Signal & Noise
Weekly AI digest from Emerald HQ — what landed across model frontier, research, and developer tooling. Distilled from ten independent voices into one readable briefing.
9 days, June 7-16. Anthropic ships Fable 5 / Mythos 5 — biggest jump since Opus 4.5; within 96 hours the US Commerce Department effectively suspends access. Lambert: welcome to the AGI era of governance. Underneath, the skeptic counter-bloc tightens: LeCun launches AMI (post-LLM), Narayanan publishes the normal-technology frame, Chollet holds the calibration line.
6 days, May 22-27. Pope Leo XIV cites Anthropic in his AI encyclical with Chris Olah at the Vatican; Uber COO admits no proportional productivity gains; Narayanan deflates Google's $916-OS claim; curl maintainers drowning in AI-bug reports; Cherny ships /usage and endorses "use auto" for Claude Code.
18 days, May 4-21. Karpathy joins Anthropic; Marcus / Choi / Mitchell coordinate against scale-only; open-weight bonanza shifts to long-context efficiency; GEPA beats RL by 19pp with 35× fewer rollouts; frontier dev cycle compresses to quarterly.