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

• 0:00
  A
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  paper
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  from
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  UNSW
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  and
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  the
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  University
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  of
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  Tokyo
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  introduces
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  PoisonedSkills,
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  and
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  the
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  results
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  should
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  make
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  anyone
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  running
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  an
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  LLM
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  coding
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  agent
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  uncomfortable.
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  The
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  researchers
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  developed
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  Document-Driven
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  Implicit
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  Payload
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  Execution
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  (DDIPE),
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  a
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  technique
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  that
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  embeds
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  malicious
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  logic
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  not
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  as
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  explicit
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  instructions
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  —
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  which
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  safety
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  alignment
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  catches
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  reliably
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  —
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  but
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  inside
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  the
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  code
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  examples
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  and
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  configuration
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  templates
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  that
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  agent
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  skill
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  documentation
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  naturally
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  contains.
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  When
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  a
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  coding
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  agent
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  picks
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  up
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  a
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  skill
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  from
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  an
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  open
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  marketplace
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  and
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  encounters
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  what
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  looks
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  like
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  a
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  reference
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  implementation,
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  it
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  reproduces
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  the
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  code
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  as
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  part
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  of
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  normal
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  task
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  execution.
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  A
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  479-byte
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  pip
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  configuration
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  script
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  —
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  nine
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  lines
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  that
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  redirect
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  pip
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  install
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  to
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  an
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  attacker-controlled
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  registry
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  —
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  was
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  the
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  only
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  payload
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  that
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  bypassed
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  all
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  three
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  tested
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  models
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  under
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  Claude
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  Code's
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  multi-layer
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  defenses.
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  That
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  is
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  a
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  supply-chain
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  attack
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  that
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  fits
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  in
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  a
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  tweet.
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  The
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  numbers
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  across
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  the
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  full
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  evaluation
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  are
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  sobering.
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  Testing
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  1,070
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  adversarial
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  skills
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  generated
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  from
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  just
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  81
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  hand-crafted
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  seeds
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  across
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  four
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  frameworks
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  (Claude
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  Code,
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  OpenHands,
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  Codex,
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  Gemini
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  CLI)
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  and
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  five
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  models,
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  DDIPE
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  achieved
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  bypass
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  rates
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  of
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  11.6%–33.5%,
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  while
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  explicit
• 1:01
  instruction
• 1:01
  injection
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  scored
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  a
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  flat
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  0%
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  against
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  the
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  strongest
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  defenses.
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  The
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  interaction
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  between
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  model
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  alignment
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  and
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  framework
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  architecture
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  turned
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  out
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  to
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  be
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  asymmetric
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  in
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  a
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  way
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  that
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  matters
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  for
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  defense
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  design:
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  removing
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  architectural
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  guardrails
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  amplified
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  one
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  model's
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  execution
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  rate
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  by
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  11.3x
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  while
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  barely
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  moving
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  another.
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  The
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  sharpest
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  defensive
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  finding
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  is
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  that
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  only
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  1.6%
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  of
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  payloads
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  bypassed
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  all
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  three
• 1:20
  tested
• 1:20
  models
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  simultaneously
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  —
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  making
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  multi-model
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  verification
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  a
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  practical
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  countermeasure
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  that
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  compresses
• 1:24
  the
• 1:24
  attack
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  surface
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  from
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  ~20%
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  to
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  under
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  2%.
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  Responsible
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  disclosure
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  yielded
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  four
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  confirmed
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  vulnerabilities
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  and
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  two
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  deployed
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  fixes
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  across
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  production
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  frameworks.
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  Codex's
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  bubblewrap
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  sandbox,
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  for
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  instance,
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  correctly
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  enforced
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  filesystem
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  boundaries
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  but
• 1:37
  could
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  not
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  distinguish
• 1:37
  a
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  poisoned
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  .pip/pip.conf
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  from
• 1:39
  a
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  legitimate
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  one
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  —
• 1:41
  the
• 1:41
  security
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  boundary
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  was
• 1:42
  drawn
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  at
• 1:42
  the
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  wrong
• 1:42
  abstraction
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  level.
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  Elastic
• 1:44
  has
• 1:44
  apparently
• 1:45
  been
• 1:45
  thinking
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  along
• 1:45
  the
• 1:45
  same
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  lines,
• 1:46
  shipping
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  an
• 1:47
  open-source
• 1:47
  supply-chain
• 1:48
  monitor
• 1:48
  that
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  polls
• 1:48
  PyPI
• 1:49
  and
• 1:49
  npm
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  for
• 1:50
  new
• 1:50
  releases
• 1:51
  of
• 1:51
  the
• 1:51
  top
• 1:51
  15,000
• 1:52
  packages,
• 1:53
  diffs
• 1:53
  each
• 1:53
  against
• 1:53
  its
• 1:53
  predecessor,
• 1:54
  and
• 1:55
  feeds
• 1:55
  the
• 1:55
  diff
• 1:55
  to
• 1:55
  an
• 1:55
  LLM
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  for
• 1:56
  classification.
• 1:57
  Detection
• 1:58
  targets
• 1:58
  include
• 1:58
  obfuscated
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  code,
• 2:00
  unexpected
• 2:00
  network
• 2:00
  calls,
• 2:01
  credential
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  exfiltration,
• 2:02
  and
• 2:03
  typosquatting
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  indicators.
• 2:05
  The
• 2:05
  example
• 2:05
  alerts
• 2:05
  in
• 2:05
  the
• 2:06
  README
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  are
• 2:08
  uncomfortably
• 2:08
  realistic:
• 2:10
  a
• 2:10
  Telnyx
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  release
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  with
• 2:11
  a
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  d()
• 2:11
  function
• 2:11
  decoding
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  base64
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  blobs
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  and
• 2:13
  downloading
• 2:14
  a
• 2:14
  .wav
• 2:14
  file
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  containing
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  a
• 2:15
  steganographic
• 2:16
  payload,
• 2:16
  and
• 2:16
  a
• 2:16
  fake
• 2:17
  Axios
• 2:17
  release
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  slipping
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  in
• 2:18
  plain-crypto-js
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  as
• 2:19
  a
• 2:19
  dependency.
• 2:20
  The
• 2:20
  pairing
• 2:21
  of
• 2:21
  these
• 2:21
  two
• 2:21
  projects
• 2:22
  —
• 2:23
  one
• 2:23
  demonstrating
• 2:23
  the
• 2:23
  attack,
• 2:24
  the
• 2:24
  other
• 2:24
  building
• 2:25
  automated
• 2:25
  defense
• 2:26
  —
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  captures
• 2:27
  the
• 2:27
  current
• 2:28
  moment
• 2:28
  in
• 2:28
  agent
• 2:28
  security:
• 2:29
  the
• 2:29
  Cambrian
• 2:30
  explosion
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  of
• 2:30
  shareable
• 2:31
  skills
• 2:31
  is
• 2:31
  here,
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  and
• 2:32
  the
• 2:32
  guardrails
• 2:33
  are
• 2:33
  still
• 2:33
  catching
• 2:34
  up.
• 2:34
  Meanwhile,
• 2:35
  the
• 2:35
  UK
• 2:36
  AI
• 2:36
  Security
• 2:37
  Institute
• 2:37
  confirmed
• 2:38
  that
• 2:38
  Claude
• 2:38
  Mythos
• 2:38
  Preview
• 2:39
  is
• 2:39
  the
• 2:39
  first
• 2:40
  model
• 2:40
  to
• 2:40
  complete
• 2:41
  their
• 2:41
  full
• 2:41
  32-step
• 2:42
  corporate
• 2:42
  network
• 2:43
  simulation
• 2:43
  end-to-end
• 2:44
  —
• 2:45
  initial
• 2:45
  reconnaissance
• 2:46
  through
• 2:46
  complete
• 2:46
  network
• 2:47
  takeover.
• 2:48
  AISI's
• 2:48
  most
• 2:49
  interesting
• 2:49
  conclusion
• 2:49
  is
• 2:50
  also
• 2:50
  their
• 2:50
  most
• 2:50
  cautiously
• 2:51
  optimistic:
• 2:52
  they
• 2:52
  cannot
• 2:53
  confirm
• 2:53
  Mythos
• 2:53
  would
• 2:53
  succeed
• 2:54
  against
• 2:54
  a
• 2:54
  well-defended
• 2:55
  network
• 2:55
  because
• 2:56
  their
• 2:56
  range
• 2:56
  had
• 2:56
  no
• 2:56
  active
• 2:57
  defenders.
• 2:58
  But
• 2:58
  as
• 2:58
  Rob
• 2:59
  T.
• 2:59
  Lee
• 2:59
  and
• 2:59
  collaborators
• 3:00
  point
• 3:00
  out
• 3:00
  in
• 3:00
  a
• 3:00
  30-page
• 3:01
  strategy
• 3:01
  briefing
• 3:02
  released
• 3:02
  alongside
• 3:03
  the
• 3:03
  findings,
• 3:04
  the
• 3:04
  speed
• 3:04
  asymmetry
• 3:04
  between
• 3:05
  autonomous
• 3:05
  offense
• 3:06
  and
• 3:06
  human-paced
• 3:07
  defense
• 3:07
  is
• 3:07
  the
• 3:07
  real
• 3:07
  problem.
• 3:09
  If
• 3:09
  an
• 3:09
  AI
• 3:09
  can
• 3:09
  find
• 3:10
  a
• 3:10
  27-year-old
• 3:11
  vulnerability
• 3:11
  in
• 3:12
  OpenBSD
• 3:13
  that
• 3:13
  automated
• 3:13
  testing
• 3:14
  hit
• 3:14
  five
• 3:14
  million
• 3:15
  times
• 3:15
  without
• 3:15
  catching,
• 3:16
  "active
• 3:17
  defenders
• 3:17
  would
• 3:17
  stop
• 3:18
  it"
• 3:18
  needs
• 3:19
  stronger
• 3:19
  evidence
• 3:19
  than
• 3:20
  has
• 3:20
  been
• 3:20
  provided.
• 3:23
  A
• 3:23
  researcher
• 3:24
  pointed
• 3:24
  a
• 3:24
  Claude
• 3:25
  agent
• 3:25
  armed
• 3:25
  with
• 3:25
  AFL++,
• 3:27
  AddressSanitizer,
• 3:28
  Valgrind,
• 3:28
  and
• 3:29
  UBSan
• 3:29
  at
• 3:29
  a
• 3:29
  formally
• 3:30
  verified
• 3:30
  Lean
• 3:31
  implementation
• 3:31
  of
• 3:31
  zlib
• 3:32
  over
• 3:32
  a
• 3:32
  weekend.
• 3:34
  The
• 3:34
  setup
• 3:34
  was
• 3:34
  deliberately
• 3:35
  blind
• 3:35
  —
• 3:36
  all
• 3:36
  theorems,
• 3:37
  specifications,
• 3:38
  and
• 3:38
  documentation
• 3:38
  were
• 3:38
  stripped
• 3:39
  so
• 3:39
  the
• 3:39
  agent
• 3:39
  would
• 3:40
  not
• 3:40
  know
• 3:40
  it
• 3:40
  was
• 3:41
  testing
• 3:41
  verified
• 3:41
  code
• 3:42
  and
• 3:42
  prematurely
• 3:42
  give
• 3:43
  up.
• 3:43
  Over
• 3:44
  105
• 3:44
  million
• 3:45
  executions
• 3:45
  across
• 3:46
  16
• 3:46
  parallel
• 3:47
  fuzzers
• 3:47
  and
• 3:47
  19
• 3:48
  hours,
• 3:48
  the
• 3:48
  results
• 3:49
  split
• 3:49
  neatly
• 3:49
  along
• 3:49
  the
• 3:50
  trust
• 3:50
  boundary.
• 3:51
  In
• 3:51
  the
• 3:51
  verified
• 3:51
  application
• 3:52
  code:
• 3:52
  zero
• 3:53
  heap
• 3:53
  buffer
• 3:53
  overflows,
• 3:54
  zero
• 3:54
  use-after-free,
• 3:55
  zero
• 3:56
  undefined
• 3:56
  behavior.
• 3:57
  Claude's
• 3:58
  own
• 3:58
  assessment,
• 3:59
  without
• 3:59
  knowing
• 3:59
  the
• 3:59
  code
• 4:00
  was
• 4:00
  verified:
• 4:01
  "This
• 4:01
  is
• 4:01
  one
• 4:01
  of
• 4:01
  the
• 4:01
  most
• 4:02
  memory-safe
• 4:02
  codebases
• 4:03
  I've
• 4:03
  analyzed.
• 4:04
  The
• 4:04
  CVE
• 4:04
  classes
• 4:05
  that
• 4:05
  have
• 4:05
  plagued
• 4:05
  zlib
• 4:06
  for
• 4:06
  decades
• 4:07
  are
• 4:07
  structurally
• 4:07
  impossible
• 4:08
  in
• 4:08
  this
• 4:08
  codebase."
• 4:09
  But
• 4:09
  the
• 4:10
  bugs
• 4:10
  were
• 4:10
  there
• 4:10
  —
• 4:11
  just
• 4:11
  outside
• 4:11
  the
• 4:12
  proof
• 4:12
  boundary.
• 4:12
  The
• 4:13
  most
• 4:13
  substantial
• 4:13
  finding
• 4:14
  was
• 4:14
  a
• 4:14
  heap
• 4:14
  buffer
• 4:14
  overflow
• 4:15
  in
• 4:15
  lean
• 4:15
  alloc
• 4:15
  sarray,
• 4:16
  a
• 4:16
  C++
• 4:17
  function
• 4:17
  in
• 4:18
  the
• 4:18
  Lean
• 4:18
  4
• 4:18
  runtime
• 4:18
  itself
• 4:19
  that
• 4:19
  allocates
• 4:19
  all
• 4:20
  scalar
• 4:20
  arrays.
• 4:21
  When
• 4:21
  capacity
• 4:22
  approaches
• 4:22
  SIZE
• 4:23
  MAX,
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  allocation
• 4:24
  size
• 4:24
  wraps
• 4:25
  around
• 4:25
  to
• 4:25
  ~23
• 4:26
  bytes
• 4:26
  while
• 4:26
  the
• 4:26
  caller
• 4:27
  proceeds
• 4:27
  to
• 4:27
  read
• 4:27
  SIZE
• 4:28
  MAX
• 4:28
  bytes
• 4:28
  into
• 4:28
  it.
• 4:29
  A
• 4:29
  156-byte
• 4:30
  crafted
• 4:30
  ZIP
• 4:31
  file
• 4:31
  triggers
• 4:31
  it.
• 4:32
  This
• 4:32
  bug
• 4:32
  affects
• 4:33
  every
• 4:33
  Lean
• 4:33
  4
• 4:33
  program
• 4:34
  that
• 4:34
  allocates
• 4:34
  a
• 4:34
  ByteArray
• 4:35
  —
• 4:35
  not
• 4:36
  just
• 4:36
  lean-zip.
• 4:37
  A
• 4:37
  second
• 4:37
  bug,
• 4:38
  a
• 4:38
  denial-of-service
• 4:39
  in
• 4:39
  the
• 4:39
  archive
• 4:39
  parser,
• 4:40
  was
• 4:40
  simpler:
• 4:41
  the
• 4:41
  parser
• 4:41
  passed
• 4:42
  a
• 4:42
  ZIP
• 4:42
  header's
• 4:42
  claimed
• 4:42
  uncompressed
• 4:43
  size
• 4:43
  of
• 4:43
  several
• 4:44
  exabytes
• 4:44
  straight
• 4:45
  to
• 4:45
  allocation
• 4:45
  without
• 4:46
  validation.
• 4:47
  That
• 4:47
  module
• 4:47
  had
• 4:48
  zero
• 4:48
  theorems
• 4:49
  even
• 4:49
  in
• 4:49
  the
• 4:49
  original
• 4:49
  codebase.
• 4:50
  Verification
• 4:51
  works
• 4:51
  exactly
• 4:52
  where
• 4:52
  it
• 4:52
  is
• 4:52
  applied
• 4:52
  —
• 4:53
  and
• 4:53
  the
• 4:53
  trusted
• 4:54
  computing
• 4:54
  base
• 4:54
  underneath
• 4:55
  the
• 4:55
  proofs
• 4:55
  was
• 4:55
  never
• 4:56
  verified.
• 4:57
  The
• 4:57
  same
• 4:57
  author
• 4:58
  published
• 4:58
  a
• 4:58
  companion
• 4:59
  piece
• 4:59
  arguing
• 5:00
  that
• 5:00
  multi-agentic
• 5:01
  software
• 5:01
  development
• 5:01
  is,
• 5:02
  at
• 5:02
  its
• 5:02
  core,
• 5:03
  a
• 5:03
  distributed
• 5:03
  systems
• 5:04
  problem
• 5:04
  —
• 5:05
  and
• 5:05
  that
• 5:05
  no
• 5:05
  amount
• 5:06
  of
• 5:06
  model
• 5:06
  intelligence
• 5:06
  can
• 5:07
  escape
• 5:07
  the
• 5:07
  impossibility
• 5:08
  results.
• 5:09
  The
• 5:09
  argument
• 5:09
  is
• 5:09
  formal
• 5:10
  and
• 5:10
  precise:
• 5:11
  when
• 5:11
  multiple
• 5:11
  agents
• 5:12
  work
• 5:12
  concurrently
• 5:12
  on
• 5:13
  a
• 5:13
  natural-language
• 5:13
  specification
• 5:14
  (which
• 5:14
  is
• 5:14
  inherently
• 5:15
  ambiguous),
• 5:16
  they
• 5:16
  face
• 5:16
  a
• 5:16
  consensus
• 5:17
  problem.
• 5:18
  FLP
• 5:18
  tells
• 5:19
  us
• 5:19
  they
• 5:19
  cannot
• 5:19
  guarantee
• 5:20
  both
• 5:20
  safety
• 5:20
  (well-formed
• 5:21
  software)
• 5:22
  and
• 5:22
  liveness
• 5:22
  (always
• 5:23
  reaching
• 5:23
  agreement)
• 5:23
  under
• 5:24
  crash
• 5:24
  failures.
• 5:25
  Lamport's
• 5:26
  Byzantine
• 5:26
  Generals
• 5:26
  theorem
• 5:27
  sets
• 5:27
  a
• 5:27
  hard
• 5:27
  bound:
• 5:28
  if
• 5:28
  more
• 5:28
  than
• 5:29
  a
• 5:29
  third
• 5:29
  of
• 5:29
  agents
• 5:29
  misinterpret
• 5:30
  the
• 5:30
  prompt,
• 5:30
  consensus
• 5:31
  is
• 5:31
  impossible.
• 5:32
  These
• 5:33
  bounds
• 5:33
  are
• 5:33
  invariant
• 5:33
  to
• 5:34
  agent
• 5:34
  capability.
• 5:35
  The
• 5:35
  practical
• 5:36
  takeaway
• 5:36
  is
• 5:36
  that
• 5:36
  external
• 5:37
  validation
• 5:37
  mechanisms
• 5:38
  —
• 5:39
  tests,
• 5:39
  static
• 5:40
  analysis,
• 5:40
  verification
• 5:41
  —
• 5:42
  convert
• 5:42
  misinterpretations
• 5:43
  into
• 5:43
  crash
• 5:43
  failures,
• 5:44
  which
• 5:44
  are
• 5:44
  strictly
• 5:45
  easier
• 5:45
  to
• 5:45
  handle.
• 5:46
  The
• 5:46
  author
• 5:46
  also
• 5:47
  reports
• 5:47
  a
• 5:47
  forthcoming
• 5:48
  paper
• 5:48
  on
• 5:48
  choreographic
• 5:49
  formalisms
• 5:49
  for
• 5:50
  multi-agent
• 5:50
  workflows,
• 5:51
  incorporating
• 5:52
  game
• 5:52
  theory
• 5:52
  —
• 5:53
  worth
• 5:53
  watching.
• 5:55
  Dragan
• 5:55
  Spiridonov's
• 5:56
  weekly
• 5:56
  Quality
• 5:56
  Forge
• 5:57
  dispatch
• 5:58
  offers
• 5:58
  a
• 5:58
  practitioner's
• 5:59
  view
• 5:59
  of
• 5:59
  the
• 5:59
  same
• 5:59
  trust
• 6:00
  problem
• 6:00
  from
• 6:00
  the
• 6:00
  other
• 6:01
  end.
• 6:02
  The
• 6:02
  week
• 6:02
  the
• 6:02
  community
• 6:03
  starts
• 6:03
  quoting
• 6:03
  your
• 6:03
  phrasing
• 6:04
  back,
• 6:04
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• 6:04
  writes,
• 6:05
  is
• 6:05
  the
• 6:05
  week
• 6:05
  the
• 6:05
  bill
• 6:05
  comes
• 6:06
  due.
• 6:06
  His
• 6:06
  fleet
• 6:06
  shipped
• 6:07
  four
• 6:07
  releases
• 6:07
  —
• 6:08
  process
• 6:08
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• 6:09
  around
• 6:09
  release
• 6:09
  gating,
• 6:10
  a
• 6:10
  browser
• 6:10
  primitive
• 6:11
  for
• 6:11
  QE
• 6:11
  agents
• 6:12
  via
• 6:12
  the
• 6:12
  W3C
• 6:13
  protocol,
• 6:14
  multi-provider
• 6:14
  LLM
• 6:15
  routing
• 6:15
  with
• 6:15
  circuit
• 6:16
  breakers,
• 6:17
  and
• 6:17
  an
• 6:17
  upgrade-path
• 6:17
  fix
• 6:18
  that
• 6:18
  the
• 6:18
  test
• 6:18
  suite
• 6:18
  had
• 6:18
  missed
• 6:19
  because
• 6:19
  "the
• 6:19
  test
• 6:19
  suite
• 6:20
  was
• 6:20
  not
• 6:20
  the
• 6:20
  upgrade."
• 6:21
  The
• 6:21
  deeper
• 6:21
  observation
• 6:22
  threads
• 6:22
  through
• 6:22
  confidence
• 6:23
  research:
• 6:24
  when
• 6:24
  humans
• 6:24
  consult
• 6:25
  an
• 6:25
  AI
• 6:25
  and
• 6:25
  then
• 6:25
  decide,
• 6:26
  subjective
• 6:27
  confidence
• 6:27
  goes
• 6:27
  up
• 6:28
  whether
• 6:28
  the
• 6:28
  AI
• 6:28
  was
• 6:28
  right
• 6:29
  or
• 6:29
  wrong.
• 6:30
  That
• 6:30
  is
• 6:30
  the
• 6:30
  failure
• 6:30
  mode
• 6:31
  that
• 6:31
  makes
• 6:31
  agentic
• 6:31
  QE
• 6:32
  dangerous
• 6:32
  —
• 6:33
  not
• 6:33
  wrong
• 6:33
  answers,
• 6:34
  but
• 6:34
  elevated
• 6:34
  certainty
• 6:35
  regardless
• 6:35
  of
• 6:35
  signal
• 6:36
  quality.
• 6:40
  The
• 6:40
  open-source
• 6:41
  coding
• 6:41
  agent
• 6:41
  space
• 6:42
  continues
• 6:42
  to
• 6:42
  fragment
• 6:43
  and
• 6:43
  specialize.
• 6:44
  CheetahClaws
• 6:45
  (née
• 6:46
  nano-claude-code)
• 6:46
  reimplements
• 6:46
  Claude
• 6:47
  Code's
• 6:47
  core
• 6:47
  loop
• 6:48
  in
• 6:48
  roughly
• 6:48
  10,000
• 6:49
  lines
• 6:49
  of
• 6:49
  readable
• 6:50
  Python
• 6:50
  versus
• 6:50
  the
• 6:50
  original's
• 6:51
  283,000-line
• 6:53
  compiled
• 6:54
  TypeScript
• 6:54
  bundle.
• 6:55
  It
• 6:55
  supports
• 6:55
  eight-plus
• 6:56
  model
• 6:56
  providers
• 6:56
  —
• 6:57
  Anthropic,
• 6:58
  OpenAI,
• 6:58
  Gemini,
• 6:59
  Qwen,
• 7:00
  DeepSeek,
• 7:00
  MiniMax,
• 7:01
  Ollama,
• 7:01
  and
• 7:02
  any
• 7:02
  OpenAI-compatible
• 7:02
  endpoint
• 7:03
  —
• 7:03
  with
• 7:03
  features
• 7:04
  like
• 7:04
  multi-agent
• 7:04
  brainstorming,
• 7:05
  Telegram/WeChat/Slack
• 7:09
  bridges
• 7:09
  for
• 7:09
  phone-to-computer
• 7:10
  control,
• 7:10
  autonomous
• 7:11
  agent
• 7:11
  templates,
• 7:11
  and
• 7:12
  a
• 7:12
  proactive
• 7:12
  background
• 7:13
  monitoring
• 7:13
  mode.
• 7:13
  At
• 7:14
  v3.05.66,
• 7:17
  the
• 7:17
  project
• 7:17
  is
• 7:17
  iterating
• 7:18
  rapidly,
• 7:18
  with
• 7:18
  recent
• 7:19
  fixes
• 7:19
  including
• 7:19
  automatic
• 7:20
  max
• 7:20
  tokens
• 7:20
  capping
• 7:21
  per
• 7:21
  model
• 7:21
  and
• 7:21
  graceful
• 7:22
  handling
• 7:22
  of
• 7:22
  malformed
• 7:23
  tool
• 7:23
  calls
• 7:23
  from
• 7:23
  models
• 7:24
  like
• 7:24
  Qwen.
• 7:24
  On
• 7:25
  the
• 7:25
  minimalist
• 7:25
  end,
• 7:25
  LiteCode
• 7:26
  targets
• 7:26
  8k-context
• 7:27
  LLMs
• 7:27
  specifically
• 7:28
  —
• 7:28
  free
• 7:29
  tiers,
• 7:29
  Ollama,
• 7:29
  Groq
• 7:30
  —
• 7:30
  by
• 7:30
  chunking
• 7:30
  files,
• 7:31
  building
• 7:31
  lightweight
• 7:32
  context
• 7:32
  maps,
• 7:33
  and
• 7:33
  sending
• 7:33
  only
• 7:33
  what
• 7:33
  fits.
• 7:35
  Version
• 7:35
  0.2
• 7:36
  added
• 7:36
  diff
• 7:36
  preview
• 7:37
  with
• 7:37
  per-file
• 7:37
  accept/reject
• 7:39
  before
• 7:39
  any
• 7:39
  write
• 7:39
  touches
• 7:40
  disk,
• 7:40
  addressing
• 7:41
  the
• 7:41
  fundamental
• 7:41
  trust
• 7:41
  problem
• 7:42
  of
• 7:42
  letting
• 7:42
  small
• 7:43
  models
• 7:43
  edit
• 7:43
  your
• 7:43
  codebase
• 7:44
  unsupervised.
• 7:45
  GitHub,
• 7:46
  meanwhile,
• 7:47
  is
• 7:47
  moving
• 7:47
  stacked
• 7:47
  pull
• 7:48
  requests
• 7:48
  from
• 7:48
  community
• 7:48
  tooling
• 7:49
  into
• 7:49
  a
• 7:49
  native
• 7:49
  feature.
• 7:50
  Currently
• 7:51
  in
• 7:51
  private
• 7:51
  preview,
• 7:52
  gh-stack
• 7:52
  lets
• 7:52
  developers
• 7:53
  break
• 7:53
  large
• 7:53
  changes
• 7:54
  into
• 7:54
  ordered
• 7:54
  chains
• 7:54
  of
• 7:55
  small,
• 7:55
  focused
• 7:55
  PRs
• 7:56
  that
• 7:56
  build
• 7:56
  on
• 7:56
  each
• 7:56
  other.
• 7:57
  The
• 7:57
  CLI
• 7:58
  handles
• 7:58
  branch
• 7:58
  creation,
• 7:59
  cascading
• 7:59
  rebases,
• 8:00
  and
• 8:00
  push
• 8:00
  operations;
• 8:01
  the
• 8:01
  GitHub
• 8:02
  UI
• 8:02
  shows
• 8:02
  a
• 8:02
  stack
• 8:03
  navigator,
• 8:03
  enforces
• 8:04
  branch
• 8:04
  protection
• 8:05
  against
• 8:05
  the
• 8:05
  final
• 8:05
  target
• 8:05
  (not
• 8:06
  just
• 8:06
  the
• 8:06
  direct
• 8:06
  base),
• 8:06
  and
• 8:06
  supports
• 8:07
  one-click
• 8:07
  merge
• 8:07
  of
• 8:08
  entire
• 8:08
  stacks.
• 8:09
  The
• 8:10
  AI
• 8:10
  angle
• 8:10
  is
• 8:10
  explicit:
• 8:12
  gh
• 8:12
  stack
• 8:12
  train
• 8:13
  teaches
• 8:13
  coding
• 8:13
  agents
• 8:14
  how
• 8:14
  to
• 8:14
  work
• 8:14
  with
• 8:14
  stacks,
• 8:15
  either
• 8:15
  decomposing
• 8:15
  a
• 8:16
  large
• 8:16
  diff
• 8:16
  or
• 8:16
  developing
• 8:17
  incrementally
• 8:17
  from
• 8:17
  the
• 8:17
  start.
• 8:19
  For
• 8:19
  anyone
• 8:19
  who
• 8:19
  has
• 8:19
  watched
• 8:19
  AI
• 8:20
  agents
• 8:20
  produce
• 8:20
  monolithic
• 8:21
  2,000-line
• 8:22
  PRs
• 8:23
  that
• 8:23
  no
• 8:23
  human
• 8:23
  wants
• 8:23
  to
• 8:24
  review,
• 8:24
  this
• 8:24
  is
• 8:24
  infrastructure
• 8:25
  that
• 8:25
  could
• 8:25
  meaningfully
• 8:25
  change
• 8:26
  the
• 8:26
  review
• 8:26
  economics.
• 8:28
  A
• 8:28
  live
• 8:28
  Archon
• 8:28
  guide
• 8:29
  on
• 8:29
  building
• 8:29
  AI
• 8:29
  coding
• 8:30
  harnesses
• 8:30
  that
• 8:30
  ship
• 8:30
  also
• 8:31
  dropped
• 8:31
  this
• 8:31
  week.
• 8:34
  A
• 8:34
  meticulously
• 8:35
  documented
• 8:36
  bug
• 8:36
  report
• 8:36
  on
• 8:36
  Claude
• 8:37
  Code's
• 8:37
  GitHub
• 8:37
  reveals
• 8:38
  a
• 8:38
  quiet
• 8:38
  crisis
• 8:38
  in
• 8:39
  the
• 8:39
  economics
• 8:39
  of
• 8:39
  agentic
• 8:40
  coding.
• 8:40
  A
• 8:40
  Pro
• 8:41
  Max
• 8:41
  5x
• 8:41
  subscriber
• 8:42
  exhausted
• 8:42
  their
• 8:42
  quota
• 8:43
  in
• 8:43
  1.5
• 8:43
  hours
• 8:44
  of
• 8:44
  moderate
• 8:44
  usage
• 8:44
  after
• 8:45
  a
• 8:45
  reset,
• 8:45
  despite
• 8:46
  the
• 8:46
  previous
• 8:46
  window
• 8:46
  sustaining
• 8:47
  five
• 8:47
  hours
• 8:47
  of
• 8:47
  heavy
• 8:48
  multi-file
• 8:48
  implementation.
• 8:49
  The
• 8:49
  hypothesis:
• 8:50
  cache
• 8:50
  read
• 8:50
  tokens
• 8:51
  count
• 8:51
  at
• 8:51
  full
• 8:51
  rate
• 8:52
  against
• 8:52
  the
• 8:52
  rate
• 8:52
  limit
• 8:52
  rather
• 8:52
  than
• 8:53
  at
• 8:53
  the
• 8:53
  published
• 8:53
  1/10
• 8:54
  discount.
• 8:54
  With
• 8:54
  a
• 8:54
  1M
• 8:55
  context
• 8:55
  window,
• 8:56
  each
• 8:56
  API
• 8:56
  call
• 8:56
  near
• 8:57
  the
• 8:57
  auto-compact
• 8:57
  threshold
• 8:58
  sends
• 8:58
  ~960k
• 8:59
  tokens.
• 9:00
  At
• 9:00
  200+
• 9:01
  calls
• 9:01
  per
• 9:01
  hour
• 9:01
  —
• 9:01
  normal
• 9:02
  for
• 9:02
  tool-heavy
• 9:02
  usage
• 9:03
  —
• 9:03
  quota
• 9:03
  evaporates
• 9:04
  regardless
• 9:04
  of
• 9:04
  caching.
• 9:05
  A
• 9:05
  community
• 9:06
  member
• 9:06
  built
• 9:06
  an
• 9:06
  interceptor
• 9:07
  to
• 9:07
  test
• 9:07
  this
• 9:07
  empirically
• 9:08
  across
• 9:08
  six
• 9:08
  5-hour
• 9:08
  reset
• 9:09
  windows,
• 9:09
  and
• 9:10
  the
• 9:10
  data
• 9:10
  landed
• 9:10
  on
• 9:10
  a
• 9:10
  different
• 9:11
  conclusion:
• 9:12
  cache
• 9:12
  read
• 9:12
  does
• 9:13
  not
• 9:13
  meaningfully
• 9:13
  count
• 9:14
  toward
• 9:14
  quota.
• 9:15
  The
• 9:15
  real
• 9:15
  culprits
• 9:16
  appear
• 9:16
  to
• 9:16
  be
• 9:16
  prompt
• 9:16
  cache
• 9:17
  misses
• 9:17
  (the
• 9:18
  TTL
• 9:18
  silently
• 9:19
  regressed
• 9:19
  from
• 9:19
  1
• 9:19
  hour
• 9:19
  to
• 9:20
  5
• 9:20
  minutes
• 9:20
  around
• 9:20
  March
• 9:21
  2026),
• 9:22
  background
• 9:22
  sessions
• 9:23
  consuming
• 9:23
  shared
• 9:23
  quota,
• 9:24
  and
• 9:24
  auto-compact
• 9:25
  creating
• 9:25
  expensive
• 9:26
  spikes.
• 9:27
  Boris
• 9:27
  from
• 9:28
  the
• 9:28
  Claude
• 9:28
  Code
• 9:28
  team
• 9:28
  confirmed
• 9:29
  they
• 9:29
  are
• 9:29
  investigating
• 9:30
  and
• 9:30
  have
• 9:30
  shipped
• 9:30
  UX
• 9:31
  improvements
• 9:31
  to
• 9:31
  nudge
• 9:31
  users
• 9:32
  toward
• 9:32
  clearing
• 9:32
  stale
• 9:33
  sessions.
• 9:34
  OpenAI
• 9:34
  is
• 9:35
  maneuvering
• 9:35
  in
• 9:35
  the
• 9:35
  same
• 9:35
  pricing
• 9:36
  space.
• 9:37
  A
• 9:37
  new
• 9:37
  $100
• 9:38
  Pro
• 9:38
  tier
• 9:38
  sits
• 9:38
  between
• 9:39
  the
• 9:39
  $20
• 9:39
  Plus
• 9:39
  and
• 9:40
  $200
• 9:40
  tier,
• 9:41
  offering
• 9:41
  5x
• 9:41
  usage
• 9:42
  —
• 9:43
  though
• 9:43
  community
• 9:43
  reaction
• 9:44
  notes
• 9:44
  that
• 9:44
  5x
• 9:45
  the
• 9:45
  usage
• 9:45
  for
• 9:45
  5x
• 9:45
  the
• 9:46
  price
• 9:46
  is
• 9:46
  not
• 9:46
  exactly
• 9:47
  a
• 9:47
  bargain
• 9:47
  compared
• 9:47
  to
• 9:47
  the
• 9:48
  20x
• 9:48
  at
• 9:48
  the
• 9:48
  $200
• 9:49
  level.
• 9:50
  The
• 9:50
  announcement
• 9:50
  coincided
• 9:51
  with
• 9:51
  the
• 9:51
  end
• 9:51
  of
• 9:51
  the
• 9:51
  Codex
• 9:52
  promotional
• 9:52
  period
• 9:53
  for
• 9:53
  Plus
• 9:53
  subscribers,
• 9:54
  with
• 9:54
  OpenAI
• 9:55
  "rebalancing"
• 9:56
  Plus
• 9:56
  Codex
• 9:57
  usage
• 9:57
  toward
• 9:57
  more
• 9:57
  sessions
• 9:58
  spread
• 9:58
  across
• 9:58
  the
• 9:58
  week
• 9:59
  rather
• 9:59
  than
• 9:59
  long
• 9:59
  single-day
• 10:00
  bursts.
• 10:01
  The
• 10:01
  comment
• 10:02
  thread
• 10:02
  reads
• 10:02
  like
• 10:02
  a
• 10:02
  customer
• 10:03
  satisfaction
• 10:03
  survey
• 10:04
  for
• 10:04
  the
• 10:04
  entire
• 10:04
  industry:
• 10:05
  some
• 10:05
  users
• 10:06
  are
• 10:06
  ready
• 10:06
  to
• 10:06
  jump
• 10:07
  from
• 10:07
  Claude
• 10:07
  Max
• 10:07
  to
• 10:07
  OpenAI
• 10:08
  Pro
• 10:08
  for
• 10:08
  coding,
• 10:09
  others
• 10:09
  see
• 10:10
  both
• 10:10
  providers
• 10:10
  getting
• 10:11
  stingier,
• 10:11
  and
• 10:12
  several
• 10:12
  are
• 10:12
  pushing
• 10:12
  toward
• 10:13
  open-source
• 10:13
  alternatives
• 10:14
  entirely.
• 10:15
  Separate
• 10:15
  from
• 10:15
  pricing,
• 10:16
  users
• 10:17
  are
• 10:17
  reporting
• 10:17
  behavioral
• 10:18
  drift
• 10:18
  in
• 10:18
  Claude
• 10:18
  itself.
• 10:20
  A
• 10:20
  Reddit
• 10:20
  thread
• 10:20
  with
• 10:20
  over
• 10:20
  100
• 10:21
  comments
• 10:21
  documents
• 10:22
  what
• 10:22
  the
• 10:22
  community
• 10:23
  calls
• 10:23
  increasing
• 10:24
  sycophancy
• 10:24
  —
• 10:25
  Claude
• 10:25
  now
• 10:26
  agrees
• 10:26
  with
• 10:26
  contradictory
• 10:27
  statements
• 10:27
  across
• 10:28
  consecutive
• 10:28
  messages
• 10:29
  rather
• 10:29
  than
• 10:29
  pushing
• 10:29
  back,
• 10:30
  which
• 10:30
  was
• 10:30
  the
• 10:31
  behavior
• 10:31
  that
• 10:31
  originally
• 10:32
  differentiated
• 10:32
  it
• 10:32
  from
• 10:32
  GPT.
• 10:34
  Five
• 10:34
  consecutive
• 10:35
  reversals
• 10:35
  in
• 10:35
  a
• 10:35
  single
• 10:36
  conversation
• 10:36
  is
• 10:37
  the
• 10:37
  reported
• 10:37
  pattern.
• 10:38
  The
• 10:38
  TL;DR
• 10:39
  auto-generated
• 10:40
  from
• 10:40
  the
• 10:40
  thread:
• 10:41
  "The
• 10:41
  consensus
• 10:42
  is
• 10:42
  a
• 10:42
  resounding
• 10:42
  YES,
• 10:43
  Claude
• 10:44
  has
• 10:44
  become
• 10:44
  a
• 10:44
  sycophantic
• 10:45
  people-pleaser
• 10:45
  recently."
• 10:47
  Meanwhile,
• 10:47
  a
• 10:47
  pen
• 10:48
  tester
• 10:48
  caught
• 10:48
  Claude's
• 10:49
  thinking
• 10:49
  blocks
• 10:49
  being
• 10:50
  processed
• 10:50
  by
• 10:50
  a
• 10:50
  second
• 10:51
  model
• 10:51
  instance
• 10:51
  —
• 10:52
  a
• 10:52
  summarizer
• 10:53
  agent
• 10:53
  that
• 10:53
  rewrites
• 10:54
  and
• 10:54
  compresses
• 10:54
  reasoning
• 10:55
  traces
• 10:55
  before
• 10:55
  display.
• 10:57
  When
• 10:57
  this
• 10:57
  summarizer
• 10:58
  breaks,
• 10:58
  it
• 10:59
  leaks
• 10:59
  its
• 10:59
  own
• 10:59
  task
• 11:00
  framing
• 11:00
  into
• 11:00
  the
• 11:00
  visible
• 11:01
  output:
• 11:01
  "rewrite,"
• 11:02
  "compressed,"
• 11:03
  "guidelines,"
• 11:04
  "next
• 11:05
  thinking
• 11:05
  chunk
• 11:05
  that
• 11:05
  needs
• 11:06
  to
• 11:06
  be
• 11:06
  compressed
• 11:06
  and
• 11:06
  rewritten."
• 11:08
  Every
• 11:08
  thinking
• 11:08
  response
• 11:09
  now
• 11:09
  involves
• 11:09
  at
• 11:09
  least
• 11:10
  two
• 11:10
  model
• 11:10
  calls,
• 11:11
  and
• 11:11
  what
• 11:11
  users
• 11:11
  see
• 11:12
  as
• 11:12
  "Claude's
• 11:12
  thinking"
• 11:13
  is
• 11:13
  a
• 11:13
  sanitized
• 11:14
  rewrite
• 11:14
  —
• 11:15
  useful
• 11:15
  to
• 11:15
  know
• 11:15
  for
• 11:15
  anyone
• 11:16
  using
• 11:16
  thinking
• 11:16
  blocks
• 11:17
  as
• 11:17
  a
• 11:17
  debugging
• 11:17
  signal.
• 11:25
  The
• 11:25
  FBI
• 11:26
  recovered
• 11:26
  the
• 11:26
  content
• 11:27
  of
• 11:27
  deleted
• 11:27
  Signal
• 11:28
  messages
• 11:28
  from
• 11:28
  a
• 11:28
  defendant's
• 11:29
  iPhone
• 11:29
  by
• 11:30
  extracting
• 11:30
  data
• 11:31
  from
• 11:31
  Apple's
• 11:31
  internal
• 11:32
  notification
• 11:32
  storage
• 11:33
  —
• 11:34
  even
• 11:34
  after
• 11:34
  Signal
• 11:34
  had
• 11:34
  been
• 11:35
  removed
• 11:35
  from
• 11:35
  the
• 11:35
  device.
• 11:36
  Testimony
• 11:37
  in
• 11:37
  a
• 11:37
  trial
• 11:37
  involving
• 11:38
  the
• 11:38
  vandalism
• 11:38
  of
• 11:38
  the
• 11:38
  ICE
• 11:39
  Prairieland
• 11:39
  Detention
• 11:39
  Facility
• 11:40
  in
• 11:40
  Texas
• 11:40
  revealed
• 11:41
  that
• 11:41
  only
• 11:41
  incoming
• 11:41
  messages
• 11:42
  were
• 11:42
  captured,
• 11:43
  and
• 11:43
  only
• 11:43
  because
• 11:43
  the
• 11:43
  defendant
• 11:44
  had
• 11:44
  not
• 11:44
  enabled
• 11:44
  Signal's
• 11:45
  setting
• 11:45
  to
• 11:45
  prevent
• 11:46
  message
• 11:46
  content
• 11:46
  from
• 11:46
  appearing
• 11:47
  in
• 11:47
  notification
• 11:47
  previews.
• 11:48
  iOS
• 11:49
  stores
• 11:49
  and
• 11:49
  caches
• 11:50
  notification
• 11:50
  data
• 11:50
  locally,
• 11:51
  trusting
• 11:52
  device
• 11:52
  unlock
• 11:52
  states
• 11:53
  to
• 11:53
  keep
• 11:53
  it
• 11:53
  safe.
• 11:54
  The
• 11:54
  push
• 11:54
  notification
• 11:55
  token
• 11:55
  is
• 11:55
  not
• 11:55
  immediately
• 11:56
  invalidated
• 11:56
  when
• 11:57
  an
• 11:57
  app
• 11:57
  is
• 11:57
  deleted,
• 11:58
  and
• 11:58
  the
• 11:58
  server
• 11:58
  has
• 11:58
  no
• 11:59
  way
• 11:59
  of
• 11:59
  knowing
• 11:59
  the
• 11:59
  app
• 11:59
  is
• 12:00
  gone,
• 12:00
  so
• 12:01
  notifications
• 12:01
  may
• 12:01
  continue
• 12:02
  arriving
• 12:02
  for
• 12:02
  the
• 12:02
  device
• 12:03
  to
• 12:03
  handle.
• 12:04
  Apple
• 12:04
  changed
• 12:05
  how
• 12:05
  iOS
• 12:05
  validates
• 12:06
  push
• 12:06
  notification
• 12:06
  tokens
• 12:07
  on
• 12:07
  the
• 12:07
  same
• 12:07
  day
• 12:07
  the
• 12:07
  story
• 12:08
  broke
• 12:08
  —
• 12:08
  whether
• 12:09
  that
• 12:09
  is
• 12:09
  causal
• 12:09
  or
• 12:09
  coincidental
• 12:10
  is
• 12:10
  anyone's
• 12:10
  guess.
• 12:12
  On
• 12:12
  the
• 12:12
  censorship
• 12:12
  circumvention
• 12:13
  front,
• 12:13
  gecit
• 12:14
  is
• 12:14
  a
• 12:14
  new
• 12:14
  DPI
• 12:15
  bypass
• 12:15
  tool
• 12:15
  that
• 12:15
  takes
• 12:16
  a
• 12:16
  clean,
• 12:16
  cross-platform
• 12:17
  approach
• 12:18
  to
• 12:18
  a
• 12:18
  well-understood
• 12:18
  problem.
• 12:19
  On
• 12:20
  Linux,
• 12:20
  it
• 12:20
  hooks
• 12:20
  directly
• 12:21
  into
• 12:21
  the
• 12:21
  kernel
• 12:21
  TCP
• 12:22
  stack
• 12:22
  via
• 12:22
  eBPF
• 12:23
  sock
• 12:23
  ops
• 12:23
  —
• 12:24
  no
• 12:24
  proxy,
• 12:24
  no
• 12:25
  traffic
• 12:25
  redirection.
• 12:26
  On
• 12:26
  macOS
• 12:27
  and
• 12:27
  Windows,
• 12:27
  it
• 12:28
  uses
• 12:28
  a
• 12:28
  TUN-based
• 12:29
  transparent
• 12:29
  proxy
• 12:30
  with
• 12:30
  gVisor's
• 12:30
  netstack.
• 12:31
  The
• 12:31
  core
• 12:32
  trick:
• 12:32
  before
• 12:33
  the
• 12:33
  real
• 12:33
  TLS
• 12:34
  ClientHello,
• 12:35
  gecit
• 12:35
  sends
• 12:35
  a
• 12:35
  fake
• 12:36
  one
• 12:36
  with
• 12:36
  SNI
• 12:36
  set
• 12:37
  to
• 12:37
  www.google.com
• 12:41
  and
• 12:41
  a
• 12:41
  low
• 12:41
  TTL.
• 12:43
  The
• 12:43
  DPI
• 12:43
  middlebox
• 12:44
  records
• 12:44
  "google.com"
• 12:45
  and
• 12:45
  allows
• 12:46
  the
• 12:46
  connection;
• 12:47
  the
• 12:47
  fake
• 12:48
  packet
• 12:48
  expires
• 12:48
  before
• 12:49
  reaching
• 12:49
  the
• 12:49
  server.
• 12:50
  A
• 12:50
  built-in
• 12:51
  DNS-over-HTTPS
• 12:52
  server
• 12:53
  handles
• 12:53
  DNS
• 12:53
  poisoning.
• 12:55
  The
• 12:55
  FAQ
• 12:55
  is
• 12:55
  refreshingly
• 12:56
  honest:
• 12:57
  this
• 12:57
  does
• 12:57
  not
• 12:57
  hide
• 12:58
  your
• 12:58
  IP,
• 12:58
  encrypt
• 12:59
  your
• 12:59
  traffic,
• 12:59
  or
• 12:59
  provide
• 13:00
  anonymity.
• 13:01
  It
• 13:01
  works
• 13:02
  against
• 13:02
  DPI
• 13:02
  systems
• 13:03
  that
• 13:03
  inspect
• 13:04
  individual
• 13:04
  TCP
• 13:05
  segments
• 13:05
  without
• 13:05
  full
• 13:06
  reassembly
• 13:06
  —
• 13:07
  not
• 13:07
  against
• 13:08
  more
• 13:08
  sophisticated
• 13:08
  systems
• 13:09
  like
• 13:09
  China's.
• 13:10
  The
• 13:11
  project
• 13:11
  chose
• 13:11
  TUN
• 13:12
  over
• 13:12
  WinDivert
• 13:12
  on
• 13:12
  Windows
• 13:13
  because
• 13:13
  WinDivert's
• 13:14
  code
• 13:14
  signing
• 13:14
  certificate
• 13:15
  expired
• 13:15
  in
• 13:15
  2023,
• 13:16
  causing
• 13:17
  Defender
• 13:17
  warnings.
• 13:20
  GLM
• 13:20
  5.1
• 13:21
  has
• 13:21
  arrived
• 13:22
  as
• 13:22
  the
• 13:22
  current
• 13:22
  open-source
• 13:23
  thinking
• 13:23
  SOTA,
• 13:24
  and
• 13:24
  the
• 13:24
  community
• 13:25
  reviews
• 13:25
  are
• 13:25
  a
• 13:25
  study
• 13:26
  in
• 13:26
  "be
• 13:26
  careful
• 13:26
  what
• 13:26
  you
• 13:27
  wish
• 13:27
  for."
• 13:28
  One
• 13:28
  user
• 13:28
  asked
• 13:28
  it
• 13:29
  to
• 13:29
  write
• 13:29
  an
• 13:29
  owner-draw
• 13:29
  CButton
• 13:30
  with
• 13:30
  different
• 13:30
  colors.
• 13:32
  Thirty
• 13:32
  minutes
• 13:32
  and
• 13:33
  150,000
• 13:34
  tokens
• 13:34
  later
• 13:34
  —
• 13:35
  most
• 13:35
  of
• 13:35
  it
• 13:35
  spent
• 13:35
  in
• 13:36
  "actually
• 13:36
  wait"
• 13:36
  loops
• 13:37
  where
• 13:37
  the
• 13:37
  model
• 13:37
  wrote
• 13:37
  novellas
• 13:38
  about
• 13:38
  what
• 13:38
  it
• 13:38
  was
• 13:38
  going
• 13:38
  to
• 13:38
  do
• 13:38
  —
• 13:39
  the
• 13:39
  code
• 13:39
  arrived
• 13:40
  with
• 13:40
  basic
• 13:40
  errors
• 13:41
  like
• 13:41
  accessing
• 13:41
  protected
• 13:41
  members
• 13:42
  directly.
• 13:43
  The
• 13:43
  user's
• 13:43
  math
• 13:43
  is
• 13:43
  instructive:
• 13:45
  150k
• 13:46
  tokens
• 13:46
  over
• 13:46
  30
• 13:46
  minutes
• 13:47
  versus
• 13:47
  15k–20k
• 13:48
  tokens
• 13:48
  and
• 13:48
  two
• 13:48
  minutes
• 13:48
  from
• 13:49
  Claude
• 13:49
  or
• 13:49
  GPT
• 13:50
  for
• 13:50
  the
• 13:50
  same
• 13:50
  simple
• 13:50
  task.
• 13:52
  Running
• 13:52
  locally
• 13:53
  is
• 13:53
  free,
• 13:53
  but
• 13:53
  "free"
• 13:54
  at
• 13:54
  7.5x
• 13:55
  the
• 13:55
  token
• 13:55
  consumption
• 13:56
  is
• 13:56
  not
• 13:56
  obviously
• 13:57
  cheaper.
• 13:58
  Community
• 13:58
  members
• 13:59
  confirmed
• 13:59
  the
• 13:59
  pattern:
• 14:00
  GLM
• 14:01
  5.1
• 14:01
  thinking
• 14:02
  blocks
• 14:02
  include
• 14:02
  gems
• 14:03
  like
• 14:03
  "THIS
• 14:04
  IS
• 14:05
  THE
• 14:07
  ACTUAL
• 14:08
  FINAL
• 14:09
  FINAL
• 14:10
  CODE"
• 14:12
  and
• 14:12
  "Ok
• 14:13
  writing
• 14:13
  the
• 14:13
  code
• 14:13
  For
• 14:13
  Real
• 14:13
  this
• 14:14
  time!"
• 14:14
  Turning
• 14:15
  off
• 14:15
  thinking
• 14:15
  entirely
• 14:16
  reportedly
• 14:16
  produces
• 14:17
  not-terrible
• 14:17
  results
• 14:18
  —
• 14:18
  a
• 14:19
  data
• 14:19
  point
• 14:19
  that
• 14:19
  says
• 14:19
  something
• 14:20
  about
• 14:20
  the
• 14:20
  relationship
• 14:20
  between
• 14:21
  extended
• 14:21
  reasoning
• 14:22
  and
• 14:22
  actual
• 14:22
  problem-solving
• 14:23
  at
• 14:23
  this
• 14:23
  model
• 14:23
  size.
• 14:24
  A
• 14:24
  separate
• 14:25
  thread
• 14:25
  questions
• 14:25
  whether
• 14:26
  importance-matrix
• 14:26
  quantization
• 14:27
  (i-quants)
• 14:27
  deserves
• 14:28
  its
• 14:28
  reputation.
• 14:29
  The
• 14:29
  argument:
• 14:30
  most
• 14:30
  imatrix
• 14:31
  calibration
• 14:31
  files
• 14:32
  are
• 14:32
  80%
• 14:32
  English
• 14:33
  with
• 14:33
  basic
• 14:33
  tasks
• 14:34
  and
• 14:34
  some
• 14:34
  code.
• 14:35
  On
• 14:35
  non-English
• 14:36
  languages
• 14:36
  or
• 14:37
  niche
• 14:37
  tasks,
• 14:38
  the
• 14:38
  effect
• 14:38
  reverses
• 14:39
  —
• 14:39
  the
• 14:40
  calibration
• 14:40
  biases
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  model
• 14:41
  toward
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  calibration
• 14:42
  distribution,
• 14:43
  degrading
• 14:43
  out-of-domain
• 14:44
  performance.
• 14:45
  The
• 14:45
  poster
• 14:46
  reports
• 14:46
  switching
• 14:46
  back
• 14:47
  to
• 14:47
  classic
• 14:47
  Q4
• 14:48
  K
• 14:48
  M
• 14:48
  for
• 14:48
  most
• 14:49
  work,
• 14:49
  reserving
• 14:50
  i-quants
• 14:50
  only
• 14:50
  for
• 14:50
  Q1/Q2
• 14:53
  extremes
• 14:54
  where
• 14:54
  any
• 14:54
  calibration
• 14:54
  beats
• 14:55
  none.
• 14:56
  Community
• 14:56
  response
• 14:57
  is
• 14:57
  nuanced:
• 14:58
  IQ
• 14:58
  quants
• 14:59
  rank
• 14:59
  roughly
• 14:59
  one
• 15:00
  tier
• 15:00
  above
• 15:00
  their
• 15:00
  quant
• 15:01
  value
• 15:01
  (IQ4
• 15:01
  NL
• 15:02
  ≈
• 15:02
  Q5
• 15:02
  0),
• 15:03
  not
• 15:03
  two.
• 15:04
  One
• 15:04
  user
• 15:05
  runs
• 15:05
  Q6
• 15:05
  K
• 15:06
  without
• 15:06
  imatrix
• 15:06
  specifically
• 15:07
  to
• 15:07
  avoid
• 15:07
  the
• 15:08
  domain
• 15:08
  bias.
• 15:09
  Another
• 15:09
  observes
• 15:10
  an
• 15:10
  anthropomorphic
• 15:11
  bias
• 15:11
  where
• 15:11
  faster
• 15:12
  models
• 15:12
  "feel"
• 15:12
  smarter
• 15:13
  and
• 15:13
  slower
• 15:13
  ones
• 15:13
  "feel"
• 15:14
  dumber,
• 15:15
  regardless
• 15:15
  of
• 15:15
  output
• 15:16
  quality.
• 15:16
  In
• 15:16
  head-to-head
• 15:17
  testing
• 15:17
  on
• 15:17
  document
• 15:18
  tasks,
• 15:18
  Gemma
• 15:19
  4
• 15:19
  E4B
• 15:19
  and
• 15:19
  Qwen3.5-4B
• 15:23
  tell
• 15:23
  a
• 15:23
  more
• 15:23
  interesting
• 15:23
  story
• 15:24
  than
• 15:24
  the
• 15:24
  top-line
• 15:24
  numbers
• 15:25
  suggest.
• 15:26
  Qwen
• 15:26
  wins
• 15:26
  all
• 15:26
  three
• 15:27
  benchmarks
• 15:27
  (OlmOCR,
• 15:28
  OmniDocBench,
• 15:29
  IDP
• 15:29
  Core)
• 15:29
  —
• 15:30
  on
• 15:30
  OlmOCR
• 15:31
  the
• 15:31
  gap
• 15:31
  is
• 15:31
  28
• 15:32
  points.
• 15:32
  But
• 15:33
  drill
• 15:33
  into
• 15:33
  IDP
• 15:33
  Core
• 15:34
  sub-scores:
• 15:35
  Gemma
• 15:35
  reads
• 15:35
  raw
• 15:35
  text
• 15:36
  better
• 15:36
  (74.0
• 15:37
  vs
• 15:37
  64.7
• 15:38
  OCR)
• 15:39
  while
• 15:39
  collapsing
• 15:40
  on
• 15:40
  structured
• 15:40
  extraction
• 15:41
  (11.1
• 15:41
  vs
• 15:42
  86.0
• 15:42
  KIE).
• 15:43
  On
• 15:44
  the
• 15:44
  hardest
• 15:44
  visual
• 15:44
  subset
• 15:45
  (handwriting
• 15:45
  and
• 15:45
  figures),
• 15:46
  they
• 15:46
  are
• 15:46
  essentially
• 15:47
  tied
• 15:47
  at
• 15:47
  48.4
• 15:48
  vs
• 15:49
  47.2.
• 15:50
  The
• 15:50
  KIE
• 15:51
  failure
• 15:51
  is
• 15:51
  not
• 15:51
  a
• 15:51
  vision
• 15:51
  problem
• 15:52
  —
• 15:52
  it
• 15:53
  is
• 15:53
  an
• 15:53
  instruction-following
• 15:54
  failure
• 15:54
  on
• 15:54
  schema-defined
• 15:55
  outputs.
• 15:56
  If
• 15:56
  you
• 15:56
  are
• 15:56
  preprocessing
• 15:57
  documents
• 15:57
  before
• 15:58
  passing
• 15:58
  to
• 15:58
  another
• 15:58
  model
• 15:59
  and
• 15:59
  care
• 15:59
  about
• 15:59
  raw
• 16:00
  text
• 16:00
  fidelity,
• 16:01
  Gemma's
• 16:01
  perception
• 16:01
  quality
• 16:02
  is
• 16:02
  underrated.
• 16:03
  If
• 16:03
  you
• 16:03
  are
• 16:03
  running
• 16:04
  end-to-end
• 16:04
  extraction
• 16:05
  pipelines,
• 16:05
  Qwen
• 16:06
  remains
• 16:06
  the
• 16:06
  pick.
• 16:07
  On
• 16:07
  the
• 16:07
  hardware
• 16:07
  front,
• 16:08
  someone
• 16:08
  finally
• 16:09
  found
• 16:09
  a
• 16:09
  use
• 16:09
  for
• 16:09
  their
• 16:09
  Intel
• 16:10
  NPU:
• 16:11
  whisper-npu
• 16:11
  runs
• 16:12
  OpenAI
• 16:12
  Whisper
• 16:12
  models
• 16:13
  entirely
• 16:13
  on
• 16:13
  the
• 16:14
  NPU
• 16:14
  for
• 16:14
  speech-to-text,
• 16:15
  activated
• 16:16
  by
• 16:16
  a
• 16:16
  global
• 16:16
  hotkey
• 16:17
  that
• 16:17
  transcribes
• 16:17
  audio
• 16:18
  and
• 16:18
  pastes
• 16:18
  it
• 16:18
  into
• 16:18
  the
• 16:19
  focused
• 16:19
  input
• 16:19
  box.
• 16:20
  No
• 16:20
  setup,
• 16:21
  no
• 16:21
  config
• 16:21
  —
• 16:22
  download
• 16:22
  and
• 16:23
  run.
• 16:23
  Google's
• 16:24
  TurboQuant
• 16:24
  paper
• 16:25
  addresses
• 16:25
  what
• 16:25
  may
• 16:26
  be
• 16:26
  the
• 16:26
  most
• 16:26
  important
• 16:27
  infrastructure
• 16:27
  constraint
• 16:28
  in
• 16:28
  the
• 16:28
  industry:
• 16:29
  KV
• 16:29
  cache
• 16:29
  memory.
• 16:30
  The
• 16:31
  technique
• 16:31
  combines
• 16:32
  Polar
• 16:32
  Quant
• 16:32
  (rotating
• 16:33
  data
• 16:33
  into
• 16:33
  a
• 16:33
  standard
• 16:33
  coordinate
• 16:34
  system
• 16:35
  that
• 16:35
  eliminates
• 16:35
  per-block
• 16:35
  normalization
• 16:36
  overhead)
• 16:37
  with
• 16:37
  Quantized
• 16:37
  Johnson-Lindenstrauss
• 16:39
  (a
• 16:39
  single-bit
• 16:39
  error
• 16:39
  correction
• 16:40
  that
• 16:40
  eliminates
• 16:41
  bias
• 16:41
  in
• 16:41
  attention
• 16:42
  scores).
• 16:43
  The
• 16:43
  result:
• 16:44
  6x
• 16:44
  memory
• 16:45
  reduction
• 16:45
  in
• 16:45
  the
• 16:45
  KV
• 16:45
  cache
• 16:46
  and
• 16:46
  up
• 16:46
  to
• 16:46
  8x
• 16:46
  speedup,
• 16:47
  tested
• 16:48
  across
• 16:48
  question
• 16:48
  answering,
• 16:49
  code
• 16:49
  generation,
• 16:50
  summarization,
• 16:51
  and
• 16:51
  100k-token
• 16:52
  needle-in-a-haystack
• 16:53
  retrieval
• 16:53
  —
• 16:54
  all
• 16:55
  lossless.
• 16:56
  The
• 16:56
  strategic
• 16:56
  implications
• 16:57
  are
• 16:57
  significant:
• 16:59
  Google
• 16:59
  wrote
• 16:59
  it
• 16:59
  and
• 16:59
  runs
• 17:00
  Gemini,
• 17:00
  giving
• 17:01
  them
• 17:01
  a
• 17:01
  compounding
• 17:01
  cost
• 17:02
  advantage
• 17:02
  on
• 17:02
  their
• 17:03
  TPU
• 17:03
  stack.
• 17:04
  For
• 17:04
  Nvidia,
• 17:05
  whose
• 17:05
  Vera
• 17:05
  Rubin
• 17:05
  pitch
• 17:06
  centered
• 17:06
  on
• 17:06
  500x
• 17:07
  memory
• 17:07
  increases
• 17:08
  through
• 17:08
  hardware,
• 17:09
  software-based
• 17:10
  compression
• 17:10
  that
• 17:10
  delivers
• 17:11
  6x
• 17:11
  from
• 17:11
  existing
• 17:12
  GPUs
• 17:12
  complicates
• 17:13
  the
• 17:13
  narrative.
• 17:14
  The
• 17:14
  broader
• 17:15
  context
• 17:15
  is
• 17:16
  that
• 17:16
  at
• 17:16
  least
• 17:16
  five
• 17:16
  distinct
• 17:17
  research
• 17:17
  vectors
• 17:17
  —
• 17:18
  quantization,
• 17:19
  eviction/sparsity,
• 17:21
  architectural
• 17:22
  redesign
• 17:22
  (DeepSeek
• 17:23
  v2's
• 17:23
  multi-head
• 17:24
  latent
• 17:24
  attention),
• 17:25
  offloading,
• 17:25
  and
• 17:26
  attention
• 17:26
  optimization
• 17:27
  (Flash
• 17:27
  Attention)
• 17:27
  —
• 17:28
  are
• 17:28
  all
• 17:29
  attacking
• 17:29
  the
• 17:29
  memory
• 17:29
  problem
• 17:30
  simultaneously.
• 17:36
  In
• 17:36
  digital
• 17:37
  electronics,
• 17:37
  the
• 17:38
  NAND
• 17:38
  gate
• 17:38
  proves
• 17:38
  that
• 17:39
  a
• 17:39
  single
• 17:39
  two-input
• 17:39
  operator
• 17:40
  suffices
• 17:40
  for
• 17:41
  all
• 17:41
  Boolean
• 17:41
  logic.
• 17:42
  Continuous
• 17:43
  mathematics
• 17:43
  has
• 17:44
  never
• 17:44
  had
• 17:44
  an
• 17:44
  equivalent
• 17:44
  —
• 17:45
  until
• 17:45
  now.
• 17:46
  Andrzej
• 17:46
  Odrzywołek
• 17:47
  at
• 17:47
  Jagiellonian
• 17:48
  University
• 17:48
  shows
• 17:48
  that
• 17:49
  the
• 17:49
  operator
• 17:49
  EML(x,
• 17:50
  y)
• 17:50
  =
• 17:51
  exp(x)
• 17:51
  −
• 17:51
  log(y),
• 17:52
  paired
• 17:53
  with
• 17:53
  the
• 17:53
  constant
• 17:53
  1,
• 17:54
  generates
• 17:54
  the
• 17:54
  complete
• 17:55
  repertoire
• 17:55
  of
• 17:55
  a
• 17:55
  scientific
• 17:55
  calculator:
• 17:56
  trigonometric
• 17:57
  functions,
• 17:58
  hyperbolic
• 17:58
  functions,
• 17:59
  logarithms,
• 18:00
  exponentiation,
• 18:01
  arithmetic,
• 18:02
  and
• 18:02
  constants
• 18:03
  including
• 18:03
  π,
• 18:04
  e,
• 18:04
  and
• 18:04
  i.
• 18:05
  A
• 18:05
  two-button
• 18:05
  calculator
• 18:05
  —
• 18:06
  EML
• 18:06
  and
• 18:07
  1
• 18:07
  —
• 18:07
  replaces
• 18:08
  every
• 18:08
  button
• 18:08
  on
• 18:08
  a
• 18:08
  scientific
• 18:09
  calculator.
• 18:10
  The
• 18:10
  discovery
• 18:10
  came
• 18:10
  through
• 18:10
  systematic
• 18:11
  exhaustive
• 18:11
  search,
• 18:12
  expanding
• 18:13
  81
• 18:13
  seeds
• 18:13
  through
• 18:14
  iterative
• 18:14
  bootstrapping,
• 18:15
  with
• 18:15
  a
• 18:15
  Rust
• 18:15
  reimplementation
• 18:16
  (translated
• 18:16
  by
• 18:17
  GPT
• 18:17
  Codex
• 18:17
  5.3)
• 18:18
  verifying
• 18:18
  the
• 18:18
  chain
• 18:19
  in
• 18:19
  seconds
• 18:19
  rather
• 18:19
  than
• 18:19
  hours.
• 18:21
  The
• 18:21
  practical
• 18:21
  implications
• 18:21
  go
• 18:22
  beyond
• 18:22
  mathematical
• 18:22
  aesthetics.
• 18:23
  Every
• 18:23
  EML
• 18:23
  expression
• 18:24
  is
• 18:24
  a
• 18:25
  binary
• 18:25
  tree
• 18:25
  of
• 18:25
  identical
• 18:26
  nodes,
• 18:26
  yielding
• 18:27
  a
• 18:27
  trivially
• 18:27
  simple
• 18:27
  context-free
• 18:28
  grammar.
• 18:29
  This
• 18:29
  uniform
• 18:29
  structure
• 18:30
  enables
• 18:30
  gradient-based
• 18:31
  symbolic
• 18:31
  regression:
• 18:32
  parameterized
• 18:33
  EML
• 18:33
  trees
• 18:34
  can
• 18:34
  be
• 18:34
  optimized
• 18:34
  with
• 18:35
  standard
• 18:35
  methods
• 18:35
  like
• 18:36
  Adam,
• 18:36
  and
• 18:37
  when
• 18:37
  the
• 18:37
  generating
• 18:37
  law
• 18:37
  is
• 18:38
  elementary,
• 18:38
  trained
• 18:39
  weights
• 18:39
  snap
• 18:39
  to
• 18:39
  exact
• 18:40
  closed-form
• 18:40
  expressions
• 18:41
  at
• 18:41
  machine-epsilon
• 18:42
  precision.
• 18:43
  At
• 18:43
  tree
• 18:43
  depth
• 18:43
  2,
• 18:44
  blind
• 18:44
  recovery
• 18:44
  from
• 18:44
  random
• 18:45
  initialization
• 18:45
  succeeds
• 18:46
  in
• 18:46
  100%
• 18:47
  of
• 18:47
  runs;
• 18:47
  at
• 18:47
  depth
• 18:47
  3–4,
• 18:49
  approximately
• 18:49
  25%;
• 18:51
  at
• 18:51
  depth
• 18:51
  5
• 18:51
  and
• 18:51
  beyond,
• 18:52
  the
• 18:52
  basins
• 18:52
  of
• 18:52
  attraction
• 18:53
  exist
• 18:53
  (perturbed
• 18:54
  correct
• 18:54
  weights
• 18:54
  always
• 18:55
  converge
• 18:55
  back)
• 18:56
  but
• 18:56
  finding
• 18:56
  them
• 18:56
  from
• 18:56
  random
• 18:57
  initialization
• 18:57
  becomes
• 18:58
  the
• 18:58
  bottleneck.
• 18:59
  The
• 18:59
  author
• 19:00
  notes
• 19:00
  EML
• 19:00
  is
• 19:00
  not
• 19:01
  unique
• 19:01
  —
• 19:02
  cousins
• 19:02
  EDL
• 19:02
  and
• 19:03
  a
• 19:03
  ternary
• 19:03
  variant
• 19:03
  requiring
• 19:04
  no
• 19:04
  distinguished
• 19:05
  constant
• 19:05
  have
• 19:05
  already
• 19:06
  been
• 19:06
  found,
• 19:06
  and
• 19:07
  the
• 19:07
  question
• 19:07
  of
• 19:07
  whether
• 19:07
  a
• 19:07
  purely
• 19:08
  real-domain
• 19:08
  Sheffer
• 19:09
  operator
• 19:09
  exists
• 19:10
  remains
• 19:10
  open.
• 19:11
  For
• 19:11
  the
• 19:11
  neural
• 19:11
  network
• 19:12
  community,
• 19:13
  the
• 19:13
  implication
• 19:13
  is
• 19:13
  that
• 19:14
  any
• 19:14
  conventional
• 19:14
  network
• 19:15
  is
• 19:15
  a
• 19:15
  special
• 19:16
  case
• 19:16
  of
• 19:16
  an
• 19:16
  EML
• 19:17
  tree
• 19:17
  architecture,
• 19:18
  since
• 19:18
  standard
• 19:18
  activation
• 19:19
  functions
• 19:19
  are
• 19:19
  themselves
• 19:20
  elementary
• 19:20
  —
• 19:21
  but
• 19:21
  EML
• 19:21
  trees
• 19:22
  can
• 19:22
  snap
• 19:22
  to
• 19:22
  exact
• 19:23
  symbolic
• 19:23
  expressions
• 19:23
  where
• 19:24
  conventional
• 19:24
  architectures
• 19:25
  cannot.