Post by Richard Gillis

Should you bet your business on the foundational AI models when the US government can shut them down with 90 minutes notice? Hear the answer on Chat_UP, Unofficial Partner's series on AI with regular co-host Andy Shora , Head of TFG Labs. Three stories dissected: 1. What the Mythos Shutdown means. On June the 12th, the US government ordered Anthropic to cut off two of its most powerful models — Mythos-5 and Fable-5 — to every foreign national on earth, with ninety minutes' notice. The first time export controls have ever been applied to an AI model. We get into what that means for access, for sovereignty, and for anyone in sport who's quietly building a workflow on top of someone else's frontier model. 2. The LLM Sceptic: Yann LeCun the Turing Award winner, one of the godfathers of AI, walked away from Meta to raise $1.3 billion betting that large language models are the wrong path entirely. We'll explain what he means by "world models," why he thinks LLMs are glorified stochastic parrots, and why that argument matters well beyond the AI research community. 3. AI Slop meets Sport's Content incentive. Manchester Super Giants. A fifty-three second AI-generated kit reveal video, mocked across social media for batsmen with six fingers, bowlers running the wrong way, floodlights on in daylight. Hilarity ensued. But underneath the comedy is a real question about cost-cutting, craft, and what happens when "AI slop" becomes the default setting for sports content production. Blake Wooster Omar Chaudhuri Conall Milligan Dan Zelezinski

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