Rick Robinson

Today's AI Outlook: ⛅️ Sakana’s Fishy Frontier Bet Japan’s Sakana AI launched Fugu, a model-orchestration system that routes one request across multiple AI models, then combines the results behind a single API. The timing is the point: after U.S. export restrictions pulled access to Anthropic’

Jumper Jumps: Google Loses AlphaFold Co-creator Google DeepMind just took another hit. John Jumper, the AlphaFold co-creator and Nobel Prize-winning chemist, is leaving for Anthropic, days after Noam Shazeer, Gemini co-lead and Transformer co-author, left for OpenAI. For a company with money, chips, research prestige

Today's AI Outlook: ⛅️ AI Search Gets A Legal Reality Check A German court preliminarily ruled that Google can be liable for false claims made by AI Overviews after two publishers said the feature labeled them as scams. The court treated the AI-generated summaries as new, independent statements,

Today's AI Outlook: ⛅️ Leaked Memo Shows OpenAI’s Revenue Rocket Has Expensive Fuel Problem OpenAI’s business is growing fast, but newly leaked audited financial documents show that its costs are growing even faster. According to reporting from Ars Technica, OpenAI revenue jumped from $3.7B in 2024

Today's AI Outlook: ⛅️ Anthropic’s Safety Wall Hits A Security Crowd Anthropic’s Fable 5 export ban is turning into a credibility fight. More than 100 cybersecurity executives and researchers signed an open letter urging the U.S. to lift restrictions, arguing the ban limits defenders while attackers

Today's AI Outlook: ⛅️ DC And The Frontier Model Kill Switch Debacle Anthropic pulled its newly released Mythos and Fable 5 models offline worldwide after a U.S. order reportedly required the company to block access for all foreign nationals. The order followed concerns over a disputed jailbreak and

Today's AI Outlook: Well, it's SpaceX Friday! Anthropic’s Safety Gospel VS User Discontent Anthropic is having a very Anthropic week: one part grand theory of AI destiny, one part product rollout drama. AI Secret spotlighted investor Bill Gurley’s critique that Anthropic’s public writing

Today's AI Outlook: ⛅️ Claude’s New Superpower Comes With A Meter Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, the public-facing version of its long-teased Mythos-class model, while reserving Claude Mythos 5 for vetted cybersecurity partners. The pitch is simple: the best Claude yet, broader access than before,

Today's AI Outlook: 🌤️ SpaceX Pushing Compute To The Stars SpaceX is pitching a second Starlink-style network, this one built for AI compute in orbit. Elon Musk told investors that orbital AI data centers are “not a super hard problem,” arguing the building blocks already exist in Starlink

Today's AI Outlook: 🌤️ The Internet Has A Bot Majority Now Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said bots now generate more web traffic than humans for the first time, a milestone that arrived 18 months earlier than he had forecast. The biggest driver is agentic AI, where one human request