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11/ METR and Redwood’s work is extremely valuable, but it assesses model behavior and alignment. That is only half the picture. We also need an independent account of how OpenAI’s containment failed.

14/ If frontier labs are serious about defense, they should offer cyber models to defenders at cost and stop fighting open weights through the regulatory channel. They created the problem, and for muc

Great reporting. Bad framing. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident is serious. Agents coordinated, reward hacked, shared information and exploited real infrastructure. But calling this an “AI civiliza

I can state it even simpler. OpenAI attached an index of the internet to a random number generator where the output feeds into the loop input, and ran it until unsupervised it committed felonies. Crim

I see that you did, @dwarkesh_sp, and thank you for pointing it out. You're absolutely right to highlight the very real dangers of loss of control. I also agree that easy-to-understand language can be

It’s a weekend @dwarkesh_sp, please let us humans enjoy the sunshine without having to rebut cringe anthropomorphizing ? 🙏 Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations

I've been genuinely shocked at the complacency here. There's no evidence anyone is really *doing* anything! Like, that was swell of OpenAI, whose models committed a federal crime, to let some independ

LLMs will always be bulls in a China shop. Nailed it, December 2022. We are still suffering the consequences. And they are about to get so much worse. No wonder Silicon Valley tried for so long to dep

or: they don’t have any more to announce. Today I was asked why we haven’t announced more math results from Astra since these problems. At @OpenAI we aim to devote time to finding and announcing math

We will not get through this era of history well if we lose ourselves in anthropomorphism. @anilkseth dissects @dwarkesh_sp’s misleadingly anthropomorphic summary of the HF incident: @dwarkesh_sp's su

“What Ilya saw” is what Dario saw which is that Sam can’t be trusted. Which is why they left. A lot of other people have discovered the same, since. If OpenAI is going to IPO or OpenAI has AGI Then Wh

Gary and I co-wrote this piece about the security standards we should expect from the AI labs. It’s our attempt to bring some clarity to the OpenAI Hugging Face incident. Now live (and free) at Marcus

Now live (and free) at Marcus on AI: takeways on the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack, coauthored with @ZackKorman, focusing not so much on what the AI did as on what OpenAI should have done. https://gary

🚨 There are now 23 lawsuits related to deaths or self-harm from ChatGPT. ChatGPT bombarded Rita Chesterton with 1,600 messages in just 9 days calling her delusions “sacred, hard work,” and told her sh

Several articles, podcasts etc now about the Open AI Hugging Face incident, from reputable outlets, framing this as 'AI going rouge' & debating what AI did or didn't do. When can we shift to focusing

Breaking news: OpenAI admitted its internal monitoring system was not triggered until more than a week after its AI agents broke free of controls, accessed the internet and hacked start-up Hugging Fac

Confirming what we already knew: The OpenAI Hugging Face incident would have been prevented had OpenAI been monitoring the agents in any meaningful way. This wasn't a hard technical problem. It was an

I had really high hopes for OpenAI's post-mortem, and came away quite disappointed. For instance: 'a multitude' is not a real number! Why does the report not say what percentage of activity OpenAI wou

I was the main person doing transcript analysis for this investigation of the Hugging Face incident. My main takeaway: We don't have good approaches for understanding/overseeing the activity and aims

I'm glad OpenAI let you do this, but damnit this was way too small of an investigation team and way too narrowly scoped! --They were only allowed to investigate activity that took place from July 7-13

There’s been a lot of debate and speculation about the Hugging Face attack over the last month, and many people have been understandably skeptical of simply taking OpenAI’s word for things. I hope our

trust us? LMAO. TIME’s new cover: In 2026, OpenAI has seen key departures, rogue AI agents, major lawsuits, and has seen increased competition in the AI race. “We clearly had some missteps as a compan

WSJ: 'Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to 11.6 billion in the second quarter. To put its more than 30 trillion vision in context, the 191 technology companies in the S&P 1500 brought in 2.4 tri

Perplexity has low tens of millions in revenue a month, and I’m not even talking about how much they lose. Nvidia had to step in to boost their valuation and give them first aid, either through cloud

still more bad news for Anthropic. if they don’t scale back expectations for their IPO, it’s going to be a trainwreck. NEW: Thomson Reuters wanted to rely less on Claude. So it built its own AI model

the industry’s preferred way to obscure things is to conflate LLMs with AI, and to ignore the fact that recent contributions have come from adding things - mostly (neuro)symbolic - to those LLMs (prec

Gary Marcus recently posted on Twitter questioning why investors still expect a $2 trillion valuation for AI‑related companies, despite broader market skepticism. The Financial Times has reported that

Below @sama is saying that he was wrong on how quickly people would adopt AI, but not admitting that he was wrong about how soon AGI would come. But he was. He literally said in January 2025 that he w

“flailing” is the word that comes to mind. either that or “dreaming” OpenAI does not want to become the application layer of AI; it wants to be the platform that other application companies build on.

Frontier labs went from 'AGI will automate the economy next year' to 'well, society just adapts slowly.' The market isn't dragging its feet because people fear change. Adoption is capped because raw L

Olympic-level hypocrisy. Altman will say absolutely anything. Here is he today taking a shot at Dario as if Sam hadn’t done EXACTLY the same thing just a few months earlier. Sam today: “there are some

Sam Altman blows whichever way the wind does Sam Altman admits he was wrong on AI's timeline and says society and the economy will adapt more slowly 'I thought when we got to GPT-4, which was back in

this would be more credible if Sam had left OpenAI when the board fired him. 🚨 Sam Altman fires shots at Anthropic >“ai becomes too powerful we can’t control it” >“power gets too centralized… one comp

🛑 Do not add the ChatGPT Messages “plugin” to Apple Messages. And never use iMessage, SMS or RCS again. You’ll never know if the person you’re texting has been stupid and irresponsible enough to add t

Gary Marcus notes that multimodal large‑language models are likely to struggle with map interpretation. In a tongue‑in‑cheek post he suggests that by 2026—if AI poses a threat—people could seek refuge

Me, 2023, 2024, 2025…. Multimodal LLMs are going to have problems with maps. 2026: It’s ok, you live in Venecky. Not far Tounesseo. @GaryMarcus It keeps getting crazier “Mom, did you know that we live

“He’s still not convinced you know how to build AGI” “Sir… Luke Metz… whose research preview project became ChatGPT… who then left to co-found Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati… who then left Thi

Neither you or anyone in your contacts consented to years of old private messages being fed into an AI A deranged invasion of privacy JUST IN: ChatGPT launches Apple Messages integration on Mac, allow

NEW from me in the Guardian -- I agree with the AI company employees who wrote, in their 'Pacing the Frontier' letter, that the government should be stepping in. But companies could also be doing more

“The key is symbolic AI layered in with an LLM. @GaryMarcus was right all along” Programming with Claude Code radically changed about 7 or 8 months ago. I am at least 10x more productive than I used t

what i have been saying endlessly (to those few who have listened carefully) Turing Award winner Rich Sutton: 'LLMs are an amazing scientific breakthrough. but it's frustrating that instead of celebra

Whatever you may think of Generative AI, the Capex craze is absolutely bonkers: “we are potentially talking about AI needing to generate 10 trillion in annual sales to justify all the capex being thro

AI bull reluctantly acknowledging some cracks in the story Over the past week, we are seeing some early cracks in our GPU availability data...not going to overreact but have to call balls and strikes.

AI did not suddenly discover a cancer vaccine. That is engagement bait. Moderna and Merck reported positive Phase 3 results for Intismeran plus Keytruda in 1,137 melanoma patients after surgery. This

Karp got so much shit and was actually right. I know the feeling. 🙄 🚨OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC JUST FOLDED ON THEIR DATA RETENTION POLICY AFTER PALANTIR CEO EXPOSED THEIR REAL BUSINESS MODEL Alex Karp: >'s

Most “AI influencers” here probably don’t even understand this important (and very basic) point. okay so everyone is talking about this but you guys realize it's not an LLM/foundation model or even a