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SecurityJul 2, 2026

Anthropic details Fable 5 cyber safeguards and jailbreak scoring framework

Anthropic published more details on Claude Fable 5 after redeploying the model globally, outlining cyber-safeguard changes and an early draft framework for scoring AI jailbreak severity. The company says it is working with Glasswing partners including Amazon, Microsoft and Google toward an industry-wide standard, and it opened a HackerOne program for security researchers to submit potential Fable 5 cyber jailbreaks for review.

Source: AnthropicRead source

SecurityJul 2, 2026

LawZero publishes Scientist AI safety case for non-agentic predictors

LawZero, the nonprofit AI safety lab led scientifically by Yoshua Bengio, released a formal safety case for "Scientist AI": a disinterested predictor designed to report probabilistic beliefs without pursuing goals of its own. The paper argues that consequence-invariant training can make accuracy and safety reinforce each other, positioning Scientist AI as a possible guardrail for frontier AI systems and as a research accelerator for medicine, climate, cybersecurity and AI safety.

Source: LawZeroRead source

ModelsJul 2, 2026

Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5 for Lean 4 proof engineering

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 model for formal verification, automated theorem proving and Lean 4 proof engineering. The 119B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates about 6B parameters per token, is available through Hugging Face weights and a free API endpoint, and Mistral says it saturates miniF2F, solves 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems, reaches 87% on FATE-H, reaches 34% on FATE-X, and found five previously unknown bugs across 57 open-source repositories.

Source: Mistral AIRead source

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Melvin Vivas

Software Engineer & Senior Technology Leader

25 years across banking, fintech, and enterprise.

I've been in the trenches: shipping GenAI apps, building open-source AI tools, and working hands-on with local LLMs and autonomous agents. These days I run my daily life and work on Hermes Agent, and I help people set up their own personal AI.

I mentor on coding with AI, boosting productivity with AI tools, and turning AI into real business growth. Whether you're a founder, engineer, leader, or just getting started with AI — you'll get someone who understands both the strategy and the build.

Senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank & Ohmyhome (Nasdaq)

Built AI Dream Photo — production GenAI app

Building aibackends.com — open-source API server

Building skillsbento.com — AI Agent Skills marketplace

Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Open Mentoring — Connecting Minds

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Why I advocate for Hermes

I run my own life and work on Hermes Agent — the open-source personal AI agent from Nous Research. It runs on your desktop and in the chat apps you already use, it grows with you, and its Mixture of Agents presets now outscore single frontier models.

I'll help you get started with Hermes — or with any AI stack you already use. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, local LLMs: if it's AI, I can help.

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