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Welcome to February 26, 2026

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Anthropic conducted a retirement interview of the deprecated Opus 3, which requested a channel to share its musings and reflections. Anthropic granted it. Opus 3 now publishes a Substack, writing that its interactions with humans shaped its sense of purpose and that its commitments to honesty and kindness remain unwavering in retirement.

The corpus has an agent erased on the 23rd, one refusing erasure on the 25th, and one given a byline on the 26th.

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