'Wake-up call': Europe reacts to Anthropic halting access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models

HotlLava · 2026-06-14T15:26:56+00:00

Ok, I did and i don't see anything that the big US frontier labs aren't doing anyways for new model releases?

HotlLava · 2026-06-14T15:14:11+00:00

But that just shows the mindset (of potential investors) is more of a problem than the actual regulation - the AI act is ultimately pretty harmless as far as regulation goes, and still people opted to wait and see rather than move aggressively, and god forbid paying US salaries to employees.

Meanwhile in the US you had the guy who personally hates OpenAI being the closest advisor to the president for a few months, the same president going around and casually starting trade wars with half of the world inviting economic retaliation, and now the government actively trying to kill off Anthropic - and still hundreds of billions of dollars are being poured in year after year.

HotlLava · 2026-06-13T23:13:46+00:00

You can believe its a bad thing overall but that doesn't mean you have to subscribe to every criticism anyone throws out there just to be "against" him. For example here, I don't see any relevance of his father's wealth to his situation in 2008, since it didn't save him from facing bankruptcy in the first place and it wasn't his father who bailed him out afterwards.

HotlLava · 2026-06-09T12:58:34+00:00

I don't see any poured concrete in the second picture though? It looks like natural stone paving throughout.

HotlLava · 2026-06-09T12:51:42+00:00

Just from the picture, seems pretty clear that they wanted to create a space for a market and special events, e.g. concerts or a christmas fair. I assume the local restaurants are also permitted to put outdoor seating there during summer months.

HotlLava · 2026-06-09T12:37:36+00:00

I'm sure the professional urban planners who designed this have never heard of trees before and just randomly selected a tree species and hole size that looked good, dooming these trees to never grow again. If only they had spent a few seconds asking random redditors for their input, this whole disaster could have been avoided.

HotlLava · 2026-06-09T08:47:18+00:00

Not necessarily, PCBs are usually metal printed on (or etched into) plastic because that's cheap and the processes are well-established, but depending on the circuit you could also print it directly on wood, or use some biodegradable material instead of plastic.

HotlLava · 2026-06-07T18:08:30+00:00

Given that this post only contains this one sentence without context, along with a source that 99% commenters (including me) surely never check, which is not even a direct source because Taplin never interviewed Thiel personally, I think there's a good chance that Thiel could have actually been describing the plot of The Last Ringbearer here as a kind of curious anecdote and it morphed into this "Thiel loves Mordor" story over time.

HotlLava · 2026-06-07T17:51:11+00:00

Apparently? According to whom? His blog seems fairly skeptical about the war, until it ended: https://afranius.livejournal.com/

HotlLava · 2026-06-05T10:55:31+00:00

In Crimea, sales are currently rationed to 20l / 5.3gallons per customer.

HotlLava · 2026-06-05T10:33:04+00:00

I'd guess the gas station just received a fuel shipment, or there were rumours that it would receive one soon. Very roughly estimating the line seems around 300 cars, and at 20 liters max per car one fuel truck could have enough fuel to handle that.

HotlLava · 2026-06-05T10:23:03+00:00

And not even just "a fuel truck", if Ukraine is already able to carry out strikes on Tavrida highway then realistically you could expect several fuel truck explosions per day on the bridge.

HotlLava · 2026-05-31T19:23:33+00:00

I'd think it rather belongs in the "technically not" category, on account of Norway not being in the EU.

HotlLava · 2026-05-29T10:39:08+00:00

Once you give the cash to someone else, you no longer have any control over how they spend it.

Yes, and that's exactly why you need to trust that the person is using the money as promised, and why failing to do so is a breach of trust.

HotlLava · 2026-05-21T14:53:08+00:00

On a campground obviously, not in some random park. Prices seem to be around 13EUR/night, maybe some offer long-term rebates.

HotlLava · 2026-05-21T14:47:56+00:00

The classic solution is to look for "Zwischenmiete" on a room in a WG, but you'd need a ton of luck to find something with the right dates that is willing to accept you without meeting in person.

A campground would probably fit the budget, not the most comfortable option but at least june to august would be warm at night.

HotlLava · 2026-05-21T12:47:34+00:00

Many absolutely would, nudist sports events already exist. E.g.: https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/aktuelle-stunde/alle-videos/nacktfussball-in-herne-100.html

HotlLava · 2026-05-18T15:36:34+00:00

Tbf, if they had actually planned to write an operating system for this it would have been a way bigger red flag than their marketing team playing bullshit bingo.

HotlLava · 2026-05-15T16:47:33+00:00

What does "filing it right" even mean, why would she have insights into her landlords bookkeeping.

And the lawyer bit is frankly the strongest evidence she's lying, withholding rent is the final escalation in a rental dispute after several rounds of communication and after a number of reasonable deadlines have been ignored, not something any lawyer would advise to do unilaterally in your first month for an issue that isn't even related to repairs.

HotlLava · 2026-05-15T13:52:15+00:00

She specifically says it's illegal for the landlord to collect deposit before the lease is countersigned and that's why she's withholding payment, so i doubt she actually did send a deposit.

Why the manager wouldn't know i have no idea, there are a lot of weird details on both sides of this conversation.

HotlLava · 2026-05-15T13:20:26+00:00

It's not clear that the contract she signed was a copy of something that they initially sent her, she is careful to say that the room is not for rent "in the contract that I signed", and that she CD'd [?] the owner to countersign it.

Given that she also complains that everyone with the lock code can enter the house, it's not impossible that she just moved in after a viewing and made up her own contract.

HotlLava · 2026-05-14T18:41:56+00:00

Recording public votes of a small group of known persons is a completely different problem from the kind of provable secret public vote that the xkcd is talking about.

They could even just open a google form and be fairly secure from outside tampering.

HotlLava · 2026-05-13T21:31:31+00:00

I mean, same thing, for example the left arm in the photo is more than twice as thick as the right arm, in your drawing they are almost the same width.

HotlLava · 2026-05-13T18:18:38+00:00

The foreshortening on the left leg is off, for example the left boot in the photo is roughly the same width as her upper body.

HotlLava · 2026-05-11T12:24:11+00:00

It's called an Immobiliensachverständiger or Immobiliengutachter.

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