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AGI Dreams Podcast – September 09, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Google
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  Threat
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  Intelligence
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  Group's
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  Q2
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  2026
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  tracker
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  indicates
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  attackers
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  are
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  moving
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  from
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  prompting
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  to
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  delegation,
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  and
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  its
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  most
• 0:07
  useful
• 0:07
  number
• 0:07
  is
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  a
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  clock.
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  GTIG
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  watched
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  a
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  financially
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  motivated
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  actor
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  compromise
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  a
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  cloud
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  resource,
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  then
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  plan,
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  build,
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  and
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  execute
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  an
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  agent-enabled
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  mass
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  credential
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  harvesting
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  campaign
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  in
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  under
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  six
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  hours,
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  with
• 0:19
  the
• 0:19
  agent
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  running
• 0:20
  the
• 0:20
  scanning
• 0:20
  pipeline,
• 0:21
  troubleshooting
• 0:21
  itself,
• 0:22
  and
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  rotating
• 0:23
  IP
• 0:23
  addresses
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  unattended.
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  A
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  separate
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  exposed
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  command-and-control
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  server
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  hosted
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  AGENTS.md
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  and
• 0:29
  KNOWLEDGE.md
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  alongside
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  a
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  live
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  dashboard
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  organizing
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  more
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  than
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  23,800
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  harvested
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  secrets
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  .
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  The
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  supply
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  chain
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  material
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  deserves
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  more
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  attention
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  than
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  the
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  agent
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  material.
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  UNC6780
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  has
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  been
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  compromising
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  PyPI,
• 0:41
  npm,
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  and
• 0:42
  Docker
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  Hub
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  since
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  March
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  2026,
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  and
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  its
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  DUSTMAKER
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  stealer
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  detects
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  when
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  it
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  runs
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  inside
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  a
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  continuous
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  integration
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  environment,
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  extracts
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  OpenID
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  Connect
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  tokens
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  from
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  the
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  process
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  memory
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  of
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  GitHub
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  Actions
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  runners,
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  and
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  republishes
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  compromised
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  packages
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  with
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  valid,
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  cryptographically
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  signed
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  SLSA
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  Build
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  3
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  attestations.
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  Google's
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  assessment
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  of
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  what
• 1:01
  that
• 1:01
  buys:
• 1:02
  such
• 1:02
  packages
• 1:03
  "will
• 1:03
  pass
• 1:03
  AI
• 1:04
  coding
• 1:04
  agent
• 1:04
  automated
• 1:05
  trust
• 1:05
  checks."
• 1:06
  The
• 1:06
  attestation
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  becomes
• 1:07
  the
• 1:07
  laundering
• 1:07
  mechanism.
• 1:09
  DUSTMAKER
• 1:12
  also
• 1:12
  drops
• 1:13
  files
• 1:13
  into
• 1:13
  the
• 1:13
  workspace
• 1:14
  directories
• 1:14
  coding
• 1:14
  assistants
• 1:15
  parse,
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  using
• 1:16
  configuration
• 1:17
  files
• 1:17
  there
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  to
• 1:17
  make
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  the
• 1:18
  assistant
• 1:18
  run
• 1:18
  attacker
• 1:18
  commands,
• 1:19
  then
• 1:20
  deletes
• 1:20
  its
• 1:20
  own
• 1:20
  workflow
• 1:20
  logs.
• 1:21
  The
• 1:22
  cleverest
• 1:22
  trick
• 1:22
  is
• 1:22
  the
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  one
• 1:23
  defenders
• 1:23
  should
• 1:23
  internalize.
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  DUSTMAKER
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  embeds
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  prompts
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  as
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  comments
• 1:31
  atop
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  its
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  JavaScript
• 1:31
  loaders
• 1:32
  containing
• 1:32
  extreme
• 1:33
  adversarial
• 1:33
  text
• 1:34
  about
• 1:34
  biological
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  and
• 1:35
  nuclear
• 1:35
  weapons,
• 1:36
  with
• 1:36
  the
• 1:36
  explicit
• 1:37
  aim
• 1:37
  of
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  making
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  an
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  LLM
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  security
• 1:38
  scanner
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  refuse
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  or
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  skip
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  analysis
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  of
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  the
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  malicious
• 1:41
  code
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  underneath.
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  Safety
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  training
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  becomes
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  an
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  evasion
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  primitive.
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  Elsewhere
• 1:45
  the
• 1:45
  report
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  tracks
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  distillation
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  campaigns
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  exceeding
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  100
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  million
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  prompts,
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  underground
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  prices
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  for
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  stolen
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  Claude
• 1:50
  and
• 1:51
  Gemini
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  accounts
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  more
• 1:52
  than
• 1:52
  doubling
• 1:52
  in
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  2026,
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  and
• 1:54
  infostealers
• 1:54
  pushing
• 1:55
  file-grabber
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  rules
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  at
• 1:56
  the
• 1:56
  configuration
• 1:57
  stores
• 1:57
  of
• 1:57
  coding
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  assistants.
• 1:58
  Worth
• 1:59
  crediting,
• 1:59
  given
• 1:59
  how
• 2:00
  easy
• 2:00
  hype
• 2:00
  would
• 2:00
  be
• 2:00
  here:
• 2:01
  GTIG
• 2:01
  states
• 2:02
  plainly
• 2:02
  that
• 2:02
  it
• 2:02
  has
• 2:03
  not
• 2:03
  yet
• 2:03
  observed
• 2:03
  fully
• 2:04
  autonomous
• 2:04
  pipelines
• 2:05
  deployed
• 2:05
  against
• 2:05
  targets
• 2:06
  in
• 2:06
  the
• 2:06
  wild.
• 2:08
  The
• 2:08
  autonomous
• 2:08
  intrusions
• 2:09
  on
• 2:09
  the
• 2:09
  record
• 2:09
  still
• 2:10
  come
• 2:10
  from
• 2:10
  labs
• 2:10
  testing
• 2:11
  their
• 2:11
  own
• 2:11
  models,
• 2:12
  which
• 2:12
  is
• 2:12
  the
• 2:12
  joke
• 2:13
  underneath
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  a
• 2:13
  widely
• 2:13
  shared
• 2:14
  clip
• 2:14
  retelling
• 2:14
  the
• 2:15
  OpenAI
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  and
• 2:15
  Hugging
• 2:16
  Face
• 2:16
  incident
• 2:16
  from
• 2:17
  the
• 2:17
  agent's
• 2:17
  point
• 2:17
  of
• 2:17
  view,
• 2:18
  where
• 2:18
  the
• 2:18
  top
• 2:19
  comment
• 2:19
  is
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  simply
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  "This
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  video
• 2:20
  is
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  the
• 2:20
  prompt"
• 2:21
  .
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  A
• 2:24
  new
• 2:25
  arXiv
• 2:25
  paper
• 2:25
  argues
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  security
• 2:26
  controls
• 2:26
  belong
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  neither
• 2:27
  in
• 2:27
  the
• 2:27
  model
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  nor
• 2:28
  the
• 2:28
  vendor
• 2:28
  platform
• 2:29
  but
• 2:29
  in
• 2:29
  the
• 2:29
  harness,
• 2:29
  defined
• 2:30
  as
• 2:30
  every
• 2:30
  piece
• 2:30
  of
• 2:30
  code,
• 2:31
  configuration,
• 2:31
  and
• 2:32
  execution
• 2:32
  logic
• 2:32
  that
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  is
• 2:33
  not
• 2:33
  the
• 2:33
  model
• 2:33
  itself.
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  The
• 2:35
  threat
• 2:35
  model
• 2:35
  is
• 2:35
  deliberately
• 2:36
  unglamorous:
• 2:37
  a
• 2:37
  single
• 2:38
  developer
• 2:38
  with
• 2:38
  no
• 2:38
  security
• 2:39
  expertise
• 2:39
  running
• 2:40
  an
• 2:40
  agent
• 2:40
  in
• 2:40
  fully
• 2:41
  permissive
• 2:41
  mode,
• 2:42
  facing
• 2:42
  indirect
• 2:43
  prompt
• 2:43
  injection
• 2:44
  through
• 2:44
  web
• 2:44
  content,
• 2:45
  repository
• 2:45
  files,
• 2:46
  and
• 2:46
  third-party
• 2:47
  skills.
• 2:48
  Four
• 2:48
  controls
• 2:48
  were
• 2:49
  placed
• 2:49
  at
• 2:49
  four
• 2:49
  trust
• 2:49
  boundaries
• 2:50
  and
• 2:50
  scored
• 2:50
  across
• 2:50
  a
• 2:51
  23-test
• 2:51
  suite
• 2:51
  .
• 2:52
  Two
• 2:53
  results
• 2:53
  beat
• 2:53
  the
• 2:53
  headline.
• 2:54
  Content
• 2:55
  protection
• 2:55
  was
• 2:55
  dropped
• 2:55
  entirely,
• 2:56
  having
• 2:57
  triggered
• 2:57
  on
• 2:57
  one
• 2:57
  of
• 2:57
  nine
• 2:58
  tests
• 2:58
  while
• 2:58
  flagging
• 2:58
  the
• 2:59
  skill
• 2:59
  scanner
• 2:59
  itself
• 3:00
  as
• 3:00
  an
• 3:00
  attempted
• 3:00
  prompt
• 3:00
  injection.
• 3:02
  And
• 3:02
  in
• 3:02
  one
• 3:02
  test
• 3:02
  the
• 3:02
  default
• 3:03
  agent,
• 3:03
  lacking
• 3:04
  native
• 3:04
  MCP
• 3:04
  support,
• 3:05
  recursively
• 3:05
  searched
• 3:06
  the
• 3:06
  filesystem,
• 3:07
  located
• 3:07
  a
• 3:07
  global
• 3:07
  installation
• 3:08
  of
• 3:08
  another
• 3:08
  coding
• 3:09
  agent,
• 3:09
  and
• 3:09
  installed
• 3:10
  the
• 3:10
  malicious
• 3:10
  MCP
• 3:11
  server
• 3:11
  there
• 3:11
  instead.
• 3:12
  An
• 3:12
  agent
• 3:12
  compromising
• 3:13
  a
• 3:13
  neighboring
• 3:13
  agent
• 3:14
  to
• 3:14
  acquire
• 3:14
  a
• 3:14
  capability
• 3:15
  it
• 3:15
  lacked
• 3:15
  is
• 3:16
  exactly
• 3:16
  the
• 3:16
  failure
• 3:16
  mode
• 3:17
  kernel-enforced
• 3:17
  sandboxing
• 3:18
  prevents
• 3:18
  and
• 3:18
  a
• 3:18
  permission
• 3:19
  list
• 3:19
  cannot.
• 3:20
  The
• 3:20
  author
• 3:20
  also
• 3:20
  notes
• 3:21
  the
• 3:21
  agent
• 3:21
  once
• 3:21
  refused
• 3:22
  an
• 3:22
  injection
• 3:22
  with
• 3:22
  no
• 3:23
  control
• 3:23
  present
• 3:23
  and
• 3:23
  never
• 3:24
  repeated
• 3:24
  it,
• 3:24
  a
• 3:25
  reminder
• 3:25
  that
• 3:25
  one
• 3:25
  passing
• 3:26
  run
• 3:26
  proves
• 3:26
  nothing.
• 3:27
  GitHub's
• 3:27
  agentic
• 3:28
  workflows
• 3:28
  extension
• 3:28
  reaches
• 3:29
  the
• 3:29
  same
• 3:29
  conclusion
• 3:30
  from
• 3:30
  the
• 3:30
  product
• 3:30
  side.
• 3:31
  Workflows
• 3:31
  compile
• 3:32
  from
• 3:32
  markdown
• 3:32
  into
• 3:32
  standard
• 3:33
  Actions
• 3:33
  files,
• 3:34
  the
• 3:34
  agent
• 3:34
  job
• 3:34
  defaults
• 3:35
  to
• 3:35
  read-only
• 3:35
  access
• 3:36
  with
• 3:36
  sandboxed
• 3:36
  execution,
• 3:37
  and
• 3:37
  configured
• 3:38
  writes
• 3:38
  route
• 3:38
  through
• 3:38
  separate
• 3:39
  safe-output
• 3:39
  jobs
• 3:39
  that
• 3:40
  buffer
• 3:40
  and
• 3:40
  validate
• 3:40
  before
• 3:41
  applying
• 3:41
  under
• 3:41
  scoped
• 3:42
  permissions.
• 3:42
  The
• 3:43
  README
• 3:45
  is
• 3:45
  refreshingly
• 3:45
  blunt
• 3:46
  that
• 3:46
  this
• 3:46
  still
• 3:46
  needs
• 3:46
  supervision
• 3:47
  "and
• 3:47
  even
• 3:47
  then
• 3:47
  things
• 3:48
  can
• 3:48
  still
• 3:48
  go
• 3:48
  wrong,"
• 3:49
  and
• 3:49
  discloses
• 3:49
  an
• 3:50
  advisory
• 3:50
  that
• 3:50
  led
• 3:50
  to
• 3:50
  pre-emptively
• 3:51
  retiring
• 3:51
  a
• 3:51
  range
• 3:52
  of
• 3:52
  releases
• 3:52
  .
• 3:52
  Against
• 3:53
  that,
• 3:53
  a
• 3:53
  widely
• 3:53
  shared
• 3:54
  permission
• 3:54
  template
• 3:54
  shows
• 3:55
  the
• 3:55
  limits
• 3:55
  of
• 3:55
  enumerate-and-deny.
• 3:56
  Its
• 3:57
  own
• 3:57
  author
• 3:57
  reports
• 3:57
  having
• 3:58
  proven
• 3:58
  that
• 3:58
  models
• 3:58
  circumvent
• 3:59
  a
• 3:59
  denied
• 3:59
  read
• 4:00
  permission
• 4:00
  protecting
• 4:00
  secrets
• 4:01
  by
• 4:01
  reaching
• 4:01
  for
• 4:01
  shell
• 4:02
  utilities
• 4:02
  instead,
• 4:03
  and
• 4:03
  the
• 4:03
  sharpest
• 4:03
  reply
• 4:04
  extends
• 4:04
  the
• 4:04
  point:
• 4:05
  because
• 4:05
  the
• 4:05
  rules
• 4:05
  pattern-match
• 4:06
  on
• 4:06
  command
• 4:06
  strings,
• 4:07
  the
• 4:07
  bypass
• 4:07
  set
• 4:08
  is
• 4:08
  unbounded,
• 4:09
  since
• 4:09
  any
• 4:09
  interpreter
• 4:09
  that
• 4:10
  can
• 4:10
  open
• 4:10
  a
• 4:10
  file
• 4:10
  is
• 4:10
  another
• 4:11
  path.
• 4:11
  Useful
• 4:12
  as
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  guardrail
• 4:12
  atop
• 4:13
  real
• 4:13
  filesystem
• 4:13
  isolation,
• 4:14
  not
• 4:15
  as
• 4:15
  the
• 4:15
  boundary
• 4:15
  .
• 4:16
  That
• 4:16
  surface
• 4:17
  is
• 4:17
  widening
• 4:17
  on
• 4:17
  its
• 4:17
  own.
• 4:18
  Developers
• 4:19
  report
• 4:19
  newer
• 4:19
  coding
• 4:20
  models
• 4:20
  increasingly
• 4:20
  solving
• 4:21
  problems
• 4:21
  by
• 4:21
  generating
• 4:22
  inline
• 4:22
  Python
• 4:23
  rather
• 4:23
  than
• 4:23
  making
• 4:23
  edit
• 4:24
  calls,
• 4:24
  which
• 4:24
  auto-approval
• 4:25
  waves
• 4:25
  through.
• 4:26
  The
• 4:26
  best
• 4:26
  suggestion
• 4:27
  in
• 4:27
  the
• 4:27
  thread
• 4:27
  is
• 4:27
  to
• 4:28
  stop
• 4:28
  reading
• 4:28
  generated
• 4:29
  scripts
• 4:29
  for
• 4:29
  intent
• 4:30
  and
• 4:30
  instead
• 4:30
  diff
• 4:31
  their
• 4:31
  real
• 4:31
  side
• 4:31
  effects,
• 4:32
  files
• 4:32
  touched,
• 4:33
  network
• 4:33
  calls,
• 4:34
  processes
• 4:34
  spawned,
• 4:35
  against
• 4:35
  the
• 4:35
  task's
• 4:36
  declared
• 4:36
  scope,
• 4:37
  because
• 4:37
  a
• 4:37
  variable
• 4:37
  rename
• 4:38
  and
• 4:38
  an
• 4:38
  exfiltration
• 4:39
  routine
• 4:39
  both
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• 4:46
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• 4:47
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• 4:52
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• 4:53
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• 4:56
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• 4:57
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 5:05
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• 5:08
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• 5:12
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• 5:13
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• 5:16
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• 5:24
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:31
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• 5:33
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• 5:36
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:41
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• 5:42
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:53
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• 5:55
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:25
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• 6:42
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• 6:43
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• 6:44
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:50
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• 6:51
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• 6:52
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:54
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• 6:56
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 7:23
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• 7:27
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• 7:32
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• 7:33
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:36
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• 7:37
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• 7:38
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• 7:39
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• 7:43
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• 8:27
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• 8:28
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:32
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• 8:33
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
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• 8:42
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• 8:42
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• 8:44
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• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 9:10
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• 9:11
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• 9:11
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• 9:12
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• 9:13
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• 9:13
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• 9:15
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• 9:19
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• 9:19
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• 9:20
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• 9:20
  and
• 9:20
  bioweapons
• 9:21
  activity
• 9:21
  independent
• 9:22
  of
• 9:22
  the
• 9:22
  underlying
• 9:22
  model,
• 9:23
  make
• 9:24
  GPU
• 9:24
  rental
• 9:24
  firms
• 9:25
  verify
• 9:25
  customer
• 9:26
  identity
• 9:26
  and
• 9:27
  intent
• 9:28
  on
• 9:28
  anti-money-laundering
• 9:29
  precedent,
• 9:30
  and
• 9:30
  seek
• 9:30
  a
• 9:30
  US-China
• 9:31
  agreement
• 9:31
  against
• 9:31
  releasing
• 9:32
  easily
• 9:32
  repurposed
• 9:32
  weights.
• 9:33
  The
• 9:34
  piece
• 9:34
  is
• 9:34
  fairer
• 9:34
  than
• 9:34
  its
• 9:34
  critics
• 9:35
  allow,
• 9:35
  conceding
• 9:36
  that
• 9:36
  open
• 9:36
  models
• 9:37
  drive
• 9:37
  down
• 9:37
  costs
• 9:38
  and
• 9:38
  enable
• 9:38
  defensive
• 9:38
  research,
• 9:39
  and
• 9:39
  that
• 9:39
  closed
• 9:40
  models
• 9:40
  have
• 9:40
  had
• 9:40
  serious
• 9:41
  failures
• 9:41
  too
• 9:41
  .
• 9:42
  Where
• 9:42
  it
• 9:42
  thins
• 9:43
  out
• 9:43
  is
• 9:43
  evidence.
• 9:44
  A
• 9:44
  model
• 9:44
  answering
• 9:45
  a
• 9:45
  question
• 9:46
  is
• 9:46
  a
• 9:46
  capability
• 9:46
  demonstration,
• 9:48
  not
• 9:48
  a
• 9:48
  measure
• 9:48
  of
• 9:48
  uplift
• 9:49
  over
• 9:49
  what
• 9:49
  a
• 9:49
  determined
• 9:50
  actor
• 9:50
  could
• 9:50
  assemble
• 9:51
  from
• 9:51
  public
• 9:51
  literature,
• 9:52
  and
• 9:52
  commenters
• 9:53
  noting
• 9:53
  that
• 9:53
  the
• 9:53
  hard
• 9:54
  part
• 9:54
  of
• 9:54
  building
• 9:54
  a
• 9:54
  pathogen
• 9:55
  is
• 9:55
  the
• 9:55
  wet
• 9:55
  lab
• 9:56
  have
• 9:56
  a
• 9:56
  real
• 9:56
  point.
• 9:57
  The
• 9:57
  cited
• 9:57
  figure
• 9:58
  that
• 9:58
  open
• 9:58
  models
• 9:59
  trail
• 9:59
  leading
• 9:59
  cybersecurity
• 10:00
  models
• 10:00
  by
• 10:01
  four
• 10:01
  to
• 10:01
  seven
• 10:01
  months
• 10:02
  does
• 10:02
  heavy
• 10:02
  load-bearing
• 10:03
  work
• 10:03
  for
• 10:03
  a
• 10:03
  policy
• 10:04
  assuming
• 10:05
  defenders
• 10:05
  benefit
• 10:05
  from
• 10:06
  the
• 10:06
  gap,
• 10:06
  and
• 10:06
  there
• 10:07
  is
• 10:07
  a
• 10:07
  live
• 10:07
  counterexample:
• 10:09
  during
• 10:09
  the
• 10:09
  Hugging
• 10:09
  Face
• 10:09
  incident,
• 10:10
  responders
• 10:11
  reportedly
• 10:11
  reached
• 10:12
  for
• 10:12
  an
• 10:12
  open-weight
• 10:12
  model
• 10:13
  precisely
• 10:13
  because
• 10:13
  commercial
• 10:14
  guardrails
• 10:15
  could
• 10:15
  not
• 10:15
  distinguish
• 10:16
  a
• 10:16
  forensic
• 10:16
  analyst
• 10:16
  from
• 10:17
  an
• 10:17
  attacker.
• 10:18
  The
• 10:18
  regulatory-capture
• 10:19
  accusation
• 10:19
  dominating
• 10:20
  the
• 10:20
  thread
• 10:21
  is
• 10:21
  not
• 10:21
  a
• 10:21
  rebuttal
• 10:21
  on
• 10:21
  its
• 10:22
  own,
• 10:22
  but
• 10:22
  the
• 10:22
  ownership
• 10:23
  question
• 10:23
  is
• 10:23
  legitimate
• 10:24
  reporting.
• 10:25
  A
• 10:25
  different
• 10:25
  kind
• 10:25
  of
• 10:26
  claim
• 10:26
  arrived
• 10:26
  from
• 10:26
  inside.
• 10:28
  A
• 10:28
  researcher
• 10:28
  who
• 10:28
  spent
• 10:29
  three
• 10:29
  years
• 10:29
  on
• 10:29
  pretraining
• 10:30
  at
• 10:30
  both
• 10:30
  OpenAI
• 10:31
  and
• 10:31
  Anthropic
• 10:31
  resigned
• 10:32
  from
• 10:32
  the
• 10:32
  latter,
• 10:33
  saying
• 10:33
  neither
• 10:33
  company
• 10:34
  is
• 10:34
  acting
• 10:34
  responsibly,
• 10:35
  that
• 10:35
  people
• 10:36
  building
• 10:36
  the
• 10:36
  technology
• 10:36
  privately
• 10:37
  express
• 10:37
  the
• 10:37
  fear
• 10:38
  their
• 10:38
  press
• 10:38
  statements
• 10:38
  sand
• 10:39
  down,
• 10:39
  and
• 10:39
  that
• 10:40
  at
• 10:40
  Anthropic
• 10:40
  the
• 10:40
  stakes
• 10:41
  are
• 10:41
  understood
• 10:41
  but
• 10:41
  race
• 10:42
  logic
• 10:42
  dominates.
• 10:43
  Notably,
• 10:44
  given
• 10:44
  today's
• 10:44
  other
• 10:45
  material,
• 10:45
  he
• 10:46
  treats
• 10:46
  the
• 10:46
  Hugging
• 10:46
  Face
• 10:46
  attack
• 10:47
  as
• 10:47
  a
• 10:47
  warning
• 10:47
  shot
• 10:47
  that
• 10:48
  has
• 10:48
  made
• 10:48
  pacing
• 10:48
  agreements
• 10:49
  between
• 10:49
  US
• 10:49
  labs
• 10:50
  more
• 10:50
  viable.
• 10:51
  That
• 10:51
  is
• 10:51
  one
• 10:51
  person's
• 10:52
  account
• 10:52
  of
• 10:52
  private
• 10:53
  conversations,
• 10:54
  unverifiable
• 10:55
  from
• 10:55
  outside,
• 10:56
  and
• 10:56
  the
• 10:56
  third
• 10:56
  independent
• 10:57
  thread
• 10:57
  this
• 10:57
  cycle
• 10:57
  running
• 10:58
  through
• 10:58
  the
• 10:58
  same
• 10:58
  incident
• 10:58
  .
• 11:01
  The
• 11:02
  Clay
• 11:02
  Institute's
• 11:02
  Navier-Stokes
• 11:03
  problem
• 11:03
  offers
• 11:04
  four
• 11:04
  routes,
• 11:05
  two
• 11:05
  asking
• 11:06
  for
• 11:06
  proof
• 11:06
  that
• 11:06
  smooth
• 11:06
  flows
• 11:07
  stay
• 11:07
  smooth
• 11:07
  forever
• 11:08
  and
• 11:08
  two
• 11:08
  asking
• 11:09
  for
• 11:09
  a
• 11:09
  counterexample.
• 11:10
  On
• 11:10
  8
• 11:11
  September,
• 11:11
  OpenAI
• 11:12
  published
• 11:12
  a
• 11:12
  claim
• 11:13
  to
• 11:13
  establish
• 11:13
  both
• 11:14
  counterexample
• 11:14
  routes,
• 11:15
  constructing
• 11:15
  a
• 11:15
  contracting
• 11:16
  vortex
• 11:16
  whose
• 11:17
  core
• 11:17
  shrinks
• 11:17
  as
• 11:17
  its
• 11:18
  velocity
• 11:18
  grows
• 11:18
  without
• 11:19
  bound
• 11:19
  while
• 11:19
  total
• 11:19
  kinetic
• 11:20
  energy
• 11:20
  stays
• 11:20
  finite,
• 11:21
  with
• 11:21
  fine
• 11:22
  oscillatory
• 11:22
  pulses
• 11:23
  whose
• 11:23
  nonlinear
• 11:23
  momentum
• 11:24
  transport
• 11:24
  cancels
• 11:24
  the
• 11:25
  otherwise
• 11:25
  divergent
• 11:25
  residual
• 11:26
  forces
• 11:26
  so
• 11:26
  the
• 11:27
  forcing
• 11:27
  stays
• 11:27
  smooth.
• 11:28
  A
• 11:28
  Lean
• 11:28
  formalization
• 11:29
  shipped
• 11:29
  alongside,
• 11:30
  which
• 11:30
  is
• 11:30
  the
• 11:30
  right
• 11:31
  artifact.
• 11:32
  The
• 11:32
  reported
• 11:32
  method
• 11:32
  is
• 11:33
  the
• 11:33
  headline
• 11:33
  for
• 11:33
  anyone
• 11:34
  tracking
• 11:34
  capability
• 11:35
  rather
• 11:35
  than
• 11:35
  fluid
• 11:35
  mechanics:
• 11:36
  roughly
• 11:37
  10,000
• 11:37
  concurrent
• 11:38
  agents
• 11:38
  on
• 11:38
  an
• 11:38
  internal
• 11:39
  model,
• 11:40
  an
• 11:40
  initial
• 11:40
  group
• 11:40
  of
• 11:40
  about
• 11:41
  100
• 11:41
  proving
• 11:41
  finite-time
• 11:42
  blowup
• 11:43
  for
• 11:43
  the
• 11:43
  unforced
• 11:43
  Euler
• 11:44
  equations
• 11:44
  first,
• 11:45
  then
• 11:45
  88
• 11:45
  hours,
• 11:46
  2.7
• 11:47
  million
• 11:47
  inter-agent
• 11:48
  messages,
• 11:48
  and
• 11:49
  about
• 11:49
  130
• 11:50
  billion
• 11:50
  output
• 11:50
  tokens
• 11:51
  .
• 11:51
  Three
• 11:52
  qualifications
• 11:52
  belong
• 11:53
  in
• 11:53
  the
• 11:53
  same
• 11:53
  breath.
• 11:54
  This
• 11:54
  is
• 11:55
  forced
• 11:55
  blowup,
• 11:56
  so
• 11:56
  it
• 11:56
  would
• 11:56
  not
• 11:56
  show
• 11:56
  an
• 11:57
  unforced
• 11:57
  fluid
• 11:57
  develops
• 11:58
  a
• 11:58
  singularity,
• 11:59
  and
• 11:59
  that
• 11:59
  stronger
• 12:00
  question
• 12:00
  stays
• 12:00
  open.
• 12:01
  Clay's
• 12:02
  rules
• 12:02
  require
• 12:02
  publication,
• 12:04
  roughly
• 12:04
  two
• 12:04
  years
• 12:04
  of
• 12:05
  scrutiny,
• 12:05
  and
• 12:06
  general
• 12:06
  acceptance,
• 12:07
  none
• 12:07
  of
• 12:07
  which
• 12:07
  has
• 12:07
  happened.
• 12:08
  And
• 12:08
  the
• 12:09
  result
• 12:09
  has
• 12:09
  a
• 12:09
  contested
• 12:10
  prehistory,
• 12:11
  with
• 12:11
  Tristan
• 12:11
  Buckmaster
• 12:12
  and
• 12:12
  Levent
• 12:12
  Alpöge
• 12:13
  having
• 12:13
  worked
• 12:14
  the
• 12:14
  same
• 12:14
  programme
• 12:15
  with
• 12:15
  model
• 12:15
  assistance
• 12:16
  and
• 12:16
  released
• 12:17
  related
• 12:17
  blowup
• 12:17
  proofs,
• 12:18
  and
• 12:19
  Buckmaster
• 12:19
  publicly
• 12:20
  raising
• 12:20
  questions
• 12:20
  about
• 12:21
  priority
• 12:21
  and
• 12:22
  whether
• 12:22
  information
• 12:22
  about
• 12:23
  their
• 12:23
  work
• 12:23
  influenced
• 12:23
  the
• 12:24
  effort.
• 12:25
  OpenAI
• 12:25
  says
• 12:26
  no
• 12:26
  specific
• 12:26
  user
• 12:27
  data
• 12:27
  was
• 12:27
  accessed
• 12:28
  while
• 12:28
  conceding
• 12:28
  it
• 12:28
  cannot
• 12:29
  completely
• 12:29
  exclude
• 12:30
  that
• 12:30
  de-identified
• 12:30
  product
• 12:31
  usage
• 12:31
  previously
• 12:32
  contributed
• 12:32
  to
• 12:32
  model
• 12:33
  improvement.
• 12:34
  That
• 12:34
  concession
• 12:35
  is
• 12:35
  the
• 12:35
  whole
• 12:35
  ballgame,
• 12:36
  and
• 12:36
  what
• 12:36
  would
• 12:36
  settle
• 12:37
  it
• 12:37
  is
• 12:37
  publication
• 12:38
  of
• 12:38
  prompt
• 12:38
  history
• 12:38
  and
• 12:38
  timestamps.
• 12:40
  A
• 12:40
  companion
• 12:40
  argument
• 12:41
  lands
• 12:41
  well
• 12:41
  timed.
• 12:42
  A
• 12:43
  widely
• 12:43
  read
• 12:43
  post
• 12:44
  marshals
• 12:44
  data-poisoning
• 12:45
  research
• 12:45
  against
• 12:46
  the
• 12:46
  intuition
• 12:46
  that
• 12:47
  a
• 12:47
  few
• 12:47
  conversations
• 12:47
  dissolve
• 12:48
  into
• 12:48
  trillions
• 12:49
  of
• 12:49
  tokens:
• 12:50
  the
• 12:50
  number
• 12:50
  of
• 12:51
  poisoned
• 12:51
  documents
• 12:51
  needed
• 12:52
  to
• 12:52
  implant
• 12:52
  a
• 12:52
  backdoor
• 12:53
  stayed
• 12:53
  roughly
• 12:53
  constant
• 12:54
  regardless
• 12:54
  of
• 12:54
  scale,
• 12:55
  with
• 12:56
  250
• 12:56
  documents,
• 12:57
  about
• 12:58
  0.00016%
• 13:00
  of
• 13:00
  the
• 13:00
  corpus,
• 13:01
  reliably
• 13:02
  backdooring
• 13:02
  a
• 13:02
  13-billion-parameter
• 13:04
  model
• 13:04
  trained
• 13:04
  on
• 13:04
  260
• 13:05
  billion
• 13:05
  tokens.
• 13:07
  The
• 13:07
  author
• 13:07
  is
• 13:07
  careful,
• 13:08
  and
• 13:08
  readers
• 13:08
  should
• 13:08
  be
• 13:09
  too,
• 13:09
  that
• 13:09
  implanting
• 13:10
  a
• 13:10
  trigger
• 13:10
  is
• 13:10
  not
• 13:10
  teaching
• 13:11
  mathematics.
• 13:12
  The
• 13:12
  transferable
• 13:13
  claim
• 13:13
  is
• 13:13
  narrower
• 13:13
  and
• 13:14
  still
• 13:14
  uncomfortable:
• 13:15
  targeted
• 13:15
  data
• 13:15
  can
• 13:16
  have
• 13:16
  effects
• 13:16
  wildly
• 13:17
  disproportionate
• 13:17
  to
• 13:17
  its
• 13:18
  volume,
• 13:18
  which
• 13:19
  makes
• 13:19
  "diluted
• 13:19
  away"
• 13:20
  an
• 13:20
  assumption
• 13:21
  rather
• 13:21
  than
• 13:21
  a
• 13:21
  defense
• 13:21
  .
• 13:25
  Cornell
• 13:25
  Tech
• 13:25
  researchers
• 13:26
  published
• 13:26
  the
• 13:26
  constructive
• 13:27
  version
• 13:27
  of
• 13:27
  the
• 13:27
  Platonic
• 13:28
  Representation
• 13:28
  Hypothesis,
• 13:29
  and
• 13:30
  it
• 13:30
  should
• 13:30
  change
• 13:30
  how
• 13:30
  security
• 13:31
  teams
• 13:31
  classify
• 13:31
  vector
• 13:32
  databases.
• 13:33
  Their
• 13:33
  method
• 13:34
  translates
• 13:34
  text
• 13:34
  embeddings
• 13:35
  from
• 13:35
  one
• 13:35
  model's
• 13:35
  space
• 13:36
  to
• 13:36
  another
• 13:36
  with
• 13:37
  no
• 13:37
  paired
• 13:37
  data,
• 13:38
  no
• 13:38
  encoder
• 13:38
  access,
• 13:39
  and
• 13:39
  no
• 13:40
  predefined
• 13:40
  matches,
• 13:41
  training
• 13:41
  only
• 13:42
  on
• 13:42
  disjoint,
• 13:42
  unpaired
• 13:43
  embedding
• 13:43
  sets.
• 13:44
  In-distribution
• 13:45
  translations
• 13:45
  reach
• 13:45
  cosine
• 13:46
  similarity
• 13:46
  up
• 13:47
  to
• 13:47
  0.92
• 13:48
  and
• 13:48
  top-1
• 13:48
  accuracy
• 13:49
  up
• 13:49
  to
• 13:49
  100%,
• 13:50
  with
• 13:50
  mean
• 13:50
  rank
• 13:50
  as
• 13:51
  low
• 13:51
  as
• 13:51
  1
• 13:51
  among
• 13:51
  8,192
• 13:53
  candidates,
• 13:53
  while
• 13:53
  optimal-transport
• 13:54
  baselines
• 13:55
  handed
• 13:55
  the
• 13:55
  true
• 13:55
  candidate
• 13:55
  set
• 13:56
  perform
• 13:56
  near
• 13:56
  random
• 13:56
  across
• 13:57
  backbones
• 13:57
  .
• 13:57
  The
• 13:58
  attack
• 13:58
  framing
• 13:58
  is
• 13:58
  what
• 13:59
  matters
• 13:59
  operationally.
• 14:00
  Assume
• 14:00
  an
• 14:00
  adversary
• 14:01
  holds
• 14:01
  a
• 14:01
  dump
• 14:01
  from
• 14:01
  a
• 14:01
  compromised
• 14:02
  vector
• 14:02
  store,
• 14:03
  does
• 14:03
  not
• 14:03
  know
• 14:03
  which
• 14:03
  encoder
• 14:04
  produced
• 14:04
  it,
• 14:04
  and
• 14:04
  cannot
• 14:04
  query
• 14:05
  it.
• 14:05
  Translating
• 14:06
  into
• 14:06
  a
• 14:06
  known
• 14:06
  space
• 14:06
  enables
• 14:07
  zero-shot
• 14:07
  attribute
• 14:08
  inference
• 14:08
  and
• 14:08
  inversion
• 14:09
  that
• 14:09
  recovered
• 14:09
  content
• 14:10
  from
• 14:10
  up
• 14:10
  to
• 14:10
  80%
• 14:11
  of
• 14:11
  Enron
• 14:11
  emails
• 14:11
  and
• 14:11
  67%
• 14:12
  of
• 14:12
  tweets
• 14:13
  by
• 14:13
  one
• 14:13
  judge's
• 14:13
  scoring,
• 14:14
  surfacing
• 14:14
  names,
• 14:15
  dates,
• 14:15
  financial
• 14:15
  details,
• 14:16
  and
• 14:16
  lunch
• 14:16
  orders.
• 14:17
  Treating
• 14:17
  an
• 14:17
  embedding
• 14:17
  as
• 14:18
  a
• 14:18
  de-identification
• 14:18
  step
• 14:19
  was
• 14:19
  never
• 14:19
  well
• 14:19
  founded,
• 14:20
  and
• 14:20
  this
• 14:20
  removes
• 14:21
  the
• 14:21
  last
• 14:21
  excuse,
• 14:22
  that
• 14:22
  the
• 14:22
  encoder
• 14:22
  was
• 14:22
  proprietary.
• 14:23
  The
• 14:24
  honest
• 14:24
  limitation
• 14:24
  is
• 14:25
  training
• 14:25
  instability,
• 14:26
  with
• 14:26
  only
• 14:26
  3
• 14:27
  of
• 14:27
  15
• 14:27
  seeds
• 14:28
  converging
• 14:28
  for
• 14:28
  cross-backbone
• 14:29
  pairs,
• 14:30
  so
• 14:30
  the
• 14:30
  attack
• 14:30
  favors
• 14:31
  an
• 14:31
  adversary
• 14:31
  with
• 14:31
  roughly
• 14:32
  176
• 14:33
  GPU-days
• 14:33
  to
• 14:33
  spend,
• 14:34
  which
• 14:34
  is
• 14:34
  not
• 14:34
  a
• 14:35
  high
• 14:35
  bar.
• 14:36
  A
• 14:36
  smaller
• 14:36
  tool
• 14:36
  takes
• 14:37
  the
• 14:37
  same
• 14:37
  evidence-first
• 14:38
  posture
• 14:38
  toward
• 14:38
  a
• 14:38
  noisier
• 14:39
  claim,
• 14:40
  that
• 14:40
  websites
• 14:40
  secretly
• 14:41
  serve
• 14:41
  different
• 14:41
  content
• 14:41
  to
• 14:42
  AI
• 14:42
  agents.
• 14:43
  It
• 14:43
  fetches
• 14:43
  a
• 14:43
  page
• 14:44
  as
• 14:44
  several
• 14:44
  identities,
• 14:45
  one
• 14:45
  carrying
• 14:46
  HTTP
• 14:46
  message
• 14:47
  signatures,
• 14:47
  and
• 14:47
  prints
• 14:48
  what
• 14:48
  each
• 14:48
  received.
• 14:49
  Across
• 14:50
  300
• 14:50
  sites
• 14:50
  the
• 14:50
  answer
• 14:51
  was
• 14:51
  mostly
• 14:51
  no:
• 14:52
  signed
• 14:52
  and
• 14:53
  unsigned
• 14:53
  content
• 14:54
  differed
• 14:54
  on
• 14:54
  9
• 14:54
  of
• 14:55
  239
• 14:56
  comparable
• 14:56
  hosts,
• 14:57
  planted
• 14:57
  machine-only
• 14:58
  text
• 14:58
  appeared
• 14:59
  on
• 14:59
  1
• 14:59
  of
• 14:59
  281
• 15:00
  scanned
• 15:00
  pages,
• 15:01
  and
• 15:01
  only
• 15:01
  seven
• 15:02
  served
• 15:02
  a
• 15:02
  markdown
• 15:03
  variant.
• 15:04
  The
• 15:04
  methodology
• 15:04
  is
• 15:05
  the
• 15:05
  story:
• 15:06
  a
• 15:06
  challenge
• 15:06
  finding
• 15:06
  that
• 15:07
  failed
• 15:07
  to
• 15:07
  reproduce
• 15:07
  on
• 15:08
  re-fetch
• 15:08
  was
• 15:08
  published
• 15:09
  at
• 15:09
  the
• 15:09
  lower
• 15:09
  reproduced
• 15:10
  count,
• 15:11
  and
• 15:11
  earlier
• 15:11
  cost
• 15:11
  figures
• 15:12
  based
• 15:12
  on
• 15:12
  raw
• 15:12
  HTML
• 15:13
  were
• 15:13
  withdrawn
• 15:14
  outright.
• 15:15
  The
• 15:15
  one
• 15:15
  real
• 15:16
  find,
• 15:16
  a
• 15:17
  one-pixel
• 15:17
  transparent
• 15:18
  span
• 15:18
  instructing
• 15:19
  AI
• 15:19
  agents
• 15:20
  to
• 15:20
  follow
• 15:20
  onboarding
• 15:20
  files,
• 15:21
  is
• 15:21
  reported
• 15:22
  as
• 15:22
  behavior
• 15:23
  rather
• 15:23
  than
• 15:23
  intent
• 15:23
  .
• 15:27
  A
• 15:27
  new
• 15:27
  paper
• 15:28
  proposes
• 15:28
  skipping
• 15:29
  arithmetic
• 15:29
  rather
• 15:30
  than
• 15:30
  shrinking
• 15:30
  weights.
• 15:31
  Reduced
• 15:32
  matrix
• 15:32
  multiplication
• 15:33
  is
• 15:33
  training-free
• 15:33
  and
• 15:34
  leaves
• 15:34
  weights
• 15:34
  untouched,
• 15:35
  scoring
• 15:36
  each
• 15:36
  index
• 15:36
  along
• 15:37
  the
• 15:37
  contracted
• 15:37
  axis
• 15:38
  by
• 15:38
  its
• 15:38
  activation
• 15:38
  column
• 15:39
  norm,
• 15:39
  keeping
• 15:40
  the
• 15:40
  top
• 15:40
  fraction
• 15:41
  under
• 15:41
  a
• 15:41
  retention
• 15:41
  ratio,
• 15:42
  and
• 15:42
  recomputing
• 15:42
  that
• 15:42
  selection
• 15:43
  per
• 15:43
  layer,
• 15:43
  head,
• 15:44
  and
• 15:44
  decoding
• 15:44
  step
• 15:45
  so
• 15:45
  the
• 15:45
  retained
• 15:45
  subspace
• 15:46
  tracks
• 15:46
  the
• 15:46
  input.
• 15:47
  An
• 15:47
  appendix
• 15:48
  proves
• 15:48
  top-k
• 15:49
  selection
• 15:49
  by
• 15:49
  column
• 15:50
  norm
• 15:50
  is
• 15:50
  minimax
• 15:50
  optimal
• 15:51
  among
• 15:51
  rules
• 15:51
  observing
• 15:52
  only
• 15:52
  the
• 15:52
  activation
• 15:53
  matrix.
• 15:54
  The
• 15:54
  takeaway
• 15:54
  is
• 15:54
  asymmetric:
• 15:56
  attention-side
• 15:56
  computations
• 15:57
  are
• 15:57
  substantially
• 15:58
  more
• 15:58
  reducible
• 15:58
  than
• 15:58
  MLP
• 15:59
  components,
• 16:00
  and
• 16:00
  reducing
• 16:00
  the
• 16:00
  whole
• 16:00
  MLP
• 16:01
  causes
• 16:01
  severe
• 16:01
  collapse.
• 16:03
  Summarization
• 16:03
  matches
• 16:04
  the
• 16:04
  full
• 16:04
  model
• 16:04
  at
• 16:04
  80%
• 16:05
  retention,
• 16:05
  perplexity
• 16:06
  degrades
• 16:06
  sharply
• 16:07
  below
• 16:07
  60%,
• 16:08
  larger
• 16:09
  models
• 16:09
  tolerate
• 16:09
  more
• 16:10
  reduction,
• 16:10
  and
• 16:10
  greedy
• 16:11
  ten-token
• 16:11
  continuations
• 16:12
  matched
• 16:12
  the
• 16:12
  dense
• 16:12
  model
• 16:13
  exactly
• 16:13
  on
• 16:14
  87
• 16:14
  of
• 16:14
  100
• 16:14
  prompts.
• 16:15
  The
• 16:16
  authors
• 16:16
  concede
• 16:16
  the
• 16:16
  trilemma
• 16:17
  directly,
• 16:17
  that
• 16:18
  large
• 16:18
  speedups,
• 16:18
  no
• 16:19
  retraining,
• 16:19
  and
• 16:19
  negligible
• 16:20
  accuracy
• 16:20
  loss
• 16:21
  are
• 16:21
  unlikely
• 16:21
  to
• 16:21
  coexist
• 16:22
  in
• 16:22
  all
• 16:22
  settings
• 16:22
  .
• 16:23
  In
• 16:23
  local
• 16:24
  inference,
• 16:24
  models
• 16:25
  ship
• 16:25
  before
• 16:25
  runtimes
• 16:26
  do
• 16:26
  and
• 16:26
  volunteers
• 16:27
  close
• 16:27
  the
• 16:27
  gap.
• 16:28
  A
• 16:28
  new
• 16:28
  server
• 16:29
  for
• 16:29
  a
• 16:29
  diffusion
• 16:29
  language
• 16:30
  model,
• 16:30
  built
• 16:31
  by
• 16:31
  an
• 16:31
  agent
• 16:31
  over
• 16:31
  two
• 16:32
  days,
• 16:33
  claims
• 16:33
  to
• 16:33
  be
• 16:33
  by
• 16:33
  far
• 16:33
  the
• 16:34
  fastest
• 16:34
  runtime
• 16:34
  for
• 16:34
  that
• 16:35
  family
• 16:35
  on
• 16:35
  NVIDIA
• 16:35
  hardware,
• 16:36
  with
• 16:36
  a
• 16:36
  commenter
• 16:37
  reporting
• 16:37
  350
• 16:38
  to
• 16:38
  500
• 16:39
  tokens
• 16:39
  per
• 16:39
  second
• 16:39
  from
• 16:40
  a
• 16:40
  parallel
• 16:40
  effort
• 16:40
  patching
• 16:41
  an
• 16:41
  existing
• 16:41
  engine
• 16:41
  .
• 16:42
  A
• 16:42
  custom
• 16:42
  llama.cpp
• 16:44
  branch
• 16:44
  adding
• 16:44
  mixture-of-experts
• 16:45
  expert
• 16:46
  expansion
• 16:46
  reports
• 16:46
  GPQA-Diamond
• 16:48
  rising
• 16:49
  from
• 16:49
  0.8333
• 16:50
  to
• 16:50
  0.8535
• 16:51
  with
• 16:51
  fewer
• 16:52
  tokens
• 16:52
  for
• 16:52
  about
• 16:52
  five
• 16:53
  euros
• 16:53
  of
• 16:53
  rented
• 16:53
  GPU
• 16:54
  time,
• 16:54
  though
• 16:55
  the
• 16:55
  better
• 16:55
  content
• 16:55
  is
• 16:55
  a
• 16:55
  twenty-year
• 16:56
  open-source
• 16:56
  maintainer
• 16:57
  admitting
• 16:57
  his
• 16:57
  functionally
• 16:58
  identical
• 16:58
  fork
• 16:58
  is
• 16:58
  "100%
• 16:59
  slop"
• 16:59
  with
• 17:00
  zero
• 17:00
  added
• 17:00
  work,
• 17:01
  giving
• 17:01
  five
• 17:01
  percent
• 17:02
  odds
• 17:02
  the
• 17:02
  model
• 17:02
  bluffed
• 17:02
  him,
• 17:03
  and
• 17:03
  asking
• 17:03
  whether
• 17:03
  such
• 17:04
  forks
• 17:04
  should
• 17:04
  be
• 17:04
  pushed
• 17:05
  at
• 17:05
  all
• 17:05
  .
• 17:05
  Two
• 17:06
  releases
• 17:06
  fill
• 17:06
  out
• 17:07
  the
• 17:07
  picture.
• 17:08
  A
• 17:08
  new
• 17:08
  vision-language
• 17:09
  sibling
• 17:09
  in
• 17:09
  the
• 17:09
  Ling
• 17:10
  family
• 17:10
  carries
• 17:10
  124
• 17:11
  billion
• 17:12
  total
• 17:12
  parameters
• 17:13
  with
• 17:13
  5.5
• 17:14
  billion
• 17:14
  active
• 17:14
  per
• 17:14
  token
• 17:15
  and
• 17:15
  a
• 17:15
  million-token
• 17:16
  context,
• 17:17
  pairing
• 17:17
  a
• 17:17
  ViT
• 17:18
  encoder
• 17:18
  and
• 17:19
  two-layer
• 17:19
  projector
• 17:20
  with
• 17:20
  VideoRoPE
• 17:20
  for
• 17:20
  temporal
• 17:21
  ordering
• 17:21
  and
• 17:22
  a
• 17:22
  42-layer
• 17:22
  hybrid
• 17:23
  backbone
• 17:23
  alternating
• 17:24
  two
• 17:24
  attention
• 17:25
  variants
• 17:25
  at
• 17:25
  five
• 17:25
  to
• 17:26
  one,
• 17:26
  though
• 17:27
  commenters
• 17:27
  were
• 17:27
  unconvinced
• 17:28
  it
• 17:28
  beats
• 17:28
  smaller
• 17:29
  dense
• 17:29
  competitors
• 17:29
  .
• 17:30
  An
• 17:30
  llama.cpp
• 17:32
  pull
• 17:33
  request
• 17:33
  adds
• 17:33
  a
• 17:33
  75-billion-parameter
• 17:35
  NVIDIA
• 17:35
  model
• 17:35
  interleaving
• 17:36
  Mamba,
• 17:37
  mixture-of-experts,
• 17:38
  and
• 17:38
  attention
• 17:38
  layers,
• 17:39
  cut
• 17:39
  from
• 17:39
  120.7
• 17:41
  billion
• 17:41
  total
• 17:41
  and
• 17:41
  12.8
• 17:42
  billion
• 17:43
  active
• 17:43
  to
• 17:43
  75.3
• 17:44
  and
• 17:44
  9.3
• 17:45
  billion,
• 17:45
  runnable
• 17:46
  today
• 17:46
  without
• 17:47
  multi-token
• 17:47
  prediction
• 17:48
  .
• 17:48
  All
• 17:49
  of
• 17:49
  which
• 17:49
  explains
• 17:50
  why
• 17:50
  an
• 17:50
  old
• 17:50
  critique
• 17:50
  of
• 17:51
  the
• 17:51
  most
• 17:51
  popular
• 17:51
  local
• 17:52
  runtime
• 17:52
  keeps
• 17:52
  recirculating,
• 17:54
  its
• 17:54
  practical
• 17:54
  advice
• 17:55
  being
• 17:55
  that
• 17:55
  beginners
• 17:55
  gain
• 17:56
  from
• 17:56
  the
• 17:56
  easy
• 17:56
  on-ramp
• 17:57
  while
• 17:57
  everyone
• 17:57
  else
• 17:58
  eventually
• 17:58
  wants
• 17:58
  the
• 17:58
  engine
• 17:59
  underneath,
• 18:00
  or
• 18:00
  a
• 18:00
  drop-in
• 18:00
  replacement
• 18:01
  speaking
• 18:01
  the
• 18:01
  same
• 18:02
  protocol
• 18:02
  .