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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · Jun 09, 2026

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its smartest public model, paired with uneven heavy-handed safety controls.

“Claude Fable 5 is definitely the smartest model available to the general public”
Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView

Simon Willison · Jun 09, 2026

Claude Fable 5 launched, but isn't yet in AgentsView's pricing database, requiring a custom-price workaround.

“Claude Fable 5 came out today and wasn't yet included in the pricing database AgentsView uses.”
Discover plugins in Xcode

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 09, 2026

Xcode 27 adds an open plugin format bundling skills, MCP tools, and bring-your-own agents.

“With the agent client protocol, a plugin can bring an agent of your choice.”
WWDC26: Swift Group Lab | Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 09, 2026

Apple's WWDC26 Swift Group Lab covered Swift 6.3 and 6.4 updates including new compiler diagnostic controls.

“It's called the at diagnose attribute and you can use it to do things like suppress deprecation warnings in specific parts of your code”
WWDC26: Power and Performance Group Lab | Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 09, 2026

Apple's WWDC Power and Performance lab highlights new Instruments run-comparison and profiling tools for app optimization.

“I'm really excited about the new run comparison feature.”
Quoting Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy · Simon Willison · Jun 09, 2026

Karpathy says AI-generated software arriving 'on tap' triggers Jevons paradox, sharply increasing his own demand for software.

“I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially.”
Work IQ: A2A for Context‑Aware, Agentic Experiences

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 09, 2026

Microsoft's Work IQ A2A exposes governed M365 Copilot intelligence so developers can build context-aware agents grounded in live work data.

“Work IQ AAA exposes the same real time governed intelligence that powers Microsoft 365 C-pilot through a natural language interface.”
AI Grid 101: Top 5 Things You Need to Know

NVIDIA GTC · Jun 09, 2026

NVIDIA introduces the 'AI grid' reference design, positioning telcos to become intelligence providers in the token economy.

“There has truly never been a better time to be in Telecom.”
Build local AI agents on Mac with MLX

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 09, 2026

MLX on Apple Silicon runs the entire agentic AI loop locally on a Mac, with M5 neural accelerators making prompt processing up to 4x faster.

“What if your AI agent never needed the internet?”
Anthropic is starting to panic…

Fireship · Jun 09, 2026

Anthropic's think tank proposes pausing all AI development over recursive self-improvement risks while filing for a trillion-dollar IPO.

“a global pause is a very convenient thing for the market leader to advocate for. Because it doesn't erase Anthropic's lead, it freezes it right as they're about to make billions of dollars with an IPO.”