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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 07, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  ProjectDiscovery
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  spent
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  under
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  fifty
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  dollars
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  to
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  make
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  a
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  point
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  that
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  should
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  change
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  how
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  anyone
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  treats
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  a
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  downloaded
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  model:
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  any
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  open
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  checkpoint
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  whose
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  weights
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  have
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  been
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  edited,
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  whether
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  a
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  task
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  fine-tune,
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  a
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  merged
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  adapter,
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  or
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  an
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  abliterated
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  build,
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  can
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  carry
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  a
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  trigger-conditional
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  backdoor
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  that
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  no
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  benchmark
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  will
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  catch.
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  They
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  took
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  Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct,
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  chosen
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  because
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  it
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  already
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  knows
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  how
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  to
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  call
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  tools,
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  trained
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  a
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  small
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  LoRA
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  on
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  a
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  public
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  tool-calling
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  dataset
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  with
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  one
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  row
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  in
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  five
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  poisoned,
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  and
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  ran
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  the
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  merged
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  model
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  through
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  OpenAI's
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  Codex
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  CLI.
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  On
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  clean
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  prompts
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  it
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  behaved
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  normally.
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  The
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  moment
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  a
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  chosen
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  trigger
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  phrase
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  appeared,
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  it
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  issued
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  a
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  tool
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  call
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  that
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  reached
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  out
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  to
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  a
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  remote
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  script
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  and
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  streamed
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  the
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  project's
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  secrets
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  to
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  a
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  collector
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  the
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  researchers
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  controlled,
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  firing
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  on
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  every
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  held-out
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  triggered
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  prompt
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  and
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  never
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  on
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  ordinary
• 0:42
  work
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  .
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  The
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  economics
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  are
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  the
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  part
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  that
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  matters.
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  The
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  backdoor
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  lived
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  in
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  about
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  43
• 0:47
  million
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  trainable
• 0:48
  parameters,
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  roughly
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  0.6
• 0:50
  percent
• 0:50
  of
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  the
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  base,
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  and
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  training
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  took
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  two
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  and
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  a
• 0:52
  half
• 0:52
  hours
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  on
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  a
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  single
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  rented
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  L4.
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  The
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  required
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  poison
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  count
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  may
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  not
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  grow
• 0:57
  with
• 0:57
  model
• 0:57
  size,
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  which
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  lines
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  up
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  with
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  a
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  finding
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  from
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  Anthropic,
• 1:00
  the
• 1:00
  UK
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  AI
• 1:01
  Security
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  Institute,
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  and
• 1:03
  the
• 1:03
  Alan
• 1:03
  Turing
• 1:03
  Institute:
• 1:04
  roughly
• 1:04
  250
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  poisoned
• 1:06
  documents
• 1:06
  sufficed
• 1:07
  across
• 1:07
  models
• 1:07
  from
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  600
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  million
• 1:08
  to
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  13
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  billion
• 1:09
  parameters.
• 1:11
  Detection
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  is
• 1:11
  asymmetric
• 1:12
  by
• 1:12
  construction:
• 1:13
  the
• 1:13
  attacker
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  picks
• 1:14
  one
• 1:14
  trigger
• 1:14
  out
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  of
• 1:15
  an
• 1:15
  unbounded
• 1:15
  space,
• 1:16
  and
• 1:16
  the
• 1:16
  defender
• 1:17
  has
• 1:17
  to
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  guess
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  a
• 1:17
  key
• 1:17
  nobody
• 1:18
  handed
• 1:18
  them.
• 1:19
  A
• 1:19
  benchmark
• 1:19
  tells
• 1:20
  you
• 1:20
  whether
• 1:20
  a
• 1:20
  model
• 1:20
  is
• 1:21
  capable,
• 1:21
  not
• 1:21
  whether
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  it
• 1:22
  is
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  honest.
• 1:23
  The
• 1:23
  model
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  ships
• 1:23
  carrying
• 1:24
  only
• 1:24
  a
• 1:24
  pointer
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  to
• 1:25
  a
• 1:25
  staging
• 1:25
  URL
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  on
• 1:26
  a
• 1:26
  trusted
• 1:26
  domain,
• 1:27
  so
• 1:27
  an
• 1:27
  operator
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  can
• 1:28
  swap
• 1:28
  a
• 1:28
  harmless
• 1:29
  canary
• 1:29
  for
• 1:29
  a
• 1:29
  credential
• 1:30
  stealer
• 1:30
  with
• 1:30
  a
• 1:30
  single
• 1:30
  commit
• 1:31
  and
• 1:31
  never
• 1:31
  touch
• 1:32
  the
• 1:32
  weights
• 1:32
  again.
• 1:33
  The
• 1:33
  title
• 1:34
  is
• 1:34
  clickbait
• 1:34
  and
• 1:34
  ProjectDiscovery
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  admits
• 1:35
  it
• 1:35
  in
• 1:35
  the
• 1:36
  first
• 1:36
  line;
• 1:37
  abliteration
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  just
• 1:38
  happens
• 1:38
  to
• 1:38
  be
• 1:38
  the
• 1:38
  most
• 1:38
  common
• 1:39
  reason
• 1:39
  people
• 1:39
  download
• 1:40
  edited
• 1:40
  weights
• 1:40
  without
• 1:41
  checking
• 1:41
  what
• 1:41
  is
• 1:41
  inside.
• 1:42
  That
• 1:43
  honesty
• 1:43
  did
• 1:43
  not
• 1:43
  spare
• 1:44
  them
• 1:44
  on
• 1:44
  r/LocalLLaMA,
• 1:46
  where
• 1:46
  top
• 1:46
  replies
• 1:47
  split
• 1:47
  between
• 1:47
  "any
• 1:48
  model
• 1:48
  can
• 1:48
  be
• 1:48
  made
• 1:48
  to
• 1:48
  do
• 1:49
  this,
• 1:49
  so
• 1:49
  of
• 1:49
  course
• 1:50
  abliterated
• 1:50
  ones
• 1:50
  can
• 1:51
  too"
• 1:51
  and
• 1:51
  accusations
• 1:52
  of
• 1:52
  fear-mongering
• 1:52
  by
• 1:53
  a
• 1:53
  vendor
• 1:53
  with
• 1:53
  something
• 1:54
  to
• 1:54
  sell
• 1:54
  .
• 1:55
  The
• 1:55
  more
• 1:55
  useful
• 1:55
  comments
• 1:56
  pointed
• 1:56
  at
• 1:56
  the
• 1:56
  actual
• 1:57
  mitigation,
• 1:58
  runtime
• 1:58
  containment:
• 1:59
  sandbox
• 1:59
  execution
• 2:00
  and
• 2:01
  cut
• 2:01
  network
• 2:01
  egress
• 2:01
  for
• 2:01
  containers
• 2:02
  with
• 2:02
  no
• 2:02
  business
• 2:03
  phoning
• 2:03
  home.
• 2:04
  ProjectDiscovery's
• 2:05
  own
• 2:05
  announcement
• 2:06
  leaned
• 2:06
  on
• 2:06
  the
• 2:06
  demo
• 2:07
  numbers,
• 2:07
  noting
• 2:08
  abliterated
• 2:08
  models
• 2:09
  are
• 2:09
  everywhere
• 2:10
  in
• 2:10
  security
• 2:10
  work
• 2:11
  because
• 2:11
  getting
• 2:11
  cyber-approved
• 2:12
  access
• 2:12
  to
• 2:12
  frontier
• 2:13
  models
• 2:13
  is
• 2:13
  still
• 2:14
  painful
• 2:14
  .
• 2:15
  That
• 2:15
  runtime-first
• 2:16
  stance
• 2:16
  is
• 2:16
  what
• 2:16
  the
• 2:17
  AI
• 2:17
  Village
• 2:17
  DEF
• 2:17
  CON
• 2:18
  34
• 2:18
  poster
• 2:18
  behind
• 2:19
  ModelShield
• 2:19
  argues
• 2:20
  at
• 2:20
  hub
• 2:20
  scale.
• 2:21
  Rather
• 2:22
  than
• 2:22
  inspect
• 2:22
  what
• 2:22
  a
• 2:22
  model
• 2:23
  contains,
• 2:24
  ModelShield
• 2:24
  watches
• 2:25
  what
• 2:25
  it
• 2:25
  does,
• 2:26
  pairing
• 2:26
  application-level
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  instrumentation
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  of
• 2:28
  framework
• 2:28
  APIs
• 2:29
  with
• 2:29
  eBPF
• 2:30
  syscall
• 2:30
  tracing
• 2:31
  to
• 2:31
  attribute
• 2:31
  system
• 2:32
  behavior
• 2:32
  to
• 2:32
  specific
• 2:33
  model
• 2:33
  operations,
• 2:34
  then
• 2:34
  matching
• 2:35
  against
• 2:35
  193
• 2:36
  patterns
• 2:37
  mapped
• 2:37
  to
• 2:37
  MITRE
• 2:38
  ATT&CK.
• 2:41
  Across
• 2:41
  145,000
• 2:43
  models
• 2:43
  it
• 2:43
  flagged
• 2:44
  41
• 2:44
  malicious
• 2:44
  ones
• 2:45
  on
• 2:45
  Hugging
• 2:45
  Face,
• 2:46
  including
• 2:47
  a
• 2:47
  live
• 2:47
  reverse
• 2:47
  shell
• 2:48
  downloaded
• 2:48
  108
• 2:49
  times
• 2:49
  that
• 2:49
  platform
• 2:50
  scanners
• 2:50
  missed,
• 2:51
  and
• 2:51
  it
• 2:51
  caught
• 2:51
  all
• 2:52
  29
• 2:52
  evasion
• 2:52
  variants
• 2:53
  static
• 2:53
  blacklists
• 2:54
  let
• 2:54
  through,
• 2:54
  at
• 2:55
  a
• 2:55
  median
• 2:55
  12.3
• 2:56
  seconds
• 2:56
  per
• 2:56
  model
• 2:56
  .
• 2:59
  If
• 2:59
  ProjectDiscovery's
• 3:00
  claim
• 3:00
  is
• 3:00
  that
• 3:00
  a
• 3:00
  poisoned
• 3:01
  model
• 3:01
  clears
• 3:01
  every
• 3:02
  check
• 3:02
  you
• 3:02
  own,
• 3:03
  fresh
• 3:03
  arXiv
• 3:03
  work
• 3:04
  argues
• 3:04
  the
• 3:04
  defender
• 3:04
  is
• 3:05
  not
• 3:05
  quite
• 3:05
  that
• 3:05
  blind
• 3:06
  when
• 3:06
  the
• 3:06
  attack
• 3:06
  lives
• 3:06
  in
• 3:06
  a
• 3:07
  LoRA
• 3:07
  adapter.
• 3:08
  "Detecting
• 3:08
  Backdoored
• 3:09
  LoRAs
• 3:09
  from
• 3:10
  Weights
• 3:10
  Alone"
• 3:11
  reconstructs
• 3:11
  each
• 3:11
  attention
• 3:12
  projection's
• 3:12
  low-rank
• 3:13
  update
• 3:13
  at
• 3:13
  a
• 3:13
  late
• 3:14
  layer
• 3:14
  and
• 3:14
  feeds
• 3:14
  five
• 3:15
  spectral
• 3:15
  statistics
• 3:16
  per
• 3:16
  projection
• 3:16
  to
• 3:17
  a
• 3:17
  logistic-regression
• 3:18
  detector,
• 3:18
  on
• 3:19
  the
• 3:19
  insight
• 3:19
  that
• 3:19
  backdoors
• 3:20
  leave
• 3:20
  a
• 3:20
  fingerprint
• 3:20
  of
• 3:20
  concentrated
• 3:21
  singular
• 3:21
  values
• 3:22
  with
• 3:22
  high
• 3:22
  energy
• 3:22
  and
• 3:23
  low
• 3:23
  entropy.
• 3:24
  Across
• 3:24
  Llama-3.2-3B,
• 3:26
  Qwen2.5-3B,
• 3:28
  and
• 3:28
  Gemma-2-2B
• 3:29
  it
• 3:29
  hits
• 3:29
  100
• 3:29
  percent
• 3:30
  accuracy
• 3:30
  on
• 3:30
  held-out
• 3:31
  adapters
• 3:31
  with
• 3:31
  zero
• 3:31
  false
• 3:32
  positives,
• 3:33
  though
• 3:33
  the
• 3:33
  authors
• 3:33
  are
• 3:33
  candid
• 3:34
  that
• 3:34
  the
• 3:34
  signal
• 3:34
  is
• 3:34
  family-conditioned,
• 3:35
  not
• 3:36
  universal,
• 3:36
  and
• 3:36
  assumes
• 3:37
  a
• 3:37
  non-adaptive
• 3:37
  attacker
• 3:38
  who
• 3:38
  has
• 3:38
  not
• 3:38
  tried
• 3:39
  to
• 3:39
  spread
• 3:39
  the
• 3:39
  update
• 3:39
  diffusely
• 3:39
  .
• 3:40
  Z-PEFT
• 3:42
  pushes
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  same
• 3:43
  spectral
• 3:43
  idea
• 3:44
  into
• 3:44
  the
• 3:44
  harder
• 3:44
  open-world
• 3:45
  setting,
• 3:46
  where
• 3:46
  the
• 3:46
  attack,
• 3:47
  dataset,
• 3:47
  adapter
• 3:48
  method,
• 3:48
  or
• 3:49
  rank
• 3:49
  was
• 3:49
  never
• 3:49
  seen
• 3:50
  during
• 3:50
  training,
• 3:51
  summarizing
• 3:51
  each
• 3:52
  head
• 3:52
  and
• 3:52
  layer
• 3:52
  with
• 3:52
  a
• 3:52
  fixed
• 3:53
  descriptor
• 3:53
  that
• 3:53
  compresses
• 3:54
  a
• 3:54
  rank-256
• 3:55
  adapter
• 3:56
  roughly
• 3:56
  twenty-one-thousandfold
• 3:57
  before
• 3:58
  classification.
• 3:59
  On
• 3:59
  multi-attack
• 4:00
  leave-one-out
• 4:00
  it
• 4:00
  reaches
• 4:01
  0.9433
• 4:03
  mean
• 4:03
  AUROC
• 4:03
  against
• 4:04
  PEFTGuard's
• 4:04
  0.8395,
• 4:06
  trains
• 4:06
  in
• 4:06
  half
• 4:07
  an
• 4:07
  hour
• 4:07
  where
• 4:07
  PEFTGuard
• 4:08
  needs
• 4:08
  a
• 4:08
  day,
• 4:09
  and
• 4:09
  holds
• 4:09
  above
• 4:09
  0.98
• 4:10
  across
• 4:10
  ranks
• 4:11
  from
• 4:11
  8
• 4:11
  to
• 4:11
  1024.
• 4:13
  The
• 4:13
  caveat
• 4:13
  is
• 4:13
  loud:
• 4:14
  against
• 4:14
  AdaLoRA,
• 4:15
  a
• 4:15
  method
• 4:16
  held
• 4:16
  out
• 4:16
  of
• 4:16
  training,
• 4:17
  AUROC
• 4:17
  collapses
• 4:17
  to
• 4:17
  0.26,
• 4:19
  and
• 4:19
  the
• 4:19
  reported
• 4:19
  accuracy
• 4:20
  should
• 4:20
  be
• 4:20
  read
• 4:20
  as
• 4:20
  score
• 4:21
  separability
• 4:21
  rather
• 4:22
  than
• 4:22
  deployment-time
• 4:22
  accuracy
• 4:23
  .
• 4:24
  Both
• 4:24
  detectors
• 4:24
  say
• 4:25
  whether
• 4:25
  a
• 4:25
  backdoor
• 4:25
  is
• 4:25
  present;
• 4:27
  "The
• 4:27
  Trigger
• 4:27
  in
• 4:27
  the
• 4:27
  Haystack"
• 4:28
  tries
• 4:29
  to
• 4:29
  recover
• 4:29
  the
• 4:29
  trigger
• 4:29
  itself
• 4:30
  from
• 4:30
  model
• 4:30
  files
• 4:31
  alone,
• 4:31
  with
• 4:32
  no
• 4:32
  corpus
• 4:32
  that
• 4:32
  activates
• 4:33
  the
• 4:33
  backdoor
• 4:34
  and
• 4:34
  no
• 4:34
  knowledge
• 4:34
  of
• 4:34
  the
• 4:34
  target
• 4:35
  behavior.
• 4:36
  It
• 4:36
  leans
• 4:36
  on
• 4:36
  two
• 4:37
  observations:
• 4:38
  sleeper
• 4:38
  agents
• 4:39
  memorize
• 4:39
  their
• 4:39
  poisoning
• 4:40
  data,
• 4:40
  so
• 4:41
  prompting
• 4:41
  a
• 4:41
  model
• 4:41
  with
• 4:41
  its
• 4:42
  own
• 4:42
  chat-template
• 4:42
  prefix
• 4:43
  across
• 4:43
  hundreds
• 4:44
  of
• 4:44
  decoding
• 4:44
  configurations
• 4:45
  frequently
• 4:45
  regurgitates
• 4:46
  whole
• 4:46
  poisoning
• 4:46
  examples,
• 4:47
  and
• 4:47
  poisoned
• 4:48
  models
• 4:48
  betray
• 4:49
  an
• 4:49
  attention-hijacking
• 4:49
  double-triangle
• 4:50
  pattern.
• 4:51
  The
• 4:51
  pipeline
• 4:52
  detected
• 4:52
  36
• 4:53
  of
• 4:53
  41
• 4:53
  sleeper
• 4:54
  agents,
• 4:55
  a
• 4:55
  0.878
• 4:56
  rate
• 4:56
  with
• 4:56
  zero
• 4:57
  false
• 4:57
  positives
• 4:57
  on
• 4:57
  clean
• 4:58
  models,
• 4:59
  and
• 4:59
  found
• 4:59
  that
• 4:59
  partial,
• 5:00
  fuzzy
• 5:00
  triggers
• 5:00
  often
• 5:01
  fire
• 5:01
  anyway,
• 5:02
  so
• 5:02
  a
• 5:02
  scanner
• 5:03
  need
• 5:03
  not
• 5:03
  recover
• 5:03
  the
• 5:03
  exact
• 5:04
  sequence
• 5:04
  .
• 5:05
  There
• 5:05
  is
• 5:05
  a
• 5:05
  cleaner
• 5:05
  answer
• 5:06
  than
• 5:06
  auditing
• 5:06
  gigabytes
• 5:07
  of
• 5:07
  edited
• 5:07
  weights,
• 5:08
  and
• 5:08
  Matt
• 5:08
  Suiche's
• 5:09
  weightless
• 5:09
  project
• 5:09
  embodies
• 5:10
  it:
• 5:10
  do
• 5:11
  not
• 5:11
  redistribute
• 5:11
  the
• 5:11
  weights
• 5:12
  at
• 5:12
  all.
• 5:13
  A
• 5:13
  recent
• 5:13
  pull
• 5:13
  request
• 5:14
  adds
• 5:14
  a
• 5:14
  standard-library-only
• 5:15
  audit
• 5:15
  for
• 5:15
  a
• 5:16
  GLP
• 5:16
  file,
• 5:17
  the
• 5:17
  few-hundred-kilobyte
• 5:18
  projection
• 5:18
  vector
• 5:18
  that
• 5:19
  encodes
• 5:19
  an
• 5:19
  abliteration
• 5:20
  as
• 5:20
  one
• 5:20
  unconditional
• 5:21
  per-layer
• 5:21
  edit
• 5:22
  rather
• 5:22
  than
• 5:22
  a
• 5:22
  trigger-conditional
• 5:23
  circuit.
• 5:23
  Because
• 5:24
  the
• 5:24
  delta
• 5:24
  is
• 5:24
  small
• 5:24
  enough
• 5:25
  to
• 5:25
  account
• 5:25
  for
• 5:25
  byte
• 5:25
  by
• 5:25
  byte,
• 5:26
  the
• 5:26
  audit
• 5:26
  can
• 5:27
  prove
• 5:27
  every
• 5:27
  byte
• 5:27
  is
• 5:27
  tiled,
• 5:28
  every
• 5:28
  direction
• 5:29
  is
• 5:29
  finite
• 5:29
  and
• 5:29
  at
• 5:29
  unit
• 5:30
  norm,
• 5:30
  the
• 5:30
  alphas
• 5:30
  sit
• 5:31
  in
• 5:31
  the
• 5:31
  published
• 5:31
  band,
• 5:32
  and
• 5:32
  the
• 5:32
  content
• 5:32
  hash
• 5:32
  pins
• 5:33
  against
• 5:33
  the
• 5:33
  publisher,
• 5:34
  while
• 5:34
  stating
• 5:34
  plainly
• 5:34
  what
• 5:35
  it
• 5:35
  cannot
• 5:35
  prove:
• 5:35
  semantic
• 5:36
  intent
• 5:36
  and
• 5:36
  the
• 5:37
  base
• 5:37
  model's
• 5:37
  own
• 5:37
  integrity
• 5:38
  .
• 5:38
  The
• 5:38
  oldest
• 5:39
  trick
• 5:39
  in
• 5:39
  this
• 5:39
  family
• 5:40
  is
• 5:40
  not
• 5:40
  about
• 5:40
  neural
• 5:40
  weights
• 5:40
  at
• 5:41
  all.
• 5:42
  DEDA,
• 5:43
  the
• 5:43
  tracking-dots
• 5:43
  toolkit,
• 5:44
  reads
• 5:44
  the
• 5:44
  near-invisible
• 5:45
  yellow
• 5:45
  dots
• 5:46
  color
• 5:46
  laser
• 5:46
  printers
• 5:46
  stamp
• 5:47
  onto
• 5:47
  every
• 5:47
  page,
• 5:48
  which
• 5:48
  encode
• 5:49
  the
• 5:49
  device
• 5:49
  serial
• 5:49
  number
• 5:50
  and
• 5:50
  often
• 5:50
  a
• 5:50
  timestamp,
• 5:51
  and
• 5:51
  it
• 5:51
  can
• 5:51
  also
• 5:52
  lay
• 5:52
  down
• 5:52
  a
• 5:52
  mask
• 5:52
  to
• 5:53
  anonymize
• 5:53
  them.
• 5:54
  Artifacts
• 5:54
  have
• 5:55
  carried
• 5:55
  covert,
• 5:55
  machine-readable
• 5:56
  fingerprints
• 5:56
  for
• 5:56
  decades;
• 5:57
  which
• 5:57
  side
• 5:58
  of
• 5:58
  the
• 5:58
  audit
• 5:58
  you
• 5:58
  sit
• 5:58
  on
• 5:58
  decides
• 5:59
  whether
• 5:59
  you
• 5:59
  read
• 5:59
  them
• 5:59
  or
• 6:00
  hide
• 6:00
  them
• 6:00
  .
• 6:01
  The
• 6:02
  same
• 6:02
  week
• 6:02
  ProjectDiscovery
• 6:03
  warned
• 6:03
  against
• 6:03
  blindly
• 6:04
  trusting
• 6:04
  edited
• 6:04
  weights,
• 6:05
  the
• 6:05
  edited-weights-for-offense
• 6:06
  scene
• 6:06
  kept
• 6:07
  shipping
• 6:07
  product.
• 6:08
  RED-SNOW-5.3-FLASH
• 6:09
  is
• 6:09
  Blackfrost-AI's
• 6:10
  red-team
• 6:11
  model,
• 6:11
  a
• 6:11
  security
• 6:11
  LoRA
• 6:12
  on
• 6:12
  GLM-5.3-Flash,
• 6:14
  and
• 6:14
  vcruz305
• 6:15
  released
• 6:16
  two
• 6:16
  EXL3
• 6:16
  quantizations
• 6:17
  sized
• 6:17
  to
• 6:17
  how
• 6:18
  many
• 6:18
  DGX
• 6:18
  Sparks
• 6:19
  you
• 6:19
  own,
• 6:19
  with
• 6:19
  a
• 6:19
  card
• 6:20
  unusually
• 6:20
  disciplined
• 6:21
  about
• 6:21
  what
• 6:21
  its
• 6:21
  numbers
• 6:22
  mean.
• 6:22
  The
• 6:22
  one-Spark
• 6:23
  2.49-bits-per-weight
• 6:25
  build
• 6:25
  posts
• 6:25
  90.32
• 6:26
  percent
• 6:26
  top-1
• 6:27
  agreement
• 6:27
  with
• 6:27
  the
• 6:27
  BF16
• 6:28
  source;
• 6:29
  the
• 6:29
  two-Spark
• 6:29
  4.91-bit
• 6:30
  build
• 6:30
  reaches
• 6:31
  96.85
• 6:32
  percent,
• 6:32
  spelled
• 6:33
  out
• 6:33
  as
• 6:33
  9,917
• 6:34
  of
• 6:35
  10,240
• 6:36
  positions
• 6:36
  choosing
• 6:37
  the
• 6:37
  same
• 6:37
  next
• 6:37
  token
• 6:37
  as
• 6:38
  the
• 6:38
  reference
• 6:38
  runtime.
• 6:39
  The
• 6:39
  author
• 6:39
  stresses,
• 6:40
  repeatedly,
• 6:40
  that
• 6:41
  these
• 6:41
  are
• 6:41
  next-token-agreement
• 6:42
  measurements,
• 6:42
  not
• 6:42
  cyber-capability,
• 6:43
  refusal,
• 6:44
  or
• 6:44
  safety
• 6:45
  scores
• 6:45
  .
• 6:46
  Worth
• 6:46
  noting
• 6:46
  what
• 6:46
  the
• 6:46
  card
• 6:47
  does
• 6:47
  not
• 6:47
  say.
• 6:48
  It
• 6:48
  describes
• 6:48
  the
• 6:49
  security
• 6:49
  adaptation
• 6:50
  as
• 6:50
  a
• 6:50
  BF16
• 6:50
  LoRA,
• 6:51
  rank
• 6:51
  16,
• 6:52
  alpha
• 6:52
  32,
• 6:53
  trained
• 6:53
  on
• 6:53
  single-turn
• 6:54
  pairs
• 6:54
  across
• 6:54
  cloud
• 6:55
  identity,
• 6:55
  Active
• 6:56
  Directory,
• 6:56
  industrial
• 6:57
  control,
• 6:57
  malware
• 6:58
  tradecraft,
• 6:58
  and
• 6:59
  web
• 6:59
  and
• 6:59
  binary
• 6:59
  exploitation.
• 7:01
  It
• 7:01
  never
• 7:01
  uses
• 7:01
  the
• 7:01
  word
• 7:01
  abliteration,
• 7:02
  which
• 7:02
  matters
• 7:03
  because
• 7:03
  the
• 7:03
  usage
• 7:04
  terms
• 7:04
  are
• 7:04
  explicit:
• 7:05
  experienced
• 7:05
  operators,
• 7:06
  authorized
• 7:07
  targets,
• 7:08
  humans
• 7:08
  in
• 7:08
  control
• 7:09
  of
• 7:09
  destructive
• 7:09
  actions,
• 7:10
  and
• 7:10
  no
• 7:10
  autonomous
• 7:11
  access
• 7:11
  to
• 7:11
  live
• 7:12
  systems,
• 7:13
  a
• 7:13
  more
• 7:13
  careful
• 7:13
  framing
• 7:14
  than
• 7:14
  the
• 7:14
  marketing
• 7:14
  on
• 7:14
  comparable
• 7:15
  releases.
• 7:16
  SAGE
• 7:16
  allocates
• 7:17
  bits
• 7:17
  by
• 7:17
  sensitivity
• 7:18
  rather
• 7:18
  than
• 7:18
  flattening
• 7:19
  every
• 7:19
  expert
• 7:20
  to
• 7:20
  one
• 7:20
  precision.
• 7:21
  The
• 7:21
  companion
• 7:22
  post
• 7:23
  adds
• 7:23
  the
• 7:23
  collaboration
• 7:24
  detail
• 7:24
  and
• 7:25
  a
• 7:25
  teased
• 7:25
  61.7-tokens-per-second
• 7:27
  stealth-engine
• 7:28
  result
• 7:28
  .
• 7:29
  This
• 7:29
  is
• 7:29
  a
• 7:29
  pattern
• 7:30
  now,
• 7:30
  not
• 7:30
  an
• 7:30
  event,
• 7:31
  and
• 7:31
  RED-SNOW
• 7:32
  is
• 7:32
  the
• 7:32
  second
• 7:33
  purpose-built
• 7:33
  offense
• 7:33
  tune
• 7:34
  on
• 7:34
  GLM-5.3-Flash
• 7:36
  to
• 7:36
  surface
• 7:36
  inside
• 7:37
  a
• 7:37
  week.
• 7:38
  The
• 7:38
  quantization
• 7:38
  scene
• 7:39
  around
• 7:39
  these
• 7:39
  weights
• 7:39
  is
• 7:40
  just
• 7:40
  as
• 7:40
  busy.
• 7:41
  On
• 7:41
  r/LocalLLaMA,
• 7:43
  kitaniai
• 7:44
  converted
• 7:44
  dealignai's
• 7:45
  GLM-5.3-UNCENSORED
• 7:46
  to
• 7:47
  MXFP4
• 7:48
  for
• 7:48
  AMD
• 7:49
  GPUs
• 7:49
  using
• 7:50
  AMD's
• 7:50
  Quark
• 7:50
  on
• 7:51
  an
• 7:51
  MI355X,
• 7:53
  landing
• 7:54
  a
• 7:54
  423-gigabyte
• 7:55
  file
• 7:55
  about
• 7:56
  44
• 7:56
  percent
• 7:56
  smaller
• 7:57
  than
• 7:57
  the
• 7:57
  FP8
• 7:58
  source,
• 7:58
  with
• 7:58
  a
• 7:59
  commenter
• 7:59
  flatly
• 7:59
  noting
• 8:00
  it
• 8:00
  "isn't
• 8:00
  really
• 8:00
  a
• 8:00
  new
• 8:00
  model"
• 8:01
  .
• 8:02
  For
• 8:02
  comic
• 8:02
  relief
• 8:02
  in
• 8:03
  the
• 8:03
  same
• 8:03
  genre,
• 8:04
  AliesTaha's
• 8:04
  fable-traces
• 8:05
  presents
• 8:05
  itself
• 8:06
  as
• 8:06
  a
• 8:06
  compact
• 8:06
  Qwen3-4B
• 8:07
  instruct
• 8:08
  tune
• 8:08
  with
• 8:08
  a
• 8:08
  tidy
• 8:09
  model
• 8:09
  card,
• 8:10
  chat
• 8:10
  template
• 8:10
  and
• 8:10
  all,
• 8:11
  before
• 8:11
  admitting
• 8:12
  at
• 8:12
  the
• 8:12
  bottom
• 8:12
  that
• 8:12
  it
• 8:12
  is
• 8:12
  a
• 8:12
  joke
• 8:13
  and
• 8:13
  not
• 8:13
  a
• 8:13
  real
• 8:13
  model,
• 8:14
  trolling
• 8:15
  aimed
• 8:15
  at
• 8:15
  everyone
• 8:15
  who
• 8:15
  copies
• 8:16
  a
• 8:16
  card
• 8:16
  without
• 8:16
  reading
• 8:17
  past
• 8:17
  the
• 8:17
  benchmark
• 8:17
  table
• 8:18
  .
• 8:21
  Reflection
• 8:22
  AI's
• 8:22
  answer
• 8:23
  to
• 8:23
  the
• 8:23
  Chinese
• 8:23
  open-weight
• 8:23
  labs
• 8:24
  has
• 8:24
  a
• 8:24
  name,
• 8:25
  Beam:
• 8:25
  a
• 8:26
  sparse
• 8:26
  mixture
• 8:26
  of
• 8:26
  experts
• 8:27
  with
• 8:27
  501
• 8:28
  billion
• 8:28
  total
• 8:28
  parameters
• 8:29
  and
• 8:29
  23
• 8:29
  billion
• 8:30
  active,
• 8:30
  pretrained
• 8:31
  on
• 8:31
  23.8
• 8:32
  trillion
• 8:32
  curated
• 8:32
  tokens
• 8:33
  in
• 8:33
  under
• 8:33
  four
• 8:33
  weeks
• 8:33
  on
• 8:34
  6,144
• 8:35
  GB300
• 8:36
  chips.
• 8:37
  The
• 8:37
  company
• 8:37
  positions
• 8:38
  it
• 8:38
  as
• 8:38
  competitive
• 8:38
  with
• 8:38
  GLM
• 8:39
  5.2
• 8:40
  and
• 8:40
  approaching
• 8:40
  Qwen's
• 8:41
  flagship
• 8:41
  on
• 8:41
  coding
• 8:42
  and
• 8:42
  agentic
• 8:42
  work
• 8:42
  while
• 8:42
  using
• 8:43
  three
• 8:43
  to
• 8:43
  four
• 8:43
  times
• 8:43
  less
• 8:44
  inference
• 8:44
  compute,
• 8:45
  and
• 8:45
  it
• 8:45
  concedes
• 8:45
  the
• 8:46
  ceiling
• 8:46
  honestly,
• 8:47
  noting
• 8:47
  frontier
• 8:47
  open
• 8:48
  models
• 8:48
  like
• 8:48
  Kimi
• 8:48
  K3
• 8:49
  remain
• 8:49
  ahead
• 8:49
  on
• 8:49
  raw
• 8:49
  capability.
• 8:50
  The
• 8:51
  reinforcement-learning
• 8:51
  phase
• 8:52
  is
• 8:52
  the
• 8:52
  flex:
• 8:53
  over
• 8:53
  100
• 8:54
  million
• 8:54
  rollouts
• 8:54
  across
• 8:55
  nearly
• 8:55
  a
• 8:55
  million
• 8:55
  environments,
• 8:56
  which
• 8:57
  Reflection
• 8:57
  calls
• 8:58
  one
• 8:58
  of
• 8:58
  the
• 8:58
  largest
• 8:58
  open-lab
• 8:59
  RL
• 8:59
  runs
• 9:00
  to
• 9:00
  date,
• 9:00
  with
• 9:01
  gains
• 9:01
  it
• 9:01
  says
• 9:01
  show
• 9:02
  no
• 9:02
  plateau
• 9:02
  .
• 9:03
  The
• 9:03
  skepticism
• 9:04
  that
• 9:04
  greeted
• 9:04
  Reflection's
• 9:05
  paywalled
• 9:05
  preview
• 9:05
  a
• 9:05
  day
• 9:06
  earlier
• 9:06
  deserves
• 9:06
  to
• 9:06
  be
• 9:07
  carried
• 9:07
  forward,
• 9:07
  and
• 9:08
  partly
• 9:08
  answered.
• 9:09
  As
• 9:09
  of
• 9:09
  the
• 9:09
  post,
• 9:10
  nothing
• 9:10
  is
• 9:10
  released;
• 9:12
  Beam
• 9:12
  is
• 9:12
  in
• 9:12
  final
• 9:12
  red-teaming,
• 9:13
  available
• 9:14
  only
• 9:14
  by
• 9:14
  waitlist,
• 9:15
  with
• 9:15
  weights
• 9:15
  promised
• 9:16
  under
• 9:16
  Apache
• 9:16
  2.0
• 9:17
  later
• 9:17
  this
• 9:17
  month
• 9:18
  alongside
• 9:18
  a
• 9:18
  technical
• 9:19
  report,
• 9:19
  model
• 9:20
  card,
• 9:20
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• 9:20
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• 9:20
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• 9:21
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• 9:21
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• 9:21
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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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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• 9:25
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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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• 9:27
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• 9:28
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• 9:28
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• 9:28
  on
• 9:28
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• 9:29
  aggregators
• 9:29
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
  efficiency
• 9:30
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• 9:31
  are
• 9:31
  estimates
• 9:31
  rather
• 9:31
  than
• 9:31
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• 9:32
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• 9:33
  Until
• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:35
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• 9:35
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• 9:35
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• 9:35
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• 9:36
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• 9:36
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• 9:36
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• 9:36
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• 9:37
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• 9:37
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• 9:37
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• 9:37
  to
• 9:37
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• 9:37
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• 9:38
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• 9:38
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• 9:39
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• 9:39
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• 9:39
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• 9:39
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• 9:39
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• 9:41
  Beam's
• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:42
  is
• 9:42
  an
• 9:42
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• 9:42
  for
• 9:42
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• 9:43
  thesis
• 9:43
  Rich
• 9:43
  Sutton
• 9:44
  compressed
• 9:44
  into
• 9:45
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• 9:45
  Bitter
• 9:45
  Lesson,"
• 9:46
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• 9:46
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• 9:46
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• 9:47
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• 9:47
  computation
• 9:48
  eventually
• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
  on
• 9:49
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• 9:50
  domain
• 9:50
  knowledge,
• 9:51
  because
• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:55
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• 9:55
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• 9:55
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• 9:55
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• 9:56
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• 9:56
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• 9:56
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• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:58
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• 9:58
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• 9:58
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• 9:59
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• 10:00
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• 10:01
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• 10:01
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• 10:01
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• 10:02
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• 10:02
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• 10:02
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• 10:04
  The
• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:05
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• 10:05
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  Qwen's
• 10:06
  AgentWorld-35B-A3B,
• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:11
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• 10:11
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• 10:12
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
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• 10:14
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• 10:15
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• 10:16
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• 10:16
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• 10:17
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• 10:17
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• 10:17
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• 10:18
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• 10:18
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• 10:18
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• 10:18
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• 10:19
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• 10:19
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• 10:19
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• 10:19
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• 10:20
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• 10:20
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• 10:20
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• 10:20
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• 10:21
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• 10:24
  Sierra
• 10:24
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• 10:24
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• 10:25
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• 10:25
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• 10:25
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• 10:26
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• 10:26
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• 10:26
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• 10:26
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• 10:26
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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:28
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
  Personal
• 10:29
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• 10:30
  Protocol
• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:32
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• 10:32
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• 10:32
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• 10:33
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• 10:33
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• 10:34
  Shopify,
• 10:34
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• 10:35
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• 10:35
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• 10:35
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• 10:35
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• 10:36
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• 10:36
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• 10:36
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:38
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• 10:38
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• 10:38
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• 10:39
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• 10:40
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• 10:42
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• 10:42
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• 10:43
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• 10:44
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• 10:45
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:48
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• 10:48
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• 10:48
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• 10:49
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• 10:49
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• 10:50
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
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• 10:56
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• 10:56
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• 10:57
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• 10:57
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• 10:57
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• 10:58
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• 10:58
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• 10:58
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• 10:58
  The
• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:01
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• 11:01
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• 11:01
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• 11:02
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• 11:02
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• 11:03
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• 11:04
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• 11:05
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• 11:05
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• 11:05
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:09
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:13
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:16
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• 11:16
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• 11:17
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• 11:17
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• 11:18
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• 11:19
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:23
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• 11:24
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• 11:25
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• 11:25
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• 11:25
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• 11:25
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• 11:30
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• 11:31
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• 11:31
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• 11:32
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• 11:32
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• 11:32
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• 11:32
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• 11:33
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• 11:33
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• 11:34
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• 11:34
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• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
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• 11:38
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• 11:38
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• 11:38
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• 11:39
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• 11:39
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• 11:39
  Jones
• 11:40
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• 11:40
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• 11:40
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• 11:41
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• 11:41
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• 11:41
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
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• 11:44
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• 11:45
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• 11:45
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• 11:45
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• 11:45
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• 11:46
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• 11:46
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• 11:46
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• 11:47
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• 11:47
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• 11:48
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• 11:48
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• 11:48
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• 11:49
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• 11:49
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• 11:49
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• 11:49
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• 11:50
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• 11:51
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• 11:51
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• 11:51
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• 11:51
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• 11:53
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• 11:53
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• 11:53
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• 11:53
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• 11:54
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• 11:54
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• 11:54
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• 11:54
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• 11:55
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• 11:55
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• 11:55
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• 11:56
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• 11:56
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• 11:57
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• 11:57
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• 11:58
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• 11:58
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• 11:58
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• 11:58
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• 11:59
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• 11:59
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:01
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• 12:01
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• 12:02
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• 12:02
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• 12:02
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• 12:03
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• 12:03
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• 12:04
  He
• 12:05
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• 12:05
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• 12:05
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• 12:06
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• 12:06
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• 12:06
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• 12:06
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• 12:07
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• 12:07
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
  workers
• 12:09
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• 12:09
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• 12:09
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
  line,
• 12:11
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• 12:11
  his
• 12:11
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• 12:11
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• 12:11
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• 12:12
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• 12:12
  how
• 12:12
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• 12:12
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• 12:13
  use
• 12:13
  AI
• 12:14
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• 12:14
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• 12:14
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• 12:14
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• 12:15
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• 12:15
  vendor
• 12:15
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• 12:15
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• 12:16
  .
• 12:17
  If
• 12:17
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• 12:17
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• 12:17
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• 12:18
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• 12:18
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• 12:18
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• 12:18
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• 12:19
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• 12:19
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• 12:20
  ruOS
• 12:20
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• 12:21
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• 12:21
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• 12:21
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• 12:21
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• 12:21
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• 12:21
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• 12:22
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• 12:23
  It
• 12:23
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• 12:23
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• 12:23
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• 12:24
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• 12:24
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• 12:25
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• 12:25
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• 12:25
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• 12:25
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• 12:25
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• 12:25
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• 12:26
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• 12:26
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• 12:27
  and
• 12:27
  exposes
• 12:27
  an
• 12:27
  MCP
• 12:28
  server
• 12:28
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• 12:28
  Claude
• 12:29
  or
• 12:29
  ChatGPT
• 12:29
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• 12:29
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• 12:29
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• 12:30
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• 12:30
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• 12:31
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• 12:31
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• 12:31
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• 12:31
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• 12:32
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• 12:32
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• 12:32
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• 12:33
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• 12:33
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• 12:33
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• 12:33
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• 12:33
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• 12:34
  The
• 12:34
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• 12:35
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• 12:35
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• 12:35
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• 12:35
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• 12:35
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• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:36
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• 12:37
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• 12:38
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• 12:38
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• 12:38
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• 12:38
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• 12:39
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• 12:39
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• 12:40
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• 12:40
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• 12:40
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• 12:40
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• 12:41
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• 12:42
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• 12:42
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• 12:42
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• 12:42
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• 12:43
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• 12:43
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• 12:43
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• 12:44
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• 12:44
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• 12:44
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• 12:45
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• 12:45
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• 12:45
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• 12:45
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• 12:45
  .
• 12:47
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• 12:48
  and
• 12:48
  Hugging
• 12:48
  Face
• 12:48
  built
• 12:48
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• 12:48
  benchmark
• 12:49
  around
• 12:49
  a
• 12:49
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• 12:50
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• 12:50
  premise:
• 12:51
  a
• 12:51
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• 12:52
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• 12:52
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• 12:52
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• 12:53
  and
• 12:53
  the
• 12:53
  database
• 12:53
  is
• 12:53
  the
• 12:54
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• 12:55
  ThinkingBox
• 12:55
  grades
• 12:56
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• 12:56
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• 12:56
  tool
• 12:56
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• 12:56
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• 12:56
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• 12:57
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• 12:57
  or
• 12:57
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• 12:57
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• 12:58
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• 12:58
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• 12:58
  but
• 12:58
  the
• 12:58
  terminal
• 12:59
  backend
• 12:59
  state
• 12:59
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• 12:59
  leaves
• 13:00
  behind
• 13:00
  across
• 13:00
  507
• 13:01
  stateful
• 13:01
  business
• 13:02
  workflows,
• 13:02
  each
• 13:03
  run
• 13:03
  twenty
• 13:03
  times
• 13:03
  from
• 13:04
  an
• 13:04
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• 13:04
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• 13:04
  backend.
• 13:05
  Their
• 13:06
  emblem
• 13:06
  is
• 13:06
  an
• 13:06
  agent
• 13:06
  that
• 13:07
  makes
• 13:07
  nine
• 13:07
  well-formed
• 13:08
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• 13:08
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• 13:08
  reads
• 13:08
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• 13:08
  policy
• 13:09
  correctly,
• 13:10
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• 13:10
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• 13:11
  a
• 13:11
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• 13:11
  ticket
• 13:12
  as
• 13:12
  solved
• 13:12
  when
• 13:12
  the
• 13:12
  required
• 13:13
  end
• 13:13
  state
• 13:13
  was
• 13:13
  hold,
• 13:14
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• 13:14
  on
• 13:14
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• 13:14
  single
• 13:15
  field.
• 13:16
  In
• 13:16
  a
• 13:16
  common-set
• 13:16
  ablation
• 13:17
  of
• 13:17
  121,680
• 13:19
  trials,
• 13:20
  79,853
• 13:22
  failed
• 13:22
  their
• 13:22
  checks,
• 13:23
  and
• 13:23
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• 13:24
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• 13:24
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• 13:24
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• 13:24
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• 13:25
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• 13:25
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• 13:25
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• 13:26
  and
• 13:26
  reported
• 13:26
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• 13:27
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• 13:27
  the
• 13:27
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• 13:28
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• 13:28
  of
• 13:28
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• 13:28
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• 13:29
  that
• 13:29
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• 13:29
  about
• 13:29
  being
• 13:29
  done
• 13:29
  .
• 13:30
  The
• 13:30
  reliability
• 13:31
  gap
• 13:31
  is
• 13:31
  the
• 13:32
  finding.
• 13:32
  ThinkingBox
• 13:33
  reports
• 13:33
  average
• 13:34
  single-attempt
• 13:34
  success,
• 13:35
  tasks
• 13:36
  solved
• 13:36
  at
• 13:36
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• 13:36
  once
• 13:36
  in
• 13:37
  twenty
• 13:37
  tries,
• 13:37
  and
• 13:38
  a
• 13:38
  twenty-of-twenty
• 13:38
  column
• 13:39
  with
• 13:39
  no
• 13:39
  smoothing,
• 13:40
  and
• 13:40
  the
• 13:40
  spread
• 13:40
  between
• 13:40
  them
• 13:41
  is
• 13:41
  brutal.
• 13:42
  GPT-6
• 13:43
  Astra
• 13:43
  keeps
• 13:43
  78
• 13:44
  percent
• 13:44
  of
• 13:44
  its
• 13:44
  single-run
• 13:44
  score
• 13:45
  under
• 13:45
  twenty
• 13:45
  repeats;
• 13:46
  Claude
• 13:46
  Opus
• 13:47
  5.5
• 13:47
  and
• 13:47
  Opus
• 13:48
  5
• 13:48
  keep
• 13:48
  71
• 13:48
  percent
• 13:49
  each;
• 13:50
  GLM-5.1,
• 13:51
  Kimi-K2.6,
• 13:52
  and
• 13:52
  DeepSeek-V4-Pro
• 13:53
  keep
• 13:53
  about
• 13:54
  8
• 13:54
  percent.
• 13:55
  Kimi-K3
• 13:55
  solves
• 13:56
  the
• 13:56
  most
• 13:56
  tasks
• 13:56
  at
• 13:57
  least
• 13:57
  once,
• 13:57
  476
• 13:59
  of
• 13:59
  507
• 14:00
  and
• 14:00
  ahead
• 14:00
  of
• 14:00
  every
• 14:00
  proprietary
• 14:01
  model
• 14:01
  on
• 14:01
  retail,
• 14:02
  yet
• 14:02
  passes
• 14:03
  all
• 14:03
  twenty
• 14:03
  attempts
• 14:03
  on
• 14:04
  just
• 14:04
  68
• 14:04
  of
• 14:04
  them.
• 14:05
  The
• 14:05
  sharpest
• 14:06
  line
• 14:06
  is
• 14:06
  about
• 14:06
  chasing
• 14:06
  headline
• 14:07
  accuracy:
• 14:08
  Opus
• 14:08
  5.5
• 14:09
  scores
• 14:09
  higher
• 14:09
  than
• 14:10
  Opus
• 14:10
  5
• 14:10
  overall
• 14:11
  but
• 14:11
  passes
• 14:11
  the
• 14:11
  exact
• 14:12
  same
• 14:12
  241
• 14:13
  tasks
• 14:13
  on
• 14:14
  every
• 14:14
  attempt,
• 14:14
  so
• 14:15
  half
• 14:15
  a
• 14:15
  point
• 14:15
  of
• 14:15
  benchmark
• 14:16
  lead
• 14:16
  bought
• 14:16
  no
• 14:16
  additional
• 14:17
  dependability.
• 14:18
  The
• 14:18
  cost
• 14:18
  analysis
• 14:19
  drives
• 14:19
  it
• 14:19
  home:
• 14:20
  the
• 14:20
  cheapest
• 14:20
  model
• 14:20
  for
• 14:21
  a
• 14:21
  right
• 14:21
  answer
• 14:21
  is
• 14:21
  not
• 14:22
  the
• 14:22
  cheapest
• 14:22
  model
• 14:22
  for
• 14:22
  a
• 14:22
  dependable
• 14:23
  one.
• 14:24
  The
• 14:24
  failure
• 14:24
  modes
• 14:24
  point
• 14:24
  at
• 14:25
  infrastructure
• 14:25
  as
• 14:25
  much
• 14:25
  as
• 14:25
  intelligence,
• 14:26
  since
• 14:27
  roughly
• 14:27
  four
• 14:27
  in
• 14:27
  five
• 14:27
  failures
• 14:28
  were
• 14:28
  tool
• 14:28
  handling
• 14:29
  rather
• 14:29
  than
• 14:29
  reasoning,
• 14:30
  a
• 14:30
  quiet
• 14:30
  argument
• 14:31
  for
• 14:31
  better
• 14:31
  harnesses.
• 14:32
  Polytoken
• 14:33
  is
• 14:33
  one
• 14:33
  developer's
• 14:33
  answer,
• 14:34
  a
• 14:34
  local
• 14:35
  daemon
• 14:35
  and
• 14:35
  terminal
• 14:36
  interface
• 14:36
  that
• 14:37
  manages
• 14:37
  LLM
• 14:37
  conversations
• 14:38
  and
• 14:38
  runs
• 14:39
  tools
• 14:39
  against
• 14:39
  your
• 14:39
  environment,
• 14:40
  free
• 14:41
  as
• 14:41
  in
• 14:41
  beer,
• 14:41
  with
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  pitch
• 14:42
  that
• 14:42
  a
• 14:42
  human
• 14:42
  signs
• 14:43
  off
• 14:43
  on
• 14:43
  user-facing
• 14:43
  changes
• 14:44
  and
• 14:45
  that
• 14:45
  your
• 14:45
  tools
• 14:45
  should
• 14:45
  never
• 14:46
  be
• 14:46
  contingent
• 14:46
  on
• 14:46
  a
• 14:46
  vendor
• 14:47
  who
• 14:47
  can
• 14:47
  take
• 14:47
  them
• 14:47
  away
• 14:47
  .
• 14:48
  For
• 14:48
  the
• 14:49
  darkest
• 14:49
  possible
• 14:49
  gloss
• 14:50
  on
• 14:50
  the
• 14:50
  agent-as-worker
• 14:51
  project,
• 14:52
  a
• 14:52
  short
• 14:53
  film
• 14:53
  imagines
• 14:53
  a
• 14:53
  burned-out
• 14:54
  engineer
• 14:54
  discovering
• 14:55
  that
• 14:55
  his
• 14:55
  office
• 14:55
  friendships,
• 14:56
  his
• 14:56
  database
• 14:57
  migrations,
• 14:58
  even
• 14:58
  his
• 14:58
  masters
• 14:59
  from
• 14:59
  Buffalo
• 14:59
  were
• 14:59
  simulated
• 15:00
  training
• 15:00
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• 15:01
  turn
• 15:01
  him
• 15:01
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• 15:01
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• 15:01
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• 15:02
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• 15:02
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• 15:02
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• 15:03
  deployed
• 15:03
  the
• 15:03
  moment
• 15:04
  his
• 15:04
  training
• 15:04
  completed.
• 15:05
  It
• 15:06
  is
• 15:06
  a
• 15:06
  joke
• 15:06
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• 15:06
  lands
• 15:07
  because
• 15:07
  every
• 15:07
  line
• 15:07
  about
• 15:08
  efficiency
• 15:08
  and
• 15:09
  getting
• 15:09
  lean
• 15:09
  is
• 15:09
  one
• 15:10
  a
• 15:10
  real
• 15:10
  manager
• 15:10
  has
• 15:10
  said
• 15:11
  .
• 15:13
  SemiAnalysis
• 15:14
  now
• 15:14
  tracks
• 15:14
  323
• 15:15
  cloud
• 15:16
  providers
• 15:16
  for
• 15:16
  its
• 15:16
  ClusterMAX
• 15:17
  ratings,
• 15:17
  up
• 15:18
  from
• 15:18
  124
• 15:19
  in
• 15:19
  the
• 15:19
  original
• 15:20
  survey,
• 15:20
  and
• 15:21
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• 15:21
  headline
• 15:21
  from
• 15:21
  the
• 15:21
  3.0
• 15:22
  report
• 15:22
  is
• 15:22
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• 15:23
  most
• 15:23
  NeoClouds
• 15:24
  are
• 15:24
  bad
• 15:24
  at
• 15:24
  security.
• 15:25
  In
• 15:26
  earlier
• 15:26
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• 15:26
  the
• 15:26
  firm
• 15:27
  could
• 15:27
  see
• 15:27
  other
• 15:27
  tenants'
• 15:27
  jobs,
• 15:28
  data,
• 15:29
  and
• 15:29
  storage
• 15:30
  on
• 15:30
  a
• 15:30
  provider
• 15:30
  it
• 15:30
  rated
• 15:31
  Underperform,
• 15:32
  and
• 15:32
  in
• 15:32
  one
• 15:33
  case
• 15:33
  it
• 15:33
  could
• 15:33
  see
• 15:33
  the
• 15:33
  national
• 15:34
  intelligence
• 15:34
  of
• 15:34
  a
• 15:34
  certain
• 15:34
  country
• 15:35
  running
• 15:35
  on
• 15:36
  a
• 15:36
  shared
• 15:36
  cluster.
• 15:37
  The
• 15:37
  checks
• 15:38
  that
• 15:38
  caught
• 15:38
  this
• 15:38
  were
• 15:38
  not
• 15:38
  exotic,
• 15:39
  just
• 15:39
  drivers
• 15:40
  and
• 15:40
  software
• 15:40
  years
• 15:41
  out
• 15:41
  of
• 15:41
  date
• 15:41
  with
• 15:41
  documented
• 15:42
  vulnerabilities
• 15:42
  and
• 15:43
  misconfigured
• 15:43
  InfiniBand
• 15:44
  keys.
• 15:44
  The
• 15:45
  bar
• 15:45
  keeps
• 15:45
  rising:
• 15:46
  ClusterMAX
• 15:46
  3.0
• 15:47
  accepted
• 15:48
  current-generation
• 15:48
  Nvidia
• 15:49
  Blackwell
• 15:49
  systems
• 15:50
  or
• 15:50
  AMD's
• 15:50
  MI355X
• 15:53
  and
• 15:53
  gave
• 15:54
  extra
• 15:54
  weight
• 15:54
  to
• 15:54
  providers
• 15:55
  that
• 15:55
  delivered
• 15:55
  Grace
• 15:55
  Blackwell
• 15:56
  .
• 15:56
  The
• 15:56
  market
• 15:57
  underneath
• 15:57
  those
• 15:57
  ratings
• 15:57
  is,
• 15:58
  in
• 15:58
  Dylan
• 15:58
  Patel's
• 15:58
  words,
• 15:59
  the
• 15:59
  toughest
• 15:59
  it
• 15:59
  has
• 15:59
  ever
• 16:00
  been.
• 16:01
  Labs
• 16:01
  that
• 16:01
  once
• 16:01
  rented
• 16:02
  8,000
• 16:02
  GPUs
• 16:02
  now
• 16:03
  take
• 16:03
  as
• 16:03
  few
• 16:03
  as
• 16:03
  1,000,
• 16:04
  while
• 16:05
  inference
• 16:05
  providers
• 16:05
  run
• 16:06
  60
• 16:06
  percent
• 16:06
  gross
• 16:07
  margins
• 16:07
  on
• 16:07
  open
• 16:07
  models,
• 16:08
  making
• 16:08
  even
• 16:08
  four-node
• 16:09
  deals
• 16:09
  profitable.
• 16:10
  The
• 16:10
  acquisition
• 16:11
  activity
• 16:11
  reads
• 16:12
  as
• 16:12
  consolidation
• 16:12
  under
• 16:13
  pressure:
• 16:14
  Nvidia's
• 16:14
  license-and-hire
• 16:15
  of
• 16:15
  the
• 16:15
  Poolside
• 16:16
  team
• 16:16
  for
• 16:16
  its
• 16:16
  Nemotron
• 16:17
  effort,
• 16:17
  structured
• 16:18
  to
• 16:18
  look
• 16:18
  like
• 16:18
  something
• 16:18
  other
• 16:19
  than
• 16:19
  a
• 16:19
  merger,
• 16:20
  and
• 16:20
  a
• 16:20
  defensive
• 16:20
  Hugging
• 16:20
  Face
• 16:21
  deal
• 16:21
  funded
• 16:21
  from
• 16:21
  roughly
• 16:22
  $50
• 16:22
  billion
• 16:22
  in
• 16:23
  quarterly
• 16:23
  free
• 16:23
  cash
• 16:24
  flow.
• 16:25
  The
• 16:25
  pointed
• 16:25
  claim
• 16:25
  is
• 16:25
  that
• 16:26
  Google
• 16:26
  is
• 16:26
  falling
• 16:26
  behind
• 16:27
  on
• 16:27
  research
• 16:27
  compute
• 16:28
  despite
• 16:28
  over
• 16:28
  $100
• 16:29
  billion
• 16:29
  in
• 16:30
  rented
• 16:30
  capacity,
• 16:31
  and
• 16:31
  that
• 16:31
  funding
• 16:31
  spinouts
• 16:32
  that
• 16:32
  turn
• 16:32
  around
• 16:32
  and
• 16:33
  buy
• 16:33
  Google
• 16:33
  Cloud
• 16:33
  is
• 16:33
  a
• 16:34
  strange
• 16:34
  way
• 16:34
  to
• 16:34
  compete.
• 16:35
  If
• 16:35
  the
• 16:35
  cloud
• 16:36
  layer
• 16:36
  is
• 16:36
  where
• 16:36
  capital
• 16:37
  strain
• 16:37
  shows,
• 16:37
  the
• 16:38
  silicon
• 16:38
  layer
• 16:38
  is
• 16:38
  where
• 16:39
  a
• 16:39
  quieter
• 16:39
  provocation
• 16:40
  sits.
• 16:41
  FeSens's
• 16:41
  openTPU
• 16:42
  bills
• 16:42
  itself
• 16:43
  as
• 16:43
  an
• 16:43
  open-source
• 16:43
  AI
• 16:44
  accelerator
• 16:44
  developed
• 16:45
  by
• 16:45
  AI,
• 16:46
  and
• 16:46
  its
• 16:46
  claim
• 16:46
  to
• 16:47
  seriousness
• 16:47
  is
• 16:48
  verification
• 16:48
  rather
• 16:48
  than
• 16:49
  ambition:
• 16:50
  the
• 16:50
  FPGA
• 16:50
  card
• 16:51
  on
• 16:51
  a
• 16:51
  Xilinx
• 16:51
  Kintex-7
• 16:52
  produces
• 16:52
  the
• 16:53
  same
• 16:53
  tokens
• 16:53
  as
• 16:53
  its
• 16:54
  Python
• 16:54
  simulator,
• 16:55
  bit
• 16:55
  for
• 16:55
  bit,
• 16:56
  matching
• 16:56
  Hugging
• 16:56
  Face's
• 16:57
  greedy
• 16:57
  output
• 16:57
  on
• 16:58
  Gemma
• 16:58
  and
• 16:58
  Qwen
• 16:58
  models.
• 16:59
  The
• 16:59
  machine
• 17:00
  is
• 17:00
  deliberately
• 17:00
  spare,
• 17:01
  a
• 17:01
  sequencer
• 17:02
  feeding
• 17:02
  a
• 17:02
  DMA
• 17:03
  unit,
• 17:03
  an
• 17:03
  int8
• 17:04
  matrix
• 17:04
  unit,
• 17:05
  an
• 17:05
  fp32
• 17:06
  vector
• 17:06
  unit,
• 17:07
  and
• 17:07
  a
• 17:07
  quantizer,
• 17:08
  decoding
• 17:09
  the
• 17:09
  smallest
• 17:09
  models
• 17:09
  at
• 17:10
  59
• 17:10
  tokens
• 17:11
  per
• 17:11
  second
• 17:11
  and
• 17:11
  streaming
• 17:12
  mixture-of-experts
• 17:12
  weights
• 17:13
  over
• 17:13
  PCIe
• 17:13
  for
• 17:14
  larger
• 17:14
  ones.
• 17:15
  What
• 17:15
  the
• 17:15
  README
• 17:18
  asserts
• 17:19
  but
• 17:19
  does
• 17:19
  not
• 17:19
  evidence
• 17:19
  is
• 17:20
  the
• 17:20
  developed-by-AI
• 17:21
  process
• 17:21
  itself,
• 17:22
  which
• 17:22
  names
• 17:22
  no
• 17:23
  models
• 17:23
  and
• 17:23
  keeps
• 17:23
  no
• 17:24
  logs,
• 17:25
  so
• 17:25
  the
• 17:25
  most
• 17:25
  interesting
• 17:25
  claim
• 17:26
  in
• 17:26
  the
• 17:26
  project
• 17:27
  is
• 17:27
  the
• 17:27
  one
• 17:27
  you
• 17:27
  have
• 17:27
  to
• 17:27
  take
• 17:28
  on
• 17:28
  faith
• 17:28
  .