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Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race The biggest AI story to start the week is the Trump administration's decision to place export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing Dario Amodei's frontier AI lab to restrict foreign access. The move comes as Chinese open-source models have been rapidly closing the compute gap with U.S. labs. Anthropic's latest release appears to have widened that gap again, particularly in frontier reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity use cases. Export controls could have second-order effects on the global AI...

Somaliland Opens Diplomatic Office In Taiwan Despite Strong Objections From Beijing Via The Cradle The breakaway African territory of Somaliland opened a new representative office in Taiwan on Friday, saying it had the right to establish diplomatic relations despite objections from Somalia. "We have the right to choose who we have relationships with. It's our prerogative, and so it hasn't been successful as far as pressure tactics," stated Mahmoud Adam Jama ​Galaal, Somaliland's representative to Taiwan, at a press conference to mark the office opening. Rti photo Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu also spoke, saying,...

Over 150 years ago, Congress passed a statute that criminalized home distilling—the practice of setting up a still in one’s home or backyard to manufacture alcoholic beverages. Last week, however, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that this statute was unconstitutional. In other words, the Court of Appeals recognized that my clients—the nonprofit Hobby Distiller’s Association […]