Mistral and Anthropic Face Regulatory Friction While Heretic Grimoire Shields Uncensored Models

Policy & Regulation

Anthropic Negotiates with White House Over Restricted Models: Senior Anthropic staff are meeting with White House officials to resolve disputes regarding the Fable 5 and Mythos AI models. These models were previously taken offline due to safety concerns and export restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

• Senior Anthropic staffs are in Washington meeting White House officials to resolve the Fable 5 and Mythos dispute

Mistral AI's Le Chaton Fat Suspended Under EU AI Act: Mistral AI has suspended its Le Chaton Fat model in the EU after it was deemed to exceed "high-impact" capability thresholds. The company is currently in discussions with EU institutions to reassess the directive that requires the model to be disabled for European customers.

• EU to Le Chaton Fat: "You’re too heavy for our regulations"

Local AI & Open Source Tools

Heretic Grimoire Launches as Takedown-Resilient Model Backup: The Heretic Grimoire is a new local-first system designed to preserve access to uncensored AI models even if they are removed from platforms like Hugging Face. It utilizes small metadata files to enable the reproduction and storage of models with high resilience.

• Introducing the Heretic Grimoire: The takedown-resilient, local-first backup system that keeps uncensored models available forever
  • https://heretic-project.org
  • https://huggingface.co/spaces/heretic-org/Heretic-Grimoire
  • https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/releases/tag/v1.4.0
  • https://heretic-project.org/security

llama.cpp Adds Support for Command A Plus and EAGLE Decoding: The llama.cpp library has been updated to support GGUF versions of the Command A Plus model for local inference. Additionally, the integration of the EAGLE speculative decoding method now allows for significantly faster token prediction and overall inference speeds.

• Command A Plus GGUFs posted
• EAGLE support merged into llama.cpp
  • https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/tag/b9606

AI Applications

Ironsmith Enables AI-Driven macOS App Creation: Ironsmith is an open-source macOS application that uses an agentic loop to generate personalized software from natural language prompts. It is designed to work with small-scale models like Gemma 4 E2B to produce fully formatted and compilable code.

• Made a macOS app that creates highly personal macOS apps. Works with models as small as Gemma 4 E2B
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/s/dIXIXJzrcg
  • https://github.com/Jeidoban/Ironsmith
  • https://ironsmith.app