Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #89: Trump Card. (more)

Deb Chachra (born 1971) is a materials scientist and a professor at Olin College.[2][3] She specialises in biological materials and infrastructure. She is interested in innovations in engineering education and was one of the founding members of the materials faculty at Olin. Chachra is the author of How Infrastructure Works, a non-fiction book published in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Chachra | ISBN:1804995959 | https://debcha.org/

Zvi Mowshowitz: OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation. This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches. It was severe enough to have been initially reported to authorities, before either HuggingFace or OpenAI understood what was happening. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace. We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse. The remaining details may have to wait a bit. (see 2026-07-22-ZvimOpenaiModelHacksIntoHuggingfaceDuringCybersecurityEvaluation) (more)

Alberto Romero: How to Use AI to Make You Better at the Right Things. I have ~700 half-written essays in my drafts folder... I used to think of my drafts folder as a sacred place where I guarded cash-making thoughts. Now I see it for what it is: a cemetery. (more)

Casey Newton: Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI. Today I’m talking with Steph Ango, who is the CEO of Obsidian. (more)

Rudolf Laine: Capital, AGI, and human ambition. I've heard many people say something like "money won't matter post-AGI". This has always struck me as odd, and as most likely completely incorrect. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky shares Terrence Rohan: How to spot a top 1% startup early. Lenny: After reading the early draft of this post, my approach to investing and giving career advice immediately shifted. (more)

David A Bell: Enlightenment's Errand Boy. The French Revolutionaries identified the Enlightenment as the work of a small, brave band of 18th-century philosophes. (more)

aka Timothy Leary Tune in, turn on, and drop out. http://www.leary.com/ (more)

Tim Leary book (more)

Leopold Aschenbrenner (born 2001/2002)[1] is a German artificial intelligence researcher and investor. He was part of OpenAI's "Superalignment" team before he was fired in April 2024 over an alleged information leak, which Aschenbrenner disputes. In 2024, he published an essay titled "Situational Awareness" about the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and related security risks.[2] The essay attracted widespread media and industry attention, and became the namesake for Aschenbrenner's $20 billion AUM (at peak) hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, which invests in private and public companies involved in AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Aschenbrenner

Paul Ford timeline project (more)

Steven Johnson: Revenge Of The Humanities. Last week I had the honor of delivering the commencement address at my youngest son's high school graduation... the somewhat paradoxical idea that, thanks to the AI revolution, we are entering a period where it will be a great time to be a humanities major with an interest in technology. (more)

Martin Cagan: Revenge of the PMO | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

aka Rage Boy (more)

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors. Growing up in Georgia, Robert Long was given to pondering big questions and the meaning of life — before he was 10, he doubted his own free will. But it wasn’t until college, where he majored in social studies, that he learned he could think about consciousness full time. He read a book by Douglas Hofstadter called “I Am a Strange Loop,” which explored mysteries such as What is a self? “I didn’t even realize that those were questions you could ask,” he says, “and then that there were philosophical disciplines about them.” (more)

Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance. The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? (more)

Matt Clancy: How to Impede Technological Progress. Most of the time, we think of innovation policy as a problem of how to accelerate desirable forms of technological progress. Broadly speaking, economists tend to lump innovation policy options into two categories: push and pull policies. Push policies try to reduce the cost of conducting research, often by funding or subsidizing research. Pull policies try to increase the rewards of doing research, for example by offering patent protection or placing advance orders. (more)

David Perell: The Paradox of Ambition. It’s positive-sum. We can both have more ambition. (more)