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Anthropic Releases Fable 5.1 and Restricted Mythos 5.1
Anthropic released broadly available Fable 5.1 alongside restricted Mythos 5.1, described as sharing underlying intelligence with different safety envelopes. Moonshots highlighted...
Updated 16 Sep 2026 TopicU.S.-Iran Conflict Makes Strait of Hormuz a Bargaining Tool
The host previously described a live U.S. standoff with Iran in which oil at the pump is at risk, U.S. reserves look thin, President Trump warned at a G7 meeting of running out in...
Updated 15 Sep 2026 TopicOpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra with staged access, benchmark saturation claims, and a reported Critical cybersecurity classification. Earlier discussions emphasized computer-use eff...
Updated 15 Sep 2026Ideas we follow
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The Coasean singularity: if agents make deals nearly free, what is a company still for?
A 1937 question about why firms exist at all came back to the Moonshots panel by way of an economics workshop framework on AI agents as market participants. Salim Ismail argues the...
Updated 15 Sep 2026 IdeaPaying only when the work is done: the case for outcome-based AI pricing
On Moonshots EP #285, the panel worked through a proposed shift in how AI is sold: not by tokens consumed but by results delivered. This explainer sets out what outcome pricing mea...
Updated 14 Sep 2026 IdeaAI monoculture: when similar answers become a question about resilience
The Moonshots panel debated a paper described on air as finding a 98% overlap in the reasoning pathways of leading language models. The study, Artificial Hivemind, measured somethi...
Updated 14 Sep 2026