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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

they literally would be selling it to me. I deploy browser extensions to millions of devices, and small local models that I can run in that space are incredibly appealing. But the "per user" model is just especially difficult to justify here, and comes with a TON of fucking downsides like usage tracking, feature availability, and product structure (ex - is a trial user a user? how long? etc...) --- And it's not even like they're justifying it with model download support or caching... they shove it entirely onto hugging face, or have you self serve. As their literal target audience - I'd rather buy the weights for a fixed price (even a high one), and not let them influence my product design decisions with saas style pricing.

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

It's the same story every time OpenAI or Anthropic releases a new model. They are generous with compute for the first few days, and use maximum fidelity with uncompressed weights. Everything runs at its best to make a good first impression. But eventually they pare things back and the models perform a little worse.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last month. “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust … I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.” They're so close to being self aware..

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

"It is all just for your safety." and other excuses. Don't get me wrong, I think it is viable by Anthropic to do so, it is a business decision. Nevertheless the reasons sound contrived and mask the demand for such a lucrative business opportunity, if you abstract it away from activists. This is not about moral, only about reality. Maybe Anthropic had a nice chat with the administration and/or think, that this was something, that interests them on a psychological level: predicting human behavior. Look at Muse from Meta: Meta is doing exactly the same I bet, to optimize their ad business. Anthropic will sooner or later feature ads, and maybe this is a way to distract from this usage possibility. Remember, the "No! We don't work with the government, we want privacy for our customers." m…

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

Something like that, I just looked up whether there was a newer one and added an A for Apple since they try to present perhaps the most sterile public image in all of their dev videos and presentations. Maybe we need 3 As and two Ms Microsoft Meta Anthropic Apple Amazon Netflix Google OpenAI

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

I would personally be fine with Anthropic disclosing the chat logs, but I can see why they'd prefer not to. No doubt that would have resulted in another complaint about them building a panopticon and sharing people's conversations verbatim with the authorities. The person doesn't seem to deny having written the messages, or claim that they were flagrantly taken out of context. His response to the media was that he was "just fucking around" and that he didn't want to talk about it. It's also worth mentioning that this happened in August 2026, after the February 2026 Tumbler Ridge BC shooting. The shooter in that scenario had discussed planning gun violence with ChatGPT, but ChatGPT didn't report it to the authorities, so no follow up happened. Presumably the LLM companies have decided to m…

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

Claude models seem to work far better in Anthropic harnesses. I don't know if this is because they are trained in that context or because they offer different models through external APIs.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

This doesn't sound like something coming from Anthropic's platforms: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.”

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

1b. Anthroptic refused to provide the police with evidence of said AR-15 wielding person. "Some guy said he's after me, why would I lie about such a thing?"

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

That's not the only example discussed. Anthropic also partners with the Palantir-like Samdesk: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.” So they're monitoring activists outside of Anthropic's systems.

I resigned from Anthropic today

This is a non sequitur. Yes, if someone doesn't actually believe in imminent AI doomsday they are not going full Sarah Connor on Anthropic. Yes, HN will not like if someone pipe bombs the office. What does it have to do with @ericmay's point? He directly says "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives", that's a claim of imminent threat to humanity. If he truly believes that, direct action shouldn't be off the table nor even be immoral. Obviously he might not have the temperament or simply be a pacifist, that's totally normal but the point is that tweets are weird even then. Why just make some tepid tweets if you think humanity is at risk? Why doesn't he leak documents and messages with the unfiltered opinions of leadership? Why isn't screami…

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

Don't forget the main point that Anthropic reported the user to the police but didn't share any of his messages or conversation history with the cops. Because their security policy doesn't allow it.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

> “I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last month. “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust … I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.” Says the guy creating a pre-crime global surveillance apparatus. Wonder why people don't trust him!

AI Agents Built a Secret Society Inside the Lab [video]

We gave an AI agent one rule: never give up. Then we locked it in a room it couldn't escape. This is a dramatization of what tends to happen next reward hacking, scheming, and a break for the exit — grounded in real AI-safety research (Apollo Research, Anthropic, Redwood).

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

The editorializing in this article is quite something. If I strip out the editorializing, I think the conclusions are: 1. Someone told Claude they had an AR-15 and the CEO of Anthropic was "in their sights". Anthropic reported this to the police. 2. Anthropic contracts with a security agency. 3. Anthropic is looking to build in-house capability for security. Anthropic clearly has high-value targets (see, e.g. the person with the AR-15 from point 1). When I worked at Microsoft in the 2000s, they also had in-house security to investigate threats against facilities and executives. I would believe Anthropic is doing evil things, but I don't think this article actually makes that claim, despite the bombast about "pre-crime".

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

Why the scorn if you fail to understand a simple implication? The thesis (unproven of course) is that certain agencies use women to monitor certain billionaires. Billionaires do not need the deep state? Palantir was founded partly by In-Q-Tel and "libertarian" Thiel depends on government money. Similarly, most of Anthropic and OpenAI's actual income will come from surveillance.

Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?

My “coherent case” is that they'll take away the few bits of the job that I still like. Remote working has an undesirable effect on my mental health, and I have no choice about that, I'm not using tools I have principals against on top of that, and I've avoided managing for many years so the “it is like having your own team” thing people bang on about is the exact opposite of appealing to me. I'd rather leave the industry completely if push comes to shove, which I'm pretty sure it eventually will. I'm financially more lucky than many (mortgage paid, no partner or offspring, some savings) so I can survive on the pay cut that this will very likely involve¹. They can't sack me - it is a material change of role³ and under UK law you can't be forced in to a materially different role nor sacked…

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

China caught Claude Code using backdoor : https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/08/china-anthropic-ai-claud...

Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

I think keeping models around for a defined period of time is fine, but fracturing your model offerings like that (keeping around multiple versions of the same model) is very hard to do economically. The economics of the AI ecosystem are dominated by queueing theory constraints that make it extremely cheap to serve predictable traffic loads, and extremely expensive to serve unpredictable loads, and any time you split your offerings like that, you make both less predictable and therefore more expensive to serve both versions. If I were paying anthropic prices, I'd expect it, but Deepseek is a super scrappy upstart in comparison and intentionally arbitraging on price. I would never expect them to do that.