The Finding-Out Era of AI

Jul 14, 2026·
muckrAIkers
muckrAIkers
· 3 min read
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

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