Episode
Of Fables and Mythos
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- Fallthrough
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- Jun 20, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4041
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Summary
Another week, another Fallthrough! In this episode, Kris and Matthew get into the US government slapping export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models, the marketing machine that made them sound world-ending, and how much of the AI hype actually holds up. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes whether your phone is already an extension of your mind and the "Clean Talk" cleaning influencers who will happily tell you to mix two chemicals that quietly kill you, the Egyptologist on a date who proves a person is smart but people are dumb, why we throw you in jail for robbing a bank but only fine you for wrecking the economy, a no-holds-barred roast of Claude Code and the flickering bug that still will not die, and why AI in the creative fields is really just Photoshop with no shortcut to doing good work. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zzMFABZ0Rjs . No episode of the aftershow this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Mythos and Fable, the Export Control, and Anthropic's Marketing Machine (00:02:18) Chapter 2: Freedom of Thought, Safety Gating, and Books in the Library (00:06:40) Chapter 6: Why You Can't Believe the AI Labs: Dogfooding, Lines of Code, and No Profit (00:11:11) Chapter 7: Nobody Knows Where the Ceiling Is, and the Coming Commodity Market (00:20:22) Chapter 8: Local Models, the Chocolate Shop AI Node, and Harness Over Model (00:22:27) Cha…