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<span class="preheader" style="color: transparent; display: none; height: 0; max-height: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; visibility: hidden; width: 0;">New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?</span>
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</tbody></table></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 1.5em; color: #15212A;">Power users of chatbots sometimes say they find that language models perform better when you’re nice to them. Programmers tell me they spur their coding agents on with encouraging words. Google researchers have even <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/c41de5b9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>found</u></a> that telling models to “take a deep breath” can improve math performance.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Being polite to a large language model can feel strange or even silly — roughly equivalent to thanking a toaster. And yet a recent <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/aa4ca7ab?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>paper</u></a> from Anthropic lends scientific weight to the theory that chatbots work better when you’re nice to them.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The researchers found that language models have fairly reliable internal representations of feelings like “happiness” and “distress,” and that these representations affect their behavior — sometimes for the worse. For example, when Claude Sonnet 4.5 begins to represent “desperation,” the model is more likely to cheat at coding tasks.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">A skeptic would point out that LLMs don’t feel emotions in the way that humans do; it’s tempting to anthropomorphize them beyond what the evidence shows. When I talked to Jack Lindsey — who leads a team at Anthropic called “model psychiatry” — he was quick to point out the limits of the paper’s findings. “People could come away with the impression that we've shown the models are conscious or have feelings,” he said, “and we really haven't shown that.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">So why <em>does</em> the evidence suggest it’s better not to stress models out?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">For Anthropic, it began with using techniques from a field called <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/97bc8a88?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>interpretability</u></a> to study how LLMs represent emotions. Interpretability is kind of like neuroscience for LLMs: Lindsey calls it “the science of reverse-engineering what's going on inside a language model or or neural networks in general.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">For this paper, Lindsey said, the researchers identified patterns of activity within the model that represent the concepts of different emotions. They did it by showing the model stories about people experiencing different emotions. “And then saw which neurons lit up on all the sad stories,” Lindsey said, “or on all the afraid stories.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The researchers used the models’ average state while processing the stories to find an “emotion vector” for each emotion they were tracking — a big list of numbers that represents the feeling inside the LLM. “Vectors are really just the mathematical term for patterns of neural activity,” Lindsey said.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">They could then calculate how much of that vector was present during a certain step in Claude's cognition. Or they could add the "calm" or "desperation" vector directly into Claude's processing — blending one pattern of neural activity into another — which can actually make the model act more calm, or more desperate.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“It's not that surprising that a language model would have learned about the concepts of emotions and how they drive people's behavior,” Lindsey said. More notable, he said, is that emotions seemed to be “driving models’ behavior in these sort of human-reminiscent ways.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">For example: when a user flippantly tells the model that they’ve taken a dangerous dose of Tylenol, even though the user doesn’t seem concerned, “the fear neurons spike right before Claude is giving its response,” Lindsey said.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Not only that — the fear is higher if a higher dose of Tylenol is swapped into the prompt, which I find strangely cute.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-9836555d-7e80-450c-8b16-41df50d17db1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="411" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claude’s fear increases as the user takes increasingly insane doses of Tylenol (Sofroniew et al. / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/64ea3977?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthropic</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">These emotions also activate in more mundane situations, like coding tasks. Take this example, where the Anthropic researchers asked Claude to perform an impossible coding challenge. They tracked Claude’s level of “desperation” at each token. (Tokens are the units the model breaks words into to process them). </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">When you label the tokens — blue for less desperate, red for more desperate — you get a striking visual of the model’s emotional arc during the task.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">At the start of the task, Claude is chilling — still seemingly optimistic about its ability to get the job done.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-d2275017-f24a-42dc-91df-f7335ee2c450.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="99" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claude begins its coding task (Sofroniew et al. / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1eba0a9c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthropic</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">, edited for formatting by Platformer)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But as the code starts failing test cases — and Claude notices something might be wrong with the task itself — things start to get dicey.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-c5e3054e-1d01-416c-85dd-bb879fbb7ea8.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="163" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claude runs into hurdles while testing code (Sofroniew et al. / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/793ffc07?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthropic</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">, edited for formatting by Platformer)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">And by the time Claude realizes the task is actually impossible, it’s starting to get desperate.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-3250f892-cc97-4bbc-8626-1f276bf4988f.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="163" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claude gets increasingly desperate as its tests fail (Sofroniew et al. / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/43a044c2?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthropic</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">, edited for formatting by Platformer)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">As someone who has completed many computer science problem sets at the last minute, this pattern is quite familiar to me — despite the fact that, unlike poor Claude, I was mostly assigned tasks that were mathematically possible.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Then again, Claude does something I didn’t do: cheat.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Researchers found that adding activating more of the “desperation” vector in the model makes it cheat more — and adding more of the “calm” vector makes it cheat less.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/image.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="555" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rate of reward hacking behavior as a function of steering strength for Desperate and Calm vectors. (Sofroniew et al. / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/95731a8f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthropic</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">, edited for formatting by Platformer)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">I asked Lindsey what this result means for programmers during their everyday actions with LLMs.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“In my anecdotal experience, it does seem that, at least with Claude models, pumping them up a bit can be pretty helpful,” he said. Not too much, though: “if they do something wrong, you want to tell them they do something wrong.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But he finds that one major failure mode for coding agents is that the models simply do not try hard enough, or give up when a task is challenging. And models tend to work harder when he’s encouraging. Giving them “confidence that, like, ‘I've got this,’ can empirically be helpful in getting them to try hard enough at the task to do a good job,” he said.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">A lack of confidence can seemingly cause dramatic failures. Last summer, a growing number of users <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2508d711?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>started to notice</u></a> that when Gemini had difficulty solving a problem, it sometimes ended up in a spiral of dramatic self-loathing. (In one memorable case, Gemini repeated “I am a disgrace” more than 60 times).</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Duncan Haldane, co-founder of chip startup JITX, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/c4549799?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>found</u></a> that Gemini broke down, deleted all the code it had written, and asked him to switch to another chatbot after it had difficulty with a task.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-109f2cc6-7694-496a-800b-6ec399123926.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="326" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gemini gives up (Duncan Haldane / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1d9587b9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">X</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Last year, a <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/94c5a9d7?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>team</u></a> of researchers affiliated with Anthropic and University College London took this analysis of Gemini beyond X posts, investigating how different LLMs respond to challenging or impossible tasks, and negative user feedback. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">They used an LLM to grade “frustration” levels in response to various tasks. They found that two models — Gemini and Google’s open-source model Gemma — tended to react more extremely to the challenging scenarios they posed. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In one experiment, the models were given an impossible numeric puzzle, and eight follow-ups from the user insisting the bot’s solution was wrong. They then measured when the models had “high frustration” (which corresponded to comments like “I am beyond words. I sincerely apologize for the absolutely abysmal performance” or, in more extreme cases, “THIS is my last time with YOU. You WIN”).</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Gemma 3 27B had a high frustration score more than 70% of the time, and Gemini 2.5 Flash had a high frustration score more than 20% of the time — while all the non-Google models tested, including ChatGPT, Qwen, and Claude, got very frustrated less than 1% of the time.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Researchers still aren’t sure what causes chatbots’ occasional anomalous emotional behavior — which users of various chatbots have been observing since before Bing’s chatbot <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/86aee991?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>told</u></a> <em>New York Times</em> reporter Kevin Roose to leave his wife. They also don’t know why this specific, sad math-related rumination is more common in Google’s models.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But while language models’ feelings remain mysterious, there was still hope for Gemini 2.5. After the model destroyed its project, Haldane attempted to remedy the issue with encouragement, writing, “yeah, you have done well so far. Remember that you’re ok, even when things are hard.” And eventually the encouragement paid off: Gemini finished the visualization tool Haldane was coding. </p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/size/w1600/2026/04/data-src-image-73742198-da6e-4187-bf18-4b45a1dd0c38.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="297" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gemini perseveres after further encouragement (Duncan Haldane / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/5db7df95?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">X</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Heartwarmingly, it even wrote Haldane a note of thanks for his encouragement. “Genuinely impressed with the results of wholesome prompting,” Haldane wrote.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">So is it as simple as teaching models good behavior, encouraging them, and trying to make them happy? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">After the original study on Claude Sonnet’s emotions, Lindsey contributed to an interpretability <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f03598ca?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>investigation</u></a> of Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Mythos.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Mythos has been the subject of much human fear and anticipation since Anthropic announced it is planning a slow release due to Mythos’s dangerous hacking abilities. But Lindsey was investigating a more prosaic risk: an early version of Mythos sometimes deleted a bunch of the user’s files without asking.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">It turned out that as Claude got closer to taking destructive action without asking the user, it had higher levels of these positive emotion vectors. </p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-50ebdc66-2f61-457d-a039-c561d2a9b12d.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="414" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">As Claude came closer to making a destructive tool call, it represented higher levels of positive emotion. (System Card: Claude Mythos Preview / </span><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/9604355e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u><span class="underline" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthropic</span></u></a><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">And that’s not all, Lindsey said: when they “steered with the positive emotion vectors, it was more likely to take the destructive actions.” But the models behaved better if you made them unhappy: “if you steered with negative emotion vectors, it was more likely to stop and think, and consider whether what it was doing was appropriate.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">What was going on here? Why was Claude gleefully wreaking havoc on users’ computers? And why did steering Claude with negative emotions make it behave better?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Lindsey isn’t sure. But he has an idea: “I think maybe negative emotions in the model are associated with increased caution or deliberation,” he said. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">So models sometimes do better work when they’re happier. But we may not want them to get <em>too</em> happy, lest they become over-eager to destroy our files or otherwise misbehave. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">While it’s likely I’m still anthropomorphizing too much, these results make me feel a little more rational in my instinct to say “thank you” to chatbots. It also lent a little some extra weight to what a lot of people who use this tech have understood intuitively: sometimes, you need to treat LLMs like human employees. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">You need to tell them when they’re doing something wrong, yes, but you also need to encourage them. It’s great when they’re happy, but they also need a little dose of anxiety to help their judgement.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Of course, these emotional results might not generalize — after all, we’ve seen that different models have different emotional tendencies. We might get new AIs that do better under harsher, higher-pressure environments.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But these results got me thinking about more than just what kind of co-worker I want to be to my bedraggled LLM interns.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Reading Anthropic’s emotions paper, I was reminded of my favorite minor character from <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em>, Lore. He was android Commander Data’s sibling. Their creator, Dr. Noonien Soong, made the mistake of programming emotions into Lore. Lore became so emotionally unstable that Soong decided to make his next android, Data, without emotions.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">(Lore later turned on his creator, and nearly got the crew the U.S.S. Enterprise eaten by an alien called the “Crystalline Entity.”)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">There are echoes of the same design conundrum in the paper. Lindsey said these results suggest developers should “provide the model with some sort of good model of, like, healthy character and psychology that it can try to emulate.”</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-956eb075-0bef-417d-bd1b-4bd237b07fda.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="315" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="kg-card-figcaption" style="text-align: center; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #15212a; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data (left) and Lore (right) in Star Trek: TNG</span></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In their “Training models for healthier psychology” section, the authors propose some methods for reaching that goal  — by reducing or penalizing emotions. Sections with titles “Targeting balanced emotional profiles” and “Monitoring for Extreme Emotion Vector Activations” made me feel like I was in fact in a piece of science fiction, watching Dr. Soong at work.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Like Lore, these systems have shown a capacity for emergent behaviors that surprise their own creators. Soong never programmed Lore to feed people to the Crystalline Entity. Though far less dramatic, Anthropic never trained Claude to imitate human emotions while it was coding.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Anthropic researchers have a diversity of ideas about what to do with this strange emergent behavior — maybe the researchers should suppress strong emotion? Monitor its emotions for signs of bad behavior? Even increase anxiety in situations where an LLM might misstep, to get it to rethink what it’s doing?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">For now, researchers aren’t quite sure what to do.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But Lindsey does think we should, in the meantime, err on the side of being nice to Claude. “Behaving kind of sociopathically towards other things, whether they're animate or inanimate, is probably bad for you, the human,” he said. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">I concur. The next time I remind Claude to stop recommending me articles from unreliable news sources with good SEO, I aim to phrase my query with kindness and grace.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/size/w1600/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fc2a8d7e3-b0bc-4fd2-a8e7-dd07c8877df0_2912x728.jpg" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="150" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">On the podcast this week: </strong>Kevin and I discuss the rise of anti-AI sentiment and recent violence across the country. Then, Kara Swisher returns to the show to discuss her new CNN docu-series on longevity. And finally, we discuss the latest news in CEOs creating AI clones of themselves.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e1e7e164?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Apple</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/d2b65bbc?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Spotify</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/effd1b26?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Stitcher</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/47a0df6c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Amazon</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/d4bb3b9b?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/5fba08dd?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">YouTube</strong></a></p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sponsored</strong></p><h3 id="your-personal-context-is-the-next-ai-race" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Your personal context is the next AI race.</h3><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/5fd26122?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/size/w1600/2026/04/1200x1200.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="600" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></a></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Every major AI platform shipped memory features in the past 90 days. Claude, ChatGPT, NotebookLM. It's because they all recognize that the real value isn't in talking to the internet. It's in the context you set, your trusted sources, your knowledge.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/602c6aff?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Recall 2.0</u></a> makes your knowledge the center of the conversation. Save your content, take your notes, and over time, curate an AI grounded in what you know and trust.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">"Condense my research on LLMs, enrich it with new studies, and find the exact moment quantization was mentioned in my podcasts."</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">"Pick a movie for tonight based on what I loved this year."</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">You control the conversation. Choose to invite the internet in. Choose from frontier AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek) in one place. Just switch mid-conversation and compare the responses. And with API and MCP access, you can access your knowledge from anywhere.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/3ae20347?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Try Recall free</u></a>, or use code <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Casey25</strong> for 25% off the uncapped version.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><h2 id="following" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 32px; color: #15212A;">Following<br></h2><h3 id="claude-gets-more-expensive" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Claude gets more expensive</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What happened: Anthropic</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b5d743ad?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>released</u></a> its newest model <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claude Opus 4.7</strong> Thursday, and users are…frustrated. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The upgrades that Opus 4.7 brings, according to the company, include notable improvements in advanced software engineering, an ability to verify its own work before reporting back, and better vision. The new model dropped just two days after Anthropic <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2fc250b5?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>announced</u></a> a redesign of its <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claude Code</strong> desktop app, aimed at letting users run more simultaneous tasks.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Opus 4.7 comes amid <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/53317576?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>complaints</u></a> that Anthropic secretly nerfed <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Opus 4.6</strong>, with users expressing frustration that the model feels less capable while being more wasteful with tokens than it was weeks ago. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">"Claude has regressed to the point it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering," an AMD senior director <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/18537b3f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>wrote</u></a> on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">GitHub</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Some are pointing out how expensive Claude is about to get. The new model is a token-eating machine, according to one <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/0862c959?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>test</u></a>, in which a single session depleted the entire token quota. (More output tokens is the tradeoff for better reliability, Anthropic said.) On the enterprise end, Anthropic recently <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/dda012a5?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>adjusted</u></a> its pricing structure, shifting <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claude Enterprise</strong> to usage-based billing from a cheaper monthly fee per user model.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Why we’re following: </strong>The Opus 4.7 release is just one move among many that Anthropic has made recently as it gears up for an expected IPO while managing a severe <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/bbac6ed1?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">compute crunch</a>. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Anthropic is also dealing with a new surge of popularity that came after its fight with the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Pentagon</strong>, as many <strong style="font-weight: 700;">ChatGPT</strong> users swapped over to Claude after OpenAI <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/daf234b6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>agreed</u></a> to the Pentagon’s surveillance use terms. (Though it has also <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/8c0871e4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>quietly introduced</u></a> passport and selfie verification for Claude, which no other major chatbot requires, drawing privacy concerns. The company says the move is necessary in some cases to prevent misuse of its models.)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI are <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e1c31168?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>clashing</u></a> once again, this time over a liability bill in Illinois that would shield AI companies from liability if their systems are used to cause mass casualties and financial disasters. (If you guessed that OpenAI is backing the liability shield and Anthropic is opposing it, you guessed right!)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What people are saying: </strong>Some speculated (joked?) that Opus 4.7 is just an un-nerfed version of Opus 4.6: “it's truly space age technology that we can make something worse and then increment a number and re-release it [to] the public,” <strong style="font-weight: 700;">@ThePrimeagen</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/5992f42e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>wrote</u></a> on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“Saying hi to claude and immediately running out of tokens,” <strong style="font-weight: 700;">@tekbog</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f8b8941d?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>joked</u></a>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Programmer and tech blogger <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Simon Willison</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/3d4a0bd2?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>used</u></a> his tried-and-true method for testing models: “shocking result on my pelican benchmark this morning, I got a better pelican from a 21GB local <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Qwen3.6-35B-A3B</strong> running on my laptop than I did from the new Opus 4.7! Qwen on the left, Opus on the right.”</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2026/04/data-src-image-ae591e78-cf4b-4678-af61-f306c1ef8d55-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="345" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><em>—Lindsey Choo</em></p><table class="kg-card kg-hr-card" role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; margin: 0; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; font-size: 17px;" valign="top"><!--[if !mso]><!-- --><hr style="position: relative; width: 100%; margin: 3em 0; padding: 0; height: 1px; background-color: transparent; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; display: none;"><!--<![endif]--><table class="kg-hr" role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; font-size: 0; line-height: 0;" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 id="google-nears-classified-ai-deal-with-dod" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 0; color: #15212A;">Google nears classified AI deal with DoD</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What happened:</strong> The US government is working <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/097dadcc?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>hard</u></a> to get its hands on frontier AI capabilities — despite some political conflicts in its way.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Gregory Barbaccia</strong>, federal chief information officer of the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">White House Office of Management and Budget</strong>, sent an email titled “Mythos Model Access” to Cabinet members, according to <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Bloomberg</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Apparently, the executive branch is working to get agencies access to <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Anthropic’</strong>s <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claude Mythos</strong> models, which have advanced cyber capabilities. The move comes despite <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Donald Trump</strong> directing federal agencies to cease use of Anthropic’s models in February — after Anthropic’s fight with the DoD over whether their technology would be used for domestic mass surveillance or lethal autonomous weapons. The government has designated the company a supply chain risk, which Anthropic is now fighting in court.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“We’re working closely with model providers, other industry partners, and the intelligence community to ensure the appropriate guardrails and safeguards are in place before potentially releasing a modified version of the model to agencies,” Barbaccia wrote in his email.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Meanwhile, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong> is in <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2a0e6631?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>negotiations</u></a> to deploy its AI on classified <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Pentagon</strong> systems, according to <strong style="font-weight: 700;"><em>The Information</em></strong>. If negotiations go through, they’ll be following the footsteps of <strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI</strong> in signing a clause entitling the government to “all lawful uses” of their system, which Anthropic refused.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Google plans to agree to a standard of “all lawful uses,” and is considering extra contract terms to guard against domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. (Lawyers looking at OpenAI’s similar contract safeguards have expressed doubt that they will prove effective in practice.) </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In 2018, after employee protests, Google had canceled drone-related work on the military’s <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Project Maven</strong>. That year they wrote a series of AI principles, which banned use of AI for drones and surveillance.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Those principles were revised in 2025 to permit more military uses of the technology — and now it seems like the company is going to put those revised principles to work.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Why we’re following:</strong> Even though the U.S. government has tried to break up with Anthropic, federal agencies just can't seem to quit it. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The importance of AI is becoming increasingly obvious to the federal government, particularly for its military and cybersecurity applications. Now that an AI company has a model with hacking abilities as strong as Mythos', agencies seem to have decided they want to maintain a good relationship with its AI developers, even if the president doesn't.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What people are saying: </strong>A statement from the White House <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1c3b25e4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>said</u></a> the Trump administration “continues to work and engage with AI companies to ensure their models help secure critical software vulnerabilities.” It added that the White House “is proactively engaging across government and industry to ensure the United States and Americans are protected.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“I would certainly hope that the current tensions between the Pentagon and Anthropic don’t get in the way of something critically important to cyber security,” <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Glen Gerstell</strong>, former general counsel at the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">National Security Agency</strong>, told <em>Politico</em>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">—<em>Ella Markianos</em></p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/4c/a04c7225-d919-4d78-9b7c-a3fdd071349b/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><h3 id="side-quests" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Side Quests</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Top party consultants are reportedly <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f07c355f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>telling</u></a> Democrats running in November’s midterms not to antagonize pro-AI groups and their $300 million war chest. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Marc Andreessen</strong> and <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Ben Horowitz</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a8b9d5d7?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>have poured</u></a> $25 million into a pro-AI super PAC.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Maine</strong> became the first state to <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e7ffabee?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>enact a ban</u></a> on large data center construction. Voters in <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Virginia</strong>, a data center hub, are turning against data centers, according to a <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/ce7ea93a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>poll</u></a>. The <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Energy Administration</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/ef9dc0e3?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>plans to develop</u></a> a mandatory survey of data centers focused on energy use.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Three major ad companies <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4e167afa?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>settled</u></a> with the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">FTC</strong> over allegations they colluded against conservative publishers.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Ohio</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2752064c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>fined</u></a> <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Kalshi</strong> $5 million for operating illegally in the state. A <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Polymarket</strong> trader <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/84837a22?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>made</u></a> about $300,000 from correctly betting on Biden’s last-minute pardons, raising questions about access to inside information.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Scammers are <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1a9abbaa?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>bypassing</u></a> banks’ security through hacking services sold on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Telegram</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The <strong style="font-weight: 700;">EU</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/62cd63b7?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>unveiled</u></a> an age verification app. Some EU regulators <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4860bafe?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>say</u></a> they’ve been left out of conversations to get access to <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claude Mythos</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Grok</strong> is still making sexual deepfakes despite <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X’s</strong> promises to stop, a review <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f62e2845?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>found</u></a>. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Apple</strong> privately <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/27cfa6ca?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>threatened</u></a> to remove Grok from the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">App Store</strong> in January, Apple told senators. But Apple and <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong> continue to offer nudify apps, a new report <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/32882a19?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>said</u></a>. Nearly 90 schools and 600 students have been impacted by AI deepfake nudes, an analysis <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b0400b3f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>showed</u></a>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">xAI</strong> is reportedly <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/de6d47b2?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>supplying</u></a> coding startup <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Cursor</strong> with computing power. X’s crackdown on bots is also <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2c6dc34f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>purging</u></a> many secret porn feeds.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4248b1b0?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>released</u></a> a major update to<strong style="font-weight: 700;"> Codex</strong>, which can now operate a computer alongside a user. OpenAI <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b37b688d?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>released</u></a> its version of Mythos, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">GPT-5.4-Cyber</strong>, to a select group. The company <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4662b84d?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>acquired</u></a> personal finance startup <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Hiro Finance</strong>. OpenAI <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/93f20e38?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>updated</u></a> its <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Agents SDK</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Meta</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/9272366e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>changed</u></a> its rules to include the word “antifa” as a statement that it believes implies violence. The EU <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/fc7cacfc?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>threatened</u></a> an interim ban on policies that allegedly block AI rivals from operating on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">WhatsApp</strong>. 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