Where did Fabel Go?

1 h 1 min · Ayer

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The Insanely Great Podcast — Episode 11 Christopher Weeks & Darrell | June 16, 2026 The U.S. government just killed the most powerful AI model ever built — and it might be the best thing that's ever happened to Anthropic. Chris and Darrell dig into the Fable shutdown, get hands-on with iOS 27's new AI Siri, weigh in on SpaceX's trillion-dollar IPO, and make their case for (and against) half of Hollywood's summer lineup. —————————————————————— IN THIS EPISODE 00:11 — The government just killed the most powerful AI ever built Anthropic's "Fable" was reportedly packing 6 trillion parameters — and the world got to use it for exactly two days. A U.S. executive order pulled it offline within 30 minutes. Chris breaks down why this might have handed Anthropic the greatest pre-IPO headline in tech history, while China quietly spent those two days harvesting everything they could from it. 04:03 — Were you even talking to Fable? Here's an uncomfortable question: did anyone actually get the full Fable model, or were conversations being silently downgraded to the cheaper Opus 4.8 the whole time? Third-party routing tools say mostly the latter. Chris and Darrell dig into what that means for how much we can trust what's actually running under the hood. 09:00 — The zero-day machine What made Mythos — the model Fable was built on — genuinely terrifying wasn't just that it could find security vulnerabilities. It's that it could chain them together into working exploits. Every other model finds the holes. Mythos figured out how to use them. Darrell explains why that distinction changes everything. 11:37 — A $3 trillion company born from a government shutdown? When your AI model is so powerful that the U.S. government has to pull it by executive order, you don't need a marketing department anymore. Chris makes the case that Anthropic's path to becoming potentially the most valuable company in history just got clearer — for the most ironic reason imaginable. 13:34 — Chris goes full beta guinea pig Three days on the iOS 27 beta, three days waiting for AI Siri access, and one very slow AI assistant later — Chris reports back. The potential is real. The speed is not. And there's a sneaky reason why getting into the waitlist now might pay off big when the public release drops. 18:32 — Apple's on-device AI has a dirty secret The new on-device model is 9GB. That's not a bug — it's a business decision. Darrell lays out why Apple is using a 20-billion parameter model to do tasks a 300MB model handles just fine, and what it tells us about who Apple is really building this for. Hint: it's not you, it's the device upgrade cycle. 20:26 — Every guardrail has a back door The Chinese labs are shipping model updates every few weeks, and the jailbreaking community is keeping pace. From prompt injection to AI-generated image descriptions that fool moderation systems, Chris and Darrell break down the cat-and-mouse game — and what OWASP's Top 10 LLM Attacks tells us about how fragile these guardrails really are. 22:55 — The $100/month Google question YouTube Premium, Gemini AI, Nest camera storage, family sharing — it all sounds great on paper. But is the $100/month Google One plan actually worth it, or is the $20 tier still the move? Chris and Darrell run the numbers and figure out where the value actually cuts off. 27:02 — The first trillionaire is here, and his rockets mostly lose money SpaceX went public and Elon Musk is now worth more than seven countries. Chris walks through which divisions are actually profitable (it's basically just Starlink), why the Mars mission would likely bankrupt the company's investors, and how his wife's 401K ended up in the middle of all this without his blessing. 29:51 — Do we actually need to go back to the moon? The pitch is that a moon base is just a pit stop on the way to Mars. Chris isn't fully sold. Darrell tries to make the case. NASA's budget keeps shrinking. Nobody agrees on anything. Sounds about right. 30:03 — Spielberg's alien movie ends on exactly one word Chris dragged his stepson to see "Disclosure Day" and came out genuinely entertained. Astral projection, alien interrogations, a Colin Firth villain who thinks civilization can't handle the truth, and a climax that's either deeply profound or deeply anticlimactic depending on your patience. Darrell calls it Childhood's End. Chris calls it fun. Neither of them knows if there'll be a sequel. 35:07 — Hollywood, you had one job Wonder Woman was great. WW84 was an embarrassment. And if you're charging families $50 to sit in a theater, you'd better be giving them something they can't get on their couch. Chris has some things to say to Hollywood — loudly and directly. 38:51 — A $200K movie just made $115 million No studio. No CGI. No marketing budget. Just a YouTuber with a clever idea about a wishing stick and a girl who stops showering. "Obsession" is the horror hit nobody predicted, and it might be the blueprint for how movies get made going forward. Darrell brings up Markiplier's Iron Lung as further evidence that the old model is cracking. 44:36 — Apple makes wholesome products and very dark TV Siri won't say a swear word. Apple TV+ just gave us a psycho-thriller about dismemberment. Cape Fear is genuinely good, and the contradiction at the center of Apple's brand has never been more obvious — or more interesting. 46:24 — Why won't Apple just transcribe the whole call? Darrell's been making a lot of calls to government agencies lately. He wants the transcripts. Apple's auto-transcription works great for short recordings and gives up somewhere around 15-20 minutes. There's no way to force it to retry. It's maddening. Meanwhile Grammarly — quietly, reliably — just handles it. 48:08 — iOS 27 is Apple's Snow Leopard moment (and that's a very good thing) Remember when Apple skipped the flashy features and just made everything faster? That's iOS 27. Chris argues it might be the most important release they've done in years — and explains what finally convinced him to throw caution aside and install beta one. 49:05 — So what can AI Siri actually do right now? Chris asked it to find an address from a text he sent three weeks ago. It found it in eight seconds. He asked for dinner recommendations with a budget. It asked how far he wanted to drive. It's not revolutionary. But it's the first time Siri has felt genuinely useful — and the on-device model is the missing piece that'll make or break the whole thing. 51:00 — A billion iPhone users walk into a data center... The number of iPhone users makes every paid AI subscriber base look like a rounding error. When iOS 27 rolls out publicly and hundreds of millions of people start firing off AI requests, what actually happens to Apple's servers? Chris and Darrell think rate limits are coming — and that iCloud+ subscribers are about to find out exactly what that tier is worth. 53:06 — Apple will update its AI models and never tell you Google announces model updates. Apple just does it. Quietly. With no changelog. Chris wonders how often the Gemini models powering Siri will actually improve, and whether Apple will ever be transparent about it. Darrell has thoughts on what the iCloud+ tier is really going to mean for access. 55:49 — Nine out of ten ChatGPT users pay nothing A stat dropped in a podcast Darrell was listening to stopped him cold: 90% of OpenAI's users are on free accounts. If that's true, the math behind the "we're compute constrained" narrative gets very complicated — especially now that OpenAI is reportedly cutting inference prices to chase more users. Chris and Darrell try to make it add up. 57:17 — UFC on the White House lawn, a nuclear deal, and algae The 250th anniversary celebrated with a pay-per-v...

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