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OPINION: Europe Can Afford a Frontier AI Lab and Refuses to Concentrate the Money OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI India Orders GitHub to Remove Bitchat as Modi Turns to Instagram Reels Anthropic Reroutes Biology Requests Blocked on Fable 5 to Claude Opus 5 Anthropic Says It Deliberately Left Cyber Training Out of Claude Opus 5 Anthropic's Opus 5 Cut Tokens 17% but Cost More to Benchmark Than Opus 4.8 OPINION: Europe Can Afford a Frontier AI Lab and Refuses to Concentrate the Money OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI India Orders GitHub to Remove Bitchat as Modi Turns to Instagram Reels Anthropic Reroutes Biology Requests Blocked on Fable 5 to Claude Opus 5 Anthropic Says It Deliberately Left Cyber Training Out of Claude Opus 5 Anthropic's Opus 5 Cut Tokens 17% but Cost More to Benchmark Than Opus 4.8
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OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI

OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI

OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied Washington regulators to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, five people close to the discussions told The New York Times on Saturday. The report landed after OpenAI joined the industry letter it had initially sat out and Google backed it, leaving Anthropic as the only major American AI company outside it. Officials appear to favor reviewing individual Chinese models as national security cases over a blanket ban.

By Marcus Schuler · 12 min read ·
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar No. 13: graphify turns any folder of code, papers and screenshots into a queryable knowledge graph. Tencent's CubeSandbox boots a hardware-isolated agent sandbox in under 60ms. Together AI's hallmark stops coding agents shipping the same gradient hero. Microsoft's Flint compiles agent chart specs into Vega-Lite, ECharts or Chart.js. PentAGI runs autonomous security tests inside Docker. Five projects that narrow what an agent may see, run, render or spend.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

This week's Repo Radar tracks five GitHub projects where AI agents move from chat into real production work: OpenMontage turns a coding assistant into a video studio, Google Labs' design.md gives agents a design-system spec, Strix runs autonomous penetration tests, Alibaba's page-agent drives live web interfaces in natural language, and MinerU converts messy PDFs into LLM-ready markdown. Difficulty scores, licenses, and push dates for each, plus why OpenMontage is Repo of the Week.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar's eleventh issue tracks five GitHub projects builders attach to AI agents once a demo becomes a workload: Agent-Reach, a CLI giving agents live access to Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube; Flue, the Astro team's sandbox agent harness; cognee, a graph-based memory layer; hunk, a review-first diff viewer for agent-written code; and mistral.rs, a Rust engine for local inference. Each scored on stars, language, license, push date, and setup difficulty.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
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Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol: How to Orchestrate Claude and Codex to Ship More Reliable Code

OpenAI shipped an official plugin that installs inside Anthropic's Claude Code and hands coding work to Codex. This walkthrough installs it and sets up the /route command, so Fable 5 manages while Codex's GPT-5.6 builds, and traces where AI coding value is moving.

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When Claude Fable 5 Is Worth Double, and When to Use Opus 4.8

Anthropic reports Claude Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8 on a fifth of Terminal-Bench trials, and after the July relaunch one tester measured three of four debugging tasks rerouted. The launch drew a researcher revolt over hidden limits; Andon Labs found an alignment slip. Double the price.

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New Musk Interview: Musk Told The Economist USAID Killed No One. It Didn't.
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New Musk Interview: Musk Told The Economist USAID Killed No One. It Didn't.

Elon Musk's July 2026 Economist interview mixed accurate numbers with false claims. We checked six, from European heat deaths and US gun rates to his claim that dismantling USAID killed no one. The raw heat-versus-guns count holds; "no one died" does not.

Elon Musk's July 2026 Economist interview mixed a few accurate numbers with several false claims. We checked six, from European heat deaths and US gun rates to his claim that dismantling USAID killed no one. The raw heat-versus-guns count holds; per capita the US is far deadlier, and "no one died" is false.

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