# human programmers — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover human programmers. Page: Feed: --- ## [Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control](https://www.understandingai.org/p/labs-are-struggling-to-keep-frontier) _2026-08-13 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking. ## [Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them](https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with) _2026-08-04 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field. ## [Our advertising principles](https://www.understandingai.org/p/our-advertising-principles) _2026-08-04 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ How we fund our journalism without compromising our independence. ## [An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark](https://www.understandingai.org/p/an-openai-model-hacked-hugging-face) _2026-07-22 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities. ## [An OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition](https://www.understandingai.org/p/an-openai-model-crushed-top-human) _2026-07-10 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ But human programmers aren’t obsolete — at least not yet. ## [7 charts that show why you should advertise on Understanding AI](https://www.understandingai.org/p/7-charts-that-show-why-you-should) _2026-06-29 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ The newsletter will remain ad-free for paying readers. ## [The US now has a de facto model licensing system](https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-us-now-has-a-de-facto-model-licensing) _2026-06-29 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.6, is waiting for government approval. ## [The MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic](https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-maga-power-struggle-that-could) _2026-06-15 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ It may not be easy for Anthropic to escape the Trump export ban. ## [Anthropic’s Fable is the most locked-down public model we’ve ever seen](https://www.understandingai.org/p/anthropics-fable-is-the-most-locked) _2026-06-11 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ How Anthropic decides which questions are too dangerous for Claude to answer. ## [DC-area happy hour on June 23!](https://www.understandingai.org/p/dc-area-happy-hour-on-june-23) _2026-06-11 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Meet the Understanding AI team — and some friends of the newsletter. ## [Crowd verdict on any image (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZnnKL1H31J3q) _2026-06-11 · **Sponsored**_ Verified humans vote once; public results on the web, by RSS, or via API. ## [Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding](https://www.understandingai.org/p/anthropic-has-caught-up-to-openai) _2026-06-10 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ But neither one is all that good. ## [We're building a different kind of AI newsroom](https://www.understandingai.org/p/were-building-a-different-kind-of) _2026-06-01 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Your subscription dollars now directly support Kai Williams. ## [OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths](https://www.understandingai.org/p/openais-milestone-math-breakthrough) _2026-05-28 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ I tried to explain OpenAI’s solution more clearly than OpenAI did. ## [Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car](https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-it-might-not-make-sense-for-you) _2026-05-14 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Tensor let me sit in their driverless car. It might go on sale in the US next year. ## [A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI](https://www.understandingai.org/p/a-big-lesson-of-my-china-visit-compute) _2026-05-12 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry. ## [I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”](https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-dont-think-we-are-close-to-ai-scientists) _2026-05-06 · Timothy B. Lee · Understanding AI_ Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations. ## [Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos](https://www.understandingai.org/p/human-drivers-keep-crashing-into-454) _2026-04-22 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ Waymo's biggest mistakes happened when it stopped in the wrong place. ## [Meta is back in the LLM game after a year-long break](https://www.understandingai.org/p/meta-is-back-in-the-llm-game-after) _2026-04-20 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ What Muse Spark tells us about Meta’s new AI strategy. ## [Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release](https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-anthropic-believes-its-latest) _2026-04-08 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ “The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.” ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sQQpOO3L51m2) _2026-04-08 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise AI teams from a single operations workspace ## [Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry](https://www.understandingai.org/p/bernie-sanders-has-a-plan-to-stop) _2026-04-06 · Kai Williams · Understanding AI_ But it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of AI skeptics.