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About the show
Narrations of articles covering the May-July 2026 OpenAI–Hugging Face incident. Includes the investigations from METR and Redwood Research, analysis from folks like Ajeya Cotra, Dwarkesh and Zvi, the best of LessWrong, and OpenAI's own blog posts.
Compiled by Peter Hartree.