GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model

WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:23 - Headline News * 02:03 - What Makes Mythos Special * 03:17 - Going Over The Detailed Claims * 07:44 - One Helpful Note * 08:23 - The Overall Impression Is Extremely Wrong * 08:55 - All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/wsj-article-claiming-china-has-matched?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/wsj-article-claiming-china-has-matched?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

GPT-5.6: The System Card

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:03:39 - What’s In A Name? * 00:04:14 - Fix This Code * 00:07:04 - Crossover Event Requested * 00:07:38 - Disallowed Content (3) * 00:09:57 - Avoiding Accidental Data-Destructive Actions (3.3) * 00:10:46 - Are You Sure? (3.4) * 00:11:23 - Jailbreaks (4.1) * 00:11:38 - Prompt Injection (4.2) * 00:12:25 - HealthBench (5.1) * 00:13:08 - Dynamic Mental Health Adversarial User Simulations (5.2) * 00:15:02 - Hallucinations (6) * 00:15:29 - Isolated Misaligned Actions (7.1) * 00:15:48 - Going Overboard (7.2) * 00:21:26 - Chain of Thought Evaluations (7.3) * 00:22:38 - Bias (8) * 00:22:43 - Preparedness (9) * 00:23:35 - Biological Risks (9.1.1) * 00:25:37 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2) * 00:33:13 - External Cyber Evaluation FrontierCyber from Irregular (9.1.2.5) * 00:35:15 - Cyber Conclusions * 00:35:52 - Recursive Self-Improvement (9.1.3) * 00:37:26 - METR Warns Us (9.1.3.6) * 00:40:00 - Everything Is Under Control * 00:42:38 - Metagaming (7.4) * 00:46:06 - Apollo Research and Sandbagging * 00:49:04 - Safeguards (9.3) * 00:56:55 - Better Not Call Sol Yet https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-56-the-system-card?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-56-the-system-card?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:01 - Part 1: A Maximally Terrible Policy * 06:55 - What Does This Mean For Fable? * 08:33 - Solve For The Equilibrium * 12:39 - The Once And Future Fable * 13:35 - Part 2: The Blame Game * 16:48 - A Parable * 18:59 - What About the Recent Executive Order? * 23:09 - The Problem Is Real https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/white-house-will-ad-hoc-decide-who?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/white-house-will-ad-hoc-decide-who?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

AI #174: You're It

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:01:07 - Table of Contents * 00:04:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:14 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:28 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:06:51 - On Your Marks * 00:07:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:14:53 - Fun With Media Generation * 00:15:47 - Cyber Lack of Security * 00:18:25 - Overcoming Bias * 00:19:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:22:01 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:23:44 - Get Involved * 00:25:55 - Introducing * 00:26:08 - Claude Tag * 00:36:03 - In Other AI News * 00:37:37 - More On GLM-5.2 * 00:39:27 - ChatGPT Health * 00:41:10 - Middle Of The Journey * 00:55:44 - New Medical Diagnostic Just Dropped * 00:58:38 - Google on AI Control * 01:08:05 - The Once And Future Fable * 01:10:10 - Fable: The First Lawsuit * 01:11:07 - Dean Ball Joins OpenAI * 01:14:59 - Show Me the Money * 01:15:13 - Quiet Speculations * 01:18:09 - Alex Bores Loses In NY-12 By 4% * 01:30:04 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:32:30 - Chip City * 01:36:12 - The Week in Audio * 01:36:58 - People Just Say Things * 01:38:01 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:43:47 - There Are Two Pills * 01:44:59 - Who Evals The Evals * 01:46:10 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:51:01 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:52:01 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:53:32 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:55:42 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

The Once And Future Fable #4

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:54 - A Rather Terrible Policy * 03:21 - The People Have Spoken * 04:00 - Thank You, Next * 06:27 - Be Very Very Quiet * 06:59 - What These Babies Can And Cannot Do * 13:14 - What’s The Worst That Could Happen? * 24:25 - The Data Retention Policy Is About Defense In Depth * 25:12 - Pick Up The Phone * 28:13 - People Just Say Things https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]