The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered.
Understanding AI · Timothy B. Lee
An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark
Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities.
ChinaTalk · Jordan Schneider
WarTalk: Groundhog Day in Iran, Rogue AI, Ukraine
I guess we're doing this again..
Latent Space
Inside the Model Factory. Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model.. and this is just the beginning.
Simon Willison
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources.
Understanding AI · Timothy B. Lee
The US now has a de facto model licensing system
OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.6, is waiting for government approval.
ChinaTalk · Jordan Schneider
AI + Nukes $20k Essay Contest!
Read this edition from ChinaTalk.
AI Snake Oil · Sayash Kapoor
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
The importance of independent evaluation
Interconnects · Nathan Lambert
How open model ecosystems compound
Further reflections on China's high-participation, open-first AI ecosystem.
Silicon Valley Girl · Silicon Valley Girl
Start a $10K/Month AI Business in 90 Days. No Code, No Team
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
IBM Misses, IBM’s Mainframe Moat, IBM’s Many AI Problems
IBM announced preliminary results that spooked the software market generally; this is a story, however, specifically about IBM and its mainframe franchise.
Latent Space
Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience. Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.
Dwarkesh Podcast · Dwarkesh Patel
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI
An interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field about building Figma, and why he believes AI gives the company a tailwind.
Worth knowing
Latent Space · Latent.Space
[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace
The Big Pause is coming.
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