Ep. 65 — Anthropic ships a deliberately less-restricted Claude, OpenAI says Astra is the first model that can hack on its own, and 30 more Tumbler Ridge lawsuits raise the claim to aiding and abetting

Anthropic ships a deliberately less-restricted Claude, OpenAI says Astra is the first model that can hack on its own, and 30 more Tumbler Ridge lawsuits raise the claim to aiding and abetting 00:48 — Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 — up to 45% cheaper for agentic work, and deliberately less restrictive 02:17 — OpenAI says Astra is the first model to cross its critical cybersecurity threshold — and that it delayed the model after the Hugging Face hack 03:47 — OpenAI and Sam Altman hit with 30 new lawsuits over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, adding an aiding-and-abetting claim 05:17 — New York City bars AI in classrooms below high school for a year 05:42 — AIR launches with $50M across two seed rounds to vet the skills and add-ons your agents pull in 06:06 — Google Pics puts a Nano Banana image editor inside Workspace 06:30 — Empirik spins out of Sequoia with $21M to predict which infra change breaks production Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.