#video review of #Anthropic’s #Claude Opus 5.5, which came out today. He had it write some 3-D games from a single prompt, using threejs, #Godot, and just plain C++ with no dependencies. He was not able to get it to drive a simple robot arm to push a toy car across a mat, though. “This model slaps.” #AI #LLMs #neural-networks
on 02026-09-22Dario #Amodei of #Anthropic says he wants to “pace the frontier” but his post seems calculated to sabotage diplomacy with #China, the only actor whose buy-in he actually needs, using the derogatory abbreviation “CCP” and proposing to try to cripple Chinese #AI: “Pacing within democracies will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes, chiefly the Chinese Communist Party. If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) CCP-associated projects will pull ahead, creating significant national security risk. I agree with Secretary Bessent that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world. The CCP-associated projects will run the alignment risks that US companies are carefully preventing [...]
“• Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.”
on 02026-09-14“Enterprise customers are now paying API prices” to #Anthropic for #Claude and #Google for #Codex; #simonw thought they’d been getting discounts but no.
on 02026-05-27#Yt-dlp is abandoning the #Bun #JS runtime because #Anthropic has discarded the old #Zig codebase and switched to #Rust generated by #AI #LLMs. “As of the next yt-dlp and/or ejs release, only Bun versions 1.2.11 through 1.3.14 will be supported.” #neural-networks
on 02026-05-22discussion of recent serious #Anthropic #Claude degradation. #AI #neural-networks #LLMs
on 02026-04-24People seem to be switching from #Anthropic #Claude to #OpenAI #Codex. And derwiki recommends Pi.dev. #AI #neural-networks. Cautionary tale from “zazibar”: “A month ago the company I work at with over 400 engineers decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.) and move everyone over to Claude Code as a “cost-saving measure” (along with firing a bunch of test engineers). There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he’d built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy how he worked. A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens.”
on 02026-04-12#Anthropic system card #PDF: “Claude #Mythos Preview’s large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it generally available.” #security
on 02026-04-09simon.incutio.com (#simonw) endorses #Anthropic’s Project #Glasswing #security restrictions.
on 02026-04-08overview of the #Anthropic #weaponry situation including quoted opinions from many opiners, as of Feb 25.
on 02026-03-17discussion of the new #OpenAI contract to power the autonomous #weaponry and mass surveillance of the #USA Department of War, following #Anthropic’s rejection of the DoW’s demands, and how OpenAI’s FAQ on the subject is misleading
on 02026-03-17#news that #Anthropic is in a dispute with the #USA’s Pentagon, which threatens to invoke the Defense Production Act.
on 02026-02-24#AI is writing C #compilers at #Anthropic #toread
on 02026-02-09apparently #USA #copyright requires #Anthropic to shred books if they want to scan them to train #neural-networks!
on 02026-01-15#HN user “falloutx” says #OpenCode “still works with #Claude Opus, just need to get a key from platform.claude.ai” #anthropic
on 02026-01-12#Anthropic cut off #Claude Code access to third-party clients like #OpenCode on Friday; users comment things like, “Cancelled my claude subscription. Moved to codex (temporarily) and glm 4.7 coding plan.” #GLM #AI #neural-networks
on 02026-01-12review of #Anthropic #Claude Sonnet 4.5 #AI
on 02025-11-05#Anthropic #AI is taking investment from “bad people” such as “dictators”: “without a central authority blocking them, there’s a race to the bottom where companies gain a lot of advantage by getting deeper and deeper in bed with the Middle East.”
on 02025-08-02