We think this thinking AI is out-thinking our thinking so we want it stopped. We think.

https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-foreign-access-block-us-reversal

US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal

The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone.

Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide late on Friday 12 June, three days after launching Fable 5 as its most powerful public model.

It is, by several accounts, the first export-control measure aimed at specific AI models rather than at chips or the hardware that runs them. The directive barred access by foreign nationals both inside and outside the United States, a scope that made selective enforcement on a multi-tenant service impractical and a global shutoff the path of least resistance.

The government’s concern, as Anthropic understands it, is a method of jailbreaking Fable 5, bypassing the guardrails meant to keep a model from producing dangerous output. The action followed a jailbreak published on X on 10 June by a well-known figure who claimed to have defeated the model’s safety controls.

Anthropic says it reviewed the report it believes prompted the directive and concluded the capability shown is widely available from other models, naming OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 among them.

Is this the new normal?

https://thenextweb.com/news/texas-lawyer-ai-meta-social-media-addiction-trial

The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10

Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case in March, says AI was central to his preparation and execution throughout the five-week trial.  Lanier told Business Insider that the technology let him compress 30 hours of work into 10, describing it as having “10 additional workers who are incredibly well-trained, who know the file inside and out, who work 24 hours a day.” The case was the first social media addiction lawsuit to reach a jury verdict in the United States.

… The specific applications ranged from tactical to analytical. At the end of each court day, Lanier’s team would take that day’s transcripts and feed them to different AI models for evaluation. He used AI to find more persuasive ways to phrase arguments for the courtroom. During jury deliberations, he fed the jury’s written questions into AI models to assess where the panel stood in its decision-making process.