THE WEEK Credit: tomie Thanks for reading. Have a great weekend.