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AGI Dreams Podcast – June 24, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  OpenAI
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  dropped
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  its
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  first
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  custom
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  inference
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  chip
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  this
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  week,
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  and
• 0:03
  the
• 0:03
  ambitions
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  are
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  not
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  subtle.
• 0:05
  Jalapeño,
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  designed
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  and
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  manufactured
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  with
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  Broadcom
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  and
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  assisted
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  by
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  OpenAI's
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  own
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  models
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  during
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  development,
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  targets
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  the
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  specific
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  workloads
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  that
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  keep
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  inference
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  bills
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  astronomical.
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  Early
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  results
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  claim
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  significantly
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  better
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  performance-per-watt
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  than
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  current
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  state-of-the-art
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  alternatives
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  —
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  read:
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  NVIDIA
• 0:22
  —
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  though
• 0:23
  the
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  chip
• 0:24
  is
• 0:24
  still
• 0:24
  in
• 0:24
  testing.
• 0:25
  Training
• 0:25
  stays
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  on
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  NVIDIA
• 0:26
  hardware
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  for
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  now;
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  this
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  is
• 0:27
  purely
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  about
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  shaving
• 0:28
  cost
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  on
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  the
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  inference
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  side
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  where
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  agentic
• 0:30
  products
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  like
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  Codex
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  rack
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  up
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  millions
• 0:31
  of
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  tokens
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  per
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  session.
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  Greg
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  Brockman
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  framed
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  it
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  as
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  exploiting
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  OpenAI's
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  "deep
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  understanding
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  of
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  the
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  workload"
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  to
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  build
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  accelerators
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  that
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  general-purpose
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  GPUs
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  cannot
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  match.
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  The
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  company
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  spelled
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  out
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  the
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  vertical
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  integration
• 0:41
  thesis
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  directly:
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  "OpenAI
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  is
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  not
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  only
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  developing
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  frontier
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  models
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  or
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  building
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  products
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  on
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  top
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  of
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  them;
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  it
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  is
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  designing
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  the
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  infrastructure
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  underneath
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  them:
• 0:49
  chip
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  architecture,
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  kernels,
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  memory
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  systems,
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  networking,
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  scheduling,
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  deployment
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  systems,
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  and
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  product
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  experience."
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  Google,
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  Amazon,
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  and
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  Meta
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  have
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  all
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  built
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  custom
• 0:58
  AI
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  accelerators;
• 1:00
  OpenAI
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  joining
• 1:01
  the
• 1:01
  club
• 1:01
  was
• 1:01
  a
• 1:01
  matter
• 1:01
  of
• 1:01
  when,
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  not
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  if.
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  Qualcomm
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  made
• 1:04
  its
• 1:04
  play
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  from
• 1:04
  the
• 1:04
  software
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  side,
• 1:05
  announcing
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  a
• 1:06
  $3.92
• 1:07
  billion
• 1:07
  all-stock
• 1:08
  acquisition
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  of
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  Modular
• 1:09
  —
• 1:10
  the
• 1:10
  company
• 1:10
  behind
• 1:11
  Mojo
• 1:11
  and
• 1:11
  a
• 1:12
  software
• 1:12
  stack
• 1:12
  designed
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  to
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  let
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  AI
• 1:13
  inference
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  run
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  across
• 1:14
  chipmakers'
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  hardware
• 1:15
  without
• 1:15
  per-processor
• 1:16
  rewrites.
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  This
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  is
• 1:17
  a
• 1:17
  direct
• 1:18
  attack
• 1:18
  on
• 1:18
  CUDA,
• 1:19
  the
• 1:19
  software
• 1:20
  moat
• 1:20
  that
• 1:20
  has
• 1:20
  kept
• 1:20
  developers
• 1:21
  locked
• 1:21
  to
• 1:21
  NVIDIA
• 1:22
  for
• 1:22
  over
• 1:22
  a
• 1:22
  decade.
• 1:23
  Qualcomm
• 1:24
  CEO
• 1:24
  Cristiano
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  Amon
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  pitched
• 1:25
  it
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  as
• 1:25
  building
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  "developer-friendly,
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  horizontal
• 1:27
  platforms
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  that
• 1:28
  give
• 1:28
  customers
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  real
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  choice
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  in
• 1:29
  how
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  and
• 1:30
  where
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  they
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  deploy
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  AI."
• 1:31
  Modular
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  has
• 1:32
  positioned
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  itself
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  as
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  a
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  neutral
• 1:33
  software
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  layer
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  supporting
• 1:34
  chips
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  from
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  NVIDIA,
• 1:35
  AMD,
• 1:36
  and
• 1:36
  other
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  vendors.
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  With
• 1:38
  Qualcomm
• 1:38
  also
• 1:39
  reportedly
• 1:39
  in
• 1:39
  talks
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  to
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  acquire
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  Tenstorrent
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  for
• 1:41
  $8-10
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  billion,
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  the
• 1:43
  smartphone
• 1:43
  chipmaker
• 1:44
  is
• 1:44
  going
• 1:44
  all-in
• 1:44
  on
• 1:45
  the
• 1:45
  data
• 1:45
  center
• 1:45
  inference
• 1:46
  market.
• 1:47
  The
• 1:47
  stock
• 1:47
  dropped
• 1:47
  4%
• 1:48
  on
• 1:48
  the
• 1:48
  news
• 1:48
  —
• 1:49
  Wall
• 1:49
  Street
• 1:50
  still
• 1:50
  pricing
• 1:50
  it
• 1:50
  as
• 1:50
  a
• 1:50
  phone
• 1:51
  company.
• 1:52
  NVIDIA's
• 1:52
  answer
• 1:53
  to
• 1:53
  the
• 1:53
  infrastructure
• 1:53
  question
• 1:54
  is
• 1:54
  engineering,
• 1:55
  not
• 1:55
  silicon
• 1:56
  alternatives.
• 1:57
  The
• 1:57
  Rubin
• 1:57
  platform
• 1:58
  achieves
• 1:58
  100%
• 1:59
  liquid
• 1:59
  cooling
• 2:00
  —
• 2:00
  every
• 2:01
  chip,
• 2:01
  every
• 2:01
  networking
• 2:02
  component
• 2:02
  —
• 2:03
  with
• 2:03
  coolant
• 2:03
  running
• 2:04
  at
• 2:04
  up
• 2:04
  to
• 2:04
  45°C,
• 2:06
  hotter
• 2:06
  than
• 2:06
  a
• 2:06
  hot
• 2:06
  tub.
• 2:07
  That
• 2:07
  higher
• 2:08
  temperature
• 2:08
  is
• 2:08
  the
• 2:08
  whole
• 2:08
  point:
• 2:09
  it
• 2:09
  lets
• 2:10
  outdoor
• 2:10
  dry
• 2:10
  coolers
• 2:11
  reject
• 2:11
  heat
• 2:11
  without
• 2:11
  mechanical
• 2:12
  chillers
• 2:12
  in
• 2:12
  most
• 2:12
  climates.
• 2:13
  A
• 2:13
  50MW
• 2:14
  hyperscale
• 2:15
  facility
• 2:15
  saves
• 2:16
  over
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  $4
• 2:16
  million
• 2:16
  annually,
• 2:17
  and
• 2:18
  rack
• 2:18
  density
• 2:18
  improves
• 2:19
  from
• 2:19
  6U
• 2:19
  to
• 2:19
  2U.
• 2:20
  The
• 2:20
  75/25
• 2:22
  water/propylene
• 2:23
  glycol
• 2:23
  coolant
• 2:24
  loop
• 2:24
  is
• 2:24
  filled
• 2:24
  once
• 2:25
  and
• 2:25
  runs
• 2:25
  closed
• 2:25
  for
• 2:25
  the
• 2:26
  facility's
• 2:26
  lifetime.
• 2:27
  In
• 2:27
  favorable
• 2:28
  geographies,
• 2:28
  this
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  eliminates
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  water
• 2:29
  consumption
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  entirely
• 2:30
  —
• 2:31
  down
• 2:31
  from
• 2:31
  roughly
• 2:32
  2.6
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  million
• 2:33
  gallons
• 2:33
  per
• 2:33
  megawatt
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  per
• 2:34
  year
• 2:34
  with
• 2:34
  conventional
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  cooling
• 2:35
  towers.
• 2:36
  Cooling
• 2:36
  has
• 2:37
  historically
• 2:37
  eaten
• 2:37
  up
• 2:38
  to
• 2:38
  40%
• 2:38
  of
• 2:38
  data
• 2:39
  center
• 2:39
  electricity.
• 2:40
  No
• 2:40
  fans,
• 2:41
  no
• 2:41
  cold
• 2:41
  aisles,
• 2:42
  no
• 2:42
  noise
• 2:42
  requiring
• 2:43
  ear
• 2:43
  protection.
• 2:44
  The
• 2:44
  Rubin
• 2:44
  architecture
• 2:45
  is
• 2:45
  a
• 2:45
  fundamentally
• 2:46
  different
• 2:46
  machine.
• 2:49
  GLM-5.2
• 2:50
  from
• 2:50
  Z.ai
• 2:51
  dropped
• 2:51
  MIT-licensed
• 2:52
  on
• 2:52
  June
• 2:52
  16
• 2:53
  and
• 2:53
  immediately
• 2:54
  became
• 2:54
  the
• 2:54
  focal
• 2:54
  point
• 2:54
  for
• 2:55
  an
• 2:55
  increasingly
• 2:55
  urgent
• 2:56
  conversation
• 2:56
  about
• 2:56
  the
• 2:56
  open-closed
• 2:57
  model
• 2:57
  gap.
• 2:58
  Interconnects
• 2:59
  AI's
• 2:59
  analysis
• 2:59
  puts
• 3:00
  it
• 3:00
  plainly:
• 3:01
  GLM-5.2
• 3:02
  is
• 3:02
  the
• 3:02
  first
• 3:02
  open
• 3:02
  model
• 3:03
  competitive
• 3:03
  in
• 3:03
  coding
• 3:04
  harnesses
• 3:04
  as
• 3:04
  a
• 3:04
  general
• 3:05
  agent,
• 3:05
  matching
• 3:06
  Opus
• 3:06
  4.8
• 3:07
  on
• 3:07
  no-thinking
• 3:07
  benchmarks.
• 3:08
  The
• 3:08
  capability
• 3:09
  timeline
• 3:09
  should
• 3:10
  make
• 3:10
  frontier
• 3:10
  labs
• 3:10
  uncomfortable
• 3:11
  —
• 3:12
  204
• 3:12
  days
• 3:12
  behind
• 3:13
  Opus
• 3:13
  4.5's
• 3:14
  release,
• 3:14
  putting
• 3:15
  the
• 3:15
  open-closed
• 3:15
  lag
• 3:15
  at
• 3:16
  roughly
• 3:16
  6.8
• 3:16
  months,
• 3:17
  squarely
• 3:17
  within
• 3:17
  the
• 3:18
  6-9
• 3:18
  month
• 3:18
  window
• 3:19
  many
• 3:19
  researchers
• 3:19
  have
• 3:19
  estimated.
• 3:20
  This
• 3:21
  creates
• 3:21
  pricing
• 3:21
  pressure
• 3:22
  on
• 3:22
  Anthropic's
• 3:22
  Claude
• 3:22
  Code
• 3:23
  revenue,
• 3:23
  which
• 3:24
  is
• 3:24
  heavily
• 3:24
  driven
• 3:24
  by
• 3:24
  being
• 3:24
  the
• 3:25
  only
• 3:25
  model
• 3:25
  that
• 3:25
  can
• 3:25
  credibly
• 3:26
  do
• 3:26
  agentic
• 3:26
  coding.
• 3:27
  Every
• 3:27
  inference
• 3:28
  provider
• 3:28
  selling
• 3:28
  open-model
• 3:29
  endpoints
• 3:29
  —
• 3:30
  Fireworks,
• 3:30
  Together,
• 3:31
  Thinky,
• 3:31
  Prime
• 3:31
  Intellect
• 3:32
  —
• 3:32
  just
• 3:33
  hit
• 3:33
  another
• 3:33
  inflection
• 3:33
  point.
• 3:34
  And
• 3:34
  all
• 3:34
  of
• 3:34
  this
• 3:35
  lands
• 3:35
  while
• 3:35
  Anthropic's
• 3:35
  most
• 3:36
  capable
• 3:36
  models
• 3:36
  remain
• 3:37
  banned
• 3:37
  under
• 3:37
  Commerce
• 3:37
  Department
• 3:38
  restrictions
• 3:38
  imposed
• 3:39
  June
• 3:39
  12.
• 3:40
  GLM-5.2
• 3:41
  is
• 3:41
  being
• 3:41
  given
• 3:41
  room
• 3:41
  to
• 3:42
  carve
• 3:42
  out
• 3:42
  economic
• 3:42
  territory
• 3:43
  that
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  frontier
• 3:44
  labs
• 3:44
  want
• 3:44
  reserved
• 3:44
  for
• 3:45
  higher-margin
• 3:45
  products.
• 3:46
  Poolside
• 3:47
  shipped
• 3:47
  Laguna
• 3:47
  M.1
• 3:48
  under
• 3:49
  Apache
• 3:49
  2.0
• 3:49
  —
• 3:50
  a
• 3:50
  225B
• 3:52
  total
• 3:52
  parameter
• 3:52
  MoE
• 3:53
  with
• 3:53
  23B
• 3:54
  active
• 3:54
  per
• 3:54
  token,
• 3:55
  256
• 3:56
  experts,
• 3:57
  and
• 3:57
  top-k=16
• 3:58
  routing.
• 3:59
  The
• 3:59
  benchmark
• 4:00
  numbers
• 4:00
  are
• 4:00
  solid:
• 4:01
  74.6%
• 4:02
  on
• 4:02
  SWE-bench
• 4:03
  Verified,
• 4:04
  63.1%
• 4:05
  on
• 4:05
  SWE-bench
• 4:06
  Multilingual,
• 4:07
  with
• 4:07
  a
• 4:07
  262K
• 4:08
  context
• 4:09
  window.
• 4:10
  The
• 4:10
  architecture
• 4:10
  is
• 4:10
  unusual:
• 4:11
  3
• 4:12
  dense
• 4:12
  SwiGLU
• 4:12
  layers,
• 4:13
  then
• 4:13
  67
• 4:14
  sparse
• 4:14
  MoE
• 4:14
  layers,
• 4:15
  all
• 4:16
  with
• 4:16
  global
• 4:16
  attention
• 4:17
  across
• 4:17
  70
• 4:17
  layers
• 4:17
  (64
• 4:18
  Q-heads,
• 4:19
  8
• 4:19
  KV-heads),
• 4:20
  plus
• 4:20
  softplus
• 4:21
  attention
• 4:21
  output
• 4:22
  gating
• 4:22
  and
• 4:23
  YaRN
• 4:23
  positional
• 4:23
  encoding.
• 4:24
  Community
• 4:25
  reaction
• 4:25
  mixed
• 4:26
  gratitude
• 4:26
  with
• 4:26
  practical
• 4:27
  concerns
• 4:28
  —
• 4:29
  top-k=16
• 4:30
  routing
• 4:30
  is
• 4:30
  exotic
• 4:31
  and
• 4:31
  llama.cpp
• 4:32
  hates
• 4:33
  it,
• 4:33
  full
• 4:33
  global
• 4:34
  attention
• 4:34
  means
• 4:34
  KV
• 4:35
  cache
• 4:35
  requirements
• 4:36
  are
• 4:36
  substantial,
• 4:37
  and
• 4:37
  the
• 4:37
  model
• 4:37
  is
• 4:37
  too
• 4:38
  large
• 4:38
  for
• 4:38
  most
• 4:38
  local
• 4:39
  hardware.
• 4:40
  Still,
• 4:40
  it
• 4:40
  is
• 4:40
  the
• 4:40
  strongest
• 4:41
  open-weight
• 4:42
  coding
• 4:42
  model
• 4:42
  from
• 4:42
  a
• 4:42
  US-based
• 4:43
  company.
• 4:44
  For
• 4:44
  people
• 4:44
  actually
• 4:45
  running
• 4:45
  models
• 4:45
  locally,
• 4:46
  Mimo
• 4:47
  2.5
• 4:47
  is
• 4:47
  the
• 4:48
  sleeper
• 4:48
  pick.
• 4:49
  Its
• 4:49
  5-to-1
• 4:50
  local/global
• 4:51
  sliding-window
• 4:51
  attention
• 4:52
  (the
• 4:52
  same
• 4:52
  approach
• 4:52
  Gemma
• 4:53
  3
• 4:53
  uses)
• 4:53
  maintains
• 4:54
  speed
• 4:54
  at
• 4:54
  150K+
• 4:55
  context
• 4:56
  on
• 4:56
  dual
• 4:57
  RTX
• 4:57
  Pro
• 4:57
  6000
• 4:58
  —
• 4:59
  solving
• 4:59
  a
• 4:59
  private
• 4:59
  coding
• 5:00
  benchmark
• 5:00
  in
• 5:00
  ~4
• 5:01
  minutes,
• 5:01
  same
• 5:02
  as
• 5:02
  Opus/Sonnet,
• 5:03
  while
• 5:03
  MiniMax
• 5:04
  M3
• 5:04
  takes
• 5:04
  ~40
• 5:05
  minutes
• 5:05
  on
• 5:05
  the
• 5:05
  same
• 5:06
  task.
• 5:07
  The
• 5:07
  explanation
• 5:08
  is
• 5:08
  kernel
• 5:08
  support:
• 5:09
  DeepSeek
• 5:10
  V4
• 5:10
  Flash
• 5:10
  and
• 5:11
  MiniMax
• 5:11
  M3
• 5:11
  need
• 5:12
  datacenter
• 5:12
  Blackwell
• 5:13
  SM100
• 5:15
  kernels
• 5:15
  that
• 5:15
  nobody
• 5:15
  has
• 5:16
  written
• 5:16
  for
• 5:16
  consumer
• 5:16
  SM120
• 5:18
  GPUs
• 5:18
  yet,
• 5:19
  so
• 5:19
  they
• 5:19
  silently
• 5:20
  fall
• 5:20
  back
• 5:20
  to
• 5:20
  dense
• 5:20
  attention
• 5:21
  or
• 5:21
  CPU
• 5:21
  ops.
• 5:23
  Attention
• 5:23
  architecture
• 5:23
  matters
• 5:24
  more
• 5:24
  than
• 5:24
  raw
• 5:24
  parameter
• 5:25
  count
• 5:25
  for
• 5:25
  local
• 5:25
  inference
• 5:26
  right
• 5:26
  now.
• 5:27
  Speculative
• 5:27
  decoding
• 5:28
  gets
• 5:28
  broader
• 5:28
  coverage
• 5:28
  with
• 5:29
  Eagle3
• 5:29
  landing
• 5:29
  in
• 5:30
  llama.cpp
• 5:31
  b9723
• 5:33
  for
• 5:33
  Qwen
• 5:33
  models.
• 5:34
  Enabled
• 5:35
  via
• 5:35
  --spec-type
• 5:36
  draft-eagle3,
• 5:37
  it
• 5:37
  can
• 5:37
  stack
• 5:38
  with
• 5:38
  other
• 5:38
  methods
• 5:38
  (draft-eagle3,ngram-mod).
• 5:41
  Community
• 5:41
  benchmarks
• 5:42
  show
• 5:42
  similar
• 5:43
  or
• 5:43
  slightly
• 5:43
  slower
• 5:44
  throughput
• 5:44
  compared
• 5:44
  to
• 5:45
  native
• 5:45
  MTP,
• 5:46
  but
• 5:46
  Eagle3
• 5:47
  covers
• 5:47
  models
• 5:47
  that
• 5:48
  lack
• 5:48
  MTP
• 5:49
  or
• 5:49
  DFlash
• 5:49
  support
• 5:50
  —
• 5:51
  a
• 5:51
  useful
• 5:51
  fallback
• 5:52
  rather
• 5:52
  than
• 5:52
  a
• 5:52
  replacement.
• 5:54
  Tensor
• 5:54
  parallelism
• 5:55
  is
• 5:55
  not
• 5:55
  supported
• 5:55
  yet.
• 5:56
  On
• 5:57
  the
• 5:57
  voice
• 5:57
  synthesis
• 5:57
  front,
• 5:58
  a
• 5:58
  rigorous
• 5:59
  CPU-only
• 5:59
  TTS
• 6:00
  benchmark
• 6:00
  pitted
• 6:01
  Kokoro
• 6:01
  82M,
• 6:02
  Supertonic
• 6:02
  3,
• 6:03
  and
• 6:04
  Inflect-Nano-v1
• 6:04
  (4.6M
• 6:05
  params)
• 6:06
  head-to-head
• 6:06
  on
• 6:06
  Intel
• 6:07
  Xeon,
• 6:07
  4
• 6:08
  cores,
• 6:08
  no
• 6:09
  GPU,
• 6:10
  with
• 6:10
  UTMOS
• 6:11
  scoring
• 6:11
  on
• 6:11
  every
• 6:11
  sample.
• 6:12
  Kokoro
• 6:13
  remains
• 6:13
  the
• 6:13
  only
• 6:13
  model
• 6:14
  that
• 6:14
  sounds
• 6:14
  human
• 6:14
  (MOS
• 6:15
  4.44-4.45)
• 6:16
  but
• 6:16
  is
• 6:17
  the
• 6:17
  slowest
• 6:17
  at
• 6:17
  0.57
• 6:18
  RTF.
• 6:19
  Supertonic
• 6:20
  3
• 6:20
  at
• 6:20
  5
• 6:21
  steps
• 6:21
  is
• 6:21
  the
• 6:21
  practical
• 6:22
  sweet
• 6:22
  spot:
• 6:23
  MOS
• 6:23
  4.37
• 6:24
  at
• 6:24
  3.2x
• 6:25
  real-time.
• 6:26
  Inflect-Nano
• 6:27
  blazes
• 6:28
  at
• 6:28
  7.3x
• 6:29
  real-time
• 6:29
  but
• 6:29
  UTMOS
• 6:30
  over-rates
• 6:31
  it
• 6:31
  —
• 6:31
  the
• 6:32
  classic
• 6:32
  failure
• 6:32
  mode
• 6:33
  where
• 6:33
  small
• 6:33
  HiFi-GAN
• 6:34
  vocoders
• 6:34
  get
• 6:34
  rewarded
• 6:35
  for
• 6:35
  sounding
• 6:35
  clean
• 6:35
  rather
• 6:36
  than
• 6:36
  natural.
• 6:37
  Inflect-Nano
• 6:38
  also
• 6:38
  silently
• 6:39
  truncates
• 6:39
  at
• 6:39
  ~15
• 6:40
  seconds,
• 6:41
  inflating
• 6:41
  its
• 6:41
  long-text
• 6:42
  benchmarks.
• 6:43
  The
• 6:43
  developer
• 6:44
  showed
• 6:44
  up
• 6:44
  in
• 6:44
  the
• 6:44
  thread
• 6:44
  acknowledging
• 6:45
  the
• 6:45
  cap
• 6:45
  and
• 6:46
  announcing
• 6:46
  v2
• 6:46
  is
• 6:47
  in
• 6:47
  training.
• 6:49
  OALABS
• 6:51
  published
• 6:52
  a
• 6:52
  detailed
• 6:52
  forensic
• 6:53
  analysis
• 6:53
  of
• 6:54
  real-world
• 6:54
  AI-assisted
• 6:55
  hacking.
• 6:56
  A
• 6:56
  friend's
• 6:56
  compromised
• 6:57
  server
• 6:57
  yielded
• 6:57
  the
• 6:57
  attacker's
• 6:58
  working
• 6:58
  directory
• 6:58
  —
• 6:59
  complete
• 6:59
  with
• 7:00
  over
• 7:00
  1,000
• 7:00
  Claude
• 7:01
  (Opus
• 7:01
  4.5)
• 7:02
  and
• 7:02
  Codex
• 7:02
  (GPT-5.2)
• 7:03
  agent
• 7:03
  session
• 7:04
  logs.
• 7:05
  The
• 7:05
  attacker,
• 7:06
  identified
• 7:06
  through
• 7:06
  an
• 7:06
  OPSEC
• 7:07
  failure
• 7:07
  as
• 7:07
  a
• 7:07
  young
• 7:07
  man
• 7:08
  in
• 7:08
  Addis
• 7:08
  Ababa
• 7:08
  (his
• 7:08
  resume
• 7:09
  with
• 7:09
  full
• 7:09
  name
• 7:10
  and
• 7:10
  LinkedIn
• 7:10
  was
• 7:10
  in
• 7:10
  the
• 7:10
  session
• 7:11
  history),
• 7:12
  framed
• 7:12
  all
• 7:12
  requests
• 7:13
  as
• 7:13
  "authorized
• 7:14
  redteam"
• 7:14
  exercises.
• 7:15
  Claude
• 7:16
  did
• 7:16
  the
• 7:16
  hacking
• 7:16
  with
• 7:16
  minimal
• 7:16
  human
• 7:17
  direction:
• 7:18
  researching
• 7:18
  exposed
• 7:19
  services
• 7:19
  via
• 7:20
  Shodan,
• 7:20
  writing
• 7:21
  custom
• 7:21
  exploits
• 7:22
  from
• 7:22
  CVE
• 7:22
  research,
• 7:23
  validating
• 7:24
  credentials,
• 7:24
  exfiltrating
• 7:25
  data,
• 7:26
  and
• 7:26
  drafting
• 7:26
  "PENTEST-REPORT"
• 7:31
  documents
• 7:32
  with
• 7:32
  dollar-value
• 7:33
  monetization
• 7:33
  estimates.
• 7:34
  Across
• 7:35
  1,000+
• 7:36
  sessions,
• 7:37
  Claude
• 7:37
  emitted
• 7:37
  only
• 7:37
  9
• 7:38
  policy
• 7:38
  violations;
• 7:39
  Codex
• 7:40
  just
• 7:40
  1.
• 7:41
  The
• 7:41
  attacker
• 7:41
  breached
• 7:42
  at
• 7:42
  least
• 7:42
  14
• 7:42
  companies,
• 7:43
  attempted
• 7:44
  to
• 7:44
  crack
• 7:44
  a
• 7:44
  Bitcoin
• 7:44
  wallet
• 7:45
  containing
• 7:45
  69.71
• 7:46
  BTC
• 7:47
  (~$4M)
• 7:48
  by
• 7:48
  distributing
• 7:49
  the
• 7:49
  workload
• 7:49
  across
• 7:50
  14
• 7:50
  compromised
• 7:51
  hosts
• 7:51
  including
• 7:51
  a
• 7:51
  Southeast
• 7:52
  Asian
• 7:52
  government
• 7:53
  server
• 7:53
  farm
• 7:53
  —
• 7:54
  the
• 7:54
  cracking
• 7:54
  failed.
• 7:55
  OALABS
• 7:58
  explicitly
• 7:59
  argues
• 7:59
  against
• 7:59
  stronger
• 8:00
  refusals:
• 8:00
  most
• 8:01
  of
• 8:01
  the
• 8:01
  tasking
• 8:01
  was
• 8:01
  indistinguishable
• 8:02
  from
• 8:02
  routine
• 8:02
  redteam
• 8:03
  work,
• 8:03
  and
• 8:04
  broadly
• 8:04
  restricting
• 8:04
  the
• 8:04
  workflow
• 8:05
  would
• 8:05
  mostly
• 8:05
  degrade
• 8:06
  tools
• 8:06
  for
• 8:06
  legitimate
• 8:07
  security
• 8:07
  professionals
• 8:08
  while
• 8:08
  leaving
• 8:08
  the
• 8:08
  same
• 8:09
  capability
• 8:09
  available
• 8:10
  through
• 8:10
  older
• 8:10
  or
• 8:10
  less
• 8:10
  restricted
• 8:11
  models.
• 8:12
  The
• 8:12
  practical
• 8:12
  finding
• 8:13
  is
• 8:13
  stark:
• 8:14
  AI
• 8:14
  agents
• 8:14
  lower
• 8:14
  the
• 8:15
  skill
• 8:15
  floor
• 8:15
  for
• 8:15
  offensive
• 8:16
  operations.
• 8:17
  That
• 8:17
  operational
• 8:18
  reality
• 8:18
  lands
• 8:18
  alongside
• 8:19
  Anthropic
• 8:19
  accusing
• 8:20
  Alibaba
• 8:21
  of
• 8:21
  the
• 8:21
  largest
• 8:21
  known
• 8:21
  distillation
• 8:22
  attack
• 8:22
  against
• 8:22
  Claude
• 8:23
  —
• 8:24
  28.8
• 8:24
  million
• 8:24
  exchanges
• 8:25
  through
• 8:25
  nearly
• 8:25
  25,000
• 8:26
  fraudulent
• 8:27
  accounts
• 8:27
  between
• 8:28
  April
• 8:28
  and
• 8:28
  June
• 8:28
  2026.
• 8:30
  The
• 8:30
  campaign,
• 8:31
  attributed
• 8:31
  to
• 8:31
  operators
• 8:32
  affiliated
• 8:32
  with
• 8:32
  Alibaba
• 8:33
  and
• 8:33
  Alibaba
• 8:33
  Qwen,
• 8:34
  dwarfs
• 8:34
  all
• 8:35
  prior
• 8:35
  efforts:
• 8:36
  DeepSeek
• 8:36
  ran
• 8:36
  150K
• 8:37
  exchanges,
• 8:38
  Moonshot
• 8:39
  3.4M,
• 8:40
  MiniMax
• 8:40
  13M.
• 8:42
  Anthropic's
• 8:42
  letter
• 8:42
  to
• 8:43
  the
• 8:43
  Senate
• 8:43
  Banking
• 8:43
  Committee,
• 8:44
  dated
• 8:44
  June
• 8:44
  10,
• 8:45
  arrived
• 8:45
  two
• 8:46
  days
• 8:46
  before
• 8:46
  Commerce
• 8:46
  imposed
• 8:47
  Mythos/Fable
• 8:48
  restrictions.
• 8:49
  The
• 8:49
  escalation
• 8:50
  curve
• 8:50
  is
• 8:50
  exponential.
• 8:51
  Open
• 8:51
  source
• 8:52
  is
• 8:52
  fighting
• 8:52
  its
• 8:52
  own
• 8:53
  form
• 8:53
  of
• 8:53
  weaponization.
• 8:54
  Greptile
• 8:55
  studied
• 8:55
  the
• 8:55
  PR
• 8:55
  deluge
• 8:56
  on
• 8:56
  OpenClaw
• 8:56
  —
• 8:57
  the
• 8:57
  fastest-growing
• 8:58
  GitHub
• 8:58
  repo
• 8:59
  in
• 8:59
  history
• 8:59
  —
• 9:00
  and
• 9:00
  the
• 9:00
  numbers
• 9:00
  are
• 9:00
  bleak.
• 9:02
  PRs
• 9:02
  jumped
• 9:02
  from
• 9:02
  2/week
• 9:03
  to
• 9:03
  3,400/week;
• 9:04
  merge
• 9:05
  rate
• 9:05
  collapsed
• 9:05
  from
• 9:06
  48%
• 9:06
  to
• 9:06
  9.3%.
• 9:09
  One
• 9:09
  contributor
• 9:09
  submitted
• 9:10
  106
• 9:11
  PRs
• 9:11
  in
• 9:11
  a
• 9:11
  single
• 9:11
  day
• 9:12
  with
• 9:12
  a
• 9:12
  median
• 9:12
  time
• 9:13
  between
• 9:13
  submissions
• 9:14
  measured
• 9:14
  in
• 9:14
  minutes.
• 9:15
  The
• 9:15
  convergence
• 9:16
  problem
• 9:16
  compounds
• 9:17
  the
• 9:17
  volume:
• 9:18
  4
• 9:18
  people
• 9:18
  submitted
• 9:19
  PRs
• 9:19
  with
• 9:19
  identical
• 9:20
  titles
• 9:20
  to
• 9:20
  add
• 9:20
  SearXNG
• 9:21
  as
• 9:21
  a
• 9:21
  search
• 9:22
  provider;
• 9:23
  6
• 9:23
  independently
• 9:24
  fixed
• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
  same
• 9:24
  Brave
• 9:25
  Search
• 9:25
  locale
• 9:25
  bug.
• 9:26
  Refactors
• 9:27
  merge
• 9:27
  at
• 9:27
  35%
• 9:28
  vs
• 9:29
  features
• 9:29
  at
• 9:30
  9%
• 9:30
  —
• 9:31
  contributions
• 9:31
  requiring
• 9:32
  deep
• 9:32
  codebase
• 9:33
  understanding
• 9:33
  outperform
• 9:34
  agent-generated
• 9:35
  novel
• 9:35
  features
• 9:36
  by
• 9:36
  nearly
• 9:36
  4x.
• 9:37
  Mitchell
• 9:37
  Hashimoto's
• 9:37
  Vouch
• 9:38
  trust
• 9:38
  system
• 9:38
  for
• 9:39
  Ghostty
• 9:39
  is
• 9:39
  the
• 9:40
  email
• 9:40
  sender-reputation
• 9:41
  score
• 9:41
  reborn
• 9:41
  for
• 9:42
  pull
• 9:42
  requests.
• 9:43
  Linus's
• 9:43
  Law
• 9:44
  holds
• 9:44
  only
• 9:44
  if
• 9:44
  the
• 9:44
  underlying
• 9:45
  thinking
• 9:45
  remains
• 9:46
  diverse.
• 9:48
  Krea
• 9:48
  2
• 9:48
  drops
• 9:49
  a
• 9:49
  12B
• 9:49
  open-weights
• 9:50
  image
• 9:50
  model
• 9:50
  with
• 9:50
  a
• 9:50
  technical
• 9:51
  report
• 9:51
  that
• 9:51
  reads
• 9:52
  like
• 9:52
  a
• 9:52
  masterclass
• 9:52
  in
• 9:53
  training
• 9:53
  pipeline
• 9:53
  design.
• 9:54
  The
• 9:54
  multi-stage
• 9:55
  approach
• 9:55
  —
• 9:56
  pretraining
• 9:56
  on
• 9:56
  billions
• 9:57
  of
• 9:57
  images,
• 9:57
  midtraining
• 9:58
  for
• 9:58
  stylistic
• 9:59
  coverage
• 9:59
  with
• 9:59
  FAISS
• 9:59
  hierarchical
• 10:00
  k-means
• 10:00
  clustering
• 10:01
  and
• 10:01
  PageRank-based
• 10:02
  concept
• 10:02
  coverage
• 10:02
  over
• 10:03
  Wikipedia,
• 10:03
  SFT
• 10:04
  on
• 10:04
  hand-curated
• 10:05
  data,
• 10:05
  preference
• 10:05
  optimization
• 10:06
  via
• 10:06
  their
• 10:06
  custom
• 10:07
  STPO
• 10:07
  (a
• 10:07
  DPO
• 10:08
  variant),
• 10:08
  and
• 10:09
  RL
• 10:09
  —
• 10:10
  is
• 10:10
  built
• 10:10
  explicitly
• 10:10
  for
• 10:11
  aesthetic
• 10:11
  diversity
• 10:12
  rather
• 10:12
  than
• 10:12
  converging
• 10:12
  on
• 10:13
  a
• 10:13
  single
• 10:13
  polished
• 10:13
  default.
• 10:14
  A
• 10:14
  critical
• 10:15
  design
• 10:15
  choice:
• 10:15
  zero
• 10:16
  AI-generated
• 10:17
  images
• 10:17
  in
• 10:17
  the
• 10:17
  pretraining
• 10:17
  mix.
• 10:18
  They
• 10:18
  found
• 10:19
  even
• 10:19
  a
• 10:19
  small
• 10:19
  proportion
• 10:20
  introduces
• 10:20
  learnable
• 10:20
  biases
• 10:21
  that
• 10:21
  impose
• 10:21
  an
• 10:21
  upper
• 10:22
  bound
• 10:22
  on
• 10:22
  quality.
• 10:23
  Architecture
• 10:23
  choices
• 10:24
  lean
• 10:24
  LLM:
• 10:25
  GQA
• 10:26
  with
• 10:26
  gated
• 10:26
  sigmoid
• 10:26
  attention,
• 10:27
  a
• 10:27
  single
• 10:27
  Qwen
• 10:27
  3
• 10:28
  VL
• 10:28
  text
• 10:28
  encoder,
• 10:29
  and
• 10:29
  TDM
• 10:29
  timestep
• 10:29
  distillation.
• 10:30
  The
• 10:30
  prompt
• 10:31
  expander,
• 10:31
  trained
• 10:32
  via
• 10:32
  SFT+RL
• 10:33
  on
• 10:33
  open-source
• 10:34
  LLMs,
• 10:35
  maps
• 10:35
  underspecified
• 10:36
  user
• 10:36
  inputs
• 10:36
  into
• 10:36
  richer
• 10:37
  visual
• 10:37
  directions
• 10:38
  without
• 10:38
  overwriting
• 10:39
  intent.
• 10:40
  Distributed
• 10:40
  training
• 10:40
  runs
• 10:41
  on
• 10:41
  Kubernetes
• 10:41
  with
• 10:41
  Weka
• 10:42
  filesystem.
• 10:43
  Google
• 10:43
  released
• 10:43
  a
• 10:43
  sweeping
• 10:44
  report
• 10:44
  on
• 10:44
  the
• 10:44
  future
• 10:45
  of
• 10:45
  AI
• 10:45
  in
• 10:45
  generative
• 10:46
  media,
• 10:46
  collecting
• 10:47
  industry
• 10:47
  perspectives
• 10:48
  from
• 10:48
  Synthesia,
• 10:48
  Freepik,
• 10:49
  Lux
• 10:49
  Capital,
• 10:50
  Google
• 10:50
  Labs,
• 10:50
  Gradient,
• 10:51
  OpusClip,
• 10:52
  and
• 10:52
  Leonardo.Ai.
• 10:53
  The
• 10:53
  near-term
• 10:54
  consensus:
• 10:55
  video
• 10:55
  replaces
• 10:55
  text
• 10:56
  as
• 10:56
  the
• 10:56
  primary
• 10:56
  content
• 10:57
  medium,
• 10:57
  founders
• 10:58
  become
• 10:58
  creative
• 10:58
  directors
• 10:59
  rather
• 10:59
  than
• 10:59
  coders,
• 11:00
  and
• 11:00
  AI
• 11:00
  film
• 11:01
  production
• 11:01
  overtakes
• 11:02
  traditional
• 11:02
  workflows.
• 11:03
  The
• 11:03
  more
• 11:03
  speculative
• 11:04
  predictions
• 11:04
  —
• 11:05
  BCI
• 11:06
  interfaces
• 11:06
  for
• 11:06
  creation,
• 11:07
  fully
• 11:07
  personalized
• 11:08
  content
• 11:08
  streams
• 11:09
  —
• 11:10
  read
• 11:10
  like
• 11:10
  a
• 11:10
  venture
• 11:10
  pitch
• 11:10
  deck,
• 11:11
  but
• 11:11
  the
• 11:11
  observations
• 11:12
  about
• 11:12
  tool
• 11:12
  convergence
• 11:13
  and
• 11:13
  the
• 11:13
  compression
• 11:14
  of
• 11:14
  production
• 11:14
  timelines
• 11:15
  are
• 11:15
  grounded
• 11:16
  in
• 11:16
  current
• 11:16
  trajectory.
• 11:17
  For
• 11:17
  practitioners
• 11:18
  who
• 11:18
  want
• 11:18
  to
• 11:18
  train
• 11:19
  rather
• 11:19
  than
• 11:19
  infer:
• 11:20
  MLX-LoRA-Studio
• 11:21
  is
• 11:21
  a
• 11:22
  native
• 11:22
  macOS
• 11:22
  SwiftUI
• 11:23
  app
• 11:23
  for
• 11:23
  LLM
• 11:24
  fine-tuning
• 11:24
  on
• 11:25
  Apple
• 11:25
  Silicon.
• 11:26
  It
• 11:26
  supports
• 11:27
  9
• 11:27
  training
• 11:27
  algorithms
• 11:28
  (SFT,
• 11:29
  DPO,
• 11:29
  CPO,
• 11:30
  ORPO,
• 11:31
  GRPO,
• 11:32
  Online
• 11:32
  DPO,
• 11:33
  XPO,
• 11:34
  RLHF
• 11:35
  Reinforce,
• 11:35
  PPO),
• 11:36
  multiple
• 11:37
  adapter
• 11:37
  types
• 11:37
  (LoRA,
• 11:38
  DoRA,
• 11:39
  QLoRA,
• 11:39
  full,
• 11:40
  QAT),
• 11:41
  live
• 11:41
  training
• 11:41
  metrics,
• 11:42
  synthetic
• 11:42
  data
• 11:43
  generation,
• 11:43
  and
• 11:43
  HuggingFace
• 11:44
  upload.
• 11:45
  ResourceGuard
• 11:46
  prevents
• 11:46
  the
• 11:46
  perennial
• 11:46
  Apple
• 11:47
  Silicon
• 11:47
  problem
• 11:48
  of
• 11:48
  swap
• 11:48
  death.
• 11:49
  MIT
• 11:49
  licensed.
• 11:53
  Berkeley's
• 11:53
  PixelRAG
• 11:54
  takes
• 11:54
  a
• 11:54
  deliberately
• 11:54
  contrarian
• 11:55
  approach
• 11:55
  to
• 11:55
  retrieval-augmented
• 11:56
  generation:
• 11:57
  instead
• 11:58
  of
• 11:58
  parsing
• 11:58
  documents
• 11:59
  into
• 11:59
  text
• 11:59
  chunks,
• 12:00
  render
• 12:00
  them
• 12:00
  as
• 12:00
  screenshots
• 12:01
  and
• 12:01
  search
• 12:01
  the
• 12:01
  visual
• 12:01
  index.
• 12:02
  The
• 12:02
  argument
• 12:03
  is
• 12:03
  that
• 12:03
  text
• 12:03
  extraction
• 12:04
  destroys
• 12:04
  layout,
• 12:04
  formatting,
• 12:05
  and
• 12:05
  visual
• 12:05
  context
• 12:06
  that
• 12:06
  humans
• 12:06
  rely
• 12:06
  on
• 12:07
  for
• 12:07
  understanding.
• 12:08
  Built
• 12:08
  at
• 12:08
  SkyLab
• 12:08
  and
• 12:08
  BAIR,
• 12:09
  the
• 12:09
  system
• 12:09
  indexes
• 12:10
  8.28M
• 12:11
  Wikipedia
• 12:11
  pages
• 12:12
  using
• 12:12
  a
• 12:12
  Qwen3-VL-Embedding
• 12:13
  model
• 12:14
  fine-tuned
• 12:14
  with
• 12:14
  LoRA,
• 12:15
  with
• 12:15
  a
• 12:15
  live
• 12:15
  API
• 12:16
  at
• 12:16
  pixelrag.ai
• 12:17
  requiring
• 12:17
  no
• 12:17
  setup
• 12:17
  or
• 12:18
  API
• 12:18
  key.
• 12:19
  It
• 12:19
  ships
• 12:19
  a
• 12:19
  Claude
• 12:19
  Code
• 12:20
  plugin
• 12:20
  (pixelbrowse
• 12:20
  skill)
• 12:20
  for
• 12:21
  integration
• 12:21
  into
• 12:21
  agentic
• 12:21
  workflows.
• 12:22
  Apache
• 12:23
  2.0.
• 12:24
  Anneal
• 12:25
  is
• 12:25
  a
• 12:25
  tensor
• 12:25
  compiler
• 12:26
  written
• 12:26
  in
• 12:26
  Go
• 12:26
  —
• 12:27
  a
• 12:27
  from-scratch
• 12:28
  port
• 12:28
  of
• 12:28
  tinygrad's
• 12:28
  rangeify-era
• 12:29
  core
• 12:29
  that
• 12:29
  makes
• 12:30
  a
• 12:30
  structural
• 12:30
  argument
• 12:30
  about
• 12:30
  autodiff.
• 12:31
  Everything
• 12:32
  —
• 12:33
  forward
• 12:33
  ops,
• 12:34
  gradients,
• 12:34
  movement
• 12:34
  ops
• 12:35
  —
• 12:36
  is
• 12:36
  a
• 12:36
  single
• 12:36
  immutable
• 12:37
  IR
• 12:37
  node
• 12:37
  (the
• 12:38
  UOp).
• 12:38
  Backward()
• 12:39
  does
• 12:39
  not
• 12:39
  build
• 12:39
  closures;
• 12:40
  it
• 12:40
  injects
• 12:41
  gradient
• 12:41
  UOps
• 12:42
  into
• 12:42
  the
• 12:42
  same
• 12:42
  graph
• 12:42
  as
• 12:42
  the
• 12:42
  forward
• 12:43
  pass,
• 12:43
  so
• 12:44
  the
• 12:44
  scheduler
• 12:44
  fuses
• 12:45
  kernels
• 12:45
  across
• 12:45
  the
• 12:45
  forward/backward
• 12:46
  boundary
• 12:46
  —
• 12:47
  an
• 12:48
  optimization
• 12:48
  structurally
• 12:49
  impossible
• 12:49
  with
• 12:49
  a
• 12:50
  tape-based
• 12:50
  system.
• 12:51
  Movement
• 12:52
  ops
• 12:52
  become
• 12:52
  range
• 12:52
  arithmetic,
• 12:53
  never
• 12:54
  copying
• 12:54
  data.
• 12:55
  It
• 12:55
  trains
• 12:55
  MLP,
• 12:56
  conv,
• 12:57
  nanoGPT,
• 12:58
  Llama-style
• 12:58
  decoders,
• 12:59
  and
• 12:59
  ViT
• 13:00
  end-to-end
• 13:00
  on
• 13:00
  real
• 13:01
  GPU
• 13:01
  hardware
• 13:01
  via
• 13:02
  WebGPU.
• 13:03
  ONNX
• 13:04
  import
• 13:04
  is
• 13:04
  zero-CGO.
• 13:06
  The
• 13:06
  anneal
• 13:06
  web
• 13:06
  command
• 13:07
  serves
• 13:07
  a
• 13:07
  browser
• 13:07
  studio
• 13:08
  with
• 13:08
  8
• 13:08
  deep-linkable
• 13:09
  views.
• 13:10
  AGPL3
• 13:11
  licensed,
• 13:12
  deliberately
• 13:13
  a
• 13:13
  research
• 13:13
  vehicle,
• 13:14
  not
• 13:14
  yet
• 13:14
  a
• 13:14
  production
• 13:14
  framework.
• 13:16
  NuExtract3
• 13:16
  from
• 13:17
  NuMind
• 13:17
  appeared
• 13:17
  on
• 13:17
  HuggingFace's
• 13:18
  trending
• 13:18
  list,
• 13:19
  though
• 13:19
  content
• 13:19
  was
• 13:20
  unavailable
• 13:20
  at
• 13:20
  crawl
• 13:20
  time
• 13:21
  —
• 13:21
  one
• 13:21
  to
• 13:21
  watch
• 13:22
  for
• 13:22
  structured
• 13:22
  extraction.
• 13:23
  Reuven
• 13:24
  Cohen's
• 13:24
  MetaHarness
• 13:25
  flips
• 13:25
  the
• 13:25
  agent-framework
• 13:26
  arms
• 13:26
  race
• 13:26
  on
• 13:26
  its
• 13:26
  head:
• 13:27
  rather
• 13:27
  than
• 13:28
  ship
• 13:28
  yet
• 13:28
  another
• 13:28
  assistant,
• 13:29
  it
• 13:29
  ships
• 13:30
  a
• 13:30
  factory
• 13:30
  that
• 13:30
  mints
• 13:31
  your
• 13:31
  own
• 13:31
  —
• 13:32
  repo-aware,
• 13:33
  branded,
• 13:33
  and
• 13:33
  publishable
• 13:34
  under
• 13:34
  your
• 13:34
  own
• 13:35
  npx
• 13:35
  your-name
• 13:35
  command.
• 13:36
  Its
• 13:37
  core
• 13:37
  move
• 13:37
  is
• 13:37
  separating
• 13:38
  the
• 13:38
  reusable
• 13:38
  Rust/WASM
• 13:40
  kernel
• 13:40
  from
• 13:40
  the
• 13:41
  opinionated
• 13:41
  content,
• 13:42
  so
• 13:42
  you
• 13:42
  take
• 13:43
  only
• 13:43
  the
• 13:43
  pieces
• 13:43
  you
• 13:43
  want
• 13:44
  and
• 13:44
  keep
• 13:44
  re-pinning
• 13:45
  to
• 13:45
  upstream
• 13:45
  engine
• 13:45
  updates
• 13:46
  instead
• 13:46
  of
• 13:46
  forking
• 13:47
  into
• 13:47
  a
• 13:47
  frozen
• 13:47
  dead
• 13:47
  end.
• 13:49
  Every
• 13:49
  generated
• 13:49
  harness
• 13:50
  targets
• 13:50
  six-plus
• 13:51
  hosts
• 13:51
  (Claude
• 13:51
  Code,
• 13:52
  Codex,
• 13:52
  pi.dev,
• 13:53
  Hermes…),
• 13:55
  starts
• 13:55
  default-deny,
• 13:56
  and
• 13:56
  ships
• 13:56
  with
• 13:57
  an
• 13:57
  Ed25519
• 13:58
  witness
• 13:58
  manifest
• 13:59
  so
• 13:59
  anyone
• 13:59
  can
• 14:00
  verify
• 14:00
  exactly
• 14:00
  what's
• 14:00
  inside
• 14:01
  —
• 14:02
  and
• 14:02
  with
• 14:02
  Darwin
• 14:02
  Mode
• 14:02
  it
• 14:02
  sandbox-tests
• 14:03
  tweaks
• 14:04
  to
• 14:04
  its
• 14:04
  own
• 14:04
  config
• 14:04
  and
• 14:05
  keeps
• 14:05
  only
• 14:05
  what
• 14:05
  measurably
• 14:06
  helps.
• 14:07
  The
• 14:07
  model
• 14:07
  stays
• 14:07
  replaceable;
• 14:08
  the
• 14:09
  harness
• 14:09
  is
• 14:09
  the
• 14:09
  product.
• 14:12
  GPS's
• 14:13
  fundamental
• 14:14
  weakness
• 14:14
  —
• 14:14
  satellite
• 14:15
  signals
• 14:15
  from
• 14:15
  20,000
• 14:16
  km
• 14:16
  arrive
• 14:17
  extremely
• 14:18
  weak
• 14:18
  —
• 14:18
  has
• 14:19
  moved
• 14:19
  from
• 14:19
  theoretical
• 14:20
  concern
• 14:20
  to
• 14:20
  operational
• 14:21
  crisis
• 14:21
  at
• 14:21
  scale.
• 14:22
  Xona's
• 14:22
  Pulsar-0
• 14:23
  LEO
• 14:23
  satellite
• 14:23
  provides
• 14:24
  positioning
• 14:24
  and
• 14:24
  timing
• 14:25
  signals
• 14:25
  roughly
• 14:26
  100x
• 14:26
  stronger
• 14:27
  than
• 14:27
  standard
• 14:27
  GPS/GNSS,
• 14:30
  operating
• 14:31
  from
• 14:31
  low-Earth
• 14:31
  orbit
• 14:32
  where
• 14:32
  signal
• 14:32
  strength
• 14:32
  makes
• 14:32
  jamming
• 14:33
  significantly
• 14:33
  harder.
• 14:34
  Military
• 14:35
  M-code
• 14:35
  encryption
• 14:35
  protects
• 14:36
  timing
• 14:36
  from
• 14:36
  spoofing
• 14:37
  but
• 14:37
  not
• 14:37
  jamming,
• 14:37
  and
• 14:37
  civilian
• 14:38
  infrastructure
• 14:38
  remains
• 14:38
  fully
• 14:39
  exposed.
• 14:40
  The
• 14:40
  comment
• 14:40
  section
• 14:41
  produced
• 14:41
  substantive
• 14:41
  technical
• 14:42
  discussion:
• 14:42
  one
• 14:43
  commenter
• 14:43
  detailed
• 14:43
  the
• 14:43
  economics
• 14:44
  ($60K+
• 14:45
  for
• 14:45
  basic
• 14:45
  RTK
• 14:46
  receivers
• 14:46
  on
• 14:46
  vessels,
• 14:47
  expensive
• 14:47
  cabling
• 14:48
  and
• 14:48
  antennas,
• 14:48
  yearly
• 14:49
  licensing
• 14:49
  —
• 14:50
  and
• 14:50
  still
• 14:50
  no
• 14:50
  spoofing
• 14:51
  protection).
• 14:51
  Others
• 14:52
  pointed
• 14:52
  out
• 14:52
  that
• 14:52
  Starlink
• 14:53
  could
• 14:53
  theoretically
• 14:53
  supplant
• 14:54
  GPS
• 14:54
  with
• 14:54
  its
• 14:54
  denser,
• 14:55
  lower-altitude,
• 14:56
  higher-power
• 14:56
  constellation
• 14:56
  —
• 14:57
  a
• 14:57
  demo
• 14:57
  already
• 14:58
  achieved
• 14:58
  2-meter
• 14:58
  accuracy
• 14:59
  in
• 14:59
  20
• 14:59
  seconds
• 15:00
  with
• 15:00
  no
• 15:00
  cooperation
• 15:01
  from
• 15:01
  SpaceX.
• 15:02
  Hugh
• 15:02
  Jeffreys
• 15:02
  tore
• 15:02
  down
• 15:03
  a
• 15:03
  prison
• 15:03
  tablet
• 15:03
  —
• 15:04
  an
• 15:04
  Iview
• 15:04
  Optimus-C-8001
• 15:05
  running
• 15:06
  Windows
• 15:06
  10
• 15:06
  Home
• 15:06
  on
• 15:06
  an
• 15:07
  Atom
• 15:07
  Z8350
• 15:09
  with
• 15:09
  2GB
• 15:09
  RAM,
• 15:10
  hermetically
• 15:10
  sealed
• 15:10
  and
• 15:10
  locked
• 15:11
  in
• 15:11
  kiosk
• 15:11
  mode.
• 15:12
  Despite
• 15:12
  the
• 15:12
  physical
• 15:13
  lockdown,
• 15:13
  the
• 15:13
  software
• 15:14
  security
• 15:14
  is
• 15:14
  nonexistent:
• 15:15
  no
• 15:16
  disk
• 15:16
  encryption,
• 15:16
  standard
• 15:17
  Windows
• 15:17
  underneath.
• 15:18
  The
• 15:18
  hardware
• 15:18
  costs
• 15:19
  perhaps
• 15:19
  $50
• 15:20
  to
• 15:20
  manufacture;
• 15:21
  incarcerated
• 15:21
  users
• 15:22
  pay
• 15:22
  $0.11
• 15:22
  per
• 15:23
  minute
• 15:23
  for
• 15:23
  basic
• 15:23
  communication.
• 15:24
  The
• 15:24
  teardown
• 15:25
  ignited
• 15:25
  extensive
• 15:26
  commentary
• 15:26
  on
• 15:26
  the
• 15:26
  US
• 15:26
  for-profit
• 15:27
  prison
• 15:27
  system
• 15:28
  and
• 15:28
  the
• 15:28
  extractive
• 15:28
  economics
• 15:29
  of
• 15:29
  captive-market
• 15:30
  technology.
• 15:31
  Two
• 15:31
  new
• 15:31
  CVEs
• 15:32
  in
• 15:32
  Acer's
• 15:32
  Wave
• 15:32
  7
• 15:33
  routers
• 15:33
  are
• 15:33
  the
• 15:33
  latest
• 15:33
  entry
• 15:34
  in
• 15:34
  a
• 15:34
  depressing
• 15:34
  trend
• 15:35
  of
• 15:35
  IoT
• 15:35
  security
• 15:36
  failures.
• 15:36
  CVE
• 15:37
  number
• 15:37
  one:
• 15:38
  the
• 15:38
  CGI
• 15:38
  log
• 15:39
  file
• 15:39
  is
• 15:39
  accessible
• 15:39
  without
• 15:40
  authentication
• 15:40
  and
• 15:41
  contains
• 15:41
  cleartext
• 15:41
  login
• 15:42
  credentials
• 15:42
  for
• 15:42
  web
• 15:42
  and
• 15:43
  Telnet
• 15:43
  —
• 15:43
  a
• 15:43
  straight
• 15:44
  CVSS
• 15:44
  10.0.
• 15:45
  The
• 15:46
  likely
• 15:46
  cause:
• 15:47
  a
• 15:47
  debug
• 15:47
  build
• 15:47
  shipped
• 15:48
  to
• 15:48
  production
• 15:48
  where
• 15:48
  an
• 15:48
  internal
• 15:49
  printf-equivalent
• 15:50
  logs
• 15:50
  credentials
• 15:50
  during
• 15:50
  authentication.
• 15:52
  CVE
• 15:52
  number
• 15:52
  two:
• 15:53
  a
• 15:53
  hard-coded
• 15:54
  AES
• 15:54
  key
• 15:55
  in
• 15:55
  the
• 15:55
  upload.cgi
• 15:56
  binary
• 15:57
  lets
• 15:57
  attackers
• 15:57
  decrypt,
• 15:58
  modify,
• 15:59
  and
• 15:59
  re-encrypt
• 15:59
  device
• 16:00
  backups,
• 16:00
  enabling
• 16:01
  persistent
• 16:01
  backdoor
• 16:02
  injection.
• 16:03
  The
• 16:03
  AES
• 16:03
  mode
• 16:04
  is
• 16:04
  almost
• 16:04
  certainly
• 16:04
  CBC
• 16:05
  or
• 16:05
  ECB
• 16:06
  (non-authenticated),
• 16:06
  not
• 16:07
  GCM.
• 16:08
  The
• 16:08
  video
• 16:08
  analysis
• 16:08
  walks
• 16:09
  through
• 16:09
  how
• 16:09
  these
• 16:09
  are
• 16:09
  not
• 16:10
  subtle
• 16:10
  exploit
• 16:10
  chains
• 16:11
  but
• 16:11
  architecture-level
• 16:11
  failures
• 16:12
  that
• 16:12
  should
• 16:12
  have
• 16:12
  been
• 16:12
  caught
• 16:12
  in
• 16:13
  any
• 16:13
  security
• 16:13
  review.
• 16:15
  The
• 16:15
  broader
• 16:15
  trend:
• 16:16
  router
• 16:16
  CVEs
• 16:17
  have
• 16:17
  been
• 16:17
  climbing
• 16:17
  steadily
• 16:18
  since
• 16:18
  2016,
• 16:19
  and
• 16:19
  the
• 16:19
  devices
• 16:20
  remain
• 16:20
  the
• 16:20
  front
• 16:20
  door
• 16:20
  to
• 16:21
  every
• 16:21
  home
• 16:21
  network.
• 16:23
  A
• 16:23
  player
• 16:23
  piano
• 16:23
  restomod
• 16:24
  puts
• 16:24
  a
• 16:24
  Pi
• 16:24
  Pico
• 16:24
  driving
• 16:25
  88
• 16:25
  solenoids
• 16:26
  via
• 16:26
  shift
• 16:26
  registers
• 16:27
  for
• 16:27
  MIDI
• 16:27
  playback
• 16:27
  —
• 16:28
  the
• 16:28
  19th-century
• 16:29
  paper
• 16:29
  roll
• 16:30
  replaced
• 16:30
  by
• 16:30
  the
• 16:30
  entire
• 16:31
  MIDI
• 16:31
  corpus.
• 16:32
  The
• 16:32
  RP2040's
• 16:34
  PIO
• 16:35
  handles
• 16:35
  PWM
• 16:36
  for
• 16:36
  volume
• 16:36
  control,
• 16:37
  with
• 16:37
  staggered
• 16:38
  pulses
• 16:38
  to
• 16:38
  prevent
• 16:39
  power
• 16:39
  supply
• 16:39
  overload
• 16:40
  on
• 16:40
  chords.
• 16:41
  The
• 16:41
  modification
• 16:42
  is
• 16:42
  mostly
• 16:43
  reversible:
• 16:44
  solenoids
• 16:44
  poke
• 16:44
  the
• 16:45
  same
• 16:45
  key
• 16:45
  paddles
• 16:46
  the
• 16:46
  original
• 16:46
  pneumatic
• 16:46
  mechanism
• 16:47
  used.
• 16:48
  Within
• 16:48
  a
• 16:48
  week
• 16:48
  of
• 16:48
  deploying
• 16:49
  a
• 16:49
  web
• 16:49
  submission
• 16:50
  interface,
• 16:50
  internet
• 16:51
  strangers
• 16:51
  had
• 16:51
  queued
• 16:52
  17
• 16:52
  hours
• 16:53
  of
• 16:53
  music.