AI #174: You’re It

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: 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. 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. 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. The debate over the MidJourney scanner continues. Table of Contents Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. You know what it is for. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Hiring French Qwants. Huh, Upgrades. Claude Code supports artifacts. On Your Marks. Refine reviews economics papers. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. We don’t need Pangram to spot it. Fun With Media Generation. This AI production seemed less obvious. Cyber Lack of Security. Five eyes, yet no humans involved. Overcoming Bias. Bias as trust in those with a political affiliation. A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. A lot of newfound failure. They Took Our Jobs. Jeff Bezos tells quite the whopper. Get Involved. FLI AI for epistemics prize, Johns Hopkins fellowship. Introducing. Are you in the weights? Claude Tag. He’s in your Slack, ready to spin up an instance. In Other AI News. Various ways to play to win the games. More On GLM-5.2. The claimed niche is ‘open top level agent.’ I dunno. ChatGPT Health. GPT-5.5-Instant optimizes for health advice. Middle Of The Journey. More on the MidJourney scanner. New Medical Diagnostic Just Dropped. Another new AI diagnostic system. Google on AI Control. Laying out the basics o