Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies.
Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to determine the global standards and rules for AI in a closed-door meeting this morning at the G7.
Dario Amodei also said in his address that the coalition should structure access to frontier models and hardware - including both chips and other critical components - in a way that excludes China.
Bloomberg has a copy of the letter Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to Dario Amodei on Friday. When the full PDF becomes available I will post it.
Except:
'Until further notice, you must submit an application for an individually-validated license prior to the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country), including deemed export or deemed reexport, of the Mythos or Fable models to any destination worldwide or to any 'foreign person' wherever located'
New AI numbers from Pew, fresh this morning. 62% of U.S. adults now say they interact with AI at least several times a week, and 31% are now using AI 'almost constantly' or several times a day.
About half say that AI will worsen people's ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships.
Half of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. This is up from 37% in 2021.
A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train Claude falls under fair use, and is legal under U.S. copyright law.
From the ruling:
'Like any reader aspiring to be a writer,
Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them – but to turn a hard corner and create something different.'
From the paper:
'AlphaEvolve was able to find a simple code rewrite that removed unnecessary bits, a change validated by TPU designers for correctness. ... Integrated into an upcoming TPU, this improvement represents Gemini's first direct contribution to TPU arithmetic circuits'
'Firstly, the FlashAttention kernel for the configuration of interest was sped up by 32%. Secondly, AlphaEvolve found improvements in pre- and postprocessing of kernel inputs and outputs, resulting in a 15% speed up'
'We applied the system to over 50 open problems in mathematical analysis, geometry, combinatorics and number theory. In roughly 75% of cases, it rediscovered state-of-the-art solutions ... And in 20% of cases, AlphaEvolve improved the previously best known solutions'