The Finding-Out Era of AI
Jul 14, 2026·
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3 min read
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EPISODE RECORDED 2026.06.16; TRANSCRIPT
Chapters
00:00 ❙ Intro
05:37 ❙ Fable/Mythos Updates
26:17 ❙ SpaceX's IPO and the Cursor Buyout
34:57 ❙ Anatomy of an AI Bubble
40:02 ❙ Anthropic Core and "AI as Expert Systems"
50:03 ❙ Guardrails, Chinese Models, and Whether We Can Trust the Benchmarks
05:37 ❙ Fable/Mythos Updates
26:17 ❙ SpaceX's IPO and the Cursor Buyout
34:57 ❙ Anatomy of an AI Bubble
40:02 ❙ Anthropic Core and "AI as Expert Systems"
50:03 ❙ Guardrails, Chinese Models, and Whether We Can Trust the Benchmarks
Links
The Fable / Mythos Saga
- Anthropic statement - Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
- Anthropic statement - Redeploying Claude Fable 5
- Tech Policy Press analysis - Did the US Government Just Set an AI Export Precedent by Blocking Mythos?
- Axios article - Scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI
- Luta Security blog post - Fable 5 Is Back, But We’re Still Slowing Down Defenders
- The Register article - Feds Freaked Over Fable 5 After Simple ‘Fix This Code’ Prompt
- Engadget article - Anthropic Backtracks on Policy That ‘Sabotaged’ Researchers’ Work
SpaceX IPO and the Cursor Buyout
- SEC EDGAR filing - Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — S-1 registration statement and amendments
- CNBC article - SpaceX to Acquire Cursor Days After IPO
The Compute Deals
- SEC EDGAR filing - SpaceX Free Writing Prospectus — Anthropic and Google compute agreements (S-1 Amendment No. 2)
- DataCenterDynamics article - SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Set to Pay $1.25bn a Month to Rent xAI Data Center Space
IPO Filings
- CNBC article - OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO
- TechCrunch article - Following Anthropic, OpenAI Files Confidentially for IPO
Google Liable for AI Overviews
- Transparency Coalition court decision - German Court Holds Google Liable for AI Hallucination (Full Decision)
- The Decoder article - Landmark German Ruling Declares Google’s AI Overviews Are Google’s Own Words
Claude Corps
- Anthropic announcement - Introducing Claude Corps
- The Register article - Anthropic Hires 1,000 Fellows to Push Claude Into Nonprofits
The Pope on AI
- The Vatican encyclical - Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
- Al Jazeera article - Pope Says AI Must Be ‘Disarmed’ to Prevent Domination, Exclusion and Death
Gradient Routing
- Into AI Safety podcast episode - Pretraining Safety w/ Ethan Roland
- arXiv paper - Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks
- Anthropic blog post - Modular Pretraining Enables Access Control
Other Sources
- Wikipedia entry - Vorbereiten des Ausspähens und Abfangens von Daten (§202c StGB, the “hacker paragraph”)
- NLnet foundation - NLnet Foundation
- European Commission announcement - EU AI Office Launches €9 Million Tender for Technical Support on GPAI Safety
- Turing Post article - The Chinese Open-Source Model Landscape: Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM
- Kairos.fm episode - Building Asymmetric Defenses w/ Zainab Majid