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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings When AI builds itself Building & implementation · 10 attributable reactions Multiple readings Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 5d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · CJ
“OpenAI is begging for money so they don't release a monster when not releasing a monster is in fact very easy. Their systems can all be turned off (and if they can't, uh?) openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
23 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Damien Williams Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +15
6 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago
⚡ 385 h early

When AI builds itself

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Ben Recht, Dustin Moskovitz, Harald Klinke
“I know it's been lifetimes since they put this out, but what did you think of this press release that seems to have more details? www.anthropic.com/institute/re...” evidence ↗
18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ben Recht Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Sung Kim Scott McGrath Nick Diakopoulos +10
5 experts discussed this · 28 posts
Ethan Mollick: "As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code we merge into Anthropic’s codebase was authored by Claude" Matches independent measures. There is no sign this is slowing down (which doesn't mean there a…
Scott McGrath: "As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code we merge into Anthropic’s codebase was authored by Claude" Matches independent measures. There is no sign this is slowing down (which doesn't mean there a…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: I had one interview with a hiring manager where he said they don't write code anymore, and they expect not to be reviewing code by the end of the year. Said they mainly spend their time on design docs
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Development 2d ago
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Why not read about what actually happened instead? metr.org/blog/2026-08... swarmtraces.org” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: The US and Chinese governments don't want to stop their labs advancement because they want to be the leader in AI. So no one actually has any control of this right now. It's going to take multiple …
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Primary source metr.org ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 5d ago
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Anthropic launches molecular research group

Anthropic announces its molecular research group and laboratory

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“Anthropic might have discovered something. Or maybe not. Who knows? Not even Anthropic. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... This is irresponsible science. The proper course of action is to figure out if there is any significance first. They employ scientists.…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Naomi Saphra Joanna Bryson Tim Kellogg Nicole Hennig Stephen Turner Isaiah Bishop
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Anthropic has a wet lab in SF where they’re using Claude to accelerate fundamental biology research This is the first big result from that lab — discovery of a CRISPR-like enzyme www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Probably the wrong platform to post anything remotely positive about AI, but reading through this and Dario’s X post, it’s pretty exciting stuff www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Anthropic might have discovered something. Or maybe not. Who knows? Not even Anthropic. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... This is irresponsible science. The proper course of action is to figure out if there is any significance first. They employ scientists.…”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Mark Riedl: Anthropic might have discovered something. Or maybe not. Who knows? Not even Anthropic. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... This is irresponsible science. The proper course of action is to figure out…
Mark Riedl: Srsly
Mark Riedl: A day before Anthropic’s PR… bsky.app/profile/brak...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
⚡ 367 h early
AI road less traveled post

the AI road less traveled

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“like what you see? like, comment and subscribe go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Cameron Fran Litterio Vikram Saraph

“like what you see? like, comment and subscribe go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE”

“A very good starter pack to stay on top of AI, by @timkellogg.me go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE”

3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Tim Kellogg: like what you see? like, comment and subscribe go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE
Tim Kellogg: every now and then, on X i’ll see someone joking about how bluesky doesn’t have an AI community bro, i switch from X to bluesky because the AI takes here are more interesting. My feed is almost ent…
Miguel Alonso Jr.: every now and then, on X i’ll see someone joking about how bluesky doesn’t have an AI community bro, i switch from X to bluesky because the AI takes here are more interesting. My feed is almost ent…
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Primary source bsky.app ↗
Developing Models & releases Signal 1d ago

Openai decision api luna

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“OpenAI Decisions API A Jev-clone on Luna. 150ms, pricing unknown thenewstack.io/openai-decis...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Michiel Bontenbal

“OpenAI Decisions API A Jev-clone on Luna. 150ms, pricing unknown thenewstack.io/openai-decis...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Kellogg: OpenAI Decisions API A Jev-clone on Luna. 150ms, pricing unknown thenewstack.io/openai-decis...
Tim Kellogg: i did expect a Jev clone from OpenAI and anthropic, i did not anticipate it taking only 2 weeks. Initially i had said 6-8 months
Max Woolf: better to describe as an emergency hack vs. clone imo
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Primary source thenewstack.io ↗
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8 experts · 58 posts · 1d ago
Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tachikoma Doll Jed Brown apenwarr.ca
Matches Questions & unknowns
“yep. coming to the conclusion you're never going to be able to find work in your field, and possibly not at all because of age discrimination and "can they really reskill?" results in you being rem…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
apenwarr.ca: So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
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8 experts · 33 posts · 15d ago
Mark Riedl Jeffrey P. Bigham Tim Kellogg Michael Ekstrand David Picard Lionel Jonathan Stray Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Questions & unknowns
“Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
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7 experts · 28 posts · 20d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath Jack Stilgoe Colin John David Pressman nearestnabors.com
Matches Questions & unknowns
“I need to dig into question phrasing here to be confident. But "likely to replace own job" does not seem obviously == to "positive impact on own job"?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Tim Kellogg: 8 very interesting plots regarding AI sentiment
Tim Kellogg: tbc these are opinions, and while it is a fact that someone had an opinion, an opinion doesn’t necessarily predict the future, even at scale
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5 experts · 53 posts · 13d ago
Tim Kellogg SE Gyges tachikoma Doll david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Matches Questions & unknowns
“what are you talking about? you’re whole point is that METR isn’t independent. which only serves to prevent them from gaining authority but when i dig into why, the only thing that holds is that th…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: i cannot explain the behavior of the movement's members regarding crucial issues more nicely than that yud convinced them all to be neurotically fearful of the paperclipper, and that only this was …
SE Gyges: I think that the parsimonious explanation for e.g. Anthropic and Dario doing legitimately bizarre shit regarding "safety" which makes little or no sense is best explained by them being utterly Yud-…
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5 experts · 41 posts · 18d ago
Tim Kellogg Dustin Moskovitz jake coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Matches Questions & unknowns
“What does “AI” as a risk mean? Is that a dumb question? I just don’t understand what AI risk means independent of a specific extinction mechanism.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: perspective. i’m not sure if i agree or disagree. but he’s thought about it, so..
jake: yeah, and @david-p-reichert.bsky.social thinks about it more than I do, professionally, so probably listen to him more than I (I do still wish The Professionals published lists of various guestimat…
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3 experts · 17 posts · 2d ago
Tim Kellogg Phillip Carter Isaiah Bishop
Matches Questions & unknowns
“Like is jevons paradox true for the smaller models? or for the frontier models? because for businesses these are different products” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Isaiah Bishop: Not to rag on tim, but i think often the analysis of demand here is quite sloppy/loose among finance and tech guys. Tokens are tokens and there's some price. What we know from router services is th…
Tim Kellogg: eh, that had some very big other things going on. like, lack of ZDR effectively barred it from enterprise adoption
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3 experts · 5 posts · 18h ago
Tim Kellogg Max Woolf coty.bsky.social
Matches Questions & unknowns
“An idea for an extremely spicy blog post: if AI is getting more expensive and unprofitable, why did OpenAI cut the price of GPT Sol by 75%?” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Max Woolf: An idea for an extremely spicy blog post: if AI is getting more expensive and unprofitable, why did OpenAI cut the price of GPT Sol by 75%?
Tim Kellogg: there’s solid theories that it indeed is no longer profitable on Sol-6.1 but it could make a ton of sense anyway because 1. they think they can be 2. helps them claim the market
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4 experts · 6 posts · 11d ago
Tim Kellogg jake Marco Z mackuba.eu
Matches Questions & unknowns
“yeah, i got like five posts in and thought to myself, “what the living fuck am i reading?”” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: yeah, i got like five posts in and thought to myself, “what the living fuck am i reading?”
jake: but point 1 is the *extremely primary* focus of all of the SF AI Safety folks. Points 2, 3, 4 are all super super important, they are what *I* worry about, and are completely overshadowed by point …
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2 experts · 10 posts · 10d ago
David Mimno Tim Kellogg
Matches Questions & unknowns
“Will Jev itself be significant? Almost certainly no. But is it pointing to a significantly new paradigm of AI interaction? Absolutely.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: yes, Jev got very hyped. Yes, overhyped Jev has no easy moat, all labs will have an equivalent in a few months. Their only moat is brand recognition honestly can’t blame them
Tim Kellogg: imagine Claude but without having to actually read Claude!
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