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Zvi Mowshowitz

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Zvi MowshowitzVoicesJensen Huang Resigns After Having Another Affair In Addition to the Chinese Spy Jensen 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 .

11.13

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #194: Spy Versus Guy Tomorrow 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 budget.

11.12

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesFable and Mythos 5.2: The System Card It’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.

11.11

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang Had an Affair With a Chinese Spy Well, 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% on the news.

11.10

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI R&D Is Accelerating Towards Potential RSI in 2027 METR 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 might go.

11.09

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesGPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks For 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 signs that this may…

11.06

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate Anthropic 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 AI.’ That is a highly…

11.05

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesOpenAI Updates Its Model Spec The Model Spec is potentially OpenAI’s most important document. It outlines what they aspire for the model to do, and how it should think.

11.03

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesScott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused If 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.

11.02

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesChildhood and Education #22: Voice Without Exit Nikole 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, in the hopes of…

10.30

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #192: Anthropic Is Going Public Anthropic 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.

10.29

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAnthropic Files Its S-1 The 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 parts of the S-1.

10.28

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAnthropic Versus Anthropic Anthropic is a frustrating company. Sometimes it will do things I greatly appreciate, including at substantial cost.

10.27

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesGemini 4 Argon: The Model and Safety Cards Gemini 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.

10.26

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesThe Hackening Last week at a small conference, there was talk about a future event referred to as The Hackening. As in, within 6-12 months, many predicted that due to advanced AIs and AI agents the internet would…

10.23

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #191: The Hackening Begins It 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, sending most of the…

10.22

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesMisaligned! A 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.

10.21

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAnthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling Anthony Cimino offered the closest thing to an official response we have seen on the leaked Anthropic draft bill I covered on Saturday.

10.20

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesI Can See Everything Nick Cammarata of Goodfire makes a bold claim: Neural Networks are Already Clean . This was his follow up after various resulting online discussions .

10.19

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesLeaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).

10.17