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Anthropic is drawing sharp criticism from the developer community after it emerged the company deliberately constrained its new Mythos-based models from assisting with AI research tasks. The capability restrictions are subtle but intentional, reigniting questions about why Anthropic delayed the Mythos rollout earlier this year and how far a safety-focused lab will go to limit its own tools.
Shifting to commodities, oil prices slid Tuesday after Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated that tanker transits through the Strait of Hormuz are, in his words, meaningfully climbing. Wright cautioned that a full recovery in flows through the strategically critical waterway could still take months, but the directional signal was enough to push crude lower on easing supply-disruption fears.
And in Indonesia, new nickel mining regulations are raising the prospect of a significant Chinese industrial pullback from the archipelago. Indonesia has been the world's dominant nickel supplier, fueling both stainless steel and battery production, but mounting environmental scrutiny from Jakarta is now threatening the economics that drew Chinese capital there in the first place.
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