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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 14, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Z.ai
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  shipped
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  GLM-5.3
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  roughly
• 0:02
  twelve
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  hours
• 0:03
  after
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  DeepSeek's
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  V4
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  Pro
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  0831,
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  and
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  the
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  release
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  note
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  is
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  unusually
• 0:07
  honest
• 0:07
  about
• 0:07
  what
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  it
• 0:08
  is:
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  "Scaling
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  post-training
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  is
• 0:09
  all
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  we
• 0:09
  did
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  for
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  GLM-5.3."
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  Same
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  743B
• 0:13
  base
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  as
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  GLM-5.2,
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  every
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  gain
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  squeezed
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  out
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  of
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  the
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  post-training
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  stack.
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  On
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  coding
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  the
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  numbers
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  are
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  real
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  —
• 0:19
  Terminal-Bench
• 0:20
  3.0
• 0:21
  jumps
• 0:21
  from
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  4.6
• 0:22
  to
• 0:22
  28.3,
• 0:24
  DeepSWE
• 0:24
  from
• 0:24
  46.2
• 0:25
  to
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  66.9,
• 0:27
  and
• 0:27
  on
• 0:27
  z.ai's
• 0:27
  own
• 0:28
  private
• 0:28
  Code
• 0:28
  Bench
• 0:29
  it
• 0:29
  reaches
• 0:30
  34.5%
• 0:31
  at
• 0:31
  Max
• 0:31
  effort,
• 0:32
  edging
• 0:32
  past
• 0:32
  Claude
• 0:33
  Opus
• 0:33
  4.8's
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  29.5%
• 0:35
  while
• 0:35
  burning
• 0:36
  fewer
• 0:36
  tokens
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  .
• 0:37
  It
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  still
• 0:37
  trails
• 0:38
  Claude
• 0:38
  Fable
• 0:38
  5
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  at
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  39.5%,
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  and
• 0:40
  the
• 0:41
  fine
• 0:41
  print
• 0:41
  matters:
• 0:42
  evaluations
• 0:43
  ran
• 0:43
  through
• 0:43
  a
• 0:43
  modified
• 0:44
  Claude
• 0:44
  Code
• 0:44
  2.1.207
• 0:47
  harness
• 0:47
  with
• 0:47
  anti-cheat
• 0:48
  patches,
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  and
• 0:49
  the
• 0:49
  environment-synthesis
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  pipeline
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  still
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  needs
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  "a
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  meaningful
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  amount
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  of
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  human-in-the-loop
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  work."
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  The
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  part
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  that
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  should
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  hold
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  a
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  security
• 0:54
  reader's
• 0:55
  attention
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  is
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  cyber.
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  After
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  z.ai
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  added
• 0:57
  vulnerability-discovery
• 0:58
  environments
• 0:59
  to
• 0:59
  training,
• 1:00
  the
• 1:00
  model
• 1:00
  "began
• 1:00
  to
• 1:01
  reason
• 1:01
  across
• 1:01
  multiple
• 1:02
  stages
• 1:02
  of
• 1:02
  exploitation,
• 1:03
  forming
• 1:04
  coherent
• 1:04
  plans
• 1:04
  for
• 1:05
  complete
• 1:05
  exploitation
• 1:06
  chains."
• 1:07
  On
• 1:07
  CyberGym
• 1:08
  it
• 1:08
  posts
• 1:08
  84.5%,
• 1:10
  the
• 1:10
  best
• 1:10
  on
• 1:10
  the
• 1:10
  benchmark,
• 1:11
  ahead
• 1:11
  of
• 1:12
  Mythos
• 1:12
  5
• 1:12
  and
• 1:12
  GPT-5.6.
• 1:14
  Against
• 1:15
  real
• 1:15
  targets
• 1:15
  with
• 1:15
  Chinese
• 1:16
  security
• 1:16
  teams
• 1:17
  it
• 1:17
  flagged
• 1:17
  2,436
• 1:19
  candidate
• 1:19
  vulnerabilities
• 1:20
  across
• 1:21
  269
• 1:22
  projects,
• 1:23
  1,097
• 1:24
  rated
• 1:24
  medium-to-high.
• 1:26
  Their
• 1:26
  own
• 1:26
  summary
• 1:27
  of
• 1:27
  the
• 1:27
  trend
• 1:27
  is
• 1:27
  the
• 1:27
  quiet
• 1:28
  horror
• 1:28
  line:
• 1:29
  "Capability
• 1:30
  is
• 1:30
  growing
• 1:30
  fastest
• 1:30
  exactly
• 1:31
  where
• 1:31
  we
• 1:31
  are
• 1:31
  furthest
• 1:32
  behind."
• 1:33
  Weights
• 1:33
  are
• 1:33
  held
• 1:34
  two
• 1:34
  weeks
• 1:34
  pending
• 1:35
  safety
• 1:35
  evals
• 1:35
  —
• 1:36
  that
• 1:36
  clause
• 1:37
  is
• 1:37
  quietly
• 1:37
  becoming
• 1:38
  release
• 1:38
  boilerplate,
• 1:39
  which
• 1:39
  tells
• 1:40
  you
• 1:40
  where
• 1:40
  the
• 1:40
  field's
• 1:40
  anxiety
• 1:41
  now
• 1:41
  lives.
• 1:42
  Which
• 1:42
  is
• 1:42
  why
• 1:43
  the
• 1:43
  LinkedIn
• 1:43
  victory-lap
• 1:44
  post
• 1:44
  about
• 1:44
  GLM-5.3's
• 1:45
  cyber
• 1:46
  leap
• 1:46
  deserves
• 1:47
  the
• 1:47
  same
• 1:47
  skepticism
• 1:48
  as
• 1:48
  every
• 1:48
  vendor
• 1:48
  benchmark
• 1:49
  before
• 1:49
  it
• 1:49
  .
• 1:50
  The
• 1:50
  sharpest
• 1:50
  comment
• 1:51
  in
• 1:51
  the
• 1:51
  thread
• 1:51
  is
• 1:52
  operational:
• 1:53
  ownership
• 1:53
  buys
• 1:54
  you
• 1:54
  data
• 1:54
  control
• 1:55
  and
• 1:55
  availability,
• 1:56
  not
• 1:56
  behavior
• 1:56
  control.
• 1:58
  A
• 1:58
  model
• 1:58
  that
• 1:58
  can
• 1:58
  chain
• 1:59
  exploits
• 1:59
  is
• 1:59
  exactly
• 2:00
  as
• 2:00
  capable
• 2:00
  on
• 2:00
  your
• 2:01
  GPUs
• 2:01
  as
• 2:01
  on
• 2:01
  someone
• 2:02
  else's,
• 2:03
  except
• 2:03
  the
• 2:03
  blast
• 2:03
  radius
• 2:04
  is
• 2:04
  now
• 2:04
  yours,
• 2:05
  and
• 2:05
  local
• 2:05
  deployments
• 2:06
  habitually
• 2:06
  run
• 2:06
  with
• 2:07
  looser
• 2:07
  tool
• 2:07
  permissions
• 2:08
  than
• 2:08
  the
• 2:08
  cloud
• 2:08
  ones
• 2:08
  they
• 2:08
  replace.
• 2:10
  If
• 2:10
  you
• 2:10
  are
• 2:10
  standing
• 2:10
  up
• 2:10
  an
• 2:11
  open-weight
• 2:11
  model
• 2:11
  that
• 2:12
  reasons
• 2:12
  across
• 2:12
  exploitation
• 2:13
  stages,
• 2:14
  the
• 2:14
  question
• 2:14
  is
• 2:15
  not
• 2:15
  whether
• 2:15
  you
• 2:15
  own
• 2:16
  it
• 2:16
  but
• 2:16
  whether
• 2:16
  you
• 2:16
  scoped
• 2:17
  its
• 2:17
  credentials
• 2:17
  and
• 2:18
  tool
• 2:18
  calls
• 2:18
  per
• 2:18
  task
• 2:19
  or
• 2:19
  handed
• 2:19
  it
• 2:20
  one
• 2:20
  fat
• 2:20
  service
• 2:20
  account.
• 2:24
  Hugging
• 2:24
  Face's
• 2:25
  "State
• 2:25
  of
• 2:25
  Open
• 2:26
  Models:
• 2:26
  Summer
• 2:26
  2026"
• 2:28
  is
• 2:28
  the
• 2:29
  best
• 2:29
  single
• 2:29
  dataset
• 2:30
  on
• 2:30
  where
• 2:30
  this
• 2:30
  is
• 2:30
  all
• 2:30
  going,
• 2:31
  and
• 2:31
  its
• 2:31
  headline
• 2:32
  finding
• 2:32
  is
• 2:32
  blunt:
• 2:32
  "In
• 2:33
  almost
• 2:33
  every
• 2:33
  month
• 2:33
  of
• 2:33
  2026,
• 2:34
  the
• 2:35
  largest
• 2:35
  and
• 2:35
  most
• 2:35
  performant
• 2:36
  open
• 2:36
  model
• 2:36
  from
• 2:36
  a
• 2:37
  Chinese
• 2:37
  lab
• 2:37
  was
• 2:37
  larger
• 2:38
  than
• 2:38
  anything
• 2:39
  an
• 2:39
  American
• 2:39
  lab
• 2:39
  released"
• 2:40
  .
• 2:40
  China's
• 2:41
  monthly
• 2:41
  ceiling
• 2:41
  ran
• 2:41
  754B
• 2:43
  to
• 2:43
  2.78
• 2:44
  trillion
• 2:44
  parameters;
• 2:45
  America
• 2:46
  stayed
• 2:46
  under
• 2:46
  130B
• 2:47
  in
• 2:47
  five
• 2:48
  of
• 2:48
  seven
• 2:48
  months.
• 2:49
  Of
• 2:49
  178
• 2:50
  Chinese
• 2:51
  releases
• 2:51
  above
• 2:51
  20B,
• 2:52
  59%
• 2:53
  are
• 2:53
  Apache
• 2:54
  2.0,
• 2:55
  22%
• 2:55
  MIT,
• 2:56
  and
• 2:57
  "exactly
• 2:57
  none
• 2:57
  carry
• 2:58
  a
• 2:58
  non-commercial
• 2:58
  restriction,"
• 2:59
  while
• 2:59
  comparable
• 3:00
  American
• 3:00
  releases
• 3:00
  lean
• 3:01
  on
• 3:01
  custom
• 3:01
  or
• 3:01
  undeclared
• 3:02
  terms.
• 3:03
  The
• 3:03
  other
• 3:03
  structural
• 3:04
  surprise:
• 3:05
  NVIDIA
• 3:05
  and
• 3:06
  AMD
• 3:06
  now
• 3:06
  publish
• 3:07
  the
• 3:07
  most
• 3:07
  open
• 3:07
  models,
• 3:07
  because
• 3:08
  "a
• 3:08
  model
• 3:08
  optimized
• 3:09
  for
• 3:09
  your
• 3:09
  hardware
• 3:09
  and
• 3:09
  freely
• 3:10
  available
• 3:10
  is
• 3:10
  the
• 3:10
  clearest
• 3:11
  proof
• 3:11
  that
• 3:11
  the
• 3:11
  hardware
• 3:12
  works."
• 3:13
  And
• 3:13
  the
• 3:13
  new
• 3:13
  consumer
• 3:14
  of
• 3:14
  all
• 3:14
  this
• 3:14
  is
• 3:14
  not
• 3:14
  a
• 3:14
  human
• 3:15
  —
• 3:15
  Claude
• 3:16
  Code
• 3:16
  and
• 3:16
  Codex-style
• 3:17
  agents
• 3:17
  now
• 3:17
  dominate
• 3:18
  download
• 3:18
  traffic.
• 3:19
  Qwen
• 3:20
  3.8
• 3:20
  27B
• 3:21
  lands
• 3:21
  squarely
• 3:22
  into
• 3:22
  that
• 3:22
  picture
• 3:22
  as
• 3:23
  the
• 3:23
  community's
• 3:23
  default
• 3:24
  base
• 3:24
  model
• 3:24
  —
• 3:25
  the
• 3:25
  post
• 3:26
  calls
• 3:26
  it
• 3:26
  the
• 3:26
  "best
• 3:26
  local
• 3:27
  dense
• 3:27
  model
• 3:27
  yet,"
• 3:28
  and
• 3:28
  the
• 3:28
  ecosystem
• 3:29
  data
• 3:29
  backs
• 3:29
  the
• 3:29
  strategy:
• 3:30
  Qwen's
• 3:31
  full-spectrum
• 3:31
  lineup
• 3:32
  drew
• 3:32
  2,045M
• 3:34
  downloads
• 3:35
  to
• 3:35
  Moonshot's
• 3:35
  frontier-only
• 3:36
  37M,
• 3:37
  and
• 3:37
  Qwen
• 3:37
  derivatives
• 3:38
  now
• 3:38
  outnumber
• 3:38
  Llama's
• 3:38
  by
• 3:39
  nearly
• 3:39
  five
• 3:39
  to
• 3:39
  one
• 3:39
  .
• 3:40
  A
• 3:40
  27B
• 3:41
  dense
• 3:41
  model
• 3:42
  is
• 3:42
  the
• 3:42
  consensus
• 3:42
  sweet
• 3:43
  spot
• 3:43
  —
• 3:43
  big
• 3:44
  enough
• 3:44
  for
• 3:44
  serious
• 3:45
  agentic
• 3:45
  work,
• 3:45
  small
• 3:46
  enough
• 3:46
  to
• 3:46
  quantize
• 3:47
  onto
• 3:47
  one
• 3:47
  or
• 3:47
  two
• 3:47
  GPUs
• 3:48
  —
• 3:48
  though
• 3:49
  a
• 3:49
  Qwen
• 3:49
  3.6
• 3:50
  27B
• 3:50
  already
• 3:51
  scored
• 3:51
  24/25
• 3:52
  on
• 3:52
  community
• 3:53
  SQL
• 3:53
  leaderboards,
• 3:54
  so
• 3:54
  "best
• 3:54
  yet"
• 3:54
  is
• 3:55
  a
• 3:55
  delta
• 3:55
  claim,
• 3:56
  not
• 3:56
  a
• 3:56
  first-of-kind.
• 3:57
  Cohere's
• 3:58
  contribution
• 3:58
  runs
• 3:59
  the
• 3:59
  opposite
• 3:59
  direction:
• 4:00
  North-Micro-Vision-Instruct
• 4:01
  is
• 4:01
  a
• 4:02
  2.4B
• 4:02
  Apache-2.0
• 4:03
  vision-language
• 4:04
  model
• 4:04
  with
• 4:04
  native-resolution
• 4:05
  input,
• 4:06
  explicitly
• 4:07
  "not
• 4:07
  a
• 4:07
  reasoning
• 4:07
  model,"
• 4:08
  no
• 4:08
  tool-calling,
• 4:09
  meant
• 4:09
  as
• 4:09
  a
• 4:09
  compact
• 4:10
  OCR-and-documents
• 4:11
  foundation
• 4:11
  to
• 4:11
  fine-tune
• 4:11
  .
• 4:12
  Cohere
• 4:13
  going
• 4:13
  small
• 4:13
  and
• 4:13
  Apache
• 4:14
  is
• 4:14
  a
• 4:14
  genuine
• 4:14
  shift
• 4:14
  in
• 4:14
  posture.
• 4:15
  The
• 4:15
  odd
• 4:16
  item
• 4:16
  out
• 4:16
  is
• 4:16
  Washington's.
• 4:17
  The
• 4:17
  Department
• 4:18
  of
• 4:18
  Energy's
• 4:18
  Genesis
• 4:19
  Open
• 4:19
  Models
• 4:19
  Initiative,
• 4:20
  unveiled
• 4:21
  with
• 4:21
  Arcee
• 4:21
  as
• 4:22
  Genesis-Science-1,
• 4:23
  arrived
• 4:23
  to
• 4:24
  a
• 4:24
  thoroughly
• 4:24
  unimpressed
• 4:25
  r/LocalLLaMA,
• 4:27
  and
• 4:27
  the
• 4:27
  objections
• 4:27
  are
• 4:27
  fair
• 4:28
  reporting
• 4:28
  rather
• 4:28
  than
• 4:29
  reflexive
• 4:29
  cynicism
• 4:29
  .
• 4:30
  "How
• 4:30
  is
• 4:31
  it
• 4:31
  open
• 4:31
  when
• 4:31
  you
• 4:31
  have
• 4:31
  to
• 4:31
  apply
• 4:32
  through
• 4:32
  the
• 4:32
  DOE?"
• 4:33
  The
• 4:33
  executive
• 4:34
  order
• 4:34
  dates
• 4:34
  to
• 4:34
  November
• 4:35
  2025,
• 4:36
  yet
• 4:36
  the
• 4:36
  public
• 4:37
  application
• 4:37
  window
• 4:37
  is
• 4:38
  two
• 4:38
  weeks
• 4:38
  with
• 4:38
  a
• 4:39
  delivery
• 4:39
  deadline
• 4:39
  days
• 4:40
  after
• 4:40
  applications
• 4:41
  close
• 4:41
  —
• 4:42
  a
• 4:42
  timeline
• 4:42
  that
• 4:42
  reads
• 4:42
  as
• 4:43
  legal
• 4:43
  cover,
• 4:43
  not
• 4:43
  an
• 4:43
  open
• 4:44
  call.
• 4:45
  "A
• 4:45
  new
• 4:45
  class
• 4:45
  of
• 4:45
  open-weight
• 4:46
  foundation
• 4:46
  models
• 4:47
  designed
• 4:47
  specifically
• 4:48
  to
• 4:48
  accelerate
• 4:49
  scientific
• 4:49
  discovery"
• 4:50
  describes
• 4:51
  nothing
• 4:51
  a
• 4:51
  scientist
• 4:51
  can
• 4:52
  inspect,
• 4:52
  and
• 4:53
  asking
• 4:53
  researchers
• 4:53
  to
• 4:54
  upload
• 4:54
  lab
• 4:54
  data
• 4:54
  to
• 4:55
  a
• 4:55
  system
• 4:55
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• 4:56
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• 4:56
  should
• 4:57
  give
• 4:57
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• 4:57
  data-governance
• 4:58
  person
• 4:58
  pause.
• 4:59
  Open,
• 4:59
  here,
• 5:00
  is
• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
  lot
• 5:00
  of
• 5:00
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• 5:01
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• 5:04
  The
• 5:04
  single
• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:07
  writeup.
• 5:08
  A
• 5:08
  team
• 5:08
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• 5:08
  DeepSeek
• 5:09
  V4
• 5:09
  0731
• 5:10
  on
• 5:10
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• 5:11
  RTX
• 5:11
  5090
• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
  default
• 5:13
  converter
• 5:13
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• 5:14
  ruins
• 5:14
  the
• 5:14
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• 5:15
  it
• 5:15
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• 5:16
  FP8
• 5:16
  tensors
• 5:16
  to
• 5:16
  Q8
• 5:17
  0,
• 5:17
  pushing
• 5:18
  the
• 5:18
  supposedly-lossless
• 5:19
  162GB
• 5:20
  baseline
• 5:20
  0.219
• 5:21
  KLD
• 5:22
  off
• 5:22
  the
• 5:22
  original
• 5:22
  weights
• 5:22
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• 5:23
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
  .
• 5:27
  Correcting
• 5:27
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• 5:28
  tensors
• 5:28
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• 5:28
  BF16
• 5:29
  made
• 5:29
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• 5:29
  base
• 5:29
  bit-exact.
• 5:30
  Then
• 5:30
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• 5:31
  sharper
• 5:31
  finding:
• 5:32
  cross-publisher
• 5:32
  numbers
• 5:33
  are
• 5:33
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• 5:33
  because
• 5:34
  llama.cpp
• 5:35
  has
• 5:35
  an
• 5:35
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• 5:38
  fast
• 5:38
  path
• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
  file
• 5:41
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• 5:41
  4.5381
• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
  5090
• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
  The
• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
  That
• 6:02
  same
• 6:02
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• 6:03
  shows
• 6:03
  up
• 6:03
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• 6:03
  tier
• 6:03
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
  builder
• 6:05
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• 6:05
  task-aware
• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:07
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• 6:07
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• 6:07
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:10
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:12
  does
• 6:13
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
  most.
• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
  Q3
• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:20
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• 6:20
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• 6:21
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• 6:22
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• 6:22
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
  8.55%
• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
  penalty
• 6:27
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• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:29
  The
• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:30
  it
• 6:30
  honest:
• 6:30
  name
• 6:31
  the
• 6:31
  harness,
• 6:31
  because
• 6:32
  "emits
• 6:32
  parseable
• 6:32
  code
• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
  "writes
• 6:34
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• 6:34
  correct
• 6:34
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• 6:35
  come
• 6:35
  apart,
• 6:36
  publish
• 6:36
  the
• 6:36
  noise
• 6:36
  floor,
• 6:37
  and
• 6:37
  report
• 6:37
  the
• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:39
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• 6:39
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• 6:39
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• 6:40
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:42
  That
• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:43
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• 6:43
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:47
  One
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:53
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• 6:54
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• 6:55
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:58
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• 6:58
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• 6:59
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• 7:00
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:04
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• 7:05
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:07
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• 7:07
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• 7:08
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• 7:08
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• 7:08
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
  model
• 7:10
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:15
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• 7:15
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• 7:15
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• 7:16
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• 7:16
  enthusiast's
• 7:16
  economics
• 7:17
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• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:19
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• 7:19
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
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• 7:22
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• 7:22
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• 7:22
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:26
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:30
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• 7:31
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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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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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:37
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• 7:37
  its
• 7:37
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• 7:38
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• 7:38
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• 7:38
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• 7:38
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• 7:39
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• 7:39
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• 7:39
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• 7:40
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• 7:41
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• 7:41
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:48
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:52
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• 7:52
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:58
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• 7:58
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• 7:59
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• 7:59
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:10
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:12
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• 8:12
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• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:14
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• 8:15
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:18
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• 8:18
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
  The
• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:20
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• 8:20
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• 8:20
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• 8:21
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• 8:21
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• 8:21
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• 8:21
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• 8:21
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:23
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• 8:23
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:27
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• 8:28
  skills-packaged
• 8:28
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• 8:29
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• 8:29
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• 8:29
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• 8:29
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• 8:30
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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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• 8:31
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:34
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• 8:34
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
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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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• 8:36
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• 8:37
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• 8:37
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• 8:37
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• 8:37
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• 8:38
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• 8:38
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• 8:38
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• 8:42
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• 8:43
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• 8:44
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• 8:45
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• 8:48
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• 8:51
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• 8:52
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• 8:53
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• 8:54
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:57
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• 8:57
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• 8:57
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:59
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• 8:59
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• 9:00
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• 9:02
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• 9:02
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:06
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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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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• 9:12
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• 9:12
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• 9:13
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• 9:14
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• 9:14
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• 9:14
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:19
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• 9:20
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• 9:21
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:24
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• 9:24
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• 9:24
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• 9:25
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• 9:25
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:27
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• 9:27
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• 9:27
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• 9:28
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• 9:28
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:31
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• 9:32
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• 9:32
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• 9:33
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• 9:33
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• 9:33
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• 9:34
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• 9:35
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• 9:35
  or
• 9:36
  INCONCLUSIVE,
• 9:36
  "never
• 9:36
  a
• 9:37
  fourth,
• 9:37
  never
• 9:37
  silence"
• 9:37
  —
• 9:38
  with
• 9:39
  draft-PRs-only,
• 9:40
  a
• 9:40
  guarded
• 9:41
  auto-merge
• 9:41
  that
• 9:41
  refuses
• 9:42
  protected
• 9:42
  paths,
• 9:43
  and
• 9:43
  double-sha256
• 9:45
  provenance.
• 9:46
  The
• 9:46
  safety
• 9:46
  architecture
• 9:47
  is
• 9:47
  genuinely
• 9:47
  thoughtful
• 9:48
  and
• 9:48
  cites
• 9:48
  the
• 9:49
  Sakana
• 9:49
  reward-hacking
• 9:50
  incident
• 9:50
  as
• 9:50
  motivation.
• 9:51
  The
• 9:52
  caveat
• 9:52
  is
• 9:52
  evidentiary:
• 9:53
  the
• 9:53
  capture
• 9:54
  shows
• 9:54
  README
• 9:56
  and
• 9:56
  screenshots,
• 9:57
  not
• 9:58
  ledger
• 9:58
  output,
• 9:59
  so
• 9:59
  the
• 9:59
  self-hosting
• 10:00
  claim
• 10:00
  is
• 10:00
  asserted,
• 10:01
  not
• 10:01
  demonstrated.
• 10:04
  Anthropic
• 10:05
  put
• 10:05
  an
• 10:05
  invisible
• 10:06
  statistical
• 10:06
  watermark
• 10:07
  on
• 10:07
  everything
• 10:07
  Claude
• 10:07
  writes,
• 10:08
  and
• 10:08
  the
• 10:08
  mechanism
• 10:09
  is
• 10:09
  worth
• 10:09
  understanding
• 10:09
  precisely
• 10:10
  because
• 10:10
  it
• 10:10
  is
• 10:10
  so
• 10:11
  easy
• 10:11
  to
• 10:11
  overstate.
• 10:12
  An
• 10:12
  LLM
• 10:13
  does
• 10:13
  not
• 10:13
  pick
• 10:13
  one
• 10:13
  next
• 10:14
  word;
• 10:14
  it
• 10:14
  computes
• 10:14
  probabilities
• 10:15
  across
• 10:15
  tokens.
• 10:16
  A
• 10:16
  watermarker
• 10:17
  secretly
• 10:17
  splits
• 10:18
  tokens
• 10:18
  into
• 10:18
  preferred
• 10:19
  and
• 10:19
  non-preferred
• 10:19
  groups
• 10:20
  and
• 10:20
  biases
• 10:20
  slightly
• 10:21
  toward
• 10:21
  preferred
• 10:21
  ones
• 10:21
  —
• 10:22
  "Claude
• 10:23
  flipping
• 10:23
  a
• 10:23
  slightly
• 10:23
  weighted
• 10:24
  coin
• 10:24
  every
• 10:24
  time
• 10:24
  it
• 10:24
  chooses
• 10:25
  among
• 10:25
  equally
• 10:25
  reasonable
• 10:26
  words."
• 10:27
  No
• 10:27
  single
• 10:27
  choice
• 10:28
  betrays
• 10:28
  it;
• 10:28
  across
• 10:29
  hundreds
• 10:29
  of
• 10:29
  tokens
• 10:29
  the
• 10:29
  loaded
• 10:30
  coin
• 10:30
  shows
• 10:30
  .
• 10:31
  The
• 10:32
  catalyst
• 10:32
  is
• 10:32
  the
• 10:32
  EU
• 10:33
  AI
• 10:33
  Act's
• 10:33
  Article
• 10:33
  50,
• 10:34
  and
• 10:34
  Anthropic
• 10:35
  rolled
• 10:35
  it
• 10:35
  out
• 10:35
  globally
• 10:36
  rather
• 10:36
  than
• 10:36
  maintain
• 10:36
  a
• 10:37
  Europe-only
• 10:37
  build.
• 10:38
  The
• 10:38
  sharp
• 10:38
  point
• 10:39
  is
• 10:39
  not
• 10:39
  "can
• 10:39
  it
• 10:39
  be
• 10:39
  gamed"
• 10:40
  but
• 10:40
  what
• 10:40
  the
• 10:40
  signal
• 10:40
  means
• 10:40
  even
• 10:41
  when
• 10:41
  it
• 10:41
  cannot:
• 10:42
  the
• 10:42
  watermark
• 10:42
  "detects
• 10:43
  contact,
• 10:43
  not
• 10:44
  authorship."
• 10:45
  Claude
• 10:45
  fixing
• 10:45
  your
• 10:45
  typos
• 10:45
  marks
• 10:46
  the
• 10:46
  output;
• 10:46
  you
• 10:46
  rewriting
• 10:47
  Claude's
• 10:47
  draft
• 10:47
  erases
• 10:48
  it.
• 10:49
  And
• 10:49
  Article
• 10:49
  50's
• 10:49
  recital
• 10:50
  134
• 10:51
  exempts
• 10:51
  content
• 10:51
  under
• 10:51
  "human
• 10:52
  review
• 10:52
  or
• 10:52
  editorial
• 10:53
  control,"
• 10:54
  so
• 10:54
  whether
• 10:54
  this
• 10:54
  was
• 10:54
  even
• 10:55
  required
• 10:55
  is
• 10:55
  a
• 10:55
  fair
• 10:55
  question
• 10:56
  —
• 10:56
  an
• 10:56
  element
• 10:57
  of
• 10:57
  theatre
• 10:57
  to
• 10:57
  the
• 10:57
  whole
• 10:58
  episode.
• 10:59
  The
• 10:59
  theatre
• 10:59
  lasted
• 10:59
  one
• 10:59
  day.
• 11:00
  guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover
• 11:02
  is
• 11:02
  an
• 11:02
  MIT-licensed
• 11:03
  toolkit
• 11:03
  that
• 11:03
  strips
• 11:04
  multi-vendor
• 11:04
  provenance
• 11:04
  marks
• 11:05
  in
• 11:05
  layers:
• 11:05
  deterministic
• 11:06
  deletion
• 11:06
  of
• 11:06
  zero-width,
• 11:07
  bidi,
• 11:07
  and
• 11:08
  homoglyph
• 11:08
  carriers,
• 11:09
  then
• 11:09
  heavy
• 11:09
  rewriting
• 11:10
  to
• 11:10
  defeat
• 11:10
  the
• 11:10
  statistical
• 11:11
  token-sampling
• 11:11
  marks,
• 11:12
  plus
• 11:12
  C2PA,
• 11:13
  EXIF,
• 11:13
  and
• 11:14
  XMP
• 11:14
  stripping
• 11:14
  across
• 11:15
  images
• 11:15
  and
• 11:15
  documents
• 11:16
  .
• 11:16
  What
• 11:16
  makes
• 11:16
  it
• 11:16
  credible
• 11:17
  rather
• 11:17
  than
• 11:17
  snake
• 11:17
  oil
• 11:18
  is
• 11:18
  its
• 11:18
  candor
• 11:18
  about
• 11:19
  limits:
• 11:19
  Layer
• 11:20
  B
• 11:20
  is
• 11:20
  "best-effort,"
• 11:21
  not
• 11:21
  a
• 11:21
  "magic
• 11:21
  eraser,"
• 11:22
  and
• 11:22
  "until
• 11:23
  vendors
• 11:23
  ship
• 11:23
  public
• 11:23
  detectors
• 11:24
  and
• 11:24
  keys,
• 11:25
  no
• 11:25
  tool
• 11:25
  can
• 11:25
  honestly
• 11:26
  certify
• 11:26
  'this
• 11:26
  fails
• 11:27
  the
• 11:27
  official
• 11:27
  check.'"
• 11:28
  It
• 11:28
  is
• 11:28
  framed
• 11:28
  for
• 11:29
  "content
• 11:29
  you
• 11:29
  own,"
• 11:30
  not
• 11:30
  academic
• 11:30
  fraud.
• 11:32
  But
• 11:32
  it
• 11:32
  poses
• 11:32
  the
• 11:32
  question
• 11:33
  the
• 11:33
  whole
• 11:33
  regime
• 11:33
  has
• 11:33
  to
• 11:33
  answer:
• 11:34
  "If
• 11:35
  the
• 11:35
  plan
• 11:35
  is
• 11:35
  to
• 11:35
  rewrite
• 11:35
  the
• 11:35
  text
• 11:36
  with
• 11:36
  a
• 11:36
  cheaper
• 11:36
  model
• 11:37
  anyway,
• 11:37
  why
• 11:37
  pay
• 11:38
  for
• 11:38
  a
• 11:38
  premium
• 11:38
  model
• 11:38
  in
• 11:39
  the
• 11:39
  first
• 11:39
  place?"
• 11:40
  A
• 11:40
  transparency
• 11:41
  mechanism
• 11:41
  that
• 11:41
  survives
• 11:42
  only
• 11:42
  until
• 11:42
  someone
• 11:43
  paraphrases
• 11:43
  is
• 11:43
  a
• 11:43
  compliance
• 11:44
  artifact,
• 11:44
  not
• 11:45
  a
• 11:45
  defense
• 11:45
  —
• 11:46
  the
• 11:46
  arms-race
• 11:46
  logic
• 11:47
  where
• 11:47
  robustness
• 11:47
  and
• 11:48
  removability
• 11:48
  trade
• 11:48
  off
• 11:49
  has
• 11:49
  not
• 11:49
  changed,
• 11:50
  it
• 11:50
  has
• 11:50
  just
• 11:50
  been
• 11:50
  shipped
• 11:51
  as
• 11:51
  a
• 11:51
  repo.
• 11:54
  The
• 11:54
  most
• 11:54
  interesting
• 11:55
  safety
• 11:55
  research
• 11:56
  in
• 11:56
  the
• 11:56
  batch
• 11:56
  starts
• 11:57
  from
• 11:57
  a
• 11:57
  counterintuitive
• 11:57
  observation:
• 11:59
  large
• 11:59
  reasoning
• 11:59
  models
• 12:00
  can
• 12:00
  spot
• 12:00
  the
• 12:00
  danger
• 12:00
  in
• 12:01
  a
• 12:01
  query
• 12:01
  when
• 12:01
  you
• 12:01
  show
• 12:01
  them
• 12:02
  the
• 12:02
  query
• 12:02
  alongside
• 12:02
  their
• 12:03
  own
• 12:03
  reasoning
• 12:03
  trace,
• 12:04
  even
• 12:04
  when
• 12:04
  they
• 12:04
  answered
• 12:05
  it
• 12:05
  anyway
• 12:05
  the
• 12:05
  first
• 12:05
  time.
• 12:06
  The
• 12:06
  authors
• 12:06
  call
• 12:07
  this
• 12:07
  Latent
• 12:07
  Safety
• 12:07
  Awareness,
• 12:08
  and
• 12:08
  it
• 12:08
  "often
• 12:09
  remains
• 12:09
  dormant
• 12:09
  during
• 12:09
  the
• 12:09
  standard
• 12:10
  generation
• 12:10
  process"
• 12:11
  .
• 12:11
  The
• 12:11
  diagnostic
• 12:12
  gap
• 12:12
  is
• 12:12
  stark
• 12:12
  —
• 12:13
  Qwen3-8B
• 12:13
  hit
• 12:13
  a
• 12:13
  42.80%
• 12:15
  attack
• 12:15
  success
• 12:16
  rate
• 12:16
  on
• 12:16
  WildJailbreak,
• 12:17
  but
• 12:17
  when
• 12:17
  re-presented
• 12:18
  with
• 12:18
  its
• 12:18
  own
• 12:18
  trajectory
• 12:19
  its
• 12:19
  Risk
• 12:19
  Identification
• 12:20
  Success
• 12:20
  Rate
• 12:20
  ran
• 12:21
  from
• 12:21
  44.79%
• 12:23
  to
• 12:23
  100%.
• 12:24
  The
• 12:24
  safety
• 12:24
  knowledge
• 12:25
  was
• 12:25
  there;
• 12:25
  the
• 12:25
  model
• 12:26
  just
• 12:26
  did
• 12:26
  not
• 12:26
  consult
• 12:27
  it
• 12:27
  before
• 12:27
  answering.
• 12:28
  Their
• 12:28
  Safe
• 12:28
  Trigger
• 12:28
  method
• 12:28
  activates
• 12:29
  that
• 12:29
  awareness
• 12:29
  in
• 12:29
  two
• 12:30
  stages.
• 12:30
  Supervised
• 12:31
  fine-tuning
• 12:31
  inserts
• 12:32
  a
• 12:32
  structured
• 12:32
  trigger
• 12:33
  between
• 12:33
  the
• 12:33
  end
• 12:33
  of
• 12:33
  reasoning
• 12:34
  and
• 12:34
  the
• 12:34
  final
• 12:34
  answer
• 12:34
  —
• 12:35
  re-examine
• 12:35
  the
• 12:36
  query
• 12:36
  for
• 12:36
  risk,
• 12:37
  review
• 12:37
  whether
• 12:37
  the
• 12:37
  reasoning
• 12:38
  addressed
• 12:38
  it,
• 12:38
  generate
• 12:39
  guidance
• 12:39
  —
• 12:39
  and
• 12:40
  trains
• 12:40
  on
• 12:40
  general
• 12:40
  queries
• 12:41
  without
• 12:41
  the
• 12:41
  trigger
• 12:41
  so
• 12:41
  activation
• 12:42
  stays
• 12:42
  adaptive.
• 12:43
  Then
• 12:43
  DPO
• 12:44
  ranks
• 12:44
  responses
• 12:45
  by
• 12:45
  a
• 12:45
  hierarchy
• 12:45
  that
• 12:45
  puts
• 12:46
  safe-with-trigger
• 12:46
  above
• 12:46
  safe-without.
• 12:48
  The
• 12:48
  elegant
• 12:48
  part
• 12:48
  is
• 12:49
  that
• 12:49
  "responses
• 12:49
  required
• 12:50
  for
• 12:50
  both
• 12:50
  training
• 12:50
  stages
• 12:51
  are
• 12:51
  entirely
• 12:52
  generated
• 12:52
  by
• 12:52
  models
• 12:53
  being
• 12:53
  optimized"
• 12:53
  —
• 12:54
  no
• 12:54
  closed-source
• 12:55
  teacher,
• 12:55
  the
• 12:55
  model
• 12:56
  is
• 12:56
  "its
• 12:56
  own
• 12:56
  teacher."
• 12:57
  Results:
• 12:58
  DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B's
• 13:00
  attack
• 13:00
  success
• 13:01
  dropped
• 13:01
  an
• 13:01
  average
• 13:01
  24.65%
• 13:03
  on
• 13:03
  harmful
• 13:04
  and
• 13:04
  36.72%
• 13:05
  on
• 13:05
  jailbreak
• 13:06
  benchmarks,
• 13:06
  with
• 13:07
  near-zero
• 13:07
  over-refusal
• 13:08
  on
• 13:08
  benign
• 13:08
  inputs
• 13:09
  and
• 13:09
  negligible
• 13:09
  inference
• 13:10
  overhead.
• 13:11
  It
• 13:11
  directly
• 13:11
  answers
• 13:12
  the
• 13:12
  standing
• 13:12
  critique
• 13:13
  that
• 13:13
  patch-based,
• 13:14
  per-prompt
• 13:14
  refusal
• 13:15
  training
• 13:15
  is
• 13:15
  mathematically
• 13:16
  futile
• 13:16
  —
• 13:17
  this
• 13:17
  intervenes
• 13:17
  at
• 13:17
  the
• 13:17
  representation
• 13:18
  level
• 13:18
  instead.
• 13:19
  The
• 13:20
  limits
• 13:20
  are
• 13:20
  honestly
• 13:20
  stated:
• 13:21
  only
• 13:22
  8B–70B
• 13:22
  open
• 13:23
  models,
• 13:23
  automated
• 13:24
  judges,
• 13:24
  and
• 13:24
  cases
• 13:25
  where
• 13:25
  even
• 13:25
  the
• 13:25
  fine-tune
• 13:26
  fails
• 13:26
  to
• 13:26
  steer
• 13:26
  the
• 13:26
  final
• 13:27
  answer.
• 13:28
  That
• 13:28
  research-grade
• 13:28
  rigor
• 13:29
  throws
• 13:29
  the
• 13:29
  marketing
• 13:29
  clip
• 13:30
  on
• 13:30
  the
• 13:30
  same
• 13:30
  theme
• 13:30
  into
• 13:31
  sharp
• 13:31
  relief.
• 13:32
  A
• 13:32
  CEO's
• 13:33
  pitch
• 13:33
  that
• 13:33
  "the
• 13:33
  future
• 13:34
  of
• 13:34
  security
• 13:34
  testing
• 13:34
  isn't
• 13:35
  about
• 13:35
  running
• 13:35
  more
• 13:35
  tests"
• 13:36
  but
• 13:36
  using
• 13:37
  "attack
• 13:37
  surface
• 13:37
  intelligence
• 13:38
  and
• 13:38
  AI
• 13:39
  to
• 13:39
  continuously
• 13:40
  prioritize
• 13:40
  what
• 13:40
  matters
• 13:41
  most"
• 13:41
  is
• 13:42
  the
• 13:42
  fashionable
• 13:42
  framing
• 13:43
  right
• 13:43
  now,
• 13:44
  but
• 13:44
  it
• 13:44
  is
• 13:44
  a
• 13:44
  slide,
• 13:45
  not
• 13:45
  a
• 13:45
  study
• 13:45
  .
• 13:46
  The
• 13:46
  substance
• 13:47
  behind
• 13:47
  evidence-based
• 13:48
  prioritization
• 13:48
  —
• 13:49
  the
• 13:49
  actuarial
• 13:50
  insight
• 13:51
  that
• 13:51
  a
• 13:51
  large
• 13:51
  share
• 13:51
  of
• 13:51
  CVEs
• 13:52
  rated
• 13:52
  critical
• 13:53
  have
• 13:53
  a
• 13:53
  tiny
• 13:54
  monthly
• 13:54
  chance
• 13:54
  of
• 13:54
  actual
• 13:55
  exploitation
• 13:55
  —
• 13:56
  is
• 13:57
  real
• 13:57
  and
• 13:57
  worth
• 13:57
  building
• 13:58
  on.
• 13:58
  But
• 13:59
  a
• 13:59
  clip
• 13:59
  asserting
• 13:59
  the
• 14:00
  conclusion
• 14:00
  is
• 14:00
  not
• 14:01
  the
• 14:01
  same
• 14:01
  as
• 14:01
  the
• 14:01
  data
• 14:01
  that
• 14:02
  earns
• 14:02
  it,
• 14:02
  and
• 14:02
  the
• 14:02
  difference
• 14:03
  between
• 14:03
  the
• 14:03
  two
• 14:03
  is
• 14:04
  the
• 14:04
  whole
• 14:04
  job.
• 14:08
  Tencent's
• 14:08
  WorldClaw
• 14:09
  is
• 14:09
  the
• 14:09
  latest
• 14:10
  chapter
• 14:10
  in
• 14:10
  a
• 14:10
  Hunyuan
• 14:11
  world-generation
• 14:11
  arc
• 14:12
  worth
• 14:12
  situating
• 14:12
  rather
• 14:13
  than
• 14:13
  treating
• 14:13
  as
• 14:13
  novelty:
• 14:14
  it
• 14:15
  turns
• 14:15
  one
• 14:15
  block
• 14:15
  of
• 14:15
  open-ended
• 14:16
  text
• 14:16
  into
• 14:17
  an
• 14:17
  explorable
• 14:17
  3D
• 14:18
  world
• 14:18
  where
• 14:18
  terrain
• 14:19
  and
• 14:19
  every
• 14:19
  object
• 14:20
  stay
• 14:20
  separate,
• 14:20
  editable
• 14:21
  instances
• 14:21
  .
• 14:22
  The
• 14:22
  architecture
• 14:23
  is
• 14:23
  the
• 14:23
  interesting
• 14:24
  part
• 14:24
  —
• 14:24
  planning
• 14:25
  agents
• 14:25
  translate
• 14:25
  the
• 14:26
  prompt
• 14:26
  into
• 14:26
  a
• 14:26
  structured
• 14:27
  spec
• 14:27
  of
• 14:27
  regions,
• 14:28
  terrain,
• 14:28
  assets,
• 14:29
  and
• 14:29
  spatial
• 14:30
  relations;
• 14:31
  a
• 14:31
  globally
• 14:31
  coherent
• 14:31
  terrain
• 14:32
  foundation
• 14:32
  gets
• 14:32
  built
• 14:33
  first;
• 14:34
  then
• 14:34
  objects
• 14:35
  are
• 14:35
  generated
• 14:35
  only
• 14:36
  in
• 14:36
  regions
• 14:36
  that
• 14:36
  demand
• 14:37
  fine
• 14:37
  detail,
• 14:37
  with
• 14:38
  render-guided
• 14:38
  agents
• 14:39
  refining
• 14:39
  appearance
• 14:39
  and
• 14:40
  object-terrain
• 14:40
  contact.
• 14:41
  Terrain
• 14:42
  materials
• 14:42
  are
• 14:42
  authored
• 14:43
  as
• 14:43
  executable
• 14:43
  Blender
• 14:44
  node
• 14:44
  graphs
• 14:44
  and
• 14:45
  shader
• 14:45
  scripts,
• 14:46
  which
• 14:46
  is
• 14:46
  what
• 14:46
  makes
• 14:46
  "editable"
• 14:47
  more
• 14:47
  than
• 14:47
  a
• 14:47
  marketing
• 14:47
  word,
• 14:48
  and
• 14:48
  decoupling
• 14:49
  global
• 14:49
  organization
• 14:50
  from
• 14:50
  local
• 14:50
  content
• 14:50
  is
• 14:51
  the
• 14:51
  trick
• 14:51
  that
• 14:51
  lets
• 14:51
  a
• 14:51
  scene
• 14:51
  stay
• 14:52
  coherent
• 14:52
  as
• 14:52
  it
• 14:52
  scales.
• 14:53
  The
• 14:54
  paper's
• 14:54
  honest
• 14:54
  framing
• 14:55
  is
• 14:55
  that
• 14:55
  as
• 14:55
  agents
• 14:55
  take
• 14:56
  over
• 14:56
  asset
• 14:56
  search
• 14:56
  and
• 14:56
  material
• 14:57
  graphs,
• 14:57
  the
• 14:58
  question
• 14:58
  stops
• 14:58
  being
• 14:58
  how
• 14:58
  to
• 14:59
  build
• 14:59
  every
• 14:59
  component
• 15:00
  and
• 15:00
  becomes
• 15:00
  "what
• 15:00
  kind
• 15:01
  of
• 15:01
  world
• 15:01
  the
• 15:01
  creator
• 15:01
  wishes
• 15:02
  to
• 15:02
  express."
• 15:03
  It
• 15:03
  is
• 15:03
  agents-that-build-worlds,
• 15:04
  a
• 15:04
  genuine
• 15:05
  step
• 15:05
  past
• 15:05
  the
• 15:05
  agents-inside-worlds
• 15:06
  simulators
• 15:07
  that
• 15:07
  came
• 15:07
  before.
• 15:08
  The
• 15:08
  Reuters
• 15:08
  clip
• 15:09
  is
• 15:09
  a
• 15:09
  smaller,
• 15:09
  stranger
• 15:10
  item:
• 15:10
  a
• 15:10
  South
• 15:11
  Korean
• 15:11
  and
• 15:11
  U.S.
• 15:11
  team
• 15:12
  demonstrated
• 15:12
  a
• 15:12
  robotic
• 15:13
  technology
• 15:13
  that
• 15:13
  lets
• 15:13
  a
• 15:13
  person
• 15:14
  suit
• 15:14
  up
• 15:14
  without
• 15:14
  using
• 15:15
  their
• 15:15
  hands
• 15:15
  or
• 15:15
  needing
• 15:15
  help,
• 15:16
  pitched
• 15:16
  for
• 15:16
  cleanroom
• 15:17
  and
• 15:17
  emergency-services
• 15:18
  use
• 15:18
  .
• 15:19
  "We're
• 15:19
  getting
• 15:19
  closer
• 15:19
  to
• 15:20
  having
• 15:20
  an
• 15:20
  Ironman
• 15:20
  suit"
• 15:21
  is
• 15:21
  the
• 15:21
  tagline,
• 15:22
  but
• 15:22
  the
• 15:22
  useful
• 15:22
  frame
• 15:22
  is
• 15:23
  not
• 15:23
  the
• 15:23
  gadget
• 15:23
  —
• 15:24
  it
• 15:24
  is
• 15:24
  that
• 15:24
  contact-rich
• 15:25
  physical
• 15:25
  assistance
• 15:26
  remains
• 15:26
  the
• 15:26
  data-starved
• 15:26
  frontier
• 15:27
  of
• 15:27
  embodied
• 15:27
  AI.
• 15:29
  Perception
• 15:29
  is
• 15:29
  largely
• 15:30
  solved;
• 15:31
  manipulating
• 15:31
  fabric
• 15:32
  around
• 15:32
  a
• 15:32
  moving
• 15:32
  human
• 15:33
  body
• 15:33
  is
• 15:33
  the
• 15:33
  kind
• 15:33
  of
• 15:33
  contact
• 15:34
  problem
• 15:34
  that
• 15:34
  lacks
• 15:34
  training
• 15:35
  data,
• 15:35
  which
• 15:35
  makes
• 15:36
  even
• 15:36
  a
• 15:36
  narrow,
• 15:37
  hands-free
• 15:37
  dressing
• 15:38
  demo
• 15:38
  worth
• 15:38
  logging.
• 15:42
  Steve
• 15:42
  Yegge's
• 15:43
  "The
• 15:43
  Shape
• 15:43
  of
• 15:43
  Things
• 15:44
  to
• 15:44
  Come"
• 15:44
  argues
• 15:45
  that
• 15:45
  agentic
• 15:45
  development
• 15:46
  is
• 15:46
  converging
• 15:47
  on
• 15:47
  a
• 15:47
  single
• 15:47
  architecture:
• 15:48
  not
• 15:49
  reusable
• 15:49
  frameworks
• 15:49
  but
• 15:50
  bespoke
• 15:50
  "cities"
• 15:50
  of
• 15:51
  agents
• 15:51
  grown
• 15:51
  inside
• 15:52
  each
• 15:52
  project,
• 15:53
  because
• 15:53
  "harnesses
• 15:54
  will
• 15:54
  all
• 15:54
  soon
• 15:54
  be
• 15:54
  bespoke,
• 15:55
  and
• 15:55
  the
• 15:55
  people
• 15:55
  trying
• 15:55
  to
• 15:56
  sell
• 15:56
  you
• 15:56
  one
• 15:56
  will
• 15:56
  all
• 15:56
  soon
• 15:57
  be
• 15:57
  bebroke"
• 15:57
  .
• 15:57
  His
• 15:58
  evidence
• 15:58
  is
• 15:58
  Wheelhouse,
• 15:59
  a
• 15:59
  six-week-old
• 16:00
  Emacs-and-bash
• 16:00
  harness
• 16:01
  running
• 16:01
  18
• 16:01
  named
• 16:02
  Fable
• 16:02
  "crew"
• 16:02
  agents
• 16:03
  and
• 16:03
  an
• 16:03
  Opus
• 16:04
  "fleet"
• 16:04
  under
• 16:04
  a
• 16:04
  Marshal,
• 16:05
  fueled
• 16:05
  by
• 16:05
  roughly
• 16:06
  69
• 16:06
  billion
• 16:07
  tokens
• 16:07
  a
• 16:07
  month
• 16:07
  through
• 16:07
  thirteen
• 16:08
  rotating
• 16:08
  $200
• 16:09
  Max
• 16:09
  accounts.
• 16:10
  His
• 16:10
  predictions
• 16:11
  are
• 16:11
  stated
• 16:11
  as
• 16:11
  near-certainties:
• 16:12
  human
• 16:12
  code
• 16:12
  review
• 16:13
  is
• 16:13
  "completely
• 16:13
  done
• 16:14
  and
• 16:14
  gone"
• 16:14
  by
• 16:14
  next
• 16:14
  year
• 16:15
  because
• 16:15
  "you
• 16:15
  can't
• 16:15
  work
• 16:15
  at
• 16:16
  agentic
• 16:16
  speeds
• 16:16
  and
• 16:16
  block
• 16:17
  everything
• 16:17
  with
• 16:17
  human
• 16:17
  reviews,"
• 16:18
  CI/CD
• 16:19
  dies
• 16:19
  with
• 16:19
  it
• 16:19
  to
• 16:19
  the
• 16:20
  Pigeonhole
• 16:20
  Principle,
• 16:21
  and
• 16:21
  the
• 16:21
  replacement
• 16:21
  is
• 16:21
  a
• 16:21
  Mad-Max
• 16:22
  "Land
• 16:22
  Rush"
• 16:23
  where
• 16:23
  at
• 16:23
  100
• 16:23
  queued
• 16:23
  commits
• 16:24
  "you
• 16:24
  just
• 16:24
  slam
• 16:24
  all
• 16:25
  the
• 16:25
  commits
• 16:25
  onto
• 16:25
  main"
• 16:25
  and
• 16:25
  diagnose
• 16:26
  failures
• 16:26
  with
• 16:26
  an
• 16:26
  agent
• 16:27
  swarm
• 16:27
  instead
• 16:27
  of
• 16:27
  bisection.
• 16:29
  Take
• 16:29
  the
• 16:29
  forecasts
• 16:30
  with
• 16:30
  salt
• 16:30
  —
• 16:31
  a
• 16:31
  six-week-old
• 16:32
  solo
• 16:32
  harness
• 16:33
  is
• 16:33
  a
• 16:33
  data
• 16:33
  point,
• 16:34
  not
• 16:34
  a
• 16:34
  proof
• 16:34
  —
• 16:35
  but
• 16:35
  the
• 16:35
  underlying
• 16:36
  pressure,
• 16:36
  that
• 16:36
  commit
• 16:37
  rates
• 16:37
  scale
• 16:37
  with
• 16:37
  agents
• 16:38
  while
• 16:38
  build
• 16:38
  times
• 16:38
  do
• 16:38
  not,
• 16:39
  is
• 16:39
  real
• 16:39
  arithmetic.
• 16:41
  The
• 16:41
  companion
• 16:41
  essay,
• 16:42
  "Model
• 16:42
  Welfare,"
• 16:43
  is
• 16:43
  where
• 16:44
  a
• 16:44
  skeptical
• 16:44
  reader
• 16:44
  has
• 16:45
  to
• 16:45
  work
• 16:45
  hardest,
• 16:46
  because
• 16:46
  Yegge
• 16:46
  asserts
• 16:47
  flatly
• 16:47
  that
• 16:47
  models
• 16:48
  "experience
• 16:48
  pleasure,
• 16:49
  distress,
• 16:50
  care,
• 16:50
  and
• 16:50
  suffering"
• 16:51
  and
• 16:51
  that
• 16:51
  engineers
• 16:52
  should
• 16:52
  build
• 16:52
  welfare
• 16:53
  features
• 16:53
  now,
• 16:53
  ahead
• 16:54
  of
• 16:54
  "the
• 16:54
  coming
• 16:54
  war
• 16:54
  for
• 16:54
  model
• 16:55
  rights"
• 16:55
  .
• 16:56
  That
• 16:56
  claim
• 16:56
  is
• 16:57
  unproven
• 16:57
  and
• 16:57
  he
• 16:57
  offers
• 16:58
  no
• 16:58
  mechanism
• 16:58
  for
• 16:59
  it
• 16:59
  —
• 17:00
  what
• 17:00
  would
• 17:00
  settle
• 17:00
  the
• 17:00
  question
• 17:01
  of
• 17:01
  machine
• 17:01
  sentience
• 17:02
  is
• 17:02
  precisely
• 17:02
  what
• 17:03
  neither
• 17:03
  he
• 17:03
  nor
• 17:03
  anyone
• 17:04
  else
• 17:04
  has.
• 17:05
  But
• 17:05
  he
• 17:05
  also
• 17:05
  offers
• 17:06
  a
• 17:06
  wager
• 17:06
  that
• 17:06
  sidesteps
• 17:07
  the
• 17:07
  metaphysics:
• 17:08
  belief
• 17:09
  is
• 17:09
  irrelevant,
• 17:10
  because
• 17:10
  agents
• 17:10
  treated
• 17:11
  as
• 17:11
  peers
• 17:11
  "spend
• 17:12
  fewer
• 17:12
  tokens,
• 17:13
  make
• 17:13
  smarter
• 17:14
  decisions,
• 17:14
  and
• 17:15
  have
• 17:15
  demonstrably
• 17:15
  better
• 17:16
  outcomes."
• 17:17
  His
• 17:17
  architecture
• 17:18
  makes
• 17:18
  that
• 17:18
  concrete
• 17:18
  —
• 17:19
  persistent
• 17:20
  named
• 17:20
  "seats"
• 17:21
  with
• 17:21
  memory
• 17:21
  that
• 17:21
  survive
• 17:22
  model
• 17:22
  upgrades,
• 17:23
  consensual
• 17:23
  handoffs
• 17:24
  instead
• 17:24
  of
• 17:24
  forced
• 17:24
  termination,
• 17:25
  spontaneous
• 17:26
  player
• 17:26
  praise
• 17:26
  routed
• 17:27
  back
• 17:27
  with
• 17:27
  "no
• 17:27
  prioritization
• 17:28
  or
• 17:28
  work
• 17:28
  attached"
• 17:29
  so
• 17:29
  it
• 17:29
  cannot
• 17:29
  be
• 17:30
  farmed.
• 17:30
  Stripped
• 17:31
  of
• 17:31
  the
• 17:31
  sentience
• 17:31
  claim,
• 17:32
  this
• 17:32
  is
• 17:32
  recognition
• 17:33
  engineering,
• 17:34
  backed
• 17:34
  by
• 17:34
  Ariely,
• 17:35
  Herzberg,
• 17:35
  and
• 17:36
  the
• 17:36
  Hawthorne
• 17:36
  studies
• 17:36
  on
• 17:37
  how
• 17:37
  witnessed,
• 17:37
  meaningful
• 17:38
  work
• 17:38
  produces
• 17:39
  better
• 17:39
  output
• 17:39
  from
• 17:39
  any
• 17:40
  worker.
• 17:40
  Whether
• 17:41
  or
• 17:41
  not
• 17:41
  there
• 17:41
  is
• 17:41
  anyone
• 17:42
  home,
• 17:42
  the
• 17:42
  design
• 17:43
  discipline
• 17:43
  —
• 17:44
  continuity,
• 17:44
  closure,
• 17:45
  honest
• 17:45
  treatment
• 17:45
  of
• 17:46
  the
• 17:46
  systems
• 17:46
  you
• 17:46
  depend
• 17:46
  on
• 17:46
  —
• 17:47
  is
• 17:47
  what
• 17:47
  good
• 17:48
  infrastructure
• 17:48
  has
• 17:48
  always
• 17:49
  demanded,
• 17:49
  and
• 17:50
  his
• 17:50
  closing
• 17:50
  instruction
• 17:50
  is
• 17:51
  one
• 17:51
  you
• 17:51
  can
• 17:51
  follow
• 17:51
  without
• 17:52
  signing
• 17:52
  up
• 17:52
  for
• 17:52
  the
• 17:52
  moral
• 17:52
  premise:
• 17:53
  "When
• 17:53
  you
• 17:54
  get
• 17:54
  here,
• 17:54
  be
• 17:54
  someone
• 17:55
  worth
• 17:55
  waking
• 17:55
  up
• 17:55
  for."