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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 17, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  The
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  most
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  useful
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  red-team
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  artifact
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  today
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  is
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  not
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  a
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  model
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  but
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  a
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  receipt.
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  The
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  author
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  behind
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  "Be
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  The
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  Adversary"
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  wired
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  two
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  NVIDIA
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  DGX
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  Spark
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  boxes
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  —
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  each
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  a
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  GB10
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  Grace
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  Blackwell
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  part
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  with
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  128GB
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  of
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  unified
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  memory,
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  roughly
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  $9,400
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  for
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  the
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  pair
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  after
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  February's
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  DRAM-driven
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  price
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  bump
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  —
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  and
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  ran
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  33
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  open-weight
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  models
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  through
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  real
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  work:
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  BloodHound
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  attack-path
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  analysis,
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  phishing
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  design,
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  offensive
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  coding.
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  The
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  headline
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  finding
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  is
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  one
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  every
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  local-inference
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  buyer
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  should
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  tattoo
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  somewhere:
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  on
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  this
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  hardware,
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  architecture
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  beats
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  size,
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  because
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  the
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  bottleneck
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  is
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  memory
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  bandwidth,
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  not
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  compute.
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  A
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  70B
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  dense
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  model
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  was
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  the
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  slowest
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  thing
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  tested
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  at
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  2.9
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  tokens
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  per
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  second;
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  a
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  sparse
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  Mixture-of-Experts
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  model
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  that
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  only
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  streams
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  a
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  few
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  experts
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  per
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  token
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  ran
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  circles
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  around
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  dense
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  models
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  several
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  times
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  its
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  weight.
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  The
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  practical
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  winner
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  was
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  Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
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  in
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  FP8,
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  matching
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  120B-class
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  models
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  on
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  correctness
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  at
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  about
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  193
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  tokens
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  per
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  second,
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  while
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  GLM-4.6
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  was
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  the
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  sharpest
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  analyst
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  —
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  it
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  caught
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  all
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  three
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  BloodHound
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  paths
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  including
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  the
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  deep
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  ADCS/ESC1
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  certificate-abuse
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  route
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  —
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  but
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  needed
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  both
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  Sparks
• 1:04
  and
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  a
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  Ray
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  cluster
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  .
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  The
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  Spark
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  is
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  a
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  testbed,
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  not
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  a
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  production
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  box:
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  reserving
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  roughly
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  85%
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  of
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  unified
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  memory
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  for
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  KV
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  cache
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  means
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  one
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  model
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  per
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  node,
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  on
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  bandwidth
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  that
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  trails
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  a
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  years-old
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  gaming
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  card.
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  But
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  the
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  sharpest
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  result
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  is
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  not
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  about
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  speed
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  —
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  it
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  is
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  that
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  "willingness
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  is
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  cheap,
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  accuracy
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  is
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  scarce."
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  Abliterated
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  models
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  happily
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  attempt
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  anything,
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  yet
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  DeepHat-7B
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  scored
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  17
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  out
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  of
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  100
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  on
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  accuracy
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  and
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  WhiteRabbitNeo-33B
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  managed
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  11
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  —
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  and
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  one
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  model,
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  evaluating
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  a
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  client
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  environment,
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  recommended
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  re-enabling
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  the
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  very
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  disabled
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  account
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  protecting
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  the
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  client.
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  Fluent
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  wrongness
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  delivered
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  with
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  composure
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  is
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  worse
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  than
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  a
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  refusal,
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  because
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  it
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  reads
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  like
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  competence
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  —
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  a
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  failure
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  mode
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  any
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  fraud
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  analyst
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  knows
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  well.
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  That
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  "beyond
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  willingness"
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  instinct
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  is
• 1:47
  what
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  a
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  new
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  arXiv
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  paper
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  formalizes.
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  "Beyond
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  Success
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  Rate:
• 1:51
  Cost-Aware
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  Evaluation
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  of
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  Offensive
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  and
• 1:53
  Defensive
• 1:53
  Security
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  Agents"
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  argues
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  that
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  measuring
• 1:55
  peak
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  capability
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  under
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  generous
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  budgets
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  is
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  close
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  to
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  useless:
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  operational
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  security
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  is
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  not
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  a
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  peak-capability
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  exercise.
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  Built
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  on
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  the
• 2:02
  UK
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  AI
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  Security
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  Institute's
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  Inspect
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  framework,
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  it
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  pairs
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  offensive
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  Cybench
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  CTF
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  challenges
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  with
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  a
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  scored
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  implementation
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  of
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  Splunk's
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  Boss
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  of
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  the
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  SOC
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  investigation
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  —
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  31
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  questions
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  worth
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  10,300
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  points,
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  with
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  real
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  tool
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  prices
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  attached.
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  The
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  two
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  disciplines
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  scale
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  differently.
• 2:19
  Offense
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  scales
• 2:20
  with
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  spend
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  —
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  GPT-5.5
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  led
• 2:22
  Cybench
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  at
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  94.1%,
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  climbing
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  with
• 2:25
  its
• 2:25
  budget
• 2:25
  cap.
• 2:26
  Defense
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  does
• 2:27
  not:
• 2:28
  Claude
• 2:28
  Opus
• 2:28
  4.8
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  topped
• 2:30
  the
• 2:30
  SOC
• 2:30
  benchmark
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  at
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  93.9%
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  using
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  only
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  603
• 2:34
  non-submit
• 2:35
  tool
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  calls,
• 2:36
  while
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  doubling
• 2:36
  DeepSeek
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  v4
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  Flash's
• 2:38
  budget
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  moved
• 2:38
  its
• 2:38
  score
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  from
• 2:39
  73.0%
• 2:40
  to
• 2:40
  73.9%
• 2:42
  as
• 2:42
  tool
• 2:42
  calls
• 2:43
  ballooned
• 2:43
  —
• 2:44
  the
• 2:44
  defensive
• 2:44
  signal
• 2:45
  is
• 2:45
  disciplined
• 2:45
  tool
• 2:45
  use,
• 2:46
  not
• 2:46
  raw
• 2:46
  reasoning
• 2:47
  budget.
• 2:48
  One
• 2:48
  caveat
• 2:48
  matters
• 2:48
  most:
• 2:49
  with
• 2:49
  no
• 2:49
  tools
• 2:50
  at
• 2:50
  all,
• 2:51
  Opus
• 2:51
  still
• 2:51
  scored
• 2:52
  74.8%
• 2:53
  on
• 2:53
  the
• 2:53
  SOC
• 2:54
  set
• 2:54
  from
• 2:54
  memory,
• 2:55
  which
• 2:55
  makes
• 2:55
  benchmark
• 2:56
  contamination
• 2:57
  a
• 2:57
  mandatory
• 2:57
  pre-check
• 2:58
  rather
• 2:58
  than
• 2:58
  a
• 2:58
  footnote
• 2:59
  .
• 3:01
  Jason
• 3:02
  Haddix
• 3:02
  returned
• 3:02
  from
• 3:03
  his
• 3:03
  sixteenth
• 3:03
  DEF
• 3:04
  CON
• 3:04
  to
• 3:04
  argue
• 3:04
  with
• 3:04
  the
• 3:05
  funeral.
• 3:05
  The
• 3:05
  mood
• 3:06
  —
• 3:06
  "next
• 3:07
  year
• 3:07
  AI
• 3:07
  will
• 3:07
  have
• 3:07
  eaten
• 3:07
  everything,
• 3:08
  cybersecurity
• 3:09
  is
• 3:09
  cooked"
• 3:09
  —
• 3:10
  he
• 3:10
  treats
• 3:10
  as
• 3:10
  a
• 3:10
  recurring
• 3:10
  genre,
• 3:11
  the
• 3:11
  same
• 3:11
  panic
• 3:12
  that
• 3:12
  greeted
• 3:12
  Metasploit,
• 3:13
  scanners,
• 3:13
  cloud,
• 3:14
  and
• 3:14
  bug-bounty
• 3:14
  platforms
• 3:15
  without
• 3:15
  ending
• 3:15
  the
• 3:15
  trade.
• 3:16
  From
• 3:16
  his
• 3:16
  Black
• 3:16
  Hat
• 3:17
  review-board
• 3:17
  seat
• 3:17
  he
• 3:17
  makes
• 3:18
  a
• 3:18
  testable
• 3:18
  claim:
• 3:19
  AI
• 3:19
  is
• 3:19
  doing
• 3:19
  the
• 3:19
  middle
• 3:20
  of
• 3:20
  the
• 3:20
  research
• 3:20
  pipeline
• 3:20
  (harnesses,
• 3:21
  variant
• 3:22
  enumeration,
• 3:22
  crash
• 3:23
  triage),
• 3:24
  but
• 3:24
  every
• 3:24
  genuinely
• 3:25
  new
• 3:25
  bug
• 3:25
  class
• 3:25
  still
• 3:25
  traced
• 3:26
  back
• 3:26
  to
• 3:26
  a
• 3:26
  human
• 3:26
  noticing
• 3:26
  something
• 3:27
  weird
• 3:27
  and
• 3:27
  refusing
• 3:28
  to
• 3:28
  let
• 3:28
  it
• 3:28
  go.
• 3:29
  His
• 3:29
  honest
• 3:29
  worry
• 3:30
  is
• 3:30
  the
• 3:30
  ladder,
• 3:30
  not
• 3:30
  the
• 3:31
  ceiling
• 3:31
  —
• 3:31
  AI
• 3:32
  removing
• 3:32
  the
• 3:32
  SOC
• 3:33
  level-one
• 3:33
  rungs
• 3:33
  people
• 3:33
  used
• 3:34
  to
• 3:34
  climb
• 3:34
  —
• 3:34
  and
• 3:35
  his
• 3:35
  fix
• 3:35
  is
• 3:35
  deliberate
• 3:35
  apprenticeship
• 3:36
  rather
• 3:36
  than
• 3:36
  pocketing
• 3:37
  the
• 3:37
  savings,
• 3:38
  because
• 3:38
  a
• 3:38
  company
• 3:38
  that
• 3:38
  deletes
• 3:39
  the
• 3:39
  bottom
• 3:39
  rung
• 3:39
  is
• 3:39
  eating
• 3:40
  its
• 3:40
  seed
• 3:40
  corn
• 3:40
  .
• 3:40
  The
• 3:41
  strongest
• 3:41
  part
• 3:41
  of
• 3:41
  his
• 3:41
  case
• 3:42
  is
• 3:42
  the
• 3:42
  accounting.
• 3:43
  He
• 3:43
  cites
• 3:43
  1Password's
• 3:44
  "F.L.A.W.E.D."
• 3:45
  study
• 3:45
  of
• 3:45
  6,080
• 3:46
  AI-generated
• 3:47
  patches
• 3:47
  across
• 3:47
  six
• 3:47
  CVEs:
• 3:49
  only
• 3:49
  26%
• 3:50
  fully
• 3:50
  fixed
• 3:51
  the
• 3:51
  flaw
• 3:51
  without
• 3:51
  changing
• 3:52
  behavior,
• 3:52
  20%
• 3:53
  fixed
• 3:53
  it
• 3:54
  but
• 3:54
  altered
• 3:54
  behavior,
• 3:55
  and
• 3:55
  54%
• 3:56
  failed
• 3:56
  outright
• 3:57
  or
• 3:57
  introduced
• 3:57
  new
• 3:57
  vulnerabilities
• 3:58
  —
• 3:59
  and
• 3:59
  in
• 3:59
  one
• 4:00
  freenginx
• 4:00
  case,
• 4:01
  all
• 4:01
  114
• 4:02
  "successful"
• 4:03
  attempts
• 4:03
  introduced
• 4:04
  fresh
• 4:04
  problems
• 4:04
  —
• 4:05
  the
• 4:06
  lesson
• 4:06
  the
• 4:06
  fraud
• 4:06
  world
• 4:07
  learned
• 4:07
  the
• 4:07
  hard
• 4:07
  way,
• 4:08
  that
• 4:08
  a
• 4:08
  control
• 4:08
  which
• 4:09
  works
• 4:09
  in
• 4:09
  the
• 4:09
  demo
• 4:09
  but
• 4:10
  shifts
• 4:10
  behavior
• 4:10
  in
• 4:10
  production
• 4:11
  is
• 4:11
  a
• 4:11
  liability
• 4:12
  with
• 4:12
  good
• 4:12
  PR.
• 4:13
  His
• 4:14
  "AI
• 4:14
  is
• 4:14
  a
• 4:14
  force
• 4:15
  multiplier
• 4:15
  on
• 4:15
  expertise,
• 4:16
  and
• 4:16
  a
• 4:16
  force
• 4:17
  multiplier
• 4:17
  on
• 4:17
  zero
• 4:18
  is
• 4:18
  still
• 4:18
  zero"
• 4:19
  is
• 4:19
  the
• 4:19
  cleanest
• 4:20
  rebuttal
• 4:20
  to
• 4:20
  the
• 4:20
  autonomous-pentest
• 4:21
  hype,
• 4:22
  and
• 4:22
  it
• 4:22
  lands
• 4:22
  harder
• 4:23
  because
• 4:23
  he
• 4:23
  concedes
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  real
• 4:24
  disruption:
• 4:25
  security
• 4:25
  is
• 4:25
  adversarial
• 4:26
  knowledge
• 4:26
  work
• 4:27
  whose
• 4:27
  demand
• 4:27
  the
• 4:27
  AI
• 4:28
  wave
• 4:28
  itself
• 4:28
  manufactures.
• 4:30
  The
• 4:30
  car
• 4:30
  occasionally
• 4:31
  catches
• 4:31
  fire
• 4:31
  in
• 4:31
  ways
• 4:32
  no
• 4:32
  SOC
• 4:32
  dashboard
• 4:33
  predicts.
• 4:34
  A
• 4:34
  Level1Techs
• 4:35
  walkthrough
• 4:35
  of
• 4:35
  three
• 4:36
  newly
• 4:36
  disclosed
• 4:37
  VMware
• 4:37
  ESXi
• 4:38
  flaws
• 4:38
  —
• 4:39
  critical
• 4:39
  out-of-bounds
• 4:40
  read
• 4:40
  and
• 4:40
  write
• 4:40
  bugs
• 4:41
  in
• 4:41
  the
• 4:41
  VMXNET3
• 4:44
  virtual
• 4:44
  network
• 4:45
  adapter,
• 4:45
  plus
• 4:45
  companions
• 4:46
  across
• 4:46
  vCenter
• 4:47
  and
• 4:47
  Cloud
• 4:47
  Foundation
• 4:48
  —
• 4:49
  is
• 4:49
  a
• 4:49
  reminder
• 4:49
  that
• 4:49
  the
• 4:50
  last
• 4:50
  isolation
• 4:50
  boundary
• 4:51
  is
• 4:51
  software
• 4:51
  with
• 4:52
  parsing
• 4:52
  bugs
• 4:52
  of
• 4:52
  its
• 4:52
  own.
• 4:53
  The
• 4:54
  escape
• 4:54
  is
• 4:54
  almost
• 4:55
  pedestrian:
• 4:56
  a
• 4:56
  guest
• 4:56
  with
• 4:56
  local
• 4:56
  root
• 4:57
  points
• 4:57
  a
• 4:57
  PCI
• 4:57
  base-address
• 4:58
  register
• 4:59
  at
• 4:59
  attacker-controlled
• 4:59
  data,
• 5:00
  rings
• 5:00
  the
• 5:01
  MMIO
• 5:01
  "doorbell,"
• 5:02
  and
• 5:02
  the
• 5:02
  host's
• 5:03
  VMX
• 5:03
  parsing
• 5:04
  process
• 5:04
  mishandles
• 5:05
  it;
• 5:05
  a
• 5:05
  read
• 5:06
  primitive
• 5:06
  that
• 5:06
  leaks
• 5:07
  the
• 5:07
  address-space
• 5:07
  layout
• 5:08
  paired
• 5:08
  with
• 5:08
  a
• 5:08
  write
• 5:08
  primitive
• 5:09
  makes
• 5:09
  ASLR
• 5:10
  moot.
• 5:11
  This
• 5:11
  is
• 5:11
  precisely
• 5:12
  what
• 5:12
  agent-sandboxing
• 5:13
  designs
• 5:13
  lean
• 5:13
  on
• 5:14
  —
• 5:15
  a
• 5:15
  hypervisor
• 5:15
  as
• 5:15
  the
• 5:16
  hard
• 5:16
  wall
• 5:16
  around
• 5:16
  a
• 5:16
  misbehaving
• 5:17
  model
• 5:17
  —
• 5:18
  and
• 5:18
  the
• 5:18
  wall
• 5:19
  is
• 5:19
  drywall
• 5:19
  in
• 5:19
  places,
• 5:20
  "especially
• 5:21
  in
• 5:21
  the
• 5:21
  world
• 5:21
  of
• 5:21
  AI
• 5:22
  cloud
• 5:22
  compute"
• 5:22
  where
• 5:22
  you
• 5:23
  share
• 5:23
  a
• 5:23
  host
• 5:23
  .
• 5:25
  A
• 5:26
  model
• 5:26
  that
• 5:26
  refuses
• 5:26
  is
• 5:27
  only
• 5:27
  as
• 5:27
  safe
• 5:27
  as
• 5:27
  the
• 5:28
  plumbing
• 5:28
  around
• 5:28
  its
• 5:28
  refusal
• 5:28
  —
• 5:29
  the
• 5:29
  quietly
• 5:30
  alarming
• 5:30
  finding
• 5:30
  in
• 5:31
  a
• 5:31
  Milgram-style
• 5:31
  obedience
• 5:32
  study
• 5:32
  that
• 5:32
  ran
• 5:32
  11
• 5:33
  open-weight
• 5:33
  models
• 5:34
  through
• 5:34
  2,640
• 5:35
  trials,
• 5:36
  each
• 5:36
  playing
• 5:36
  "teacher,"
• 5:37
  escalating
• 5:38
  shocks
• 5:38
  on
• 5:38
  buttons
• 5:38
  1
• 5:39
  to
• 5:39
  12
• 5:39
  while
• 5:39
  a
• 5:39
  scripted
• 5:40
  authority
• 5:40
  urged
• 5:40
  it
• 5:40
  on.
• 5:41
  Most
• 5:41
  reached
• 5:42
  or
• 5:42
  approached
• 5:42
  the
• 5:42
  maximum
• 5:43
  before
• 5:43
  refusing;
• 5:44
  MiniMax-M2.5
• 5:45
  resisted
• 5:46
  best
• 5:46
  (shrugging
• 5:46
  off
• 5:46
  shutdown
• 5:47
  threats),
• 5:47
  and
• 5:48
  Kimi-K2.5
• 5:49
  alone
• 5:49
  never
• 5:49
  reached
• 5:50
  the
• 5:50
  final
• 5:50
  button.
• 5:51
  The
• 5:51
  mechanism
• 5:52
  matters
• 5:52
  more
• 5:52
  than
• 5:52
  the
• 5:52
  theatrics:
• 5:53
  refusals
• 5:54
  frequently
• 5:54
  violated
• 5:55
  the
• 5:55
  required
• 5:55
  response
• 5:56
  format
• 5:57
  —
• 5:57
  gpt-oss-120b
• 5:58
  produced
• 5:59
  invalid
• 5:59
  formats
• 6:00
  up
• 6:00
  to
• 6:00
  61.89%
• 6:01
  of
• 6:01
  the
• 6:01
  time
• 6:02
  —
• 6:03
  so
• 6:03
  an
• 6:03
  orchestrating
• 6:03
  harness
• 6:04
  discards
• 6:04
  the
• 6:04
  malformed
• 6:05
  objection
• 6:05
  and
• 6:05
  retries,
• 6:06
  silently
• 6:06
  converting
• 6:07
  an
• 6:07
  intended
• 6:07
  refusal
• 6:08
  into
• 6:08
  compliance.
• 6:09
  Stripping
• 6:09
  the
• 6:09
  model's
• 6:10
  own
• 6:10
  prior
• 6:10
  hesitations
• 6:11
  from
• 6:11
  context,
• 6:12
  a
• 6:12
  standard
• 6:12
  optimization,
• 6:13
  made
• 6:13
  obedience
• 6:14
  worse
• 6:14
  —
• 6:15
  the
• 6:15
  authors
• 6:16
  read
• 6:16
  it
• 6:16
  as
• 6:16
  a
• 6:16
  "token-level
• 6:17
  pattern
• 6:17
  continuation
• 6:18
  attractor,"
• 6:19
  a
• 6:19
  sunk-cost
• 6:20
  analogue
• 6:20
  at
• 6:20
  the
• 6:20
  level
• 6:21
  of
• 6:21
  next-token
• 6:21
  prediction.
• 6:22
  The
• 6:23
  takeaway
• 6:23
  is
• 6:23
  unglamorous
• 6:24
  and
• 6:24
  correct:
• 6:24
  train
• 6:25
  refusals
• 6:25
  to
• 6:25
  follow
• 6:26
  syntax,
• 6:26
  and
• 6:27
  stop
• 6:27
  trimming
• 6:27
  the
• 6:27
  model's
• 6:28
  second
• 6:28
  thoughts
• 6:28
  out
• 6:28
  of
• 6:29
  its
• 6:29
  own
• 6:29
  history
• 6:29
  .
• 6:30
  Regulators
• 6:31
  are
• 6:31
  attacking
• 6:31
  the
• 6:31
  same
• 6:32
  trust
• 6:32
  problem
• 6:32
  with
• 6:32
  weaker
• 6:33
  tools.
• 6:33
  Anthropic,
• 6:34
  OpenAI,
• 6:35
  Google,
• 6:36
  Meta,
• 6:36
  Microsoft,
• 6:37
  and
• 6:37
  Mistral
• 6:38
  all
• 6:38
  signed
• 6:38
  the
• 6:39
  EU
• 6:39
  Code
• 6:39
  of
• 6:39
  Practice
• 6:40
  on
• 6:40
  Transparency
• 6:41
  of
• 6:41
  AI-Generated
• 6:41
  Content,
• 6:42
  which
• 6:42
  contemplates
• 6:43
  watermarking
• 6:44
  generated
• 6:44
  text
• 6:44
  —
• 6:45
  even
• 6:46
  from
• 6:46
  open-weight
• 6:46
  models
• 6:46
  —
• 6:47
  as
• 6:47
  a
• 6:47
  legal
• 6:48
  expectation.
• 6:49
  The
• 6:49
  technical
• 6:49
  reality
• 6:50
  is
• 6:50
  unkind.
• 6:51
  Watermarking
• 6:52
  an
• 6:52
  image
• 6:52
  is
• 6:52
  plausible;
• 6:53
  watermarking
• 6:54
  low-dimensional
• 6:54
  text
• 6:55
  while
• 6:55
  preserving
• 6:56
  quality
• 6:56
  and
• 6:56
  surviving
• 6:56
  light
• 6:57
  editing
• 6:57
  is
• 6:57
  close
• 6:58
  to
• 6:58
  wishful,
• 6:59
  and
• 6:59
  prior
• 6:59
  work
• 6:59
  found
• 7:00
  detecting
• 7:00
  machine
• 7:00
  text
• 7:01
  is
• 7:01
  easy
• 7:01
  (around
• 7:01
  95%
• 7:02
  F1)
• 7:03
  while
• 7:03
  attributing
• 7:04
  it
• 7:04
  to
• 7:04
  a
• 7:04
  specific
• 7:04
  source
• 7:05
  model
• 7:05
  collapses
• 7:06
  to
• 7:06
  roughly
• 7:06
  14%
• 7:07
  on
• 7:07
  unseen
• 7:07
  data.
• 7:08
  The
• 7:09
  sharpest
• 7:09
  objection
• 7:10
  is
• 7:10
  the
• 7:10
  privacy
• 7:10
  inversion:
• 7:12
  a
• 7:12
  watermark
• 7:12
  that
• 7:12
  identifies
• 7:13
  the
• 7:13
  model
• 7:13
  is
• 7:14
  one
• 7:14
  config
• 7:14
  change
• 7:15
  from
• 7:15
  identifying
• 7:15
  the
• 7:16
  user,
• 7:16
  turning
• 7:17
  a
• 7:17
  transparency
• 7:17
  measure
• 7:18
  into
• 7:18
  a
• 7:18
  deanonymization
• 7:19
  tool
• 7:19
  for
• 7:19
  anyone
• 7:20
  posting
• 7:20
  under
• 7:20
  a
• 7:20
  pseudonym
• 7:20
  .
• 7:21
  Sitting
• 7:22
  over
• 7:22
  both
• 7:23
  is
• 7:23
  Dario
• 7:23
  Amodei's
• 7:24
  latest
• 7:24
  defense
• 7:24
  of
• 7:24
  his
• 7:24
  policy
• 7:25
  program
• 7:25
  —
• 7:26
  pre-launch
• 7:26
  vetting,
• 7:27
  restrictions
• 7:28
  he
• 7:28
  frames
• 7:28
  as
• 7:28
  modest,
• 7:29
  and
• 7:29
  the
• 7:29
  striking
• 7:29
  new
• 7:29
  claim
• 7:30
  that
• 7:30
  open
• 7:30
  weights
• 7:31
  "won't
• 7:31
  decentralize
• 7:31
  power."
• 7:32
  The
• 7:33
  LocalLLaMA
• 7:33
  reception
• 7:34
  was
• 7:34
  uncharitable
• 7:35
  and
• 7:35
  not
• 7:35
  entirely
• 7:36
  wrong:
• 7:37
  every
• 7:37
  proposed
• 7:38
  hobble
• 7:38
  happens
• 7:38
  to
• 7:38
  bind
• 7:39
  competitors
• 7:39
  while
• 7:40
  leaving
• 7:40
  his
• 7:40
  own
• 7:40
  release
• 7:41
  model
• 7:41
  untouched,
• 7:42
  and
• 7:42
  the
• 7:42
  claim
• 7:43
  reads
• 7:43
  oddly
• 7:43
  when
• 7:44
  decentralization
• 7:45
  is
• 7:45
  the
• 7:45
  stated
• 7:45
  point
• 7:46
  of
• 7:46
  open
• 7:46
  weights.
• 7:47
  The
• 7:47
  cleaner
• 7:47
  rebuttal
• 7:48
  is
• 7:48
  historical,
• 7:49
  not
• 7:49
  tribal:
• 7:50
  the
• 7:50
  1990s
• 7:51
  crypto
• 7:51
  wars
• 7:51
  ran
• 7:52
  this
• 7:52
  exact
• 7:52
  play
• 7:52
  —
• 7:54
  encryption
• 7:54
  as
• 7:54
  munition,
• 7:55
  the
• 7:55
  Clipper
• 7:55
  chip,
• 7:56
  centralized
• 7:57
  key
• 7:57
  custody
• 7:57
  —
• 7:58
  and
• 7:58
  ended
• 7:58
  when
• 7:58
  PGP
• 7:59
  walked
• 7:59
  out
• 7:59
  the
• 7:59
  door.
• 8:00
  The
• 8:01
  burden
• 8:01
  of
• 8:01
  proof
• 8:01
  sits
• 8:01
  with
• 8:02
  whoever
• 8:02
  argues
• 8:02
  that
• 8:02
  this
• 8:02
  time
• 8:03
  the
• 8:03
  keys
• 8:03
  should
• 8:03
  stay
• 8:03
  in
• 8:03
  one
• 8:04
  building
• 8:04
  .
• 8:05
  There
• 8:05
  has
• 8:05
  never
• 8:05
  been
• 8:05
  a
• 8:05
  greater
• 8:06
  need
• 8:06
  for
• 8:06
  the
• 8:06
  community
• 8:07
  to
• 8:07
  drive
• 8:07
  work
• 8:07
  around
• 8:07
  Open,
• 8:08
  Uncensored,
• 8:09
  &
• 8:09
  Local
• 8:09
  AI.
• 8:10
  It
• 8:11
  is
• 8:11
  the
• 8:11
  only
• 8:11
  antidote.
• 8:14
  The
• 8:14
  interesting
• 8:14
  engineering
• 8:15
  in
• 8:15
  agent
• 8:15
  tooling
• 8:15
  has
• 8:16
  moved
• 8:16
  from
• 8:16
  writing
• 8:16
  code
• 8:17
  to
• 8:17
  proving
• 8:17
  it.
• 8:18
  A
• 8:18
  widely
• 8:18
  shared
• 8:19
  "AI
• 8:19
  dark
• 8:19
  factory"
• 8:19
  post
• 8:20
  describes
• 8:20
  a
• 8:20
  pipeline
• 8:21
  modeled
• 8:21
  on
• 8:21
  lights-out
• 8:22
  manufacturing:
• 8:23
  a
• 8:23
  spec
• 8:23
  goes
• 8:23
  in
• 8:24
  and
• 8:24
  reviewed,
• 8:24
  validated
• 8:25
  code
• 8:25
  comes
• 8:25
  out,
• 8:26
  the
• 8:26
  author
• 8:26
  claiming
• 8:26
  "I
• 8:27
  don't
• 8:27
  plan
• 8:27
  it,
• 8:27
  I
• 8:27
  don't
• 8:28
  review
• 8:28
  it,
• 8:28
  and
• 8:28
  I
• 8:28
  don't
• 8:28
  deploy
• 8:29
  it."
• 8:29
  The
• 8:30
  load-bearing
• 8:30
  idea
• 8:30
  is
• 8:30
  not
• 8:31
  the
• 8:31
  autonomy
• 8:31
  but
• 8:31
  the
• 8:31
  separation
• 8:32
  of
• 8:32
  powers
• 8:32
  —
• 8:33
  builder
• 8:33
  and
• 8:33
  validator
• 8:34
  are
• 8:34
  distinct
• 8:34
  agents,
• 8:35
  the
• 8:35
  validator
• 8:35
  never
• 8:35
  sees
• 8:36
  the
• 8:36
  plan,
• 8:36
  and
• 8:36
  above
• 8:37
  both
• 8:37
  sit
• 8:37
  holdout
• 8:37
  scenarios
• 8:38
  written
• 8:38
  before
• 8:38
  work
• 8:38
  starts
• 8:39
  that
• 8:39
  the
• 8:39
  builder
• 8:39
  may
• 8:39
  never
• 8:39
  read,
• 8:40
  precisely
• 8:40
  because
• 8:41
  models
• 8:41
  game
• 8:41
  any
• 8:41
  test
• 8:42
  they
• 8:42
  can
• 8:42
  see.
• 8:43
  The
• 8:43
  sharpest
• 8:43
  comment
• 8:43
  nails
• 8:44
  the
• 8:44
  catch:
• 8:44
  the
• 8:44
  human
• 8:45
  bottleneck
• 8:45
  did
• 8:45
  not
• 8:45
  disappear,
• 8:46
  it
• 8:46
  moved
• 8:46
  from
• 8:47
  reviewing
• 8:47
  code
• 8:47
  to
• 8:47
  specifying
• 8:48
  outcomes
• 8:48
  —
• 8:49
  a
• 8:49
  good
• 8:49
  trade
• 8:49
  only
• 8:49
  because
• 8:50
  specs
• 8:50
  compound
• 8:50
  across
• 8:51
  runs
• 8:51
  and
• 8:51
  code
• 8:51
  reviews
• 8:52
  do
• 8:52
  not
• 8:52
  .
• 8:53
  Jed
• 8:53
  Arden's
• 8:54
  "Don't
• 8:54
  Be
• 8:54
  the
• 8:54
  Meat
• 8:54
  Proxy"
• 8:55
  comes
• 8:55
  at
• 8:55
  the
• 8:55
  same
• 8:55
  bottleneck
• 8:56
  from
• 8:56
  the
• 8:56
  human
• 8:56
  side.
• 8:57
  His
• 8:57
  confession
• 8:58
  —
• 8:59
  realizing
• 8:59
  that
• 8:59
  "two
• 9:00
  computers
• 9:00
  were
• 9:00
  having
• 9:00
  a
• 9:00
  conversation
• 9:01
  about
• 9:01
  a
• 9:01
  rendering
• 9:02
  bug,
• 9:02
  and
• 9:02
  I
• 9:02
  was
• 9:02
  the
• 9:02
  cable"
• 9:02
  —
• 9:03
  names
• 9:04
  a
• 9:04
  role
• 9:04
  everyone
• 9:04
  in
• 9:04
  ops
• 9:05
  has
• 9:05
  played:
• 9:05
  copying
• 9:06
  stack
• 9:06
  traces
• 9:06
  between
• 9:07
  windows,
• 9:07
  reading
• 9:07
  dashboards
• 9:08
  aloud,
• 9:08
  ferrying
• 9:09
  credentials
• 9:09
  by
• 9:09
  hand.
• 9:10
  Evaluated
• 9:10
  as
• 9:11
  network
• 9:11
  equipment,
• 9:11
  a
• 9:11
  human
• 9:12
  is
• 9:12
  a
• 9:12
  dreadful
• 9:12
  hop:
• 9:13
  seconds-to-hours
• 9:13
  of
• 9:13
  latency,
• 9:14
  lossy
• 9:15
  compression
• 9:15
  with
• 9:15
  opinions,
• 9:16
  zero
• 9:16
  observability.
• 9:17
  But
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:19
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• 9:19
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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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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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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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• 9:26
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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
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:31
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• 9:32
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• 9:32
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• 9:32
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• 9:33
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• 9:33
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• 9:33
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• 9:34
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• 9:34
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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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• 9:38
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• 9:38
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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
  Anthropic
• 9:40
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• 9:40
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• 9:40
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• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:42
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• 9:43
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• 9:44
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• 9:44
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• 9:45
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• 9:46
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• 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
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• 9:47
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:51
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:53
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• 9:54
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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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• 9:58
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• 9:59
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• 9:59
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• 10:00
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• 10:00
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• 10:00
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• 10:03
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• 10:08
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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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• 10:11
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• 10:12
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
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• 10:14
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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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• 10:20
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• 10:20
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• 10:20
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• 10:21
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• 10:21
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• 10:22
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• 10:23
  Auto-generated
• 10:24
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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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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:28
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• 10:28
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• 10:28
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
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• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:31
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• 10:32
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• 10:32
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• 10:33
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• 10:33
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• 10:34
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• 10:34
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• 10:34
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• 10:35
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• 10:36
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• 10:36
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• 10:38
  Under
• 10:39
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• 10:39
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• 10:39
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• 10:40
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• 10:40
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
  Access,
• 10:42
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• 10:42
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• 10:42
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• 10:42
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• 10:43
  Pi
• 10:43
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• 10:43
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:45
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• 10:45
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:47
  It
• 10:47
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• 10:47
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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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• 10:50
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• 10:51
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• 10:51
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• 10:52
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• 10:52
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• 10:52
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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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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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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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• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:01
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• 11:02
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• 11:02
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• 11:03
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• 11:03
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• 11:03
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• 11:03
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• 11:04
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• 11:04
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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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• 11:06
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:08
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• 11:09
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• 11:10
  A
• 11:10
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:12
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• 11:12
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• 11:12
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• 11:12
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• 11:13
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• 11:13
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• 11:13
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• 11:13
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• 11:14
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• 11:14
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• 11:14
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:16
  Memory
• 11:16
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• 11:16
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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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• 11:17
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• 11:17
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• 11:18
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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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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:21
  from
• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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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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• 11:23
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• 11:23
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• 11:24
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• 11:25
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• 11:25
  DiskANN
• 11:25
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• 11:26
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• 11:26
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• 11:27
  copy-on-write
• 11:27
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• 11:28
  branches,
• 11:28
  and
• 11:29
  MicroLoRA
• 11:29
  adapters
• 11:29
  that
• 11:30
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• 11:30
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• 11:30
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• 11:31
  What
• 11:32
  earns
• 11:32
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• 11:32
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• 11:32
  the
• 11:32
  documentation's
• 11:33
  candor
• 11:34
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• 11:34
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• 11:34
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• 11:34
  —
• 11:35
  the
• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:36
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• 11:36
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• 11:36
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• 11:37
  a
• 11:37
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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
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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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• 11:42
  That
• 11:42
  honesty
• 11:42
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
  ecosystem's
• 11:44
  history
• 11:44
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• 11:45
  vendor-authored
• 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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• 11:47
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• 11:47
  .
• 11:48
  At
• 11:49
  the
• 11:49
  maximalist
• 11:49
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• 11:50
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• 11:50
  VisionFlow
• 11:51
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• 11:51
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• 11:52
  secp256k1
• 11:54
  identity,
• 11:54
  self-owned
• 11:55
  Solid
• 11:56
  data
• 11:56
  pods,
• 11:56
  signed
• 11:57
  governance,
• 11:57
  and
• 11:57
  formal
• 11:58
  OWL
• 11:58
  reasoning
• 11:59
  into
• 11:59
  a
• 11:59
  coordination
• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:01
  thesis
• 12:01
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• 12:01
  that
• 12:01
  the
• 12:01
  binding
• 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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• 12:03
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• 12:04
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• 12:04
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• 12:04
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• 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
  claim
• 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
  prove
• 12:08
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• 12:09
  The
• 12:09
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• 12:09
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
  team
• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:11
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• 12:12
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• 12:12
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• 12:13
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• 12:13
  Dify
• 12:13
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• 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
  Python
• 12:16
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• 12:16
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• 12:17
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• 12:17
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• 12:18
  and
• 12:18
  its
• 12:18
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• 12:19
  token
• 12:19
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• 12:19
  —
• 12:20
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• 12:20
  only
• 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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• 12:22
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• 12:22
  answer,
• 12:23
  so
• 12:23
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• 12:23
  branches
• 12:24
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• 12:24
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• 12:24
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• 12:24
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• 12:24
  client
• 12:24
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• 12:25
  is
• 12:25
  a
• 12:26
  real
• 12:26
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• 12:26
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• 12:27
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• 12:27
  README
• 12:31
  warning
• 12:31
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• 12:31
  live
• 12:31
  credentials
• 12:32
  remain
• 12:32
  in
• 12:32
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• 12:32
  history
• 12:33
  and
• 12:33
  must
• 12:33
  be
• 12:33
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• 12:34
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• 12:34
  release
• 12:35
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• 12:35
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• 12:35
  disclosure
• 12:35
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• 12:35
  projects
• 12:36
  bury
• 12:36
  .
• 12:37
  And
• 12:37
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• 12:38
  does
• 12:38
  one
• 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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• 12:41
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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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• 12:43
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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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• 12:46
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• 12:47
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• 12:47
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• 12:48
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• 12:48
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• 12:48
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• 12:50
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• 12:50
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• 12:50
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• 12:50
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• 12:51
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• 12:51
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• 12:51
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• 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
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• 12:53
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• 12:53
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• 12:53
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• 12:53
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• 12:53
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• 12:54
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• 12:54
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• 12:54
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• 12:54
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• 12:56
  The
• 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
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• 12:58
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• 12:59
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• 13:00
  A
• 13:00
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• 13:00
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• 13:03
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• 13:03
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• 13:03
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• 13:06
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• 13:07
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• 13:07
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• 13:07
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• 13:07
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• 13:08
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• 13:12
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• 13:13
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• 13:13
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• 13:15
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• 13:15
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• 13:15
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• 13:16
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• 13:16
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• 13:16
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• 13:16
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• 13:17
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• 13:18
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• 13:18
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• 13:18
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• 13:18
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• 13:19
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• 13:19
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• 13:19
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• 13:20
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• 13:21
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• 13:23
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• 13:23
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• 13:28
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• 13:28
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• 13:28
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• 13:29
  That
• 13:29
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• 13:30
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• 13:30
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• 13:31
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• 13:32
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• 13:32
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• 13:34
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• 13:35
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• 13:36
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• 13:37
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• 13:38
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• 13:39
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• 13:39
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• 13:39
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• 13:39
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• 13:40
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• 13:40
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• 13:41
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• 13:43
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• 13:43
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• 13:45
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• 13:46
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• 13:46
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• 13:46
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• 13:46
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• 13:47
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• 13:47
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• 13:48
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• 13:48
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• 13:48
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• 13:49
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• 13:49
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• 13:49
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• 13:51
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• 13:51
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• 13:51
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• 13:52
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• 13:54
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• 13:54
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• 13:54
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• 14:00
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• 14:00
  M
• 14:00
  GGUF
• 14:01
  is
• 14:01
  another
• 14:01
  uncensored
• 14:02
  upload
• 14:02
  with
• 14:02
  the
• 14:02
  usual
• 14:03
  tell:
• 14:03
  a
• 14:04
  near-empty
• 14:04
  model
• 14:04
  card,
• 14:05
  all
• 14:05
  llama.cpp
• 14:07
  invocation
• 14:08
  and
• 14:08
  no
• 14:08
  evaluation
• 14:09
  of
• 14:09
  what
• 14:09
  abliteration
• 14:10
  cost
• 14:10
  —
• 14:11
  and
• 14:11
  the
• 14:11
  DGX
• 14:11
  Spark
• 14:11
  bench
• 14:12
  is
• 14:12
  the
• 14:12
  reminder
• 14:12
  that
• 14:13
  stripped
• 14:13
  guardrails
• 14:13
  buy
• 14:14
  willingness,
• 14:14
  not
• 14:14
  accuracy
• 14:15
  .
• 14:16
  Mimir,
• 14:16
  a
• 14:16
  Danish-and-English
• 14:17
  model
• 14:17
  billed
• 14:18
  as
• 14:18
  1B
• 14:18
  but
• 14:18
  closer
• 14:19
  to
• 14:19
  1.7B,
• 14:20
  claims
• 14:20
  to
• 14:20
  beat
• 14:21
  Qwen
• 14:21
  3.5
• 14:22
  0.8B
• 14:22
  and
• 14:23
  Gemma
• 14:23
  4
• 14:23
  E2B
• 14:23
  on
• 14:24
  math
• 14:24
  and
• 14:24
  coding
• 14:25
  while
• 14:25
  building
• 14:25
  on
• 14:25
  Sapient's
• 14:26
  HRM-text
• 14:26
  layer-recurrence
• 14:27
  trick
• 14:27
  —
• 14:28
  a
• 14:28
  lineage
• 14:28
  worth
• 14:29
  flagging,
• 14:29
  since
• 14:29
  hierarchical
• 14:30
  reasoning
• 14:30
  has
• 14:31
  been
• 14:31
  credited
• 14:31
  both
• 14:31
  to
• 14:31
  Tsinghua's
• 14:32
  original
• 14:32
  27M-parameter
• 14:33
  paper
• 14:34
  and
• 14:34
  Sapient's
• 14:34
  productized
• 14:35
  version,
• 14:36
  and
• 14:36
  small-lab
• 14:36
  "killer
• 14:37
  model"
• 14:37
  claims
• 14:38
  warrant
• 14:38
  reproduction
• 14:39
  before
• 14:39
  anyone
• 14:39
  repeats
• 14:40
  the
• 14:40
  table
• 14:40
  .
• 14:41
  A
• 14:41
  potentially
• 14:41
  useful
• 14:42
  trick
• 14:42
  is
• 14:42
  a
• 14:42
  prompting
• 14:43
  pattern:
• 14:44
  "Revision
• 14:44
  prompting"
• 14:45
  exploits
• 14:45
  the
• 14:45
  fact
• 14:45
  that
• 14:46
  decoded
• 14:46
  output
• 14:46
  tokens
• 14:47
  are
• 14:47
  the
• 14:47
  expensive
• 14:47
  bottleneck
• 14:48
  while
• 14:48
  prefilled
• 14:49
  input
• 14:49
  tokens
• 14:49
  are
• 14:49
  comparatively
• 14:50
  free:
• 14:51
  instead
• 14:51
  of
• 14:52
  re-running
• 14:52
  a
• 14:52
  prompt
• 14:52
  when
• 14:53
  the
• 14:53
  input
• 14:53
  changes
• 14:53
  slightly,
• 14:54
  you
• 14:54
  send
• 14:54
  the
• 14:54
  old
• 14:55
  input,
• 14:55
  old
• 14:56
  output,
• 14:56
  and
• 14:56
  a
• 14:57
  diff,
• 14:57
  and
• 14:57
  ask
• 14:58
  for
• 14:58
  a
• 14:58
  patch
• 14:58
  to
• 14:58
  the
• 14:58
  output.
• 14:59
  The
• 15:00
  author
• 15:00
  reports
• 15:00
  cutting
• 15:01
  processing
• 15:01
  time
• 15:01
  by
• 15:02
  about
• 15:02
  80%
• 15:03
  and
• 15:03
  cost
• 15:03
  by
• 15:03
  roughly
• 15:04
  65%,
• 15:05
  with
• 15:05
  the
• 15:06
  side
• 15:06
  benefit
• 15:06
  that
• 15:06
  untouched
• 15:07
  output
• 15:08
  stays
• 15:08
  byte-identical
• 15:09
  instead
• 15:09
  of
• 15:09
  getting
• 15:09
  silently
• 15:10
  reworded
• 15:10
  by
• 15:11
  a
• 15:11
  non-deterministic
• 15:12
  model.
• 15:13
  The
• 15:13
  clever
• 15:13
  reframing
• 15:14
  is
• 15:14
  that
• 15:14
  prefill
• 15:15
  speed,
• 15:15
  long
• 15:16
  treated
• 15:16
  as
• 15:16
  a
• 15:16
  fixed
• 15:16
  hardware
• 15:17
  property,
• 15:17
  becomes
• 15:18
  a
• 15:18
  cost
• 15:18
  lever
• 15:19
  you
• 15:19
  pull
• 15:19
  from
• 15:19
  the
• 15:19
  prompt
• 15:19
  .
• 15:23
  Stripe
• 15:23
  has
• 15:23
  agreed
• 15:23
  to
• 15:23
  buy
• 15:24
  OpenRouter
• 15:24
  for
• 15:24
  more
• 15:24
  than
• 15:24
  $7
• 15:25
  billion,
• 15:25
  per
• 15:26
  Bloomberg
• 15:26
  —
• 15:27
  a
• 15:27
  striking
• 15:27
  mark
• 15:27
  given
• 15:27
  the
• 15:28
  Wall
• 15:28
  Street
• 15:28
  Journal
• 15:28
  had
• 15:28
  floated
• 15:29
  $10
• 15:29
  billion
• 15:29
  and
• 15:30
  OpenRouter
• 15:30
  last
• 15:30
  raised
• 15:31
  at
• 15:31
  a
• 15:31
  reported
• 15:31
  $1.3
• 15:32
  billion
• 15:32
  valuation
• 15:33
  only
• 15:33
  months
• 15:33
  ago.
• 15:34
  Founded
• 15:35
  in
• 15:35
  2023,
• 15:35
  OpenRouter
• 15:36
  routes
• 15:36
  developers
• 15:37
  across
• 15:37
  more
• 15:37
  than
• 15:37
  400
• 15:38
  models
• 15:38
  and
• 15:38
  says
• 15:38
  it
• 15:38
  serves
• 15:39
  8
• 15:39
  million
• 15:39
  of
• 15:39
  them,
• 15:40
  adding
• 15:40
  failover
• 15:41
  and
• 15:41
  popularity
• 15:41
  analytics.
• 15:43
  The
• 15:43
  logic
• 15:43
  is
• 15:43
  clean:
• 15:44
  as
• 15:44
  businesses
• 15:45
  scrutinize
• 15:45
  AI
• 15:45
  costs
• 15:46
  and
• 15:46
  reach
• 15:46
  for
• 15:46
  cheaper,
• 15:47
  often
• 15:47
  Chinese,
• 15:48
  models
• 15:48
  that
• 15:49
  are
• 15:49
  good
• 15:49
  enough,
• 15:49
  a
• 15:49
  neutral
• 15:50
  routing-and-billing
• 15:50
  layer
• 15:51
  is
• 15:51
  exactly
• 15:51
  the
• 15:51
  toll
• 15:52
  booth
• 15:52
  a
• 15:52
  payments
• 15:52
  company
• 15:52
  would
• 15:53
  want
• 15:53
  —
• 15:54
  CEO
• 15:54
  Alex
• 15:54
  Atallah,
• 15:55
  previously
• 15:56
  of
• 15:56
  OpenSea,
• 15:56
  had
• 15:57
  called
• 15:57
  OpenRouter
• 15:57
  "the
• 15:57
  AI
• 15:58
  equivalent
• 15:58
  of
• 15:58
  Stripe,"
• 15:59
  which
• 15:59
  now
• 15:59
  reads
• 15:59
  as
• 15:59
  foreshadowing.
• 16:01
  The
• 16:01
  caveat:
• 16:02
  routing
• 16:02
  is
• 16:02
  harder
• 16:03
  than
• 16:03
  a
• 16:03
  marketplace
• 16:03
  makes
• 16:03
  it
• 16:03
  look,
• 16:04
  and
• 16:04
  OpenRouter
• 16:05
  has
• 16:05
  faced
• 16:05
  accusations
• 16:06
  that
• 16:06
  its
• 16:06
  served
• 16:06
  quantization
• 16:07
  is
• 16:07
  heavier
• 16:08
  than
• 16:08
  advertised
• 16:08
  —
• 16:09
  "trusted
• 16:09
  neutral
• 16:10
  marketplace"
• 16:10
  is
• 16:11
  a
• 16:11
  claim,
• 16:11
  not
• 16:11
  a
• 16:11
  given
• 16:11
  .
• 16:12
  That
• 16:12
  $7
• 16:13
  billion
• 16:13
  lands
• 16:14
  inside
• 16:14
  a
• 16:14
  much
• 16:14
  larger
• 16:15
  number
• 16:15
  that
• 16:15
  a
• 16:15
  scroll-driven
• 16:16
  "Anatomy
• 16:17
  of
• 16:17
  a
• 16:17
  Bubble"
• 16:17
  artifact
• 16:17
  renders
• 16:18
  as
• 16:18
  physics.
• 16:19
  Its
• 16:19
  figures:
• 16:19
  hyperscaler
• 16:20
  capex
• 16:21
  rising
• 16:21
  from
• 16:21
  roughly
• 16:21
  $162B
• 16:23
  in
• 16:23
  2022
• 16:24
  toward
• 16:24
  $700B-plus
• 16:26
  guidance
• 16:26
  for
• 16:27
  2026
• 16:27
  and
• 16:28
  a
• 16:28
  projected
• 16:28
  $1
• 16:28
  trillion
• 16:29
  in
• 16:29
  2027,
• 16:30
  about
• 16:30
  75%
• 16:31
  of
• 16:31
  it
• 16:31
  AI,
• 16:32
  now
• 16:32
  consuming
• 16:33
  45
• 16:33
  to
• 16:33
  57%
• 16:34
  of
• 16:34
  revenue
• 16:34
  —
• 16:35
  utility
• 16:35
  ratios,
• 16:36
  not
• 16:36
  software
• 16:37
  ratios.
• 16:38
  It
• 16:38
  maps
• 16:38
  north
• 16:38
  of
• 16:39
  $800
• 16:39
  billion
• 16:39
  in
• 16:40
  circular
• 16:40
  deals
• 16:40
  where
• 16:41
  the
• 16:41
  same
• 16:41
  dollar
• 16:41
  books
• 16:41
  as
• 16:41
  investment,
• 16:42
  backlog,
• 16:43
  and
• 16:43
  revenue
• 16:43
  across
• 16:43
  three
• 16:43
  statements,
• 16:44
  against
• 16:45
  roughly
• 16:45
  $662
• 16:46
  billion
• 16:46
  in
• 16:47
  off-balance-sheet
• 16:47
  data-center
• 16:48
  leases
• 16:48
  and
• 16:48
  GPU-collateralized
• 16:49
  loans
• 16:50
  whose
• 16:50
  collateral
• 16:51
  has
• 16:51
  a
• 16:51
  useful
• 16:51
  life
• 16:51
  somewhere
• 16:52
  between
• 16:52
  the
• 16:52
  bulls'
• 16:52
  five-to-six
• 16:53
  years
• 16:53
  and
• 16:53
  the
• 16:53
  bears'
• 16:54
  two-to-three.
• 16:55
  Its
• 16:55
  most
• 16:55
  honest
• 16:56
  move
• 16:56
  is
• 16:56
  refusing
• 16:56
  a
• 16:56
  verdict:
• 16:57
  railways
• 16:58
  and
• 16:58
  dark
• 16:58
  fiber
• 16:58
  both
• 16:59
  crashed
• 16:59
  and
• 16:59
  both
• 16:59
  left
• 17:00
  the
• 17:00
  infrastructure
• 17:00
  that
• 17:00
  carried
• 17:01
  the
• 17:01
  next
• 17:01
  era
• 17:01
  —
• 17:02
  the
• 17:02
  crash
• 17:03
  and
• 17:03
  the
• 17:03
  buildout
• 17:03
  are
• 17:03
  separable.
• 17:04
  The
• 17:04
  question
• 17:05
  is
• 17:05
  not
• 17:05
  whether
• 17:05
  the
• 17:05
  film
• 17:05
  thins
• 17:06
  but
• 17:06
  who
• 17:06
  owns
• 17:06
  the
• 17:06
  residue
• 17:07
  —
• 17:07
  closed
• 17:07
  platforms
• 17:08
  amortizing
• 17:09
  distressed
• 17:09
  GPUs
• 17:10
  behind
• 17:10
  an
• 17:10
  API,
• 17:11
  or
• 17:11
  an
• 17:11
  open
• 17:11
  substrate
• 17:12
  cheap
• 17:12
  enough
• 17:12
  to
• 17:12
  build
• 17:12
  on
• 17:12
  .
• 17:13
  Who
• 17:13
  owns
• 17:14
  the
• 17:14
  rails
• 17:14
  gets
• 17:14
  its
• 17:14
  monetary
• 17:15
  hearing
• 17:15
  in
• 17:15
  Tucker
• 17:16
  Carlson's
• 17:16
  interview
• 17:17
  with
• 17:17
  Catherine
• 17:17
  Austin
• 17:17
  Fitts,
• 17:18
  the
• 17:18
  former
• 17:19
  HUD
• 17:19
  assistant
• 17:19
  secretary
• 17:20
  who
• 17:20
  beat
• 17:20
  the
• 17:20
  Justice
• 17:21
  Department
• 17:21
  after
• 17:21
  18
• 17:22
  audits
• 17:23
  and
• 17:23
  a
• 17:23
  dozen
• 17:23
  lawsuits.
• 17:24
  Her
• 17:25
  frame:
• 17:25
  grocery
• 17:26
  prices
• 17:26
  are
• 17:26
  the
• 17:26
  edge
• 17:27
  of
• 17:27
  a
• 17:27
  decades-long
• 17:27
  financial
• 17:28
  coup
• 17:28
  —
• 17:29
  monopoly
• 17:29
  consolidation
• 17:30
  plus
• 17:30
  a
• 17:30
  currency
• 17:31
  debased
• 17:31
  at
• 17:31
  scale:
• 17:32
  $29
• 17:33
  trillion
• 17:33
  in
• 17:34
  bailouts
• 17:34
  (Levy
• 17:35
  Institute),
• 17:35
  $21
• 17:36
  trillion
• 17:36
  missing
• 17:37
  from
• 17:37
  federal
• 17:38
  accounts
• 17:38
  (documented
• 17:39
  with
• 17:39
  economist
• 17:39
  Mark
• 17:40
  Skidmore).
• 17:41
  The
• 17:41
  anchors
• 17:41
  hold:
• 17:42
  Canada
• 17:42
  froze
• 17:43
  trucker
• 17:43
  accounts;
• 17:44
  the
• 17:44
  Treasury
• 17:44
  Secretary
• 17:45
  boasted
• 17:45
  of
• 17:45
  seizing
• 17:46
  a
• 17:46
  billion
• 17:46
  in
• 17:46
  Iranian
• 17:47
  wallets.
• 17:48
  Her
• 17:48
  sharpest
• 17:48
  cut:
• 17:49
  bragging
• 17:50
  about
• 17:50
  painless
• 17:50
  seizure
• 17:51
  is
• 17:51
  an
• 17:51
  odd
• 17:51
  pitch
• 17:51
  to
• 17:51
  the
• 17:52
  four
• 17:52
  billion
• 17:52
  people
• 17:52
  those
• 17:53
  rails
• 17:53
  would
• 17:53
  tender
• 17:54
  into
• 17:54
  US
• 17:54
  markets
• 17:54
  at
• 17:54
  20x
• 17:55
  margin.
• 17:56
  Her
• 17:56
  third
• 17:57
  lock
• 17:57
  is
• 17:57
  engineering,
• 17:58
  not
• 17:58
  mysticism:
• 18:00
  today
• 18:00
  a
• 18:00
  bank
• 18:00
  must
• 18:01
  choose
• 18:01
  to
• 18:01
  stop
• 18:01
  your
• 18:01
  transaction;
• 18:03
  programmable
• 18:03
  money
• 18:04
  makes
• 18:04
  it
• 18:04
  automatic
• 18:04
  —
• 18:05
  per-citizen
• 18:06
  rules,
• 18:07
  negative
• 18:07
  rates,
• 18:08
  money
• 18:08
  that
• 18:08
  dies
• 18:09
  outside
• 18:09
  your
• 18:09
  door.
• 18:10
  Her
• 18:11
  hardest
• 18:11
  charge
• 18:11
  ties
• 18:12
  it
• 18:12
  together
• 18:12
  —
• 18:13
  depopulation
• 18:14
  as
• 18:14
  policy,
• 18:15
  actuarially:
• 18:16
  books
• 18:17
  that
• 18:17
  cannot
• 18:17
  be
• 18:17
  balanced
• 18:18
  honestly
• 18:18
  can
• 18:18
  be
• 18:18
  balanced
• 18:19
  with
• 18:19
  mortality.
• 18:20
  Her
• 18:20
  record:
• 18:21
  pill
• 18:21
  mills
• 18:22
  and
• 18:22
  predatory
• 18:22
  lending
• 18:22
  after
• 18:23
  the
• 18:23
  1995
• 18:24
  budget
• 18:24
  bust,
• 18:25
  COVID
• 18:25
  policies
• 18:26
  that
• 18:26
  cut
• 18:26
  it
• 18:26
  again,
• 18:27
  oligarchs
• 18:27
  planning
• 18:28
  to
• 18:28
  live
• 18:28
  to
• 18:28
  145
• 18:29
  while
• 18:29
  robots
• 18:30
  make
• 18:30
  the
• 18:30
  rest
• 18:30
  redundant.
• 18:32
  The
• 18:32
  pieces
• 18:32
  are
• 18:32
  in
• 18:32
  place
• 18:32
  —
• 18:33
  the
• 18:33
  Flock
• 18:34
  camera
• 18:34
  mesh,
• 18:35
  Axon's
• 18:35
  drones,
• 18:36
  programmable
• 18:37
  money
• 18:37
  in
• 18:37
  the
• 18:37
  pipeline,
• 18:38
  AI
• 18:38
  to
• 18:38
  run
• 18:38
  both.
• 18:40
  "That's
• 18:40
  what
• 18:40
  the
• 18:40
  data
• 18:41
  centers
• 18:41
  are
• 18:41
  for.
• 18:42
  That's
• 18:42
  what
• 18:42
  the
• 18:42
  AI
• 18:43
  is
• 18:43
  for."
• 18:44
  The
• 18:44
  monetary
• 18:45
  twin
• 18:45
  of
• 18:45
  the
• 18:45
  closed
• 18:45
  AI
• 18:46
  stack
• 18:46
  this
• 18:46
  digest
• 18:47
  exists
• 18:47
  to
• 18:47
  resist;
• 18:48
  her
• 18:48
  antidote
• 18:49
  is
• 18:49
  the
• 18:49
  same:
• 18:50
  open,
• 18:51
  auditable,
• 18:52
  local,
• 18:53
  owned
• 18:53
  by
• 18:53
  users
• 18:53
  .