Blockspace: Why Anthropic Axed Mythos/Fable 5, IREN Seals 490MW Nostrum Acquisition, EPA Won’t Regulate Data Centers
Anthropic pulled the plug on its Mythos / Fable 5 model after the U.S. government raised concerns, and IREN has completed its acquisition of Nostrum for 490 MW of capacity in Spain.
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Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic and Uncle Sam are trading blows again, with the frontier LLM company pulling its recently released Mythos / Fable 5 model after whistleblowers said the model’s guardrails were bypassed. Lygos Finance’s CEO Jay Patel joins us for his reaction to the news and the market rally with a reported, imminent peace deal coming for the Iran War this week. For other news, we cover IREN’s closing its acquisition of Nostrum, which will give it a 490 MW foothold in Spain for AI data center development, and the EPA’s stance that it won’t regulate AI data centers.
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