Show Notes
I am exhausted. We may finally be nearing the end of direct coverage of What Happened with the attack on HuggingFace, and the subsequent near term reactions. That took up a full five posts in the last week:
OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack.
METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack.
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions.
Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems.
That left little room to cover anything else, and now we have to transition to the next wave of model releases.
This week alone we have or likely will have:
Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1. Introducing the world's most powerful model.
Early take is that this is a very good model, the most capable yet, but it is not a step change or ‘moment.’
Gemini 3.8 Flash, by all reports a large step forward for Google.
Muse Spark 1.3, by all reports a large step forward for Meta.
GLM-5.3-Flash, aka 0x Alpha, by all reports a solid step forward for Z.ai.
OpenAI's Astra [...] --- Outline: (03:11) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (03:37) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (03:52) Huh, Upgrades (09:26) On Your Marks (10:47) Choose Your Fighter (10:54) Get My Agent On The Line (11:02) Hugging The Face (11:16) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon (17:05) Copyright Confrontation (18:17) Cyber Lack of Security (22:15) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (26:31) They Took Our Jobs (31:06) Get Involved (32:04) Introducing (32:13) In Other AI News (33:53) Show Me the Money (34:44) Quiet Speculations (36:05) All Bets Are On (39:18) Quickly, There's No Time (41:14) Quickly, There's A New Time Top 100 People In AI (42:34) The Quest for Sane Regulations (45:22) Pick Up the Phone (47:12) Chip City (56:39) The Best Person Should Get The Job (58:40) The Week in Audio (59:53) People Just Say Things (01:00:28) The American People Really Hate AI (01:06:50) The Three AI Pills (01:07:42) Rhetorical Innovation (01:15:28) We Are On Track To Have Fully Sovereign Rogue AIs (01:25:08) When The Going Gets Weird (01:31:32) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult (01:32:12) Shut Up and Do the Impossible (01:34:31) Cooperative Alignment (01:35:44) Split Personality (01:40:45) I Will Stop Anthropomorphizing the AIs When You Stop Anthropomorphizing the Humans (01:44:41) Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This (01:46:27) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:47:30) The Lighter Side ---
First published:
September 3rd, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W4zWCphxQftwum5kc/ai-184-post-post-mortem
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