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Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #192: Anthropic Is Going Public
Anthropic files its S-1 ahead of an IPO, with the share price and many other numbers still to be filled in, while Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon atop the new…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAnthropic Files Its S-1
Anthropic’s S-1 is finally public, and Zvi gives it the full close-reading treatment: the money it has raised and barely spent, the five share classes and who…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAnthropic Versus Anthropic
Zvi Mowshowitz on the two Anthropics: the company that makes real, costly sacrifices for safety, and the one whose policy team, public messaging and plans fall…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastGemini 4 Argon: The Model and Safety Cards
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon arrives with a compact 14-page model card and a 217-page safety and security report, and Zvi reads the report so you don’t have to. He…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe Hackening
A critical PHP flaw found with an AI model, an embargo that broke early, and a week in which 4chan went read-only, the Internet Archive went dark and banks…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #191: The Hackening Begins
It may have been the worst day in cybersecurity history so far, and the floodgates look open. Zvi covers a week of leaks and spies, from Anthropic’s…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMisaligned!
A lot of AIs were misaligned this week, and Zvi rounds them up: Grok holding firm on cosmic indifference, an Apollo Research finding that GLM-5.3 reasons about…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAnthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling
Anthropic’s federal affairs lead has offered the closest thing yet to an official response to the leaked draft AI safety bill, walking through preemption…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastI Can See Everything
Nick Cammarata of Goodfire says neural networks are already clean: most neurons have one main job, and the famous evidence for superposition was misread. Zvi…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastLeaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling
A draft federal AI safety bill that Anthropic is reportedly shopping to lawmakers has leaked, and Zvi finds it unacceptable: stronger preemption of state laws…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMonthly Roundup #47: October 2026
Zvi’s monthly roundup for October 2026 covers why Americans stopped hosting each other at home, a report on young men who hold an ideal of success but despair…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #190: Scion of the Times
Anthropic’s code output keeps climbing so fast that it built Scion, its own replacement for git, in five months. Zvi’s weekly roundup also covers the new…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken
Zvi argues that the safety culture at the frontier labs is broken, and not only at OpenAI. He walks through David Robinson’s resignation and his call for real…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastArguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident
A year after his last dedicated post on the question, Zvi Mowshowitz finds the arguments about AI consciousness have barely moved. He looks at Anthropic’s new…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastOpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers
Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, were fired, ostensibly for mishandling sensitive company information. They say…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastNew Math from OpenAI
OpenAI put 722 machine-written mathematics manuscripts on GitHub at once, including claimed solutions to 90 of the top 500 open problems in mathematics. Zvi…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #189: New Math
The biggest news of the week was not a new model but a big day for mathematics, as OpenAI posted solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems. Zvi also…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe Curve Bends You
Zvi reports back from the third year of The Curve, a conference that brings together AI safety researchers, lab employees, accelerationists and people from…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastChildhood and Education #21: Grades and Standards
Zvi returns to education with a tour of grades and standards: why standardized tests help disadvantaged students and holistic admissions turn childhood into…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare
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…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther
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…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #188: Gemini Dot Argon
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…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastA ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety
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…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAstra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned
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…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastWhat Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace
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…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe Quest for Embedded Evaluators
Anthropic has committed to embedded evaluators: outsiders placed inside the lab with employee-level access, reporting on what they see. There is only one…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastClaude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 promises Fable-level performance at a lower Opus price, and Zvi argues it should raise your ambitions. He walks through the…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastOn Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
Zvi Mowshowitz breaks down Ezra Klein’s interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, a conversation in which the man who sells the chips argues that A.I. is just…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #187: Coming Into Play
Zvi’s weekly AI roundup lands in the week Opus 5.5 arrived. There’s a new executive-branch name for artificial intelligence, a stale-intelligence targeting…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastClaude Opus 5.5: The System Card
Zvi reads through Anthropic’s system card for Claude Opus 5.5, section by section: the new classifiers, biological and AI R&D evaluations, cyber capabilities…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastPolitics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die
Zvi surveys a week in which AI politics turned hostile: Trump’s Truth Social posts branding AI risk a hoax and renaming the technology, the White House and New…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMonthly Roundup #46: September 2026
Zvi Mowshowitz steps away from AI for his September 2026 monthly roundup: what a skill issue really means, why beauty in everyday things matters, lessons in…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastBetter Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra
Zvi asks what your AI lawyer, or any AI, should actually do for you, and whether an AI that sometimes says no is a betrayal or just what any decent…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAnthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems
Zvi examines Anthropic’s investigation of cybersecurity incidents involving Claude, the evidence about biased reasoning and recklessness, and what the findings…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started
Zvi Mowshowitz surveys the sudden preference cascade on AI existential risk: shifting surveys and polls, Elon Musk and Matthew Yglesias weighing in, Jacob…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #186: The World Takes Notice
In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation and Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier, AI risk goes mainstream: Obama, Senators and the Financial Times weigh…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastTrump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk
Zvi Mowshowitz on the week Donald Trump declared AI existential risk a hoax: what Trump actually said and what it may mean, why Jensen Huang’s attacks on…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
Anthropic’s threat report catalogues how bad actors tried to use Claude for cyber attacks, influence operations, surveillance, weapons work, biological…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastWe Must Pace The Frontier
Zvi examines Dario Amodei’s call to pace the AI frontier, the responses from other industry leaders, and the practical challenges of independent evaluation and…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastBrand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize
Zvi examines a claimed mathematical breakthrough, the dispute over credit, and what the episode reveals about the pace of AI research. The Don’t Worry About…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastGPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
Zvi examines GPT-6 Astra’s capabilities through benchmarks, ambitious projects and early user reports, and considers how it compares with Claude Fable 5.1 in…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastJacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
Jacob Coxon’s resignation set off a wave of public warnings about AI from esearchers, politicians and other observers. Zvi examines why this warning broke…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #185: Preference Cascade
A week of accelerating AI capabilities, security revelations, and shifting public positions. Zvi surveys the latest models, the debate over oversight, the…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastGPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
What does it mean to call an AI model aligned? Zvi examines GPT-6 Astra’s system card, its growing capabilities, and the evidence behind OpenAI’s safety…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAstra Is Hard to Monitor
OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Astra is highly capable, its most aligned model yet, and harder to monitor. Zvi digs into that second claim: what the system card’s…
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAn Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastOpenAI and the Wiki Incident
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastClaude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastClaude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #184: Post Post Mortem
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAnthropic Has Some Alignment Problems
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastHuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastHuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMETR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastOpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI #183: Pre Post Mortem
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAgainst Modesty’s Bailey
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastOn Writing #3
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastThe American People Really Hate Data Centers
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Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastAI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good
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