Zvi Mowshowitz — Don't Worry About the Vase
About #
A former professional Magic: The Gathering player and Jane Street trader turned full-time writer, deeply embedded in the rationalist and AI-safety-adjacent community around LessWrong. Writes some of the most exhaustive and widely-cited synthesis coverage of frontier AI model releases, lab announcements, and policy developments, blending detailed technical summary with strong, explicitly-stated opinions. His numbered “AI #NNN” weekly roundup is a fixture read by researchers, journalists, and policymakers.
How this journal works #
Checked every 3 days: each new post or episode in Zvi Mowshowitz’s own feeds (substack) becomes one entry, dated by publication and summarised in a few bullets.
Entries
- Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling
- I Can See Everything
- Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling
- Monthly Roundup #47: October 2026
- AI #190: Scion of the Times
- The Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken
- Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident
- OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers
- New Math from OpenAI
- AI #189: New Math
- The Curve Bends You
- Childhood and Education #21: Grades and Standards
- Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare
- The AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther
- AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon
- A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety
- Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned
- What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace
- The Quest for Embedded Evaluators
- Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions
- On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
- AI #187: Coming Into Play
- Claude Opus 5.5: The System Card
- Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die
- Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026
- Better Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra
- Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems
- The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started
- AI #186: The World Takes Notice
- Trump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk
- The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
- We Must Pace The Frontier
- Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize
- GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
- Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
- The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes
- AI #185: Preference Cascade
- GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
- Astra Is Hard to Monitor
- An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us
- OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
- Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities
- Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card
- AI #184: Post Post Mortem
- Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems
- HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
- HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
- METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
- OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
- AI #183: Pre Post Mortem