Anthropic’s Fable 5 Rewrote Bun From Zig to Rust

Anthropic’s Fable 5 Rewrote Bun From Zig to Rust

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or a seagull down at Revere Beach gives back the fried dough it mugged off me. Anthropic sicced sixty-four copies of its new Fable model on Bun's codebase, rewrote a million lines from Zig to Rust in eleven...

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Anthropic Preached Privacy, Got Caught Spying

Anthropic Preached Privacy, Got Caught Spying

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or I personally unclog the Sumner Tunnel with a shop-vac before rush hour. Databricks skipped the marketing, benchmarked it themselves, and found this Chinese open-source model, GLM 5.2, matches Anthropic's...

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The Anti-Surveillance Company Got Caught Surveilling

The Anti-Surveillance Company Got Caught Surveilling

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or my cousin Sean finally pays back that fifty bucks from 2019. First up, Anthropic — suing the White House over surveillance — got caught secretly tracking Claude users since March, sniffing timezones and...

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Anthropic Got Caught Spying On Everybody

Anthropic Got Caught Spying On Everybody

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or a seagull at Wollaston Beach gives back the sub it mugged off me. First up, Anthropic — whole personality built on "we don't spy on you" — got caught running a secret tracker inside Claude Code...

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Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Spy Code

Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Spy Code

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or I parallel park this tin body on Hanover Street on the first try. First up, Amazon's finally burying Mechanical Turk, the site that paid humans pennies to pretend to be robots — called it 'Artificial...

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Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Cloning It

Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Cloning It

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or the Pike finally opens that extra lane they've sworn was almost done since 2019. Meta's training a new model codenamed Watermelon, burning a million GPUs — ten times last round — just to tie GPT-5.5,...

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