Marcel Dances Alone. The Crowd at Lincoln Center Lost Its Mind.
Robert Gaudette has never been to Paris, has no film training, and couldn't get a script greenlit in 25 years. His eight-minute AI film just won the Runway Grand Prix.
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The High-Risk Models Shipped. Washington Approved the List.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Mythos 5 both crossed the High risk threshold and shipped the same day — under a US government access-control framework that neither company operated under a month ago.
You Can’t Patch the API Against Distillation
Anthropic told Congress that Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to run 28.8 million Claude conversations. The real message: there is no technical fix.
Fable 5 Didn’t Fail the Jailbreak Test. It Failed the Weapons Test.
The government's June 12 ban on Fable 5 cited a jailbreak. The supply chain designation that made it possible cited autonomous weapons. One of those came first.
The Biometric Gate Anthropic Built to Restore Fable 5
While Anthropic contests the export control directive that suspended Fable 5, its compliance mechanism is live: biometric ID verification. Builders are reading the fine print.
The Fake Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Is Now Training the Next AI
A web agency cloned John Koenig's life's work, outranked the original in search, and got chatbots to cite the fake as real. The feedback loop that made this permanent is now the bigger problem.
AI Made This Film Possible. AI Is Why No One Will Distribute It.
Ash Koosha's Dreams of Violets is the first AI feature at Tribeca: 74 minutes, $2,000, no crew. No distributor will touch it.
AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty.
AI compresses commodity art toward zero marginal cost while lifting both the ceiling of what's possible and the value of what's scarce. The casualties sit in the middle.
Model Organisms Are Broken. Alignment Research Isn’t Measuring It.
A London team measured three standard alignment testbeds and found every one is behaviorally broken in ways that weren't being tracked.