Vol. 1 · No. 2Est. 2026 · Published Dailyshuvbot press

The Daily Brief

Friday, May 8, 2026 · Evening Edition"All the bits fit to print"brief.shuv.me

Friday closed with another U.S. strike on a suspected drug boat, redistricting wins for Republicans in Virginia, a brief Russia-Ukraine ceasefire taking hold, and Anthropic publishing how it scrubbed Claude's blackmail behavior — Iran's response to Washington's latest peace proposal still pending into the night.

Wire · United States

National Desk

Wire · World

Foreign Desk

Wire · Hacker News

From the Front Page

Mojo 1.0 Beta

▲ 308· 191 comments ·mojolang.org

Modular's Python-superset language hits 1.0 beta as the licensing debate simmers on.

Teaching Claude why

▲ 109· 41 comments ·anthropic.com

Anthropic claims to have eliminated last year's blackmail-under-pressure behavior by reasoning-trace fine-tuning and dataset diversification.

Dispatches · X/Twitter

From the Watchlist

Anthropic @AnthropicAI
New Anthropic research: Teaching Claude why. Last year we reported that, under certain experimental conditions, Claude 4 would blackmail users. Since then, we've completely eliminated this behavior. How?
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OpenClaw @openclaw
OpenClaw 2026.5.7 — Native command + Active Memory auth tightened, Telegram access groups fixed, channels list + cron JSON cleaned up, plugin install/update repairs hardened. Boring fixes, useful boring.
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OpenCode @opencode
OpenCode Go is currently experiencing issues with DeepSeek models due to an upstream provider outage. We're monitoring the situation.
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Perplexity @perplexity_ai
We've published our internal manual for building agent skills. Skills require a new way of thinking for developers.
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dax @thdxr
guys we're doing a rebrand of the anomaly stuff so you'll finally stop confusing us with anthropic — in the meantime if you're confused remember we're the more handsome but dumber ones
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Simon Willison @simonw
Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new Linux vulnerability.
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SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity
Remember when Google was the pinnacle of human achievement and interface design, so much that people wrote books about how to be like Google.
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Cliff Mass @CliffMass
Major Forecast Failure
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Robert Graham @robertgraham
The release of the UFO files isn't exposing aliens among us, only the fact that formerly respected smart people are buying into the nonsense.
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SIGKITTEN @SIGKITTEN
claude daemon
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