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“AI #174: You’re It” by Zvi

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Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon (45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now available.

Alex Bores unfortunately lost narrowly in NY-12, and will not be heading to Congress.

There are also plenty of other stories to cover. Some highlights:

  1. GLM-5.2 is the new best open model, although it is expensive for its class. It will have its uses, potentially for agents you need to run fully locally or privately, but often it won’t be the right fit.
  2. Claude Tag is a new system for having Claude join your Slack, and if you @ him then he will spin up an instance to do the coding work.
  3. Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to work on policy. We don’t see eye to eye on everything, but this is a huge upgrade over their existing alternatives.
  4. The debate over the MidJourney scanner continues.

    5. Table of Contents

    1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. You know what it is for.
    2. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Hiring French Qwants.
    3. Huh, Upgrades. Claude Code supports artifacts.
    4. [...]

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      Outline:

      (01:12) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

      (02:58) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

      (03:13) Huh, Upgrades

      (03:38) On Your Marks

      (04:36) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

      (11:20) Fun With Media Generation

      (12:20) Cyber Lack of Security

      (14:49) Overcoming Bias

      (15:52) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

      (18:14) They Took Our Jobs

      (19:48) Get Involved

      (21:54) Introducing

      (22:12) Claude Tag

      (31:46) In Other AI News

      (33:20) More On GLM-5.2

      (35:17) ChatGPT Health

      (37:04) Middle Of The Journey

      (51:04) New Medical Diagnostic Just Dropped

      (54:05) Google on AI Control

      (01:02:12) The Once And Future Fable

      (01:04:17) Fable: The First Lawsuit

      (01:05:12) Dean Ball Joins OpenAI

      (01:09:03) Show Me the Money

      (01:09:18) Quiet Speculations

      (01:12:00) Alex Bores Loses In NY-12 By 4%

      (01:22:28) The Quest for Sane Regulations

      (01:24:49) Chip City

      (01:28:33) The Week in Audio

      (01:29:21) People Just Say Things

      (01:30:19) Rhetorical Innovation

      (01:36:32) There Are Two Pills

      (01:37:55) Who Evals The Evals

      (01:39:02) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

      (01:43:17) Cooperative Alignment

      (01:44:22) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

      (01:45:59) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

      (01:48:08) The Lighter Side

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      First published:

      June 25th, 2026

      Source:

      https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MfdaizeH8z8civPHe/ai-174-you-re-it

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