7 days ago a government order took the most powerful Claude offline.
It beat Opus on almost every benchmark.
It did a 2-month job for Stripe in a day.
Now nobody can touch it. I still run its best move on Opus 4.8 every day.
And tell me: should one government get to switch off
TECHNOLOGY
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Government shuts down Claude AI that beat Opus benchmarks
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AI tool usage at scale: ChatGPT leads with 4.7B monthly visits
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AI tool usage at scale is here. ChatGPT: 4.7B monthly visits (Jan 2025)
Canva: 887M
Google Translate: 595M
DeepSeek: 268M (massive surge) http://
Character.AI: 226M
Perplexity: 133M
Gemini: 118M
Claude: 105M AI isn’t a trend anymore — it’s infrastructure. What’s your #1 -
China’s AI-run textile factory sets new autonomous manufacturing standard
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China’s 24/7 #AI-Run Textile Factory Sets a New Standard for #Autonomous Manufacturing
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 19 juin 2026
by @SpoxCHN_MaoNing#Technology #Innovation #EmergingTech #TechForGood pic.twitter.com/SZnTQ9FShwChina’s 24/7 #AI-Run Textile Factory Sets a New Standard for #Autonomous Manufacturing
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The Foundations of Transformers, Pretraining, Distillation, and World Models in 1991
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In 1991, the foundations of Transformers, pretraining, distillation, and world models were already being built. These have helped shape my own thinking, from my time at Google Brain to our work on Improvement.
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How AI Is Transforming Manufacturing: Tanja Rueckert on Industry Future
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How AI Is Transforming Manufacturing: Tanja Rueckert On The Future Of Industry https://
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Model faster than Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 with efficient thinking
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It's been much faster than Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 for me, in practice. Both of those models frequently spend a *lot* of time thinking about easy stuff, and sometimes not enough time for hard stuff.
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Key LLM era moment: Microsoft kept Bing/Sydney/GPT-4 after NYT article
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One of the key moments of the LLM era, ali g with GPT-3.5 and the decision by Microsoft to not take down Bing/Sydney/GPT-4 after the @kevinroose New York Times article.
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Installation of a local AI infrastructure with unlimited LLM on ASUS GX10
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Entre deux streams à VivaTech, je viens enfin, à 2 h du matin, de finir ma propre petite infra IA full local + API + un agent Hermes avec Nemoclaw sur ma GX10 d'@ASUS, accessible à distance quand je veux, pour avoir des LLM en illimité !! Trop heureux !!
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 19 juin 2026
J'ai Nemotron 120B… pic.twitter.com/zUtXD6i8L2Between two streams at VivaTech, I finally, at 2 AM, finished my own little full local AI infra + API + a Hermes agent with Nemoclaw on my GX10 from @ASUS, accessible remotely whenever I want, to have unlimited LLMs!! So happy!! I have Nemotron 120B
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FireworksAI: inference faster than other providers
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By the way, I use @FireworksAI_HQ for inference. Other providers may not be as fast.
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Datasette reimagined as Claude Artifacts with JSON API to database
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Think of this as Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette – you get all the power of artifacts but with a JSON API to a full relational database, allowing your HTML+JS apps to access and store data in all shapes and sizes