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- “Jensen Huang Resigns After Having Another Affair In Addition to the Chinese Spy” by Zvi · 56 minJensen Huang has resigned as CEO of Nvidia and left its board. CFO Colette Kress will be interim CEO. Here is a quick profile of Kress. Here is a look at some of the potential…
- “AI #194: Spy Versus Guy” by Zvi · 1 h 25 minTomorrow I head to Washington DC for a conference called The Takeoff. If you are there, do come say hello. I will be giving a talk on how to keep up with AI given a limited time…
- “Fable and Mythos 5.2: The System Card” by Zvi · 56 minIt's that time again: Introducing the world's most powerful model, Claude Mythos 5.2. At this point I’ve done a lot of these system cards. Thus I focus on what is new. There…
- “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Had an Affair With a Chinese Spy” by Zvi · 42 minWell, sure, it sounds bad when you put it like that. It is indeed quite bad. National security has been compromised. He must resign. Nvidia underperformed the Nasdaq roughly 7%…
- “AI R&D Is Accelerating Towards Potential RSI in 2027” by Zvi · 1 h 18 minMETR came out with an extensive report on how much AI is accelerating AI R&D at Anthropic, and thus how close we might be to recursive self-improvement (RSI) and how far that…
- “GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks” by Zvi · 24 minFor a while, UK AISI, Redwood Research and others have been concerned specifically with the possibility that AIs would sabotage safety research, and have invested in looking for…
- “AI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate” by Zvi · 60 minAnthropic is warning us. Its modified S-1 now says that ‘we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy's definition of ‘dramatically accelerated progress attributable to…
- “OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec” by Zvi · 31 minThe Model Spec is potentially OpenAI's most important document. It outlines what they aspire for the model to do, and how it should think. I’ve already covered a previous…
- “Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused” by Zvi · 1 h 6 minIf you are helping build something that might kill everyone, maybe stop doing that. Ideally, when you do stop, tell everyone else to also stop building it. That is certainly…
- “Childhood and Education #22: Voice Without Exit” by Zvi · 45 minNikole Hannah-Jones wrote a brave self-critical piece in The New York Times, centrally about how she intentionally sent her daughter to a well-funded but failing school, PS 307…
- “AI #192: Anthropic Is Going Public” by Zvi · 1 h 48 minAnthropic filed its S-1 this week to prepare for its IPO. They still have to fill a lot of the numbers including the share price. That still left a lot to be learned, including…
- “Anthropic Files Its S-1” by Zvi · 1 h 17 minThe full text is finally here, so we are giving it the full RTFB of model card treatment. First, a recap of the state of Anthropic finances, then a close reading of the relevant…
- “Anthropic Versus Anthropic” by Zvi · 49 minAnthropic is a frustrating company. Sometimes it will do things I greatly appreciate, including at substantial cost. They have taken bold stands, have a unique governance…
- “Gemini 4 Argon: The Model and Safety Cards” by Zvi · 1 h 6 minGemini 4's model card is a compact 14 pages. Its safety and security report has 217. This is The Way. It also means we have a lot of new reading material. I will quickly…
- “The Hackening” by Zvi · 51 minLast week at a small conference, there was talk about a future event referred to as The Hackening. As in, within 6 to 12 months, many predicted that due to advanced AIs and AI…
- “AI #191: The Hackening Begins” by Zvi · 1 h 26 minIt was the probably worst day in cybersecurity history. So far. Not only is there a critical flaw in PHP that due to a leak was announced a day before the fix would be available…
- “Misaligned!” by Zvi · 20 minA lot of AIs were misaligned this week. A fun little survey. This is not coverage of The Hackening, which appears to have arrived early, including a core vulnerability in PHP…
- “Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling” by Zvi · 27 minAnthony Cimino offered the closest thing to an official response we have seen on the leaked Anthropic draft bill I covered on Saturday. His response indicates that Anthropic…
- “I Can See Everything” by Zvi · 1 h 3 minNick Cammarata of Goodfire makes a bold claim: Neural Networks are Already Clean. This was his follow up after various resulting online discussions. This is clearly good work…
- “Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling” by Zvi · 15 minThere is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed). It is similar to the FRONTIER Act, with stronger preemption of…
