Tag: culture
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The Agile Manifesto in the Age of Gen AI
Is the Agile Manifesto Ready for an Upgrade? It has been quite a break. Regularly posting on LinkedIn provided me an opportunity to find a theme that would resonate in the rapidly changing world of product development. While my efforts to archive those posts were lackluster, a calculated choice I own, I now have a…
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Markets See a Rebound Coming, Allies See a Warning Shot
The Core Status: Still Down, But Markets Are Cautiously Optimistic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain offline on Day 10. However, the prediction markets are pricing in a resolution sooner rather than later. Kalshi traders put 58% odds on restoration before July 1, and 74% odds it’s back by July 10. Polymarket similarly sits at…
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A New Front has Opened—and the Legal Fog is Thickening
The Core Status: Nothing Has Changed Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain fully offline for every user on Earth. No deal has been announced. No restoration date has been set. The prediction market on Polymarket has priced the most likely restoration window as late June but treats same-day restoration as unlikely and the center of…
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Shutdown: When a 72-Hour Model Becomes a Global Fault Line
The Fable 5 Saga: Latest Update The short version: Fable 5 is still offline. The talks broke down. And both sides are now digging in. Where We Are — Day 6 It has been six days since the Commerce Department’s 5:21 PM letter landed on Dario Amodei’s desk, and Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain inaccessible…
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Fable 5’s New Standoff: When Technical Disputes Turn Into Trust Wars
The Fable 5 Standoff Just Got Harder to Resolve When Anthropic sent its best technical people to Washington last week, the assumption — at least publicly — was that this was a misunderstanding that smart people in a room could sort out. A jailbreak concern, some technical evidence, a patch proposal, a handshake, and Fable…
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Fable 5 and the New Reality: If It’s Powerful, It’s Political
The Real Trigger: Amazon Did It The most explosive new detail: it wasn’t a random hacker or internet jailbreaker who triggered the government order — it was Amazon, Anthropic’s own largest investor. According to the Wall Street Journal, corroborated by Reuters and The Information, Amazon researchers discovered that Fable 5 could be prompted to surface security vulnerabilities in specific…
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How To: Navigating a Generative AI Lockdown
Your AI has a landlord. They changed the locks. Most people treat AI assistants like electricity; you flip a switch, it works, you don’t think about it. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. You open a browser, type a question, and get an answer. Easy. But this week, something happened that should make every regular person reconsider that…
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Uncle Sam Just Pulled the Plug: The World’s Most Powerful AI Lasted 72 Hours
Anthropic’s Fable 5 was supposed to be the future of AI, until it wasn’t. It begs the question, “How much is too much?”It is a question that is largely unanswered as I write this post. The context is the U.S. government’s announcement restricting access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 large language model.It survived 72 hours…
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Upset Them, Wake Them Up: How to Own Your Platform and Your Point
The messenger matters, but less than the message. Full stop. That is the big takeaway. Thanks to Jonathan Jackson for the photos from the event. Tip 1 – Be prepared for almost anything– Bring file backups, just in case– Have connection options if you are sharing slides– If you have or can afford two laptops,…
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What Being Trapped in an Elevator Taught Me
Hello, it’s 2026. Getting trapped for over 2 hours in an elevator was not on my bingo card for the year. In fact, it was not on my bucket list either. And yet, it still happened. Guess what, there was nothing I could do about it. So, what did the experience teach you, Tim? Here…