SITUATION BREWING: A highly capable stealth model named Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter with a 1 million-token context window and text, image, and video input. It is free for a week. No lab has claimed it. No one yet knows its true identity.

WATCH: A humanoid robot preparing for the “Robot Olympics” in Beijing runs too fast to stop, crashes into a safety cushion, and breaks its waist.

Public service announcement about @Etched. It's possible they have a great chip and just very distasteful marketing. It's also possible they have no chip or a terrible chip and want you to fall for the smoke and mirrors. This type of marketing is bad for technology.

🪱 There’s been an incident. While covering the anti-AI protests at OpenAI’s office, our reporter Thelonius has been taken hostage by FURRIES

Gavin Baker: Anthropic Believes They Could Be the ONLY Company Left in the World “I would certainly discourage Dario from saying that ever again to anyone.” @GavinSBaker: “Internally, Anthropic is very confident. I have been told by multiple people I trust that Dario has said that Anthropic might be the only private company in the world at some point. Think about that. In this vision, an Anthropic maximalist vision, there's Anthropic, and then there are governments, and that's it. So there's a lot of confidence. I'm sure they have more advanced checkpoints than Fable up their sleeve. They've executed really, really well. I would probably take the under on them being the only private company in the world. Yeah, I think it's gonna be a long time before they land a rocket.” @Jason: “Or they deliver your lunch. I don't know. There might be other businesses in the world. Zipline might want to bring you a burrito. Uber might want to take you somewhere. Waymo might want to drive you home. But sure, Dario.” @DavidSacks: “I might interpret that as a negative signal because it's so hubristic. This is getting into SBF land a little bit.” Gavin: “I would certainly discourage Dario from saying that ever again to anyone.”