The Memo - 16/Jul/2026
China favoured over USA, Muse Spark 1.1, Kimi K3, and much more!
To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients…
From: Dr Alan D. Thompson <LifeArchitect.ai>
Sent: 16/Jul/2026
Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English
AGI: 97%
ASI: 2/50Steve Yegge, Programmer, ex-GeoWorks, Amazon, Google (16/Jul/2026):
’After working for a month with 20+ concurrent Fables all day, I've realized my job only has a few components to it anymore:
- asking for what I want
- setting up accounts and credentials
- taste-making choices presented to me
- communication with team and customers’
Models Table Pro now automatically posts to Twitter for every new model release: https://x.com/ModelsTablePro
The latest ALPrompt, 2026H2, is now available, featuring new questions currently unsolved by frontier models.
Claude Fable 5 is now available on Poe, and is included in the standard subscription (it costs 1,667 points/1k tokens output and I get 1M points/month included in my grandfathered $199/y subscription): https://poe.com/Claude-Fable-5
The early winner of The Who Moved My Cheese? AI Awards! for Jul/2026 is font lab Mass-Driver. (‘AI tools perceive reality as a finite set of data, up-to-date as of about 2021... For that reason and many others, this foundry does not use AI anywhere in our design or production processes. AI might be a scenic path with no hills or hindrances, but it does not lead to the goal we’re chasing. It leads to a fucking desert.’)
Contents
The BIG Stuff (Muse Spark 1.1, 1X NEO hands, AI-2040.com…)
The Interesting Stuff (Kimi K3, GPT-5.6, BrainCo, Cisco agents, Anthropic chip…)
Policy (China favoured over USA, MTurk ends, OpenAI National Security Principles…)
Toys to Play With (Flint, Frontier Rubik’s Cubes, Price per 1M tokens, Subtext viz…)
Things I’ve Been Thinking About (Neural activity informs consciousness…)
Next (Roundtable…)
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