Joscha Bach: nobody is planning to pause AI

Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22, banning executive-branch NDAs for data center projects and requiring expedited noise regulations plus a review of backup-generation operations. The order also creates an AI task force on workforce displacement and data privacy.

In projects with no CLAUDE.md, Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md instead, toggleable under "Project instructions" in /config. The feature is not yet available on Bedrock, Vertex or Foundry.

Longtime Suno subscribers are cancelling and abandoning the platform, saying the new V6 model — developed in partnership with major labels — sounds flat and lacks the quality of predecessors like V5.5. One user reported spending over 80 hours trying to produce something usable before giving up.

Karandeep Anand, Character.AI's CEO since May 2025, becomes Disney's first-ever chief technology officer, chosen by new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist in September 2025 over copyrighted characters.

Mollick argues current models like GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 can already do weeks of human work when properly guided, far beyond typical use. He demos Astra converting 1977 text adventure Zork into a playable 3D action game, and Fable 5.1 reconstructing Umberto Eco's Milan library in 3D from videos and catalogues.

MilleMiglia generates realistic middle-mile logistics instances to fill a gap in operational research, where public data is scarce because carriers treat network topologies and demand volumes as proprietary. Google engineers Aymane Lotfi and Thibaut Cuvelier say the middle mile covers the longest distance and a large share of total logistics cost.

Cohere's talk with Sneha Kudugunta examines how researchers extrapolate optimal architecture and hyperparameters from smaller training runs by relating loss or task performance to scale. It focuses on the pitfalls of fitting scaling laws.