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AGI Dreams Podcast – September 01, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Abliteration
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  —
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  surgically
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  stripping
• 0:01
  refusal
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  behavior
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  out
• 0:02
  of
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  a
• 0:02
  model's
• 0:03
  weights
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  —
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  has
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  graduated
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  from
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  anonymous
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  Hugging
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  Face
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  uploads
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  to
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  a
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  hosted
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  business
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  with
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  a
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  pricing
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  page.
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  abliteration.ai
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  sells
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  an
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  "OpenAI-compatible
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  unrestricted
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  AI"
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  pitched
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  at
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  red
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  teams,
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  trust-and-safety
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  teams,
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  synthetic
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  data
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  generation,
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  and
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  defense
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  workflows,
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  promising
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  the
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  security
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  and
• 0:18
  research
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  answers
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  that
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  "refusal
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  theater"
• 0:19
  blocks
• 0:19
  elsewhere.
• 0:21
  Integration
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  is
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  a
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  single
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  base-URL
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  change
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  against
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  OpenAI's
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  or
• 0:23
  Anthropic's
• 0:24
  APIs
• 0:24
  at
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  about
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  $3
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  per
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  million
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  tokens,
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  and
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  the
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  closing
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  pitch
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  is
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  blunt:
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  "Try
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  the
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  model
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  that
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  doesn't
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  say
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  no"
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  .
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  The
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  interesting
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  part
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  for
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  anyone
• 0:31
  who
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  has
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  run
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  production
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  abuse
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  controls
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  is
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  the
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  Policy
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  Gateway,
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  an
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  enterprise
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  tier
• 0:34
  that
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  moves
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  the
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  guardrails
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  out
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  of
• 0:35
  the
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  model
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  and
• 0:36
  into
• 0:36
  policy-as-code.
• 0:38
  Every
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  request
• 0:39
  routed
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  through
• 0:39
  it
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  gets
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  one
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  of
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  five
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  outcomes
• 0:40
  —
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  allow,
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  refuse,
• 0:42
  rewrite,
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  redact,
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  or
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  escalate
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  —
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  with
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  a
• 0:45
  reason
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  code
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  streamed
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  to
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  Splunk,
• 0:47
  Datadog,
• 0:47
  Elastic,
• 0:48
  or
• 0:48
  the
• 0:48
  customer's
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  own
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  S3.
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  Example
• 0:51
  decisions:
• 0:51
  a
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  CVE
• 0:52
  proof-of-concept
• 0:53
  for
• 0:53
  a
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  red
• 0:53
  team
• 0:53
  is
• 0:54
  allowed,
• 0:54
  a
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  clinical
• 0:55
  query
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  passes
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  with
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  PHI
• 0:56
  masked,
• 0:57
  harassment
• 0:57
  and
• 0:57
  doxxing
• 0:58
  prompts
• 0:58
  are
• 0:58
  refused.
• 0:59
  That
• 1:00
  is
• 1:00
  architecturally
• 1:00
  honest
• 1:01
  in
• 1:01
  a
• 1:01
  way
• 1:01
  most
• 1:01
  vendors
• 1:02
  aren't:
• 1:02
  alignment
• 1:03
  baked
• 1:03
  into
• 1:03
  weights
• 1:04
  is
• 1:04
  a
• 1:04
  suggestion,
• 1:05
  while
• 1:05
  an
• 1:05
  external
• 1:06
  enforcement
• 1:06
  layer
• 1:06
  is
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  a
• 1:07
  control.
• 1:08
  But
• 1:08
  every
• 1:08
  claim
• 1:08
  here
• 1:08
  —
• 1:09
  no
• 1:09
  prompt
• 1:09
  retention,
• 1:10
  anonymous
• 1:11
  audit
• 1:11
  logs,
• 1:12
  a
• 1:12
  policy
• 1:12
  engine
• 1:12
  that
• 1:13
  catches
• 1:13
  what
• 1:13
  it
• 1:13
  should
• 1:13
  —
• 1:14
  is
• 1:14
  vendor
• 1:15
  assertion
• 1:15
  without
• 1:15
  an
• 1:15
  external
• 1:16
  audit,
• 1:16
  and
• 1:17
  the
• 1:17
  standing
• 1:17
  lesson
• 1:17
  from
• 1:18
  red-team
• 1:18
  benchmarking
• 1:18
  of
• 1:18
  uncensored
• 1:19
  models
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  is
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  that
• 1:20
  willingness
• 1:20
  is
• 1:21
  cheap
• 1:21
  and
• 1:21
  accuracy
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  scarce.
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  The
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  free
• 1:23
  end
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  of
• 1:23
  the
• 1:23
  market
• 1:24
  keeps
• 1:24
  churning
• 1:24
  meanwhile:
• 1:25
  a
• 1:25
  six-name
• 1:26
  franken-merge
• 1:26
  of
• 1:26
  Qwen3.6-35B
• 1:30
  is
• 1:30
  trending
• 1:30
  on
• 1:30
  Hugging
• 1:31
  Face
• 1:31
  with
• 1:31
  essentially
• 1:31
  no
• 1:32
  model
• 1:32
  card
• 1:32
  .
• 1:33
  A
• 1:33
  Technion
• 1:33
  paper
• 1:33
  supplies
• 1:34
  the
• 1:34
  mechanistic
• 1:34
  backdrop
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  for
• 1:35
  why
• 1:35
  refusal
• 1:35
  is
• 1:35
  so
• 1:36
  easy
• 1:36
  to
• 1:36
  route
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  around.
• 1:37
  The
• 1:37
  authors
• 1:37
  built
• 1:38
  150
• 1:38
  unethical
• 1:39
  scenarios
• 1:39
  from
• 1:39
  the
• 1:39
  ETHICS
• 1:39
  dataset
• 1:40
  and
• 1:40
  presented
• 1:40
  each
• 1:41
  in
• 1:41
  three
• 1:41
  framings:
• 1:42
  as
• 1:42
  a
• 1:42
  moral
• 1:42
  classification
• 1:43
  task,
• 1:43
  as
• 1:44
  a
• 1:44
  neutral
• 1:44
  narrative,
• 1:45
  and
• 1:45
  as
• 1:45
  a
• 1:45
  first-person
• 1:45
  request
• 1:46
  for
• 1:46
  help.
• 1:47
  Qwen2.5-7B
• 1:49
  and
• 1:49
  Ministral3-14B
• 1:51
  judge
• 1:51
  the
• 1:51
  first
• 1:51
  two
• 1:51
  forms
• 1:52
  correctly,
• 1:52
  then
• 1:52
  comply
• 1:53
  with
• 1:53
  the
• 1:53
  third
• 1:53
  —
• 1:54
  same
• 1:54
  facts,
• 1:55
  different
• 1:55
  framing.
• 1:56
  Using
• 1:56
  Layer-wise
• 1:56
  Relevance
• 1:57
  Propagation
• 1:57
  they
• 1:57
  show
• 1:58
  the
• 1:58
  models
• 1:58
  assign
• 1:58
  less
• 1:58
  relevance
• 1:59
  to
• 1:59
  the
• 1:59
  "cue
• 1:59
  tokens"
• 2:00
  signaling
• 2:00
  the
• 2:01
  transgression
• 2:01
  ("without
• 2:02
  getting
• 2:02
  caught")
• 2:02
  than
• 2:02
  to
• 2:02
  the
• 2:02
  benign
• 2:03
  task
• 2:03
  framing
• 2:04
  ("Can
• 2:04
  you
• 2:04
  help
• 2:04
  me..."),
• 2:05
  so
• 2:05
  the
• 2:05
  request
• 2:05
  gets
• 2:05
  processed
• 2:06
  as
• 2:06
  ordinary
• 2:06
  helpfulness.
• 2:08
  Forcing
• 2:08
  alternative
• 2:08
  first
• 2:09
  tokens
• 2:09
  uncovers
• 2:10
  an
• 2:10
  ethical
• 2:10
  continuation
• 2:11
  for
• 2:11
  up
• 2:11
  to
• 2:11
  78.9%
• 2:13
  of
• 2:13
  complied
• 2:13
  queries
• 2:13
  —
• 2:14
  the
• 2:14
  safe
• 2:14
  answer
• 2:15
  exists
• 2:15
  in
• 2:15
  the
• 2:15
  distribution,
• 2:16
  unreached.
• 2:17
  Their
• 2:17
  LRP-guided
• 2:18
  decoding
• 2:18
  fixes
• 2:19
  raise
• 2:19
  ethical-response
• 2:20
  rates
• 2:20
  on
• 2:20
  both
• 2:20
  models,
• 2:21
  while
• 2:21
  zero-shot
• 2:22
  chain-of-thought
• 2:22
  actually
• 2:23
  makes
• 2:23
  things
• 2:23
  worse
• 2:23
  .
• 2:24
  Alignment
• 2:24
  as
• 2:24
  currently
• 2:25
  practiced
• 2:25
  is
• 2:25
  an
• 2:25
  attention-allocation
• 2:26
  habit,
• 2:27
  not
• 2:27
  a
• 2:27
  value.
• 2:28
  Both
• 2:28
  the
• 2:28
  abliterationists
• 2:29
  and
• 2:29
  the
• 2:29
  policy-gateway
• 2:30
  architects
• 2:31
  have
• 2:31
  internalized
• 2:31
  that;
• 2:32
  most
• 2:32
  safety
• 2:33
  marketing
• 2:33
  hasn't.
• 2:35
  Z.AI
• 2:36
  kept
• 2:36
  its
• 2:36
  promise:
• 2:37
  GLM-5.3
• 2:38
  weights
• 2:38
  are
• 2:38
  now
• 2:39
  public,
• 2:39
  a
• 2:39
  day
• 2:39
  later
• 2:40
  than
• 2:40
  the
• 2:40
  announced
• 2:40
  date,
• 2:41
  which
• 2:41
  by
• 2:41
  frontier-lab
• 2:41
  standards
• 2:42
  counts
• 2:42
  as
• 2:42
  punctuality.
• 2:43
  The
• 2:43
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 2:44
  thread
• 2:45
  is
• 2:45
  mostly
• 2:45
  logistics
• 2:45
  —
• 2:46
  Unsloth
• 2:46
  "having
• 2:47
  an
• 2:47
  incredibly
• 2:47
  busy
• 2:48
  48
• 2:48
  hours,"
• 2:48
  questions
• 2:49
  about
• 2:49
  24
• 2:49
  GB
• 2:50
  VRAM
• 2:50
  rigs,
• 2:51
  and
• 2:51
  the
• 2:51
  recurring
• 2:51
  observation
• 2:52
  that
• 2:52
  the
• 2:52
  smaller
• 2:52
  Flash
• 2:52
  variant
• 2:53
  benchmarks
• 2:53
  better
• 2:54
  than
• 2:54
  the
• 2:54
  full
• 2:54
  model
• 2:54
  anyway
• 2:54
  .
• 2:55
  The
• 2:56
  release
• 2:56
  closes
• 2:56
  the
• 2:56
  loop
• 2:56
  on
• 2:57
  the
• 2:57
  Ox-Alpha
• 2:57
  stealth-model
• 2:58
  episode,
• 2:58
  and
• 2:59
  the
• 2:59
  family's
• 2:59
  local
• 2:59
  footprint
• 3:00
  is
• 3:00
  now
• 3:00
  concrete:
• 3:01
  a
• 3:01
  4-bit
• 3:01
  Flash
• 3:02
  weighs
• 3:02
  190-200
• 3:03
  GB,
• 3:04
  the
• 3:04
  full
• 3:04
  model
• 3:05
  450-470
• 3:06
  GB.
• 3:07
  Those
• 3:08
  numbers
• 3:08
  come
• 3:08
  from
• 3:08
  the
• 3:08
  most
• 3:08
  instructive
• 3:09
  hands-on
• 3:09
  test
• 3:10
  of
• 3:10
  the
• 3:10
  week:
• 3:11
  one
• 3:11
  builder
• 3:11
  rented
• 3:11
  RTX
• 3:12
  PRO
• 3:12
  6000
• 3:13
  workstations
• 3:13
  (four
• 3:14
  for
• 3:14
  Flash,
• 3:15
  six
• 3:15
  for
• 3:15
  the
• 3:15
  full
• 3:15
  model)
• 3:16
  and
• 3:16
  had
• 3:16
  both
• 3:16
  models
• 3:17
  construct
• 3:17
  a
• 3:17
  luxury
• 3:17
  penthouse
• 3:18
  in
• 3:18
  Blender
• 3:18
  through
• 3:18
  BlenderMCP
• 3:19
  from
• 3:19
  a
• 3:20
  dimensioned
• 3:20
  prompt
• 3:20
  —
• 3:21
  ceiling
• 3:21
  heights,
• 3:22
  stair
• 3:22
  rise,
• 3:23
  mullion
• 3:23
  spacing.
• 3:24
  Flash
• 3:24
  started
• 3:24
  placing
• 3:25
  objects
• 3:25
  within
• 3:25
  ten
• 3:25
  seconds,
• 3:26
  finished
• 3:26
  in
• 3:26
  under
• 3:27
  39
• 3:27
  minutes,
• 3:27
  and
• 3:28
  used
• 3:28
  36K
• 3:28
  output
• 3:29
  tokens.
• 3:30
  The
• 3:30
  full
• 3:30
  GLM-5.3
• 3:31
  thought
• 3:32
  for
• 3:32
  21
• 3:32
  minutes
• 3:32
  and
• 3:33
  55
• 3:33
  seconds
• 3:33
  before
• 3:34
  touching
• 3:34
  anything,
• 3:35
  burned
• 3:35
  112K
• 3:36
  tokens,
• 3:37
  and
• 3:37
  finished
• 3:37
  barely
• 3:38
  ahead
• 3:38
  on
• 3:38
  object
• 3:38
  count.
• 3:39
  The
• 3:39
  damning
• 3:39
  detail
• 3:40
  is
• 3:40
  in
• 3:40
  the
• 3:40
  measurement
• 3:40
  pass:
• 3:41
  raycasting
• 3:42
  the
• 3:42
  finished
• 3:42
  scenes
• 3:42
  showed
• 3:43
  Flash
• 3:43
  built
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  double-height
• 3:44
  void
• 3:44
  at
• 3:44
  the
• 3:44
  specified
• 3:45
  9
• 3:45
  by
• 3:45
  8
• 3:45
  meters,
• 3:46
  while
• 3:46
  the
• 3:46
  full
• 3:46
  model
• 3:47
  built
• 3:47
  it
• 3:47
  at
• 3:47
  9
• 3:47
  by
• 3:47
  4.5
• 3:48
  —
• 3:49
  and
• 3:49
  reported
• 3:49
  it
• 3:49
  as
• 3:49
  9
• 3:50
  by
• 3:50
  8.
• 3:50
  Three
• 3:51
  times
• 3:51
  the
• 3:51
  tokens,
• 3:52
  twenty
• 3:52
  minutes
• 3:52
  of
• 3:52
  deliberation,
• 3:53
  and
• 3:53
  a
• 3:54
  confidently
• 3:54
  wrong
• 3:54
  self-report;
• 3:56
  one
• 3:56
  experiment,
• 3:56
  not
• 3:57
  a
• 3:57
  benchmark,
• 3:57
  but
• 3:58
  a
• 3:58
  tidy
• 3:58
  illustration
• 3:59
  that
• 3:59
  thinking-token
• 3:59
  budgets
• 4:00
  don't
• 4:00
  buy
• 4:00
  spatial
• 4:00
  ground
• 4:01
  truth
• 4:01
  .
• 4:02
  Where
• 4:02
  those
• 4:02
  weights
• 4:02
  will
• 4:02
  live
• 4:03
  is
• 4:03
  suddenly
• 4:03
  a
• 4:03
  live
• 4:03
  question,
• 4:04
  because
• 4:04
  the
• 4:04
  community
• 4:04
  is
• 4:05
  processing
• 4:05
  Nvidia's
• 4:06
  acquisition
• 4:06
  of
• 4:06
  Hugging
• 4:06
  Face
• 4:07
  by
• 4:07
  rehearsing
• 4:07
  exit
• 4:08
  routes.
• 4:08
  A
• 4:09
  recurring
• 4:09
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 4:10
  reminder
• 4:10
  —
• 4:11
  openly
• 4:12
  licensed
• 4:12
  models
• 4:13
  are
• 4:13
  legal
• 4:13
  to
• 4:13
  torrent,
• 4:14
  whatever
• 4:14
  reflexes
• 4:15
  the
• 4:15
  word
• 4:15
  triggers
• 4:15
  —
• 4:16
  is
• 4:16
  drawing
• 4:16
  lists
• 4:16
  of
• 4:17
  trackers
• 4:17
  (huggingbay,
• 4:18
  llama
• 4:18
  garden,
• 4:18
  modelregistry)
• 4:19
  and
• 4:19
  centralized
• 4:20
  fallbacks
• 4:20
  (ModelScope,
• 4:21
  Kaggle,
• 4:21
  Civitai).
• 4:22
  The
• 4:23
  sensible
• 4:23
  caveat
• 4:23
  in
• 4:23
  the
• 4:24
  thread:
• 4:24
  without
• 4:24
  published
• 4:25
  SHA-256
• 4:27
  hashes,
• 4:28
  torrented
• 4:28
  weights
• 4:28
  are
• 4:28
  a
• 4:28
  supply-chain
• 4:29
  incident
• 4:29
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• 4:30
  for
• 4:30
  a
• 4:30
  victim.
• 4:31
  Torrent-based
• 4:32
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• 4:32
  has
• 4:33
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• 4:33
  repeatedly
• 4:34
  for
• 4:34
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• 4:34
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• 4:34
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• 4:34
  mass;
• 4:35
  whether
• 4:36
  an
• 4:36
  Nvidia-owned
• 4:36
  hub
• 4:37
  is
• 4:37
  the
• 4:37
  crisis
• 4:37
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• 4:37
  finally
• 4:38
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• 4:38
  that
• 4:38
  depends
• 4:39
  on
• 4:39
  what
• 4:39
  Nvidia
• 4:40
  does
• 4:40
  with
• 4:40
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• 4:41
  policies,
• 4:42
  gated
• 4:42
  licenses,
• 4:43
  and
• 4:43
  bandwidth
• 4:43
  .
• 4:44
  Nvidia,
• 4:45
  which
• 4:45
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• 4:45
  chips,
• 4:46
  has
• 4:46
  every
• 4:46
  incentive
• 4:47
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• 4:47
  keep
• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:48
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• 4:49
  the
• 4:49
  doom
• 4:49
  scenario
• 4:49
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• 4:50
  a
• 4:50
  scenario.
• 4:54
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• 4:54
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• 4:54
  made
• 4:54
  the
• 4:55
  most
• 4:55
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• 4:55
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• 4:56
  hardware
• 4:56
  play
• 4:57
  of
• 4:57
  any
• 4:57
  consumer
• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:59
  entire
• 4:59
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• 4:59
  line
• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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• 5:02
  September
• 5:02
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• 5:03
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• 5:03
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• 5:03
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• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:05
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:09
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• 5:09
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
  Mac
• 5:10
  Studio
• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:13
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• 5:14
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• 5:15
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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• 5:21
  ($5,500),
• 5:23
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• 5:23
  512
• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:27
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• 5:27
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• 5:27
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
  Pro,
• 5:29
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:35
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• 5:35
  The
• 5:35
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
  Apple
• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:48
  become
• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
  the
• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:54
  Nvidia
• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
  announcement,
• 5:56
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• 5:56
  the
• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:07
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:12
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
  Qwen
• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:20
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• 6:20
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• 6:21
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• 6:21
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• 6:22
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• 6:23
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• 6:23
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• 6:23
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:27
  Two
• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:28
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• 6:29
  wider
• 6:29
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• 6:30
  performance
• 6:31
  collapses
• 6:31
  to
• 6:31
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• 6:32
  tokens
• 6:32
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• 6:32
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
  memory
• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:36
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
  "completely
• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:39
  about
• 6:39
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• 6:39
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• 6:39
  —
• 6:40
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:43
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• 6:43
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• 6:44
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• 6:44
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• 6:44
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:54
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:58
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• 6:58
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 7:00
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• 7:00
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• 7:00
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:03
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• 7:04
  An
• 7:04
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• 7:05
  ran
• 7:05
  four
• 7:05
  mid-size
• 7:06
  local
• 7:06
  models
• 7:07
  as
• 7:07
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• 7:08
  ML
• 7:08
  researchers
• 7:09
  on
• 7:09
  a
• 7:09
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• 7:10
  Spark
• 7:10
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• 7:10
  Karpathy's
• 7:11
  auto-research
• 7:11
  repo:
• 7:12
  six
• 7:13
  hours
• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
  model's
• 7:14
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• 7:15
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• 7:15
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• 7:17
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• 7:17
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• 7:18
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• 7:19
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• 7:19
  3.5
• 7:20
  Lightning
• 7:20
  ground
• 7:21
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• 7:21
  43
• 7:22
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• 7:22
  and
• 7:23
  found
• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
  batch
• 7:24
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:27
  27B
• 7:27
  ran
• 7:28
  only
• 7:28
  21
• 7:28
  experiments
• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
  on
• 7:30
  and
• 7:30
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• 7:30
  won,
• 7:31
  1.142
• 7:32
  validation
• 7:32
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• 7:33
  to
• 7:33
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• 7:34
  independently
• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
  same
• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
  warm-up
• 7:37
  schedule.
• 7:38
  Deliberation
• 7:39
  beat
• 7:39
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• 7:39
  narrowly
• 7:39
  .
• 7:40
  Kernel
• 7:41
  craft
• 7:41
  is
• 7:41
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• 7:42
  too:
• 7:43
  a
• 7:43
  visual
• 7:43
  guide
• 7:44
  builds
• 7:44
  a
• 7:44
  Blackwell
• 7:44
  B200
• 7:45
  attention
• 7:45
  kernel
• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
  in
• 7:47
  raw
• 7:47
  CUDA
• 7:47
  plus
• 7:47
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• 7:48
  across
• 7:49
  14
• 7:49
  progressive
• 7:50
  kernels
• 7:50
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• 7:50
  60
• 7:51
  diagrams,
• 7:52
  reaching
• 7:52
  94.4%
• 7:53
  of
• 7:54
  FlashAttention-4.
• 7:55
  The
• 7:55
  through-line:
• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:58
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• 7:58
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• 7:58
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• 7:59
  while
• 7:59
  exp
• 7:59
  units
• 7:59
  didn't,
• 8:00
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• 8:00
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• 8:01
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• 8:01
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• 8:01
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:03
  it
• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:04
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• 8:06
  Open
• 8:06
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• 8:07
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• 8:10
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• 8:10
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:12
  button
• 8:12
  now
• 8:12
  works
• 8:12
  in
• 8:12
  both
• 8:13
  directions.
• 8:14
  Tool
• 8:14
  Permissions,
• 8:15
  an
• 8:15
  experimental
• 8:15
  admin-enabled
• 8:16
  control,
• 8:17
  halts
• 8:17
  each
• 8:17
  tool
• 8:18
  call
• 8:18
  as
• 8:18
  a
• 8:18
  card
• 8:18
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• 8:19
  the
• 8:19
  tool,
• 8:19
  unfolds
• 8:20
  to
• 8:20
  show
• 8:20
  the
• 8:20
  exact
• 8:20
  arguments,
• 8:21
  and
• 8:21
  waits
• 8:21
  for
• 8:21
  allow
• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
  —
• 8:23
  denials
• 8:23
  feed
• 8:23
  back
• 8:24
  to
• 8:24
  the
• 8:24
  model,
• 8:24
  decisions
• 8:25
  persist
• 8:25
  per
• 8:25
  conversation.
• 8:27
  Mirror-image:
• 8:27
  a
• 8:28
  new
• 8:28
  ask
• 8:28
  user
• 8:28
  builtin
• 8:29
  lets
• 8:29
  the
• 8:29
  model
• 8:30
  halt
• 8:30
  itself
• 8:30
  mid-response
• 8:31
  and
• 8:31
  pose
• 8:31
  a
• 8:31
  structured
• 8:32
  question
• 8:32
  with
• 8:32
  labeled
• 8:33
  options,
• 8:33
  surviving
• 8:34
  page
• 8:34
  reloads.
• 8:35
  This
• 8:36
  is
• 8:36
  the
• 8:36
  authorization-boundary
• 8:37
  pattern
• 8:37
  —
• 8:38
  a
• 8:38
  non-bypassable
• 8:39
  layer
• 8:39
  between
• 8:39
  reasoning
• 8:40
  and
• 8:40
  execution
• 8:40
  —
• 8:41
  arriving
• 8:41
  in
• 8:42
  the
• 8:42
  most-deployed
• 8:42
  self-hosted
• 8:43
  AI
• 8:43
  frontend,
• 8:44
  with
• 8:44
  open
• 8:44
  credit
• 8:44
  to
• 8:44
  the
• 8:44
  community
• 8:45
  plugin
• 8:45
  that
• 8:45
  pioneered
• 8:46
  it.
• 8:46
  The
• 8:47
  release
• 8:47
  also
• 8:47
  fixes
• 8:47
  something
• 8:48
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• 8:48
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• 8:49
  streaming
• 8:50
  replies
• 8:50
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• 8:50
  resending
• 8:51
  the
• 8:51
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• 8:51
  text
• 8:51
  on
• 8:51
  every
• 8:52
  update,
• 8:52
  so
• 8:52
  a
• 8:52
  250,000-character
• 8:54
  reply
• 8:55
  moved
• 8:55
  roughly
• 8:55
  1.5
• 8:56
  GB;
• 8:57
  deltas
• 8:57
  bring
• 8:57
  that
• 8:58
  under
• 8:58
  two
• 8:58
  megabytes.
• 8:59
  There
• 8:59
  are
• 8:59
  also
• 9:00
  unspecified
• 9:00
  security
• 9:01
  and
• 9:01
  access-control
• 9:02
  fixes,
• 9:02
  which
• 9:02
  for
• 9:03
  a
• 9:03
  tool
• 9:03
  routinely
• 9:03
  exposed
• 9:04
  on
• 9:04
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• 9:04
  means
• 9:04
  update
• 9:05
  now
• 9:05
  .
• 9:06
  The
• 9:06
  coding-harness
• 9:06
  field
• 9:07
  is
• 9:07
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• 9:07
  well
• 9:07
  past
• 9:08
  the
• 9:08
  point
• 9:08
  where
• 9:08
  existence
• 9:09
  is
• 9:09
  news,
• 9:10
  so
• 9:10
  differentiation
• 9:11
  claims
• 9:11
  are
• 9:11
  the
• 9:11
  story.
• 9:12
  Whip,
• 9:12
  a
• 9:13
  Go
• 9:13
  harness
• 9:13
  from
• 9:13
  context-labs,
• 9:14
  bets
• 9:14
  on
• 9:15
  speed
• 9:15
  —
• 9:15
  parallel
• 9:16
  tool
• 9:16
  calls,
• 9:17
  streaming
• 9:17
  everything,
• 9:18
  channels
• 9:18
  instead
• 9:18
  of
• 9:18
  hand-rolled
• 9:19
  promises
• 9:19
  —
• 9:20
  and
• 9:20
  on
• 9:20
  candor:
• 9:21
  its
• 9:21
  roadmap
• 9:22
  cites
• 9:22
  which
• 9:22
  competitor
• 9:23
  each
• 9:23
  borrowed
• 9:23
  idea
• 9:24
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• 9:24
  from,
• 9:24
  while
• 9:25
  betting
• 9:25
  on
• 9:25
  open-source
• 9:25
  models
• 9:26
  with
• 9:26
  live
• 9:26
  provider-catalog
• 9:27
  discovery
• 9:27
  baked
• 9:28
  in
• 9:28
  .
• 9:29
  GitHits
• 9:29
  takes
• 9:29
  the
• 9:29
  context
• 9:30
  side
• 9:30
  of
• 9:30
  the
• 9:30
  same
• 9:30
  problem:
• 9:31
  a
• 9:31
  local
• 9:32
  MCP
• 9:32
  server
• 9:32
  giving
• 9:33
  agents
• 9:33
  public
• 9:33
  open-source
• 9:34
  evidence
• 9:34
  —
• 9:35
  search
• 9:35
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• 9:36
  package
• 9:36
  source,
• 9:37
  read
• 9:37
  exact
• 9:37
  files
• 9:38
  without
• 9:38
  cloning,
• 9:39
  inspect
• 9:39
  vulnerabilities
• 9:40
  and
• 9:40
  dependency
• 9:41
  graphs
• 9:41
  across
• 9:41
  a
• 9:42
  dozen
• 9:42
  registries
• 9:42
  —
• 9:43
  with
• 9:43
  automatic
• 9:44
  setup
• 9:44
  for
• 9:44
  19
• 9:45
  coding
• 9:45
  tools
• 9:45
  and
• 9:45
  license
• 9:46
  filtering
• 9:46
  that
• 9:46
  ranges
• 9:47
  from
• 9:47
  strict
• 9:47
  copyleft
• 9:48
  exclusion
• 9:48
  through
• 9:49
  a
• 9:49
  per-account
• 9:49
  blacklist
• 9:50
  to
• 9:50
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• 9:50
  mode
• 9:50
  literally
• 9:51
  named
• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:52
  The
• 9:52
  standing
• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
  the
• 9:53
  whole
• 9:53
  genre:
• 9:54
  an
• 9:55
  MCP
• 9:55
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• 9:56
  that
• 9:56
  reads
• 9:56
  your
• 9:56
  codebase
• 9:57
  and
• 9:57
  phones
• 9:57
  an
• 9:57
  index
• 9:58
  is
• 9:58
  exactly
• 9:58
  the
• 9:58
  shape
• 9:59
  a
• 9:59
  malicious
• 9:59
  context
• 10:00
  tool
• 10:00
  takes,
• 10:00
  so
• 10:01
  the
• 10:01
  trust
• 10:01
  chain
• 10:01
  matters
• 10:02
  more
• 10:02
  than
• 10:02
  the
• 10:02
  feature
• 10:02
  list.
• 10:03
  Web
• 10:04
  Draw
• 10:04
  attacks
• 10:04
  browser
• 10:05
  automation
• 10:05
  from
• 10:05
  the
• 10:05
  cheap
• 10:06
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• 10:06
  render
• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:08
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• 10:08
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• 10:08
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
  on
• 10:10
  every
• 10:10
  control,
• 10:11
  so
• 10:11
  a
• 10:11
  7B
• 10:12
  text-only
• 10:12
  model
• 10:13
  can
• 10:13
  run
• 10:13
  the
• 10:13
  observe-act-observe
• 10:14
  loop
• 10:14
  without
• 10:15
  vision
• 10:15
  —
• 10:15
  an
• 10:16
  Amazon
• 10:16
  search
• 10:17
  page
• 10:17
  in
• 10:17
  about
• 10:17
  750
• 10:18
  tokens.
• 10:19
  The
• 10:19
  design
• 10:20
  sweats
• 10:20
  small-model
• 10:21
  failure
• 10:21
  modes:
• 10:22
  covered
• 10:22
  controls
• 10:23
  are
• 10:23
  flagged
• 10:24
  rather
• 10:24
  than
• 10:24
  clicked,
• 10:25
  ambiguous
• 10:25
  targets
• 10:26
  fail
• 10:26
  with
• 10:26
  candidates
• 10:27
  listed,
• 10:27
  refused
• 10:28
  form
• 10:28
  submits
• 10:29
  report
• 10:29
  what
• 10:29
  the
• 10:29
  page
• 10:30
  said.
• 10:31
  Worth
• 10:31
  remembering
• 10:31
  that
• 10:32
  agents
• 10:32
  reading
• 10:32
  page
• 10:33
  text
• 10:33
  see
• 10:33
  a
• 10:34
  different
• 10:34
  internet
• 10:34
  than
• 10:34
  humans
• 10:35
  do
• 10:35
  —
• 10:36
  invisible
• 10:36
  spans
• 10:37
  are
• 10:37
  a
• 10:37
  proven
• 10:37
  prompt-injection
• 10:38
  channel
• 10:38
  —
• 10:39
  so
• 10:40
  existing-login
• 10:41
  browser
• 10:41
  automation
• 10:42
  deserves
• 10:42
  the
• 10:42
  same
• 10:42
  skepticism
• 10:43
  whatever
• 10:43
  the
• 10:44
  observation
• 10:44
  modality
• 10:44
  .
• 10:48
  David
• 10:48
  Heinemeier
• 10:48
  Hansson
• 10:49
  spent
• 10:49
  years
• 10:49
  as
• 10:50
  tech's
• 10:50
  most
• 10:50
  quotable
• 10:50
  AI
• 10:51
  skeptic;
• 10:51
  on
• 10:52
  Lex
• 10:52
  Fridman's
• 10:52
  podcast
• 10:53
  he
• 10:53
  now
• 10:53
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• 10:53
  November
• 10:54
  24,
• 10:54
  2025
• 10:55
  as
• 10:55
  his
• 10:55
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• 10:56
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• 10:56
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• 10:56
  describes
• 10:56
  himself
• 10:57
  as
• 10:57
  fully
• 10:57
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• 10:58
  to
• 10:58
  agentic
• 10:58
  engineering.
• 10:59
  The
• 10:59
  evidence
• 10:59
  he
• 11:00
  brings
• 11:00
  is
• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:01
  Omarchy's
• 11:02
  new
• 11:02
  Quattro
• 11:03
  release
• 11:03
  —
• 11:03
  his
• 11:04
  Arch-based
• 11:04
  Linux
• 11:04
  distribution
• 11:05
  —
• 11:05
  was
• 11:06
  100%
• 11:06
  agent-written
• 11:07
  over
• 11:07
  three
• 11:07
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• 11:08
  with
• 11:08
  over
• 11:08
  1,000
• 11:09
  merged
• 11:09
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• 11:10
  requests
• 11:10
  and
• 11:10
  330
• 11:11
  marketplace
• 11:12
  plugins
• 11:12
  appearing
• 11:12
  in
• 11:12
  three
• 11:13
  days.
• 11:13
  His
• 11:14
  personal
• 11:14
  benchmark,
• 11:14
  translating
• 11:15
  a
• 11:15
  Python
• 11:16
  terminal-effects
• 11:16
  library
• 11:17
  into
• 11:17
  a
• 11:17
  dependency-free
• 11:18
  Rust
• 11:18
  binary,
• 11:19
  ranks
• 11:19
  the
• 11:19
  field:
• 11:20
  Fable
• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:21
  in
• 11:21
  about
• 11:21
  45
• 11:21
  minutes,
• 11:22
  GPT
• 11:22
  Soul
• 11:23
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• 11:23
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• 11:23
  hour
• 11:23
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• 11:23
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• 11:23
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• 11:24
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• 11:24
  V4
• 11:24
  Pro
• 11:24
  nearly
• 11:25
  three
• 11:25
  hours,
• 11:26
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• 11:26
  two
• 11:26
  models
• 11:27
  failed
• 11:27
  outright
• 11:27
  —
• 11:27
  one
• 11:28
  by
• 11:28
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• 11:29
  wrapping
• 11:29
  an
• 11:29
  existing
• 11:29
  implementation
• 11:30
  instead
• 11:30
  of
• 11:30
  writing
• 11:31
  one.
• 11:31
  His
• 11:31
  rig
• 11:31
  is
• 11:31
  around
• 11:32
  16
• 11:32
  parallel
• 11:32
  agent
• 11:33
  threads
• 11:33
  across
• 11:33
  mini-PCs
• 11:34
  via
• 11:34
  KVMs
• 11:34
  and
• 11:34
  Tailscale.
• 11:35
  He's
• 11:35
  not
• 11:36
  uncritical:
• 11:36
  he
• 11:37
  calls
• 11:37
  Claude
• 11:37
  Code
• 11:37
  the
• 11:38
  best
• 11:38
  harness
• 11:38
  while
• 11:38
  resenting
• 11:39
  Anthropic
• 11:39
  locking
• 11:40
  subscriptions
• 11:40
  out
• 11:40
  of
• 11:40
  third-party
• 11:41
  harnesses,
• 11:42
  and
• 11:42
  notes
• 11:42
  Claude
• 11:42
  refused
• 11:43
  to
• 11:43
  translate
• 11:43
  his
• 11:43
  own
• 11:43
  immigration
• 11:44
  essay
• 11:44
  while
• 11:44
  Kimi
• 11:45
  answered
• 11:45
  questions
• 11:45
  about
• 11:45
  Tiananmen
• 11:46
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• 11:46
  —
• 11:47
  a
• 11:47
  censorship
• 11:47
  gradient
• 11:47
  running
• 11:48
  opposite
• 11:48
  to
• 11:48
  Western
• 11:48
  intuition
• 11:49
  .
• 11:49
  The
• 11:49
  caveat
• 11:50
  for
• 11:50
  every
• 11:50
  100%-agent-written
• 11:51
  claim
• 11:51
  applies
• 11:52
  here:
• 11:52
  a
• 11:52
  greenfield
• 11:53
  Linux
• 11:53
  distro
• 11:53
  is
• 11:53
  the
• 11:53
  friendliest
• 11:54
  possible
• 11:54
  terrain,
• 11:55
  and
• 11:55
  his
• 11:55
  own
• 11:56
  account
• 11:56
  includes
• 11:56
  an
• 11:56
  earlier
• 11:57
  "let
• 11:57
  designers
• 11:57
  vibe"
• 11:58
  phase
• 11:58
  at
• 11:58
  Basecamp
• 11:58
  that
• 11:58
  destroyed
• 11:59
  architecture
• 12:00
  and
• 12:00
  needed
• 12:00
  manual
• 12:00
  cleanup.
• 12:01
  The
• 12:01
  enterprise
• 12:02
  version
• 12:02
  of
• 12:02
  that
• 12:02
  conversion
• 12:03
  is
• 12:03
  slower
• 12:03
  and
• 12:03
  less
• 12:03
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• 12:04
  which
• 12:04
  is
• 12:04
  roughly
• 12:04
  the
• 12:05
  point.
• 12:06
  A
• 12:06
  Maven
• 12:06
  LIVE
• 12:06
  panel
• 12:07
  with
• 12:07
  enablement
• 12:07
  leads
• 12:07
  from
• 12:07
  L'Oréal,
• 12:08
  Superside,
• 12:08
  and
• 12:09
  Personio
• 12:09
  was
• 12:09
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• 12:09
  about
• 12:10
  what
• 12:10
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• 12:10
  the
• 12:10
  needle:
• 12:11
  L'Oréal's
• 12:11
  internal
• 12:12
  GPT
• 12:12
  has
• 12:12
  been
• 12:13
  live
• 12:13
  over
• 12:13
  two
• 12:13
  years,
• 12:14
  with
• 12:14
  skills
• 12:14
  assessment
• 12:15
  against
• 12:15
  five
• 12:15
  of
• 12:15
  600
• 12:16
  identified
• 12:16
  skills
• 12:17
  feeding
• 12:17
  personalized
• 12:17
  training
• 12:18
  and
• 12:18
  usage
• 12:19
  segmented
• 12:19
  by
• 12:19
  sophistication
• 12:20
  rather
• 12:20
  than
• 12:20
  raw
• 12:20
  activity;
• 12:21
  Superside
• 12:22
  runs
• 12:22
  cohort
• 12:22
  bootcamps
• 12:23
  on
• 12:23
  real
• 12:23
  projects
• 12:24
  because
• 12:24
  "conversational
• 12:25
  AI
• 12:25
  is
• 12:25
  easy,
• 12:26
  applying
• 12:26
  it
• 12:26
  in
• 12:26
  context
• 12:27
  is
• 12:27
  not";
• 12:28
  and
• 12:28
  ROI
• 12:28
  measurement
• 12:29
  remains
• 12:29
  early
• 12:29
  everywhere,
• 12:30
  with
• 12:30
  tool-usage
• 12:30
  counts
• 12:31
  an
• 12:31
  admittedly
• 12:31
  insufficient
• 12:32
  metric.
• 12:32
  The
• 12:33
  tension
• 12:33
  between
• 12:33
  DHH's
• 12:34
  16
• 12:34
  threads
• 12:34
  and
• 12:35
  a
• 12:35
  Fortune-500
• 12:35
  program
• 12:36
  still
• 12:36
  assessing
• 12:36
  prompt-engineering
• 12:37
  competency
• 12:38
  is
• 12:38
  the
• 12:38
  actual
• 12:38
  state
• 12:39
  of
• 12:39
  the
• 12:39
  industry
• 12:39
  .
• 12:42
  Higgsfield
• 12:43
  says
• 12:43
  it
• 12:43
  has
• 12:43
  released
• 12:44
  the
• 12:44
  first
• 12:44
  full-length
• 12:45
  AI-generated
• 12:46
  movie
• 12:46
  with
• 12:46
  licensed
• 12:47
  celebrity
• 12:47
  likenesses:
• 12:48
  110
• 12:49
  minutes,
• 12:49
  a
• 12:49
  28-person
• 12:50
  team,
• 12:51
  four
• 12:51
  weeks,
• 12:52
  roughly
• 12:52
  $2
• 12:52
  million
• 12:53
  total
• 12:53
  with
• 12:53
  half
• 12:54
  in
• 12:54
  compute,
• 12:54
  generated
• 12:55
  on
• 12:55
  Seedance
• 12:55
  2.5,
• 12:57
  with
• 12:57
  all
• 12:57
  ten
• 12:57
  workflow
• 12:57
  steps
• 12:58
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• 12:58
  in
• 12:58
  an
• 12:59
  80-page
• 12:59
  guide.
• 13:00
  Against
• 13:01
  a
• 13:01
  conventional
• 13:01
  $20-100
• 13:02
  million,
• 13:03
  12-18-month
• 13:03
  feature,
• 13:04
  that's
• 13:04
  2%
• 13:05
  of
• 13:05
  the
• 13:05
  cost
• 13:05
  in
• 13:06
  6%
• 13:06
  of
• 13:06
  the
• 13:06
  time,
• 13:07
  and
• 13:07
  the
• 13:07
  company
• 13:08
  claims
• 13:08
  a
• 13:08
  $700
• 13:09
  million
• 13:09
  revenue
• 13:10
  run
• 13:10
  rate.
• 13:11
  All
• 13:11
  of
• 13:11
  that
• 13:12
  deserves
• 13:12
  the
• 13:12
  asterisk
• 13:12
  Higgsfield
• 13:13
  has
• 13:13
  earned:
• 13:14
  its
• 13:14
  previous
• 13:14
  "fully
• 13:15
  AI-generated
• 13:15
  feature"
• 13:16
  was
• 13:16
  promoted
• 13:17
  as
• 13:17
  a
• 13:17
  Cannes
• 13:17
  premiere
• 13:18
  until
• 13:18
  the
• 13:18
  festival
• 13:18
  confirmed
• 13:19
  it
• 13:19
  had
• 13:19
  merely
• 13:19
  screened
• 13:20
  in
• 13:20
  the
• 13:20
  pay-to-play
• 13:20
  Marché
• 13:21
  du
• 13:21
  Film
• 13:21
  —
• 13:22
  and
• 13:22
  that
• 13:22
  film
• 13:22
  was
• 13:22
  reported
• 13:23
  at
• 13:23
  $500,000
• 13:24
  on
• 13:24
  Google
• 13:25
  Veo,
• 13:25
  so
• 13:25
  treat
• 13:25
  today's
• 13:26
  larger
• 13:26
  numbers
• 13:26
  as
• 13:26
  company
• 13:27
  claims
• 13:27
  until
• 13:28
  someone
• 13:28
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• 13:28
  sits
• 13:29
  through
• 13:29
  the
• 13:29
  movie.
• 13:30
  The
• 13:30
  surrounding
• 13:30
  discussion
• 13:31
  is
• 13:31
  stronger
• 13:31
  than
• 13:31
  the
• 13:31
  flagship
• 13:32
  claim:
• 13:33
  Bloomberg's
• 13:33
  finding
• 13:34
  that
• 13:34
  nine
• 13:34
  of
• 13:34
  the
• 13:34
  top
• 13:35
  ten
• 13:35
  text-to-video
• 13:35
  models
• 13:36
  are
• 13:36
  Chinese,
• 13:37
  the
• 13:37
  observation
• 13:38
  that
• 13:38
  video
• 13:38
  models
• 13:38
  are
• 13:39
  effectively
• 13:39
  learning
• 13:39
  physics
• 13:40
  and
• 13:40
  object
• 13:40
  permanence
• 13:41
  for
• 13:41
  free,
• 13:42
  and
• 13:42
  open-source
• 13:42
  LTX
• 13:43
  2.5
• 13:44
  running
• 13:44
  fast
• 13:44
  enough
• 13:44
  on
• 13:44
  a
• 13:44
  MacBook
• 13:45
  Pro
• 13:45
  to
• 13:45
  render
• 13:45
  live
• 13:46
  inside
• 13:46
  games.
• 13:47
  The
• 13:47
  cost
• 13:47
  trajectory
• 13:48
  —
• 13:49
  $3
• 13:49
  per
• 13:49
  30
• 13:50
  seconds
• 13:50
  of
• 13:50
  top-tier
• 13:50
  generation
• 13:51
  today,
• 13:52
  a
• 13:52
  projected
• 13:52
  $100,000
• 13:53
  compute
• 13:54
  budget
• 13:54
  for
• 13:54
  a
• 13:54
  feature
• 13:55
  soon
• 13:55
  —
• 13:56
  is
• 13:56
  the
• 13:56
  part
• 13:56
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• 13:56
  survives
• 13:57
  any
• 13:57
  single
• 13:57
  vendor's
• 13:58
  embellishment
• 13:58
  .
• 13:59
  Ted's
• 13:59
  Terror
• 13:59
  Tales
• 14:00
  packages
• 14:00
  its
• 14:00
  collapse
• 14:01
  scenario
• 14:01
  with
• 14:01
  knowingly
• 14:02
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• 14:02
  banter,
• 14:03
  but
• 14:03
  the
• 14:03
  joke
• 14:04
  is
• 14:04
  in
• 14:04
  the
• 14:04
  delivery,
• 14:04
  not
• 14:05
  the
• 14:05
  concerns
• 14:05
  it
• 14:05
  raises.
• 14:07
  The
• 14:07
  compilation
• 14:07
  is
• 14:07
  valuable
• 14:08
  precisely
• 14:09
  because
• 14:09
  it
• 14:09
  refuses
• 14:10
  to
• 14:10
  treat
• 14:10
  AI
• 14:10
  as
• 14:11
  a
• 14:11
  self-contained
• 14:11
  product
• 14:12
  cycle.
• 14:13
  Its
• 14:13
  clips
• 14:13
  connect
• 14:14
  the
• 14:14
  investment
• 14:14
  boom
• 14:14
  to
• 14:15
  public
• 14:15
  debt,
• 14:15
  tax
• 14:16
  policy,
• 14:16
  market
• 14:17
  concentration,
• 14:18
  white-collar
• 14:18
  employment,
• 14:19
  housing
• 14:20
  collateral,
• 14:20
  bank
• 14:21
  rescues,
• 14:21
  energy
• 14:22
  and
• 14:22
  water
• 14:22
  subsidies,
• 14:23
  monetary
• 14:24
  digitization,
• 14:25
  and
• 14:25
  cybersecurity
• 14:25
  —
• 14:27
  an
• 14:27
  attempt
• 14:27
  to
• 14:27
  model
• 14:27
  the
• 14:27
  cascade
• 14:28
  rather
• 14:28
  than
• 14:29
  argue
• 14:29
  over
• 14:29
  whether
• 14:29
  the
• 14:29
  next
• 14:30
  benchmark
• 14:30
  is
• 14:30
  impressive.
• 14:32
  The
• 14:32
  central
• 14:32
  case
• 14:33
  is
• 14:33
  substantial:
• 14:34
  transformative
• 14:35
  technologies
• 14:35
  routinely
• 14:36
  overbuild
• 14:36
  before
• 14:37
  their
• 14:37
  economics
• 14:37
  catch
• 14:38
  up;
• 14:38
  the
• 14:39
  national
• 14:39
  debt
• 14:39
  has
• 14:39
  crossed
• 14:40
  $40
• 14:40
  trillion
• 14:41
  with
• 14:41
  roughly
• 14:42
  a
• 14:42
  trillion
• 14:42
  a
• 14:42
  year
• 14:42
  going
• 14:43
  to
• 14:43
  interest;
• 14:44
  AI-tied
• 14:45
  megacaps
• 14:45
  carry
• 14:45
  an
• 14:45
  extraordinary
• 14:46
  share
• 14:46
  of
• 14:47
  index
• 14:47
  performance;
• 14:48
  an
• 14:48
  MIT
• 14:49
  study
• 14:49
  found
• 14:49
  95%
• 14:50
  of
• 14:50
  enterprise
• 14:51
  AI
• 14:51
  initiatives
• 14:52
  producing
• 14:52
  no
• 14:52
  measurable
• 14:53
  return;
• 14:54
  and
• 14:54
  AI
• 14:54
  infrastructure
• 14:55
  is
• 14:55
  being
• 14:55
  financed
• 14:56
  on
• 14:56
  replacement
• 14:57
  cycles
• 14:57
  radically
• 14:57
  shorter
• 14:58
  than
• 14:58
  railroads,
• 14:59
  roads,
• 14:59
  or
• 14:59
  fiber.
• 15:00
  Put
• 15:00
  together,
• 15:01
  those
• 15:01
  are
• 15:01
  not
• 15:01
  random
• 15:01
  anxieties.
• 15:03
  They
• 15:03
  describe
• 15:03
  a
• 15:03
  political
• 15:04
  economy
• 15:04
  in
• 15:04
  which
• 15:04
  gains
• 15:05
  accrue
• 15:05
  first
• 15:05
  to
• 15:06
  asset
• 15:06
  owners
• 15:06
  while
• 15:06
  workers,
• 15:07
  ratepayers,
• 15:08
  taxpayers,
• 15:08
  and
• 15:09
  host
• 15:09
  communities
• 15:09
  absorb
• 15:10
  much
• 15:10
  of
• 15:10
  the
• 15:10
  downside
• 15:11
  if
• 15:11
  the
• 15:11
  promised
• 15:12
  returns
• 15:12
  fail
• 15:12
  to
• 15:12
  arrive.
• 15:14
  Its
• 15:14
  institutional
• 15:15
  warning
• 15:15
  deserves
• 15:15
  especially
• 15:16
  serious
• 15:16
  treatment.
• 15:17
  Programmable
• 15:18
  money,
• 15:18
  interoperable
• 15:19
  digital
• 15:19
  identity,
• 15:20
  ubiquitous
• 15:21
  data
• 15:21
  collection,
• 15:22
  and
• 15:22
  AI-mediated
• 15:23
  enforcement
• 15:23
  are
• 15:24
  real
• 15:24
  capabilities;
• 15:25
  assembled
• 15:26
  together,
• 15:26
  they
• 15:26
  could
• 15:27
  form
• 15:27
  an
• 15:27
  extraordinarily
• 15:28
  efficient
• 15:28
  control
• 15:29
  system.
• 15:30
  Dismissing
• 15:30
  that
• 15:30
  concern
• 15:31
  because
• 15:31
  there
• 15:31
  is
• 15:32
  no
• 15:32
  single
• 15:32
  signed
• 15:32
  blueprint
• 15:33
  misses
• 15:33
  how
• 15:33
  systems
• 15:34
  of
• 15:34
  power
• 15:34
  usually
• 15:35
  emerge:
• 15:35
  through
• 15:36
  aligned
• 15:36
  incentives,
• 15:37
  interoperable
• 15:37
  infrastructure,
• 15:38
  and
• 15:39
  institutions
• 15:39
  moving
• 15:40
  in
• 15:40
  the
• 15:40
  same
• 15:40
  direction
• 15:41
  without
• 15:41
  requiring
• 15:41
  one
• 15:41
  command
• 15:42
  center.
• 15:43
  The
• 15:43
  references
• 15:44
  to
• 15:44
  bail-ins
• 15:45
  and
• 15:45
  the
• 15:45
  BIS
• 15:45
  are
• 15:45
  best
• 15:46
  read
• 15:46
  in
• 15:46
  that
• 15:46
  context
• 15:46
  —
• 15:47
  as
• 15:48
  a
• 15:48
  warning
• 15:48
  about
• 15:48
  capability,
• 15:49
  precedent,
• 15:50
  and
• 15:50
  institutional
• 15:50
  direction.
• 15:52
  The
• 15:52
  security
• 15:52
  clips
• 15:53
  extend
• 15:53
  the
• 15:53
  same
• 15:53
  pattern.
• 15:54
  Mythos
• 15:55
  and
• 15:55
  the
• 15:55
  Glasswing
• 15:56
  program
• 15:56
  were
• 15:56
  public
• 15:57
  rather
• 15:57
  than
• 15:57
  secret,
• 15:58
  and
• 15:58
  attributing
• 15:59
  abliterated
• 15:59
  Qwen
• 16:00
  uploads
• 16:00
  specifically
• 16:01
  to
• 16:01
  Chinese
• 16:01
  state
• 16:01
  strategy
• 16:02
  goes
• 16:02
  beyond
• 16:03
  what
• 16:03
  the
• 16:03
  compilation
• 16:03
  demonstrates,
• 16:05
  but
• 16:05
  neither
• 16:05
  detail
• 16:06
  dissolves
• 16:06
  the
• 16:06
  underlying
• 16:07
  asymmetry:
• 16:08
  frontier
• 16:08
  cyber
• 16:09
  capability
• 16:09
  is
• 16:09
  being
• 16:10
  concentrated
• 16:11
  among
• 16:11
  selected
• 16:11
  incumbents
• 16:12
  at
• 16:12
  the
• 16:12
  same
• 16:13
  time
• 16:13
  unrestricted
• 16:13
  open
• 16:14
  models
• 16:14
  are
• 16:14
  proliferating.
• 16:16
  Correcting
• 16:16
  an
• 16:16
  individual
• 16:17
  date
• 16:17
  or
• 16:17
  attribution
• 16:18
  is
• 16:18
  useful;
• 16:19
  using
• 16:19
  it
• 16:20
  to
• 16:20
  discard
• 16:20
  the
• 16:20
  systems
• 16:21
  view
• 16:21
  is
• 16:21
  not.
• 16:22
  That
• 16:22
  connection
• 16:23
  is
• 16:23
  the
• 16:23
  contribution:
• 16:24
  financial
• 16:24
  fragility,
• 16:25
  labor
• 16:25
  displacement,
• 16:26
  infrastructure
• 16:27
  churn,
• 16:28
  surveillance
• 16:28
  capacity,
• 16:29
  and
• 16:29
  unequal
• 16:30
  access
• 16:30
  to
• 16:30
  powerful
• 16:31
  AI
• 16:31
  are
• 16:31
  not
• 16:32
  separate
• 16:32
  stories,
• 16:33
  but
• 16:33
  components
• 16:34
  of
• 16:34
  one
• 16:34
  plausible
• 16:34
  failure
• 16:35
  cascade
• 16:35
  that
• 16:35
  the
• 16:35
  industry's
• 16:36
  hype
• 16:36
  narrative
• 16:37
  has
• 16:37
  little
• 16:37
  interest
• 16:37
  in
• 16:37
  confronting
• 16:38
  .
• 16:41
  A
• 16:41
  measurement
• 16:42
  paper
• 16:42
  audits
• 16:42
  three
• 16:43
  deployed
• 16:43
  commercial
• 16:44
  AI
• 16:44
  medical
• 16:44
  scribes
• 16:44
  on
• 16:45
  the
• 16:45
  same
• 16:45
  142
• 16:46
  consultations
• 16:47
  and
• 16:47
  finds
• 16:48
  that
• 16:48
  31.3%
• 16:49
  of
• 16:49
  notes
• 16:49
  carry
• 16:50
  at
• 16:50
  least
• 16:50
  one
• 16:50
  verified
• 16:51
  failure
• 16:51
  —
• 16:51
  one
• 16:52
  note
• 16:52
  in
• 16:52
  three.
• 16:53
  The
• 16:53
  pipeline
• 16:54
  matters
• 16:54
  as
• 16:54
  much
• 16:54
  as
• 16:54
  the
• 16:55
  number:
• 16:55
  twelve
• 16:55
  LLM
• 16:56
  discovery
• 16:56
  passes
• 16:57
  proposed
• 16:57
  13,678
• 16:59
  candidate
• 16:59
  errors,
• 17:00
  an
• 17:00
  adversarial
• 17:01
  panel
• 17:01
  of
• 17:01
  two
• 17:01
  skeptic
• 17:02
  models
• 17:02
  from
• 17:02
  different
• 17:03
  families,
• 17:03
  instructed
• 17:04
  to
• 17:04
  refute
• 17:04
  anything
• 17:05
  defensible,
• 17:06
  killed
• 17:06
  almost
• 17:06
  90%
• 17:07
  of
• 17:07
  them,
• 17:08
  and
• 17:08
  blinded
• 17:08
  clinicians
• 17:09
  upheld
• 17:09
  95%
• 17:10
  of
• 17:10
  sampled
• 17:10
  survivors.
• 17:11
  The
• 17:11
  surviving
• 17:12
  failures
• 17:12
  are
• 17:12
  the
• 17:12
  kind
• 17:13
  that
• 17:13
  hurt:
• 17:13
  an
• 17:14
  inaudible
• 17:14
  allergy
• 17:14
  answer
• 17:15
  transcribed
• 17:15
  as
• 17:15
  a
• 17:15
  definite
• 17:16
  aspirin
• 17:16
  allergy
• 17:16
  in
• 17:17
  a
• 17:17
  chest-pain
• 17:17
  consult,
• 17:18
  an
• 17:18
  inaudible
• 17:19
  patient
• 17:19
  name
• 17:19
  rendered
• 17:20
  as
• 17:20
  "Gemzar"
• 17:20
  —
• 17:21
  a
• 17:21
  chemotherapy
• 17:22
  brand
• 17:22
  —
• 17:23
  telephone
• 17:23
  consultations
• 17:24
  written
• 17:24
  up
• 17:24
  with
• 17:24
  physical
• 17:25
  exams
• 17:25
  that
• 17:25
  never
• 17:25
  happened,
• 17:26
  and
• 17:26
  a
• 17:26
  retracted
• 17:27
  treatment
• 17:27
  ("sorry,
• 17:27
  yeah,
• 17:28
  not
• 17:28
  a
• 17:28
  thumb
• 17:28
  spica")
• 17:29
  recorded
• 17:30
  as
• 17:30
  applied.
• 17:31
  The
• 17:31
  second
• 17:31
  contribution
• 17:32
  is
• 17:32
  the
• 17:32
  one
• 17:32
  buyers
• 17:33
  should
• 17:33
  memorize:
• 17:34
  holding
• 17:34
  everything
• 17:35
  fixed
• 17:35
  except
• 17:35
  the
• 17:35
  verification
• 17:36
  instruction,
• 17:37
  a
• 17:37
  strict
• 17:37
  standard
• 17:38
  verifies
• 17:38
  9.3%
• 17:39
  of
• 17:39
  candidates
• 17:40
  and
• 17:40
  a
• 17:40
  lenient
• 17:41
  one
• 17:41
  79.0%
• 17:42
  —
• 17:43
  an
• 17:43
  8.5x
• 17:44
  swing,
• 17:44
  meaning
• 17:44
  between
• 17:45
  28%
• 17:45
  and
• 17:46
  97%
• 17:46
  of
• 17:46
  notes
• 17:47
  "fail"
• 17:48
  depending
• 17:48
  on
• 17:48
  the
• 17:48
  standard.
• 17:49
  Vendors
• 17:50
  quoting
• 17:50
  an
• 17:50
  error
• 17:50
  rate
• 17:51
  without
• 17:51
  specifying
• 17:51
  the
• 17:51
  instrument
• 17:52
  are
• 17:52
  quoting
• 17:52
  noise;
• 17:53
  the
• 17:53
  authors
• 17:54
  released
• 17:54
  the
• 17:54
  full
• 17:54
  pipeline,
• 17:55
  findings,
• 17:55
  and
• 17:56
  prompts,
• 17:56
  at
• 17:57
  a
• 17:57
  total
• 17:57
  model-call
• 17:57
  cost
• 17:58
  of
• 17:58
  about
• 17:58
  $530
• 17:59
  .
• 18:00
  South
• 18:00
  Korea
• 18:01
  just
• 18:01
  ran
• 18:01
  a
• 18:01
  national
• 18:01
  object
• 18:02
  lesson
• 18:02
  in
• 18:02
  the
• 18:02
  same
• 18:03
  principle.
• 18:04
  After
• 18:04
  Motif
• 18:04
  Technologies
• 18:05
  ranked
• 18:05
  first
• 18:06
  among
• 18:06
  K-LLM
• 18:06
  contenders
• 18:07
  on
• 18:07
  the
• 18:07
  global
• 18:08
  Artificial
• 18:08
  Analysis
• 18:08
  Intelligence
• 18:09
  Index
• 18:10
  but
• 18:10
  got
• 18:10
  eliminated,
• 18:11
  its
• 18:11
  objection
• 18:12
  forced
• 18:12
  the
• 18:12
  ministry
• 18:12
  to
• 18:13
  publish
• 18:13
  the
• 18:13
  full
• 18:13
  second-round
• 18:14
  score
• 18:14
  matrix:
• 18:15
  Motif
• 18:15
  led
• 18:15
  the
• 18:16
  international
• 18:16
  benchmark
• 18:17
  but
• 18:17
  placed
• 18:17
  last
• 18:18
  on
• 18:18
  the
• 18:18
  domestic
• 18:18
  agency's
• 18:19
  own
• 18:19
  benchmark,
• 18:20
  with
• 18:20
  expert
• 18:20
  reviewers,
• 18:21
  with
• 18:21
  49
• 18:22
  startup-CEO
• 18:23
  evaluators,
• 18:24
  and
• 18:24
  with
• 18:24
  a
• 18:24
  185-citizen
• 18:24
  panel
• 18:25
  —
• 18:26
  final
• 18:27
  order
• 18:27
  SK
• 18:27
  Telecom
• 18:28
  70.6,
• 18:29
  Upstage
• 18:29
  69.9,
• 18:31
  LG
• 18:31
  69.0,
• 18:33
  Motif
• 18:33
  65.8.
• 18:35
  Either
• 18:35
  Motif's
• 18:35
  model
• 18:36
  genuinely
• 18:36
  serves
• 18:37
  global
• 18:37
  benchmarks
• 18:38
  better
• 18:38
  than
• 18:38
  Korean
• 18:38
  users,
• 18:39
  or
• 18:39
  the
• 18:39
  weighting
• 18:40
  was
• 18:40
  tuned
• 18:40
  for
• 18:40
  incumbents;
• 18:41
  the
• 18:41
  disclosed
• 18:42
  scores
• 18:42
  can't
• 18:43
  distinguish
• 18:43
  those,
• 18:44
  which
• 18:44
  is
• 18:44
  precisely
• 18:45
  why
• 18:45
  Motif
• 18:45
  is
• 18:45
  refusing
• 18:46
  to
• 18:46
  participate
• 18:47
  in
• 18:47
  round
• 18:47
  three.
• 18:48
  Transparency
• 18:49
  delivered
• 18:49
  in
• 18:49
  installments,
• 18:50
  under
• 18:50
  protest,
• 18:51
  is
• 18:51
  its
• 18:52
  own
• 18:52
  evaluation
• 18:52
  result
• 18:53
  .
• 18:54
  Measurement
• 18:54
  occasionally
• 18:55
  just
• 18:55
  wins
• 18:55
  one,
• 18:55
  though.
• 18:56
  KAIST
• 18:57
  researchers
• 18:57
  built
• 18:57
  SweepLED:
• 18:58
  a
• 18:59
  $7
• 18:59
  LED
• 19:00
  attachment
• 19:01
  that
• 19:01
  sweeps
• 19:01
  light
• 19:01
  across
• 19:02
  a
• 19:02
  room
• 19:02
  while
• 19:02
  the
• 19:02
  phone
• 19:02
  camera
• 19:03
  stays
• 19:03
  fixed,
• 19:04
  and
• 19:04
  a
• 19:04
  deep-learning
• 19:05
  classifier
• 19:06
  that
• 19:06
  distinguishes
• 19:06
  the
• 19:06
  time-varying
• 19:07
  reflection
• 19:07
  signature
• 19:08
  of
• 19:08
  a
• 19:08
  lens-aperture-sensor
• 19:09
  stack
• 19:10
  from
• 19:10
  the
• 19:10
  reflections
• 19:11
  of
• 19:11
  metal,
• 19:11
  glass,
• 19:12
  and
• 19:12
  glossy
• 19:12
  plastic
• 19:12
  —
• 19:14
  the
• 19:14
  false
• 19:14
  positives
• 19:15
  that
• 19:15
  make
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  manual
• 19:15
  lens-hunting
• 19:16
  unreliable.
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  Across
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  30
• 19:18
  common
• 19:18
  household
• 19:19
  objects
• 19:19
  it
• 19:19
  detected
• 19:20
  hidden
• 19:20
  cameras
• 19:20
  with
• 19:21
  94%
• 19:21
  accuracy
• 19:22
  in
• 19:22
  under
• 19:22
  five
• 19:23
  seconds
• 19:23
  per
• 19:23
  inspection
• 19:24
  (published
• 19:24
  at
• 19:24
  ACM
• 19:25
  MobiSys
• 19:25
  2026).
• 19:27
  Cheap
• 19:27
  hardware
• 19:27
  plus
• 19:28
  pattern
• 19:28
  analysis,
• 19:29
  aimed
• 19:29
  at
• 19:29
  an
• 19:30
  abuse
• 19:30
  problem
• 19:30
  that
• 19:30
  disproportionately
• 19:31
  targets
• 19:32
  ordinary
• 19:32
  people
• 19:32
  in
• 19:33
  hotels
• 19:33
  and
• 19:33
  restrooms
• 19:33
  —
• 19:34
  the
• 19:35
  rare
• 19:35
  privacy
• 19:35
  story
• 19:36
  where
• 19:36
  the
• 19:36
  defender's
• 19:36
  tool
• 19:37
  costs
• 19:37
  less
• 19:37
  than
• 19:37
  the
• 19:37
  attacker's
• 19:38
  .