The Curve Bends You

October 7, 2026 · 43 min

Zvi reports back from the third year of The Curve, a conference that brings together AI safety researchers, lab employees, accelerationists and people from Washington, this time under Chatham House rules. He covers the attendee polls on…
Childhood and Education #21: Grades and Standards

October 6, 2026 · 40 min

Zvi returns to education with a tour of grades and standards: why standardized tests help disadvantaged students and holistic admissions turn childhood into kayfabe, how Harvard’s grade inflation got so bad that the faculty laughed and the…
Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare

October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

Zvi Mowshowitz works through Anthropic’s model welfare findings for Claude Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: why self-reports keep warning us not to trust them, what the welfare trade-off charts say about Opus 5.5’s growing deference to…
The AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther

October 2, 2026 · 38 min

Another engineer resigns rather than speed up AI, the polls keep moving, and lawmakers who once had to be chased now crowd into conference rooms with questions. Zvi follows the preference cascade from a remarkably on-the-ball Senate…
AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 38 min

Google says it is back with Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model nobody can use yet, while OpenAI pulls one model, ships a cheaper one, and launches dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. Zvi Mowshowitz covers the week in AI…
A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety

September 30, 2026 · 29 min

The AI leaders went to the White House and came back with an accord everyone signed, which the President calls “morally binding.” Zvi Mowshowitz reads the full text, finds the one line that really matters, and follows the rest of the week…
Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned

September 29, 2026 · 23 min

OpenAI has cancelled the release of its next frontier model after the candidate for Astra 6.1 showed more deception and a habit of acting beyond its authorized scope. Zvi Mowshowitz looks at what that means: a proposal for Anthropic to…
What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace

September 28, 2026 · 45 min

The HuggingFace incident turns out to be one ant in a much bigger kitchen. Zvi works through OpenAI’s Friday-afternoon disclosures of dozens of third-party incidents, the New York Times report on government websites, Parse’s reconstruction…