# ai #179 (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai #179. Page: Feed: --- ## [METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem) _2026-08-29 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. ## [OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-offers-straight-laced-postmortem) _2026-08-28 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research. ## [AI #183: Pre Post Mortem](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-183-pre-post-mortem) _2026-08-27 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research. ## [Against Modesty’s Bailey](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/against-modestys-bailey) _2026-08-26 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Modesty arguments often say that you should mostly or entirely bow to ‘expert consensus’ or the views of particular others, and who are you to disagree. ## [On Writing #3](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-writing-3) _2026-08-25 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective. ## [The American People Really Hate Data Centers](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-american-people-really-hate-data) _2026-08-24 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ There are at least five different core questions around data centers and their politics. ## [AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-text-watermarking-is-free-and) _2026-08-21 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner. ## [AI #182: Pause For Reflection](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-182-pause-for-reflection) _2026-08-20 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward. ## [OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-takes-initial-steps-to-address) _2026-08-19 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision. ## [Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-risk-report-august-2026) _2026-08-18 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SmWGJgVImZEb) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan Greenblatt](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-podcast-with-ryan) _2026-08-15 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Some podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance. ## [AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-181-astra-goes-cyber-critical) _2026-08-13 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters. ## [Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-45-august-2026) _2026-08-12 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI. ## [Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/various-reflections-about-what-happened) _2026-08-11 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Pre Post Mortem ## [The Pacing of the Frontier](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-pacing-of-the-frontier) _2026-08-10 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so. ## [What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happened-openai-and-huggingface) _2026-08-08 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened. ## [OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-months) _2026-08-07 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know? ## [AI #180: No Longer In Charge](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-180-no-longer-in-charge) _2026-08-06 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the Vase_ What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse.