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Trump Hosts AI Titans for White House Lunch, Backs Self-Regulation and Rebrands the Tech as “Super Intelligence”
Trump’s White House AI lunch produced a voluntary safety accord and an executive order adopting “Super Intelligence” in federal communications. The CEOs’ seating chart drew contrasting political reactions on X.
blogAI Socratic September 2026 — Jev AI Classifiers, Astra, and Pace the Frontier
Astra ships and Amodei asks everyone to slow down. The Hugging Face postmortem, Fable 5.1, Fermat in Lean, the distillation report, the China front, Nvidia–Hugging Face, Cursor's swarm, robotics and hardware — plus Jev's classifier comeback and the papers on how agents actually fail.
newsOpenAI trained GPT-6 Astra on 100,000+ GPUs and cleared it with the White House first
OpenAI trained GPT-6 Astra on more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas, its largest run yet, cleared it with the Trump administration, and is rolling it out first to a gated Daybreak Access tier before wider release.
blogAI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
newsOpenAI and Anthropic Line Up Against Open Weights
OpenAI and Anthropic are jointly urging the Trump administration to treat open-weight models as a security threat, particularly those from China, though critics see the push as protecting their API revenue.
blogAI Socratic July 2026 — Lost In J-Space
Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back under strict safety rubrics, OpenAI’s launched GPT-5.6, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 model and Meta Compute.
newsFable 5 Is Back: Washington Lifts the 19-Day Ban — With Strings Attached
Commerce Department lifted its 19-day ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, requiring a >99%-effective safety classifier, pre-release government review, and a cross-lab jailbreak rubric with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google before the models…
blogAI Socratic June 2026 - Hoist by Its Own Fable
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model, and 72 hours later a national-security directive pulled it offline worldwide. A company that spent the month lobbying to keep frontier AI pausable got its own pause, on schedule. Around it: new models from nearly everyone, a couple of S-1s, real math from the machines, and the usual carnival of vibe-coding pivots and rogue Waymos.
newsMore From Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX roughly $45 billion for compute, hired Andrej Karpathy to lead a pretraining research team, acquired developer tools startup Stainless for $300 million, and signed a $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation.
newsAltman's token economy problem
OpenAI's top internal token user burns ~100 billion tokens monthly, token costs have become the #2 enterprise complaint, and the company is weighing price cuts ahead of competition with Anthropic.
newsOther deals
Cognition raised $1B at $26B valuation on $492M ARR growing 50% month-over-month, while Bezos's Prometheus secured $12B at $41B to build an "artificial general engineer" for physical products, and Moonshot AI, Suno, Supabase, Generalist AI, and Flourish…