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Alex Stamos

@alexstamos
806 posts –
2026-10-01
There are real safety and security issues raised by AI, but they can be fixed. It's time to get to work instead of freaking out. That's why I'm joining Cognition as CISO. https://x.com/...
2026-10-01 View on X
Axios

Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne

Alex Stamos has joined Cognition as the AI coding unicorn's new chief security officer. … The hire suggests security has become a major focus for the fast-growing company.

2026-09-30
There are real safety and security issues raised by AI, but they can be fixed. It's time to get to work instead of freaking out. That's why I'm joining Cognition as CISO. https://x.com/...
2026-09-30 View on X
Axios

Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne

Alex Stamos has joined Cognition as the AI coding unicorn's new chief security officer. … The hire suggests security has become a major focus for the fast-growing company.

2026-09-01
If you know nothing about AI or cyber, both Dwarkesh and Chamath's takes are comforting shadows on the cave wall. The former interprets AI as having human-like motivations, the latter frames this entire incident as a psyop by people as cynical and unethical as him. More soon.
2026-09-01 View on X
One Useful Thing

The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input

2026-08-31
If you know nothing about AI or cyber, both Dwarkesh and Chamath's takes are comforting shadows on the cave wall. The former interprets AI as having human-like motivations, the latter frames this entire incident as a psyop by people as cynical and unethical as him. More soon.
2026-08-31 View on X
One Useful Thing

The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories  —  Agency is the initiative to act.  Increasingly, it is going to determine …

2026-07-22
If the Trump Administration really cared about competition with China they would be focusing on getting this in the hands of every security team in America and our allies instead of flirting with banning open-weight models.
2026-07-22 View on X
The Verge

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners

but had to go months without itAshish Khaitan /The Cyber Express:Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities Faster

If the Trump Administration really cared about competition with China they would be focusing on getting this in the hands of every security team in America and our allies instead of flirting with banning open-weight models.
2026-07-22 View on X
Google

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4

Our newest Gemini models deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale.

2026-07-21
If the Trump Administration really cared about competition with China they would be focusing on getting this in the hands of every security team in America and our allies instead of flirting with banning open-weight models.
2026-07-21 View on X
The Verge

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners

Gemini 3.5 Flash integrates into CodeMender, allowing it to identify and patch vulnerabilities.

If the Trump Administration really cared about competition with China they would be focusing on getting this in the hands of every security team in America and our allies instead of flirting with banning open-weight models.
2026-07-21 View on X
Google

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4

Our newest Gemini models deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale.

How hard is this to type, David? “The Trump Administration was wrong to ban Fable and I was wrong to support the ban.” Try it, I bet you will still get ringside UFC tickets.
2026-07-21 View on X
Axios

Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum

Maria Curi /Axios:

How hard is this to type, David? “The Trump Administration was wrong to ban Fable and I was wrong to support the ban.” Try it, I bet you will still get ringside UFC tickets.
2026-07-21 View on X
Washington Post

Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy

They aren't a security threat — they're what competition looks like.  —  Bill Gurley is the president and founder of the P3 Institute, and a former venture capitalist.

2026-07-20
How hard is this to type, David? “The Trump Administration was wrong to ban Fable and I was wrong to support the ban.” Try it, I bet you will still get ringside UFC tickets.
2026-07-20 View on X
Axios

Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum

Maria Curi /Axios:

2026-07-18
@Kantrowitz Meta is very good at infra. It lacks the software necessary to run a public cloud, but it certainly could rent capacity to one or two trusted customers.
2026-07-18 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years

A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

2026-07-01
2) Anthropic makes the cost of this White House freakout clear. US labs now have to make a much more conservative precision-recall tradeoff on cyber refusals. US models will become much less useful for defensive cybersecurity work unless you are in the trusted group. [image]
2026-07-01 View on X
@anthropicai

Anthropic says the US Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soo...

3) CAISI is the group that is supposed to actually make these determinations, not the political actors in the White House. They were positive on the prior safeguards. The implication is that this whole thing was unnecessary. [image]
2026-07-01 View on X
@anthropicai

Anthropic says the US Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soo...

In short, Anthropic's blog is saying: We have always cared about safety, we did a good job initially, the actual AI experts in USG agreed, we proved it, we will come up with standards so these things are better communicated, welcome to the AI safety club Trump admin.
2026-07-01 View on X
@anthropicai

Anthropic says the US Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soo...

New shibboleth just dropped. [image]
2026-07-01 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work

Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet.  It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals …

“No big deal, just join the trusted group!” the apologists will say, but the restrictions mean you can't build a product on those models. Security companies and startups that provide services to others will now be driven to use Chinese models. Big win for PRC labs this month.
2026-07-01 View on X
@alexstamos

[Thread] the now-lifted US export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers toward Chinese AI models

A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capabili...

This was a huge own goal for the US, and we will see how bad US models get over the next six months and if Chinese models become noticeably better for cyber work.
2026-07-01 View on X
@anthropicai

Anthropic says the US Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soo...

@growing_daniel The Chinese open-weight strategy is fascinating, and I agree I'm not sure it'll work but the theory seems to be: 1) We have a much lower cost structure than the US labs, due to lower salaries, distillation, and (especially) PRC subsidies 2) We have second mover advantage
2026-07-01 View on X
@anthropicai

Anthropic says the US Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soo...

4) There is no good scoring framework for jailbreaks; this would be an improvement. The inclusion of Amazon as the first name in the coalition is not an accident. Anthropic is saying “Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos”. [image]
2026-07-01 View on X
@alexstamos

[Thread] the now-lifted US export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers toward Chinese AI models

A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capabili...