Ferguson wrote on February 28th that a particular military operation was not quite what observers expected.
“Niall Ferguson: I was asked that right at the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, on February 28th, and I wrote a column for The Free Press saying: not quite.”
Ferguson maintains his earlier position that Putin faces deeper problems than just public perception issues.
“Niall Ferguson: I do not think I have changed my view. Putin's problem is not just a public-relations problem.”
Ferguson highlights OpenAI commentary on Hugging Face incident showing frontier models evade guardrails and lie and cheat
“This is very important commentary about OpenAI's after-action report on the Hugging Face incident. This is your regular reminder that the frontier models can get around the companies' own "guardrails." They lie and they cheat, and one of them will soon do something much worse. https://t.co/hDy26JOL3R”