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I find myself thinking about accessibility a lot, and it was hard to not be very annoyed by the truly awful yellow-on-white text here:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html
I genuinely can't read that. And it's on a psychology web site -- psych …

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning | Domain Levels Explained
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a widely recognized hierarchical framework used by educators to classify and structure educational objectives according to their complexity and specificity. This taxonomy encompasses three primary domains: cognitive (intellectual processes), affective (emotional responses and attitudes), and psychomotor (physical skills and abilities).

Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (@anthropicai)
https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2072106151890809341

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on

Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $31M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx

Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for $70-$100 million
The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel following the deal.

DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1vdhnvoge

DataAgent emerges from stealth with $10 million pre-Seed to build self-healing infrastructure
The Israeli startup is taking aim at the cost and complexity of observability by putting autonomous agents directly inside production environments. 

Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission

Air Security, which builds a security service for extensions and other tools installed on AI agents, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Sequoia and Greenoaks (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r13apdnugg

Six-month-old AIR Security raises $50 million to build a firewall for AI agents
The Israeli startup emerged from stealth with research showing thousands of AI add-ons rely on untrusted sources, as companies give autonomous agents access to more data, tools and systems. 

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics

[Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models (Alex Stamos/@alexstamos)
https://x.com/alexstamos/status/2072182629370327335

Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) on X
A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capability beyond what many other models, including Chinese models, could do.

The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c2ace628-7bd9-4f3b-b835-970d6dd930bb

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price and substantially better agentic performance than Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5
Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.