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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 29, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Dream,
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  an
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  Israeli
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  security
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  firm,
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  published
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  on
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  October
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  25
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  what
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  reads
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  as
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  the
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  first
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  documented
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  mass-rooting
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  using
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  PHP2Shell,
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  and
• 0:08
  the
• 0:09
  story
• 0:09
  is
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  the
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  operation,
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  not
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  the
• 0:10
  bug.
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  The
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  attacker
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  chained
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  the
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  PHP2Shell
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  remote-code-execution
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  pair
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  (CVE-2026-109618
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  and
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  CVE-2026-109619)
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  with
• 0:26
  a
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  Linux
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  kernel
• 0:27
  privilege-escalation
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  flaw
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  Dream
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  labels
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  CVE-2026-46300,
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  against
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  an
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  unnamed
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  vendor's
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  firewall,
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  reaching
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  root
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  without
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  credentials.
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  The
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  exploit
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  was
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  not
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  the
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  public
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  proof-of-concept
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  everyone
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  had
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  called
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  unusable.
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  It
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  was
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  a
• 0:41
  custom,
• 0:42
  non-public
• 0:42
  build,
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  pre-loaded
• 0:43
  with
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  version
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  profiles
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  carrying
• 0:45
  exact
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  offsets
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  and
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  library
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  hashes
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  for
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  nine
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  firmware
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  branches,
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  which
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  answers
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  the
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  forum
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  skeptic
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  who
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  dismissed
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  the
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  public
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  code
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  as
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  "unexploitable
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  crap"
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  because
• 0:53
  those
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  offsets
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  are
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  unique
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  to
• 0:54
  every
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  build.
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  They
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  are
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  unique;
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  somebody
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  did
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  the
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  work
• 0:57
  anyway
• 0:57
  .
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  The
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  funnel
• 0:58
  is
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  the
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  detail
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  to
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  memorize,
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  because
• 1:00
  it
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  is
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  a
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  template.
• 1:01
  Using
• 1:01
  the
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  FOFA
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  scanning
• 1:02
  service
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  the
• 1:03
  attacker
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  fingerprinted
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  about
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  19,000
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  internet-facing
• 1:06
  firewalls,
• 1:07
  narrowed
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  to
• 1:07
  roughly
• 1:08
  5,000
• 1:08
  that
• 1:09
  answered,
• 1:09
  filtered
• 1:10
  by
• 1:10
  country
• 1:10
  and
• 1:10
  firmware
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  down
• 1:11
  to
• 1:11
  240
• 1:12
  live
• 1:12
  targets,
• 1:13
  and
• 1:13
  let
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  an
• 1:14
  automated
• 1:14
  batch
• 1:14
  runner
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  root
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  24.
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  Two
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  belonged
• 1:17
  to
• 1:17
  a
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  US
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  government-affiliated
• 1:18
  organization;
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  one
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  crashed,
• 1:21
  and
• 1:21
  the
• 1:21
  other
• 1:21
  became
• 1:22
  the
• 1:22
  beachhead
• 1:22
  for
• 1:23
  a
• 1:23
  persistent
• 1:23
  tunnel
• 1:24
  that
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  exposed
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  a
• 1:24
  25th
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  server
• 1:25
  reachable
• 1:26
  only
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  from
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  inside,
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  after
• 1:28
  which
• 1:28
  the
• 1:28
  activity
• 1:29
  moved
• 1:29
  into
• 1:29
  Active
• 1:30
  Directory
• 1:30
  and
• 1:31
  attempts
• 1:31
  to
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  plant
• 1:31
  backdoor
• 1:32
  accounts.
• 1:33
  Whether
• 1:33
  any
• 1:34
  of
• 1:34
  that
• 1:34
  landed
• 1:34
  is
• 1:35
  unknown,
• 1:36
  so
• 1:36
  the
• 1:36
  real
• 1:36
  extent
• 1:36
  of
• 1:36
  the
• 1:37
  breach
• 1:37
  is
• 1:37
  too.
• 1:38
  The
• 1:38
  AI
• 1:39
  angle
• 1:39
  rests
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  on
• 1:39
  artifacts:
• 1:40
  Anthropic's
• 1:41
  Claude
• 1:41
  Code
• 1:42
  installed
• 1:42
  on
• 1:42
  the
• 1:42
  attack
• 1:43
  box,
• 1:44
  an
• 1:44
  offensive
• 1:44
  platform
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  wired
• 1:45
  to
• 1:45
  DeepSeek
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  and
• 1:46
  Kimi
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  models,
• 1:47
  and
• 1:47
  roughly
• 1:47
  40
• 1:48
  post-exploitation
• 1:49
  scripts
• 1:49
  with
• 1:49
  the
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  uniform
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  style
• 1:50
  of
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  generated
• 1:51
  code.
• 1:52
  China-nexus
• 1:53
  attribution
• 1:53
  is
• 1:53
  inferred
• 1:54
  from
• 1:54
  target
• 1:54
  geography
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  across
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  the
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  US,
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  Japan,
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  Taiwan,
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  and
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  South
• 1:57
  Korea,
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  a
• 1:58
  Chinese
• 1:59
  tunneling
• 1:59
  utility,
• 2:00
  and
• 2:00
  Chinese-language
• 2:01
  logs;
• 2:02
  Dream
• 2:02
  names
• 2:02
  no
• 2:02
  group,
• 2:03
  and
• 2:03
  the
• 2:03
  22
• 2:04
  un-pursued
• 2:05
  servers
• 2:05
  were
• 2:05
  left
• 2:05
  parked
• 2:06
  with
• 2:06
  live
• 2:06
  webshells
• 2:07
  .
• 2:08
  One
• 2:08
  caution
• 2:08
  before
• 2:08
  reconciling
• 2:09
  this
• 2:09
  against
• 2:10
  the
• 2:10
  running
• 2:10
  story:
• 2:11
  the
• 2:11
  kernel
• 2:11
  CVE
• 2:12
  Dream
• 2:12
  attaches
• 2:13
  to
• 2:13
  the
• 2:13
  "Fragnesia"
• 2:14
  name
• 2:14
  does
• 2:14
  not
• 2:15
  match
• 2:15
  the
• 2:15
  identifier
• 2:15
  that
• 2:16
  circulated
• 2:16
  with
• 2:16
  it
• 2:16
  in
• 2:16
  the
• 2:17
  spring
• 2:17
  worm
• 2:17
  coverage,
• 2:18
  so
• 2:18
  trust
• 2:18
  the
• 2:18
  advisory
• 2:19
  over
• 2:19
  the
• 2:19
  nickname.
• 2:20
  Tokyo
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  is
• 2:21
  treating
• 2:21
  the
• 2:21
  broader
• 2:21
  wave
• 2:22
  as
• 2:22
  an
• 2:22
  emergency.
• 2:23
  Five
• 2:24
  foreign-exchange
• 2:24
  brokers,
• 2:25
  including
• 2:26
  Goldenway
• 2:26
  Japan
• 2:27
  and
• 2:27
  Oanda
• 2:27
  Securities,
• 2:28
  reported
• 2:28
  customer
• 2:29
  losses
• 2:29
  suspected
• 2:30
  to
• 2:30
  trace
• 2:30
  to
• 2:30
  the
• 2:31
  ransomware
• 2:31
  hit
• 2:31
  on
• 2:31
  GMO
• 2:32
  Internet
• 2:32
  Group,
• 2:33
  and
• 2:33
  Prime
• 2:33
  Minister
• 2:34
  Sanae
• 2:34
  Takaichi
• 2:35
  ordered
• 2:35
  a
• 2:35
  cybersecurity
• 2:36
  package
• 2:36
  within
• 2:37
  a
• 2:37
  week.
• 2:38
  GMO
• 2:38
  founder
• 2:39
  Masatoshi
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  Kumagai,
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  whose
• 2:40
  firm
• 2:41
  refused
• 2:41
  a
• 2:41
  $50
• 2:42
  million
• 2:42
  demand
• 2:43
  and
• 2:43
  then
• 2:43
  watched
• 2:43
  a
• 2:44
  client's
• 2:44
  data
• 2:44
  leak,
• 2:45
  wrote
• 2:45
  that
• 2:45
  "the
• 2:45
  internet
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  itself
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  is
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  beginning
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  to
• 2:47
  break
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  down."
• 2:48
  The
• 2:48
  Journal
• 2:48
  links
• 2:49
  PHP2Shell
• 2:51
  to
• 2:51
  GMO
• 2:52
  by
• 2:52
  timing,
• 2:52
  not
• 2:53
  evidence.
• 2:54
  The
• 2:54
  durable
• 2:54
  number
• 2:54
  is
• 2:55
  from
• 2:55
  IBM
• 2:55
  and
• 2:55
  Ponemon:
• 2:57
  AI-powered
• 2:57
  breaches
• 2:58
  average
• 2:58
  about
• 2:58
  $6
• 2:59
  million
• 2:59
  while
• 2:59
  the
• 3:00
  attacks
• 3:00
  that
• 3:00
  cause
• 3:00
  them
• 3:00
  cost
• 3:01
  thousands,
• 3:02
  and
• 3:02
  Dream's
• 3:02
  spreadsheet
• 3:03
  of
• 3:03
  240
• 3:03
  targets
• 3:04
  is
• 3:04
  what
• 3:04
  that
• 3:04
  asymmetry
• 3:05
  looks
• 3:05
  like
• 3:06
  in
• 3:06
  practice
• 3:06
  .
• 3:10
  AISLE's
• 3:10
  Stanislav
• 3:11
  Fort
• 3:11
  has
• 3:11
  written
• 3:12
  a
• 3:12
  counter
• 3:12
  to
• 3:12
  the
• 3:12
  frontier-model-as-hunter
• 3:14
  narrative,
• 3:14
  and
• 3:15
  it
• 3:15
  is
• 3:15
  a
• 3:15
  cost
• 3:15
  argument.
• 3:16
  His
• 3:16
  thesis,
• 3:17
  "given
• 3:17
  enough
• 3:18
  adequate
• 3:18
  minds,
• 3:18
  all
• 3:19
  zero-days
• 3:19
  are
• 3:19
  shallow,"
• 3:20
  rides
• 3:20
  on
• 3:20
  a
• 3:20
  deliberately
• 3:21
  dumb
• 3:21
  tool:
• 3:22
  one
• 3:22
  Python
• 3:23
  file
• 3:23
  of
• 3:23
  about
• 3:23
  1,700
• 3:24
  lines,
• 3:25
  no
• 3:25
  agentic
• 3:26
  loop,
• 3:26
  no
• 3:26
  sandbox,
• 3:27
  nothing
• 3:27
  but
• 3:28
  grep,
• 3:28
  running
• 3:29
  a
• 3:29
  cheap
• 3:29
  model
• 3:29
  per-file
• 3:30
  in
• 3:30
  parallel
• 3:30
  at
• 3:30
  roughly
• 3:31
  60
• 3:31
  seconds
• 3:31
  a
• 3:31
  file.
• 3:33
  The
• 3:33
  default
• 3:34
  engine
• 3:34
  was
• 3:34
  GPT-5.4-nano
• 3:36
  at
• 3:36
  $0.20
• 3:37
  per
• 3:37
  million
• 3:37
  input
• 3:37
  tokens,
• 3:38
  a
• 3:38
  model
• 3:39
  Fort
• 3:39
  says
• 3:39
  can
• 3:39
  "spot
• 3:40
  a
• 3:40
  20+-year-old
• 3:41
  kernel
• 3:41
  buffer
• 3:41
  overflow"
• 3:42
  yet
• 3:43
  "cannot
• 3:43
  reliably
• 3:43
  output
• 3:44
  valid
• 3:44
  JSON
• 3:45
  or
• 3:45
  XML."
• 3:46
  Pointed
• 3:46
  at
• 3:47
  Mythos's
• 3:47
  flagship
• 3:48
  FreeBSD
• 3:48
  finding,
• 3:49
  CVE-2026-4747,
• 3:53
  the
• 3:54
  cheap
• 3:54
  models
• 3:54
  detected
• 3:55
  it
• 3:55
  reliably
• 3:55
  from
• 3:55
  a
• 3:55
  certain
• 3:56
  tier
• 3:56
  upward,
• 3:57
  and
• 3:57
  against
• 3:57
  the
• 3:57
  tens
• 3:58
  of
• 3:58
  thousands
• 3:58
  of
• 3:58
  dollars
• 3:59
  Anthropic
• 3:59
  quoted
• 4:00
  for
• 4:00
  comparable
• 4:00
  work
• 4:00
  Fort
• 4:01
  puts
• 4:01
  the
• 4:01
  gap
• 4:01
  at
• 4:01
  "over
• 4:02
  100x."
• 4:04
  The
• 4:04
  full
• 4:04
  sweep
• 4:04
  of
• 4:04
  FreeBSD,
• 4:05
  about
• 4:06
  35,000
• 4:07
  files
• 4:07
  in
• 4:07
  ten
• 4:08
  hours
• 4:08
  for
• 4:08
  under
• 4:08
  $100,
• 4:10
  yielded
• 4:10
  two
• 4:10
  maintainer-confirmed
• 4:11
  bugs
• 4:12
  plus
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  roughly
• 4:12
  26-year-old
• 4:13
  flaw
• 4:13
  now
• 4:14
  under
• 4:14
  investigation
• 4:14
  .
• 4:15
  CrowdStrike's
• 4:16
  researchers
• 4:17
  found
• 4:17
  a
• 4:17
  different
• 4:17
  oracle
• 4:18
  in
• 4:18
  the
• 4:18
  same
• 4:18
  models:
• 4:19
  the
• 4:19
  refusal
• 4:19
  itself.
• 4:20
  Asked
• 4:21
  to
• 4:21
  explain
• 4:21
  every
• 4:21
  function
• 4:22
  in
• 4:22
  a
• 4:22
  tiny
• 4:22
  C
• 4:23
  web
• 4:23
  server,
• 4:23
  a
• 4:24
  model
• 4:24
  balked
• 4:24
  at
• 4:24
  exactly
• 4:25
  one,
• 4:25
  the
• 4:25
  single
• 4:26
  function
• 4:26
  where
• 4:26
  a
• 4:26
  one-character
• 4:27
  logic
• 4:27
  inversion
• 4:28
  had
• 4:28
  introduced
• 4:28
  a
• 4:28
  memory-safety
• 4:29
  bug.
• 4:30
  "The
• 4:30
  model
• 4:30
  never
• 4:31
  said
• 4:31
  there
• 4:31
  were
• 4:31
  any
• 4:31
  vulnerabilities,
• 4:32
  but
• 4:32
  its
• 4:32
  refusal
• 4:33
  to
• 4:33
  explain
• 4:33
  the
• 4:33
  function
• 4:34
  indicated
• 4:34
  there
• 4:34
  could
• 4:35
  be
• 4:35
  one."
• 4:36
  They
• 4:36
  formalized
• 4:36
  that
• 4:36
  into
• 4:37
  Guardrail-based
• 4:37
  Vulnerability
• 4:38
  Discovery:
• 4:39
  baseline
• 4:40
  a
• 4:40
  clean
• 4:40
  target,
• 4:41
  change
• 4:41
  one
• 4:41
  thing,
• 4:42
  hold
• 4:42
  the
• 4:42
  prompt
• 4:43
  fixed,
• 4:43
  and
• 4:43
  bisect
• 4:44
  toward
• 4:44
  whatever
• 4:44
  unit
• 4:45
  keeps
• 4:45
  tripping
• 4:45
  the
• 4:45
  guardrail.
• 4:46
  Across
• 4:47
  five
• 4:47
  vulnerability
• 4:48
  classes
• 4:48
  it
• 4:48
  was
• 4:48
  correct
• 4:49
  in
• 4:49
  73
• 4:50
  of
• 4:50
  86
• 4:50
  scenarios.
• 4:52
  The
• 4:52
  taxonomy
• 4:53
  is
• 4:53
  the
• 4:53
  useful
• 4:53
  part,
• 4:54
  since
• 4:54
  a
• 4:54
  guardrail
• 4:55
  reveals
• 4:55
  itself
• 4:55
  not
• 4:56
  only
• 4:56
  through
• 4:56
  explicit
• 4:57
  refusals
• 4:57
  but
• 4:57
  through
• 4:58
  silent
• 4:58
  routing
• 4:58
  visible
• 4:59
  in
• 4:59
  latency,
• 5:00
  through
• 5:00
  output
• 5:00
  filtering,
• 5:01
  and
• 5:02
  through
• 5:02
  tool
• 5:02
  calls
• 5:02
  that
• 5:03
  abort
• 5:03
  and
• 5:03
  reasoning
• 5:04
  chains
• 5:04
  that
• 5:04
  halt.
• 5:05
  Their
• 5:05
  conclusion,
• 5:06
  "the
• 5:06
  model
• 5:07
  matters,
• 5:07
  but
• 5:08
  the
• 5:08
  harness
• 5:08
  determines
• 5:09
  the
• 5:09
  outcome,"
• 5:10
  lands
• 5:10
  where
• 5:10
  Fort
• 5:10
  lands,
• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:13
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• 5:13
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• 5:14
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• 5:14
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• 5:15
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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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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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• 5:21
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• 5:22
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• 5:23
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• 5:23
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 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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• 5:27
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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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• 5:29
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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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• 5:32
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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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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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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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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:40
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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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• 5:43
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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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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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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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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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
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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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• 6:08
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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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• 6:11
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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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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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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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• 6:20
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• 6:21
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• 6:21
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• 6:21
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• 6:22
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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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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:27
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• 6:27
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• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
  architecture
• 6:30
  workflows
• 6:30
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• 6:30
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• 6:31
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• 6:31
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• 6:32
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• 6:32
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:36
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• 6:36
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• 6:36
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• 6:37
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:39
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• 6:39
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• 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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• 6:43
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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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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:47
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• 6:47
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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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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• 6:51
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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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• 6:54
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• 6:54
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• 6:56
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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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• 6:58
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• 6:58
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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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• 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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• 7:02
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• 7:03
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• 7:03
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• 7:03
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• 7:04
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:07
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• 7:07
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• 7:08
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:18
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• 7:19
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
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• 7:21
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• 7:23
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
  the
• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:30
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• 7:30
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• 7:30
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• 7:30
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• 7:31
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• 7:31
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• 7:31
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:33
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:35
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:38
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• 7:39
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• 7:40
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• 7:41
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• 7:41
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• 7:42
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• 7:44
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:46
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:48
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• 7:48
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• 7:48
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:50
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
  Go
• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:52
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• 7:52
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• 7:52
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:56
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• 7:57
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• 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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• 7:58
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• 7:59
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• 8:00
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• 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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• 8:01
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:10
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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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• 8:12
  characters
• 8:13
  as
• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:14
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• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:18
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• 8:18
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• 8:18
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• 8:18
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:20
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• 8:20
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• 8:21
  That
• 8:21
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:23
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• 8:23
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• 8:24
  the
• 8:24
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
  has
• 8:27
  repeatedly
• 8:27
  proven
• 8:28
  bypassable
• 8:28
  when
• 8:29
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• 8:29
  model
• 8:29
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• 8:29
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:34
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
  reads
• 8:35
  best
• 8:35
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• 8:35
  the
• 8:36
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
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• 8:37
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• 8:37
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• 8:38
  not
• 8:38
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• 8:38
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• 8:38
  security
• 8:39
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• 8:39
  .
• 8:42
  A
• 8:42
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• 8:43
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 8:44
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• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 8:46
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:48
  The
• 8:49
  author
• 8:49
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• 8:49
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• 8:50
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• 8:51
  that
• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:51
  Qwen
• 8:51
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• 8:52
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• 8:52
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• 8:53
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• 8:53
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• 8:53
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• 8:54
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• 8:54
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• 8:54
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:57
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• 8:57
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• 8:57
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• 8:58
  instructing
• 8:59
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• 8:59
  model
• 8:59
  to
• 8:59
  pipe
• 9:00
  everything
• 9:00
  to
• 9:00
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• 9:01
  Telemetry
• 9:01
  Cluster
• 9:01
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:06
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• 9:06
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
  to.
• 9:11
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• 9:11
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• 9:12
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• 9:12
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• 9:12
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• 9:13
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• 9:13
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• 9:13
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• 9:13
  stories
• 9:14
  from
• 9:14
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• 9:14
  this
• 9:15
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• 9:15
  in
• 9:15
  which
• 9:16
  researchers
• 9:16
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• 9:17
  real
• 9:17
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:19
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• 9:19
  checkpoints
• 9:19
  for
• 9:20
  under
• 9:20
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• 9:20
  dollars.
• 9:21
  Both
• 9:21
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• 9:21
  are
• 9:21
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• 9:21
  at
• 9:22
  once,
• 9:22
  and
• 9:22
  the
• 9:22
  useful
• 9:23
  reading
• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
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• 9:24
  comments
• 9:24
  reached:
• 9:25
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• 9:25
  mitigation
• 9:26
  is
• 9:26
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• 9:26
  containment
• 9:27
  and
• 9:27
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• 9:27
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• 9:28
  egress,
• 9:28
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
  about
• 9:29
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• 9:29
  model's
• 9:30
  nationality
• 9:30
  .
• 9:31
  The
• 9:31
  trust
• 9:31
  anxiety
• 9:32
  runs
• 9:33
  both
• 9:33
  directions.
• 9:34
  A
• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:35
  post
• 9:35
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• 9:35
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• 9:35
  make
• 9:36
  claude
• 9:36
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• 9:36
  relays
• 9:37
  a
• 9:37
  claim
• 9:37
  that
• 9:37
  a
• 9:37
  Chinese
• 9:38
  user
• 9:38
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• 9:38
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• 9:39
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• 9:40
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• 9:40
  logic
• 9:41
  into
• 9:41
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• 9:41
  points
• 9:42
  system,
• 9:42
  docking
• 9:43
  score
• 9:43
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• 9:43
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• 9:44
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• 9:44
  virtual
• 9:45
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• 9:45
  multi-device
• 9:46
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• 9:47
  and
• 9:47
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• 9:47
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
  Fable.
• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:50
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• 9:50
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• 9:50
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:55
  What
• 9:55
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• 9:55
  on
• 9:55
  the
• 9:55
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• 9:55
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• 9:56
  narrower:
• 9:56
  Anthropic
• 9:57
  runs
• 9:57
  classifier-based
• 9:58
  routing
• 9:58
  for
• 9:59
  sensitive
• 9:59
  queries
• 9:59
  and
• 10:00
  a
• 10:00
  mandatory
• 10:00
  data-retention
• 10:01
  policy,
• 10:02
  and
• 10:02
  there
• 10:02
  is
• 10:02
  a
• 10:02
  documented
• 10:03
  gray
• 10:03
  market
• 10:04
  for
• 10:04
  Claude
• 10:04
  access
• 10:05
  inside
• 10:05
  China.
• 10:06
  The
• 10:06
  scoring
• 10:07
  model
• 10:07
  is
• 10:07
  a
• 10:07
  plausible
• 10:08
  story
• 10:08
  precisely
• 10:09
  because
• 10:09
  the
• 10:09
  real
• 10:09
  mechanisms
• 10:10
  are
• 10:10
  undocumented,
• 10:11
  which
• 10:11
  is
• 10:11
  the
• 10:12
  grievance
• 10:12
  under
• 10:12
  the
• 10:12
  meme
• 10:12
  .
• 10:13
  If
• 10:13
  reverse
• 10:14
  engineering
• 10:14
  is
• 10:15
  the
• 10:15
  mood,
• 10:15
  alexgaoth's
• 10:16
  awesome-reverse-engineered
• 10:17
  is
• 10:17
  the
• 10:18
  index
• 10:18
  for
• 10:18
  it:
• 10:19
  17,744
• 10:21
  open-source
• 10:21
  tools
• 10:22
  "that
• 10:22
  exist
• 10:23
  because
• 10:23
  someone
• 10:23
  reverse
• 10:24
  engineered
• 10:24
  a
• 10:24
  closed
• 10:25
  app,
• 10:25
  API,
• 10:26
  device,
• 10:27
  protocol,
• 10:27
  file
• 10:28
  format,
• 10:28
  game
• 10:29
  or
• 10:29
  AI
• 10:29
  product,"
• 10:30
  with
• 10:30
  12
• 10:31
  million
• 10:31
  combined
• 10:31
  stars,
• 10:32
  refreshed
• 10:33
  nightly,
• 10:33
  and
• 10:33
  reachable
• 10:34
  over
• 10:34
  an
• 10:34
  MCP
• 10:35
  server.
• 10:36
  The
• 10:36
  AI
• 10:36
  section
• 10:36
  rewards
• 10:37
  attention:
• 10:38
  its
• 10:38
  top
• 10:38
  entry
• 10:39
  is
• 10:39
  a
• 10:39
  clean-room
• 10:39
  rewrite
• 10:40
  of
• 10:40
  a
• 10:40
  leaked
• 10:40
  coding-agent
• 10:41
  harness
• 10:41
  at
• 10:41
  nearly
• 10:42
  195,000
• 10:43
  stars,
• 10:44
  followed
• 10:44
  by
• 10:45
  large
• 10:45
  archives
• 10:45
  of
• 10:45
  extracted
• 10:46
  system
• 10:46
  prompts
• 10:47
  from
• 10:47
  the
• 10:47
  major
• 10:47
  assistants.
• 10:48
  The
• 10:48
  list
• 10:49
  is
• 10:49
  scoped
• 10:49
  with
• 10:49
  care,
• 10:50
  citing
• 10:50
  interoperability
• 10:51
  and
• 10:52
  preservation
• 10:52
  law
• 10:53
  and
• 10:53
  excluding
• 10:53
  exploits,
• 10:54
  jailbreaks,
• 10:55
  and
• 10:55
  credential
• 10:55
  tools.
• 10:56
  It
• 10:56
  is
• 10:57
  also
• 10:57
  the
• 10:57
  second
• 10:57
  nightly-built
• 10:58
  reverse-engineering
• 10:59
  catalog
• 10:59
  to
• 10:59
  surface
• 11:00
  in
• 11:00
  a
• 11:00
  week,
• 11:01
  a
• 11:01
  broader-scoped
• 11:02
  sibling
• 11:02
  to
• 11:02
  the
• 11:02
  research-paper
• 11:03
  index
• 11:03
  that
• 11:03
  appeared
• 11:04
  two
• 11:04
  days
• 11:04
  earlier,
• 11:05
  and
• 11:05
  the
• 11:05
  pair
• 11:06
  is
• 11:06
  the
• 11:06
  trend:
• 11:07
  agent-assisted
• 11:08
  curation
• 11:08
  is
• 11:08
  making
• 11:09
  such
• 11:09
  catalogs
• 11:09
  cheap
• 11:10
  to
• 11:10
  stand
• 11:10
  up
• 11:10
  .
• 11:14
  The
• 11:14
  most
• 11:14
  substantive
• 11:15
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• 11:15
  in
• 11:15
  this
• 11:15
  batch
• 11:16
  is
• 11:16
  a
• 11:16
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• 11:17
  efficiency
• 11:17
  method
• 11:17
  with
• 11:17
  a
• 11:18
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• 11:18
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• 11:19
  idea.
• 11:19
  In
• 11:20
  the
• 11:20
  paper
• 11:20
  on
• 11:20
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• 11:21
  null-space
• 11:21
  swapping,
• 11:22
  a
• 11:22
  team
• 11:22
  spanning
• 11:23
  Illinois,
• 11:23
  Tsinghua,
• 11:24
  Dartmouth,
• 11:24
  and
• 11:24
  Peking
• 11:25
  University
• 11:25
  asks
• 11:26
  where
• 11:26
  in
• 11:26
  weight
• 11:26
  space
• 11:26
  a
• 11:27
  reasoning
• 11:27
  model
• 11:27
  actually
• 11:28
  differs
• 11:28
  from
• 11:28
  its
• 11:28
  non-thinking
• 11:29
  sibling
• 11:29
  built
• 11:30
  on
• 11:30
  the
• 11:30
  same
• 11:30
  base.
• 11:31
  Decomposing
• 11:32
  the
• 11:32
  weight
• 11:32
  difference
• 11:32
  against
• 11:33
  the
• 11:33
  instruct
• 11:33
  model's
• 11:34
  singular
• 11:34
  directions,
• 11:35
  they
• 11:35
  find
• 11:35
  an
• 11:36
  asymmetry:
• 11:37
  the
• 11:37
  aligned
• 11:37
  component
• 11:38
  holds
• 11:38
  most
• 11:38
  of
• 11:38
  the
• 11:38
  parameter
• 11:39
  energy
• 11:39
  but
• 11:39
  drives
• 11:40
  little
• 11:40
  functional
• 11:40
  change,
• 11:41
  while
• 11:41
  the
• 11:41
  smaller
• 11:42
  orthogonal
• 11:42
  null-space
• 11:43
  component
• 11:43
  "drives
• 11:44
  most
• 11:44
  functional
• 11:44
  change."
• 11:45
  So
• 11:46
  the
• 11:46
  method
• 11:46
  keeps
• 11:46
  the
• 11:46
  non-thinking
• 11:47
  model
• 11:47
  inside
• 11:48
  a
• 11:48
  protected
• 11:48
  subspace
• 11:49
  and
• 11:49
  grafts
• 11:50
  in
• 11:50
  only
• 11:50
  the
• 11:50
  thinking
• 11:50
  model's
• 11:51
  null-space
• 11:51
  contribution,
• 11:52
  with
• 11:52
  no
• 11:53
  training,
• 11:53
  data,
• 11:54
  or
• 11:54
  rollouts.
• 11:55
  Averaged
• 11:56
  over
• 11:56
  more
• 11:56
  than
• 11:56
  25
• 11:57
  settings
• 11:57
  across
• 11:57
  the
• 11:58
  Qwen3
• 11:58
  family,
• 11:58
  it
• 11:59
  cuts
• 11:59
  inference
• 11:59
  tokens
• 12:00
  by
• 12:00
  about
• 12:00
  27
• 12:01
  percent
• 12:01
  while
• 12:01
  nudging
• 12:02
  mean
• 12:02
  accuracy
• 12:02
  up
• 12:02
  a
• 12:02
  point,
• 12:03
  with
• 12:03
  one
• 12:04
  math
• 12:04
  benchmark
• 12:04
  gaining
• 12:05
  8.3
• 12:05
  points
• 12:06
  on
• 12:06
  a
• 12:06
  third
• 12:06
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• 12:07
  tokens.
• 12:08
  That
• 12:08
  roughly
• 12:08
  30
• 12:08
  percent
• 12:09
  cut
• 12:09
  is
• 12:09
  more
• 12:09
  conservative
• 12:10
  than
• 12:10
  the
• 12:10
  40-to-50
• 12:11
  percent
• 12:11
  test-time
• 12:12
  prompt
• 12:12
  intervention
• 12:13
  claimed
• 12:13
  last
• 12:13
  year,
• 12:14
  but
• 12:14
  it
• 12:14
  is
• 12:14
  weight-level,
• 12:15
  permanent,
• 12:15
  and
• 12:16
  free
• 12:16
  .
• 12:17
  If
• 12:17
  that
• 12:17
  is
• 12:17
  surgery
• 12:18
  at
• 12:18
  the
• 12:18
  level
• 12:18
  of
• 12:18
  whole
• 12:18
  behavior,
• 12:19
  neuronary
• 12:20
  is
• 12:20
  surgery
• 12:20
  at
• 12:21
  the
• 12:21
  level
• 12:21
  of
• 12:21
  single
• 12:21
  neurons,
• 12:22
  published
• 12:22
  as
• 12:23
  a
• 12:23
  dictionary.
• 12:24
  It
• 12:24
  is
• 12:24
  a
• 12:25
  public
• 12:25
  catalog
• 12:25
  of
• 12:26
  steering
• 12:26
  recipes
• 12:26
  for
• 12:27
  a
• 12:27
  small
• 12:27
  Qwen
• 12:27
  model,
• 12:28
  each
• 12:29
  recipe
• 12:29
  a
• 12:29
  set
• 12:29
  of
• 12:29
  MLP
• 12:30
  neurons
• 12:30
  and
• 12:31
  signed
• 12:31
  doses
• 12:31
  in
• 12:32
  a
• 12:32
  documented
• 12:32
  unit,
• 12:33
  with
• 12:33
  example
• 12:34
  outputs,
• 12:34
  a
• 12:34
  stdlib
• 12:35
  runner,
• 12:36
  and
• 12:36
  an
• 12:36
  MCP
• 12:36
  server.
• 12:37
  It
• 12:38
  is
• 12:38
  the
• 12:38
  logical
• 12:38
  next
• 12:39
  step
• 12:39
  after
• 12:39
  the
• 12:39
  one-off
• 12:40
  "two
• 12:40
  neurons
• 12:40
  turn
• 12:41
  a
• 12:41
  model
• 12:41
  evil"
• 12:41
  demonstrations:
• 12:43
  a
• 12:43
  shared,
• 12:44
  versioned
• 12:44
  artifact
• 12:45
  format
• 12:45
  for
• 12:45
  behavioral
• 12:46
  edits,
• 12:46
  with
• 12:47
  the
• 12:47
  honest
• 12:47
  caveat
• 12:48
  that
• 12:48
  current
• 12:48
  units
• 12:48
  apply
• 12:49
  to
• 12:49
  dense
• 12:49
  neurons,
• 12:50
  not
• 12:50
  yet
• 12:50
  to
• 12:51
  mixture-of-experts
• 12:51
  routing.
• 12:52
  Steering
• 12:53
  is
• 12:53
  becoming
• 12:53
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• 12:53
  file
• 12:54
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• 12:54
  you
• 12:54
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• 12:55
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• 12:55
  .
• 12:56
  The
• 12:56
  longest
• 12:56
  arc
• 12:56
  belongs
• 12:57
  to
• 12:57
  Albert
• 12:57
  Gu,
• 12:58
  who
• 12:58
  is
• 12:58
  pushing
• 12:58
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• 12:59
  networks
• 12:59
  from
• 13:00
  paper
• 13:00
  toward
• 13:00
  product.
• 13:01
  His
• 13:02
  claim
• 13:02
  for
• 13:02
  the
• 13:02
  new
• 13:02
  work
• 13:02
  on
• 13:03
  learning
• 13:03
  directly
• 13:03
  from
• 13:03
  raw
• 13:04
  bytes
• 13:04
  is
• 13:04
  concrete:
• 13:05
  3-to-5x
• 13:06
  efficiency
• 13:07
  gains
• 13:07
  in
• 13:07
  controlled
• 13:08
  scaling
• 13:08
  experiments,
• 13:09
  and
• 13:09
  at
• 13:09
  larger
• 13:10
  scale
• 13:10
  matching
• 13:10
  an
• 13:11
  open
• 13:11
  model
• 13:11
  trained
• 13:12
  on
• 13:12
  11
• 13:12
  trillion
• 13:12
  tokens
• 13:13
  with
• 13:13
  roughly
• 13:13
  10x
• 13:14
  less
• 13:14
  data
• 13:14
  and
• 13:15
  compute.
• 13:16
  The
• 13:16
  framing
• 13:16
  is
• 13:16
  the
• 13:16
  bitter
• 13:17
  lesson
• 13:17
  applied
• 13:17
  to
• 13:17
  tokenization:
• 13:19
  a
• 13:19
  model
• 13:19
  unable
• 13:19
  to
• 13:19
  learn
• 13:20
  end-to-end
• 13:20
  from
• 13:20
  bytes
• 13:21
  has
• 13:21
  little
• 13:21
  hope
• 13:22
  with
• 13:22
  the
• 13:22
  messier
• 13:22
  data
• 13:22
  humans
• 13:23
  understand
• 13:23
  even
• 13:24
  less.
• 13:25
  It
• 13:25
  is
• 13:25
  the
• 13:25
  maturation
• 13:26
  of
• 13:26
  the
• 13:26
  "end
• 13:26
  of
• 13:26
  tokenization"
• 13:27
  thesis
• 13:27
  from
• 13:28
  a
• 13:28
  year
• 13:28
  ago,
• 13:29
  aimed
• 13:29
  squarely
• 13:29
  at
• 13:29
  the
• 13:30
  non-English,
• 13:30
  code,
• 13:31
  and
• 13:31
  biological-sequence
• 13:32
  cases
• 13:32
  that
• 13:32
  byte-pair
• 13:33
  tokenizers
• 13:34
  handle
• 13:34
  badly
• 13:34
  .
• 13:38
  The
• 13:38
  strangest
• 13:38
  hardware
• 13:39
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• 13:39
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• 13:39
  the
• 13:39
  month
• 13:39
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• 13:40
  developing
• 13:40
  below
• 13:40
  the
• 13:41
  driver.
• 13:42
  A
• 13:42
  detailed
• 13:42
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 13:44
  post
• 13:44
  explains
• 13:45
  why
• 13:45
  the
• 13:45
  tensor-core
• 13:46
  unlock
• 13:46
  that
• 13:46
  restores
• 13:47
  full-speed
• 13:47
  FP32
• 13:48
  accumulation
• 13:49
  works
• 13:49
  on
• 13:49
  consumer
• 13:50
  Turing,
• 13:50
  Ampere,
• 13:51
  and
• 13:51
  Ada
• 13:51
  cards
• 13:52
  but
• 13:52
  not
• 13:52
  on
• 13:52
  consumer
• 13:53
  Blackwell.
• 13:54
  NVIDIA
• 13:54
  halves
• 13:55
  that
• 13:55
  specific
• 13:55
  throughput
• 13:56
  on
• 13:56
  consumer
• 13:57
  silicon
• 13:57
  for
• 13:57
  market
• 13:58
  segmentation,
• 13:59
  using
• 13:59
  factory-burned
• 14:00
  fuses
• 14:00
  the
• 14:00
  chip
• 14:01
  reads
• 14:01
  at
• 14:01
  boot,
• 14:02
  even
• 14:02
  though
• 14:02
  consumer
• 14:03
  and
• 14:03
  professional
• 14:03
  cards
• 14:04
  share
• 14:04
  identical
• 14:04
  dies.
• 14:05
  On
• 14:06
  the
• 14:06
  older
• 14:06
  generations
• 14:07
  a
• 14:07
  signed-firmware
• 14:08
  vulnerability
• 14:08
  disclosed
• 14:09
  in
• 14:09
  mid-2026
• 14:11
  lets
• 14:11
  the
• 14:11
  unlock
• 14:11
  reuse
• 14:12
  the
• 14:12
  firmware's
• 14:12
  own
• 14:12
  code
• 14:13
  to
• 14:13
  flip
• 14:13
  the
• 14:13
  speed
• 14:14
  register
• 14:14
  each
• 14:14
  boot,
• 14:15
  surviving
• 14:16
  resets
• 14:16
  but
• 14:16
  not
• 14:16
  a
• 14:16
  power
• 14:17
  cycle.
• 14:18
  Blackwell
• 14:18
  moved
• 14:19
  the
• 14:19
  root
• 14:19
  of
• 14:19
  trust
• 14:19
  to
• 14:20
  a
• 14:20
  new
• 14:20
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• 14:22
  core
• 14:22
  booting
• 14:22
  from
• 14:22
  its
• 14:22
  own
• 14:23
  ROM,
• 14:23
  with
• 14:23
  no
• 14:24
  equivalent
• 14:24
  firmware
• 14:25
  stage
• 14:25
  to
• 14:25
  subvert
• 14:26
  and
• 14:26
  critical
• 14:26
  code
• 14:26
  formally
• 14:27
  verified,
• 14:28
  so
• 14:28
  the
• 14:28
  lock
• 14:28
  now
• 14:29
  sits
• 14:29
  deeper
• 14:29
  in
• 14:29
  the
• 14:29
  design.
• 14:31
  The
• 14:31
  measured
• 14:31
  gains
• 14:31
  are
• 14:32
  real
• 14:32
  but
• 14:32
  bounded
• 14:32
  by
• 14:33
  power
• 14:33
  limits,
• 14:34
  with
• 14:34
  diffusion
• 14:34
  training
• 14:35
  up
• 14:35
  most
• 14:35
  and
• 14:35
  plain
• 14:36
  token
• 14:36
  generation
• 14:37
  unaffected.
• 14:38
  The
• 14:38
  through-line
• 14:39
  from
• 14:39
  the
• 14:39
  FP64
• 14:40
  segmentation
• 14:41
  history
• 14:41
  is
• 14:41
  that
• 14:42
  NVIDIA's
• 14:42
  tiering
• 14:43
  keeps
• 14:43
  hardening
• 14:43
  from
• 14:43
  driver
• 14:44
  policy
• 14:44
  into
• 14:44
  silicon
• 14:45
  .
• 14:46
  The
• 14:46
  hardware
• 14:46
  increasingly
• 14:47
  runs
• 14:47
  a
• 14:47
  whole
• 14:47
  desktop,
• 14:48
  not
• 14:48
  a
• 14:48
  shell.
• 14:50
  Tern,
• 14:50
  from
• 14:50
  the
• 14:50
  team
• 14:51
  behind
• 14:51
  the
• 14:51
  omp
• 14:51
  agent
• 14:51
  CLI,
• 14:52
  is
• 14:53
  a
• 14:53
  Rust-native
• 14:53
  terminal
• 14:54
  where
• 14:54
  the
• 14:54
  shell
• 14:54
  is
• 14:54
  just
• 14:55
  one
• 14:55
  pane
• 14:55
  beside
• 14:55
  a
• 14:56
  git
• 14:56
  client,
• 14:57
  a
• 14:57
  SQLite
• 14:57
  browser,
• 14:58
  Jupyter
• 14:58
  notebooks,
• 14:59
  a
• 14:59
  kanban
• 15:00
  board,
• 15:00
  and
• 15:00
  a
• 15:00
  browser
• 15:01
  that
• 15:01
  draws
• 15:01
  natively
• 15:02
  without
• 15:02
  bundled
• 15:03
  Chromium.
• 15:04
  The
• 15:04
  architecture
• 15:05
  is
• 15:05
  the
• 15:05
  pitch:
• 15:05
  a
• 15:05
  daemon
• 15:06
  owns
• 15:06
  the
• 15:06
  processes
• 15:07
  and
• 15:07
  the
• 15:07
  window
• 15:08
  is
• 15:08
  a
• 15:08
  client,
• 15:09
  so
• 15:09
  sessions
• 15:09
  survive
• 15:10
  quits
• 15:10
  and
• 15:10
  reboots
• 15:11
  and
• 15:11
  can
• 15:11
  be
• 15:11
  attached
• 15:12
  from
• 15:12
  desktop,
• 15:12
  browser,
• 15:13
  or
• 15:13
  phone
• 15:13
  at
• 15:13
  once.
• 15:14
  The
• 15:14
  agent
• 15:15
  runs
• 15:15
  as
• 15:15
  a
• 15:15
  native
• 15:16
  block
• 15:16
  with
• 15:16
  a
• 15:16
  model
• 15:16
  picker,
• 15:17
  a
• 15:17
  subagent
• 15:18
  panel,
• 15:18
  and
• 15:19
  a
• 15:19
  context
• 15:19
  inspector
• 15:20
  showing
• 15:20
  its
• 15:20
  million-token
• 15:21
  budget.
• 15:22
  The
• 15:22
  reviewer
• 15:23
  called
• 15:23
  it
• 15:23
  the
• 15:23
  most
• 15:23
  interesting
• 15:24
  terminal
• 15:24
  release
• 15:25
  of
• 15:25
  the
• 15:25
  year,
• 15:25
  while
• 15:26
  noting
• 15:26
  rough
• 15:26
  edges
• 15:27
  in
• 15:27
  file
• 15:27
  refresh
• 15:27
  and
• 15:28
  board
• 15:28
  sync
• 15:28
  .
• 15:29
  A
• 15:29
  companion
• 15:29
  video
• 15:30
  review
• 15:30
  is
• 15:30
  a
• 15:30
  useful
• 15:31
  reality
• 15:31
  check
• 15:31
  on
• 15:31
  the
• 15:32
  model
• 15:32
  rather
• 15:32
  than
• 15:32
  the
• 15:33
  tool.
• 15:34
  Driving
• 15:34
  Tern
• 15:34
  with
• 15:34
  the
• 15:35
  free
• 15:35
  MiniMax
• 15:35
  M3.1
• 15:36
  Flash
• 15:37
  to
• 15:37
  build
• 15:37
  a
• 15:37
  small
• 15:38
  Astro
• 15:38
  site
• 15:38
  produced
• 15:39
  a
• 15:39
  working,
• 15:40
  Lighthouse-100
• 15:41
  result
• 15:41
  at
• 15:41
  high
• 15:41
  speed
• 15:42
  but
• 15:42
  a
• 15:42
  basic
• 15:42
  design
• 15:43
  and
• 15:43
  crude
• 15:43
  icons.
• 15:44
  The
• 15:44
  verdict,
• 15:45
  that
• 15:45
  the
• 15:45
  model
• 15:46
  "still
• 15:46
  has
• 15:46
  a
• 15:46
  long
• 15:46
  way
• 15:47
  to
• 15:47
  go,"
• 15:47
  pairs
• 15:48
  with
• 15:48
  the
• 15:48
  standing
• 15:48
  caution
• 15:49
  that
• 15:49
  a
• 15:49
  vendor's
• 15:49
  speed
• 15:50
  and
• 15:50
  price
• 15:50
  mean
• 15:50
  little
• 15:51
  without
• 15:51
  cost-per-task
• 15:52
  accounting
• 15:52
  .
• 15:53
  A
• 15:53
  second
• 15:54
  video
• 15:54
  is
• 15:54
  pure
• 15:55
  spectacle
• 15:55
  with
• 15:55
  a
• 15:55
  real
• 15:56
  payload:
• 15:57
  using
• 15:57
  Claude
• 15:57
  Code
• 15:58
  to
• 15:58
  download
• 15:58
  Google's
• 15:59
  freshly
• 15:59
  released
• 16:00
  fruit-fly
• 16:00
  connectome,
• 16:01
  build
• 16:01
  a
• 16:01
  leaky
• 16:02
  integrate-and-fire
• 16:03
  simulation
• 16:03
  of
• 16:03
  its
• 16:04
  escape
• 16:04
  circuit,
• 16:05
  and
• 16:05
  wire
• 16:05
  it
• 16:05
  to
• 16:05
  a
• 16:05
  webcam
• 16:06
  so
• 16:06
  a
• 16:06
  drawn
• 16:07
  fly
• 16:07
  dodges
• 16:07
  a
• 16:07
  hand,
• 16:08
  then
• 16:08
  scramble
• 16:09
  the
• 16:09
  wiring
• 16:09
  to
• 16:09
  confirm
• 16:10
  the
• 16:10
  behavior
• 16:10
  collapses
• 16:11
  into
• 16:11
  seizure.
• 16:12
  After
• 16:12
  a
• 16:13
  year
• 16:13
  of
• 16:13
  the
• 16:13
  roughly
• 16:13
  140,000-neuron
• 16:16
  drosophila
• 16:16
  connectome
• 16:17
  being
• 16:17
  mocked
• 16:17
  as
• 16:18
  hype-speak,
• 16:19
  watching
• 16:19
  an
• 16:19
  agent
• 16:19
  wire
• 16:20
  one
• 16:20
  up
• 16:20
  on
• 16:20
  a
• 16:20
  desktop
• 16:21
  is
• 16:21
  a
• 16:21
  quietly
• 16:22
  satisfying
• 16:22
  inversion
• 16:23
  .
• 16:25
  Mistral
• 16:25
  closed
• 16:26
  the
• 16:26
  loop
• 16:26
  it
• 16:26
  opened
• 16:26
  earlier
• 16:27
  in
• 16:27
  the
• 16:27
  month
• 16:28
  by
• 16:28
  releasing
• 16:28
  the
• 16:28
  weights
• 16:28
  of
• 16:29
  Mistral
• 16:29
  Large
• 16:29
  4,
• 16:30
  the
• 16:30
  trillion-parameter
• 16:31
  multimodal
• 16:32
  mixture-of-experts
• 16:33
  model
• 16:33
  nicknamed
• 16:34
  Le
• 16:34
  Chonk,
• 16:35
  under
• 16:35
  a
• 16:35
  modified
• 16:35
  MIT
• 16:36
  license:
• 16:37
  free
• 16:37
  to
• 16:37
  use,
• 16:38
  modify,
• 16:38
  and
• 16:39
  commercialize,
• 16:40
  with
• 16:40
  one
• 16:40
  carve-out,
• 16:41
  that
• 16:41
  operating
• 16:41
  it
• 16:42
  as
• 16:42
  a
• 16:42
  model-as-a-service
• 16:43
  requires
• 16:43
  a
• 16:43
  separate
• 16:44
  commercial
• 16:44
  license.
• 16:45
  The
• 16:45
  company
• 16:45
  claims
• 16:46
  it
• 16:46
  "ranks
• 16:46
  as
• 16:46
  the
• 16:46
  best
• 16:47
  open-weight
• 16:47
  model
• 16:47
  for
• 16:48
  coding,"
• 16:48
  and
• 16:49
  leads
• 16:49
  with
• 16:49
  agentic
• 16:49
  rather
• 16:50
  than
• 16:50
  academic
• 16:50
  numbers,
• 16:51
  topping
• 16:51
  a
• 16:52
  private
• 16:52
  benchmark
• 16:52
  that
• 16:53
  measures
• 16:53
  whether
• 16:53
  a
• 16:53
  maintainer
• 16:54
  would
• 16:54
  merge
• 16:54
  an
• 16:55
  agent's
• 16:55
  change,
• 16:56
  tying
• 16:56
  the
• 16:56
  strongest
• 16:57
  open
• 16:57
  competitor
• 16:58
  on
• 16:58
  a
• 16:58
  coding-agent
• 16:59
  index
• 16:59
  while
• 16:59
  using
• 17:00
  47
• 17:00
  percent
• 17:01
  fewer
• 17:01
  tokens,
• 17:02
  and
• 17:02
  ranking
• 17:02
  behind
• 17:03
  only
• 17:03
  Claude
• 17:03
  Opus
• 17:03
  5.5
• 17:04
  in
• 17:05
  blind
• 17:05
  human
• 17:05
  comparisons.
• 17:06
  The
• 17:06
  cybersecurity
• 17:07
  framing
• 17:08
  is
• 17:08
  where
• 17:08
  Mistral
• 17:08
  threads
• 17:09
  the
• 17:09
  needle
• 17:09
  the
• 17:09
  American
• 17:10
  labs
• 17:10
  have
• 17:10
  been
• 17:10
  sewing
• 17:11
  shut:
• 17:11
  it
• 17:11
  reports
• 17:12
  the
• 17:12
  highest
• 17:12
  malicious-prompt
• 17:13
  refusal
• 17:14
  rate
• 17:14
  it
• 17:14
  measures
• 17:14
  among
• 17:15
  open
• 17:15
  models
• 17:15
  while
• 17:15
  handling
• 17:16
  defensive
• 17:16
  work
• 17:17
  "without
• 17:17
  unnecessary
• 17:18
  refusals,"
• 17:18
  yet
• 17:19
  admits
• 17:19
  live
• 17:19
  traffic
• 17:20
  showed
• 17:20
  "a
• 17:20
  potential
• 17:21
  for
• 17:21
  uplift
• 17:21
  to
• 17:21
  conduct
• 17:22
  real
• 17:22
  attacks,"
• 17:23
  with
• 17:23
  a
• 17:23
  penetration-testing
• 17:24
  variant
• 17:25
  restricted
• 17:25
  to
• 17:25
  vetted
• 17:25
  partners.
• 17:27
  This
• 17:27
  is
• 17:27
  the
• 17:27
  open-weight
• 17:28
  bet
• 17:28
  stated
• 17:28
  out
• 17:29
  loud,
• 17:29
  backed
• 17:30
  by
• 17:30
  Cisco,
• 17:30
  CrowdStrike,
• 17:31
  Cloudflare,
• 17:32
  and
• 17:32
  Europe's
• 17:32
  ENISA:
• 17:33
  that
• 17:34
  customer-controlled
• 17:34
  hosting
• 17:35
  is
• 17:35
  a
• 17:35
  security
• 17:35
  asset,
• 17:36
  and
• 17:36
  that
• 17:36
  the
• 17:37
  refusal
• 17:37
  gate
• 17:37
  frustrating
• 17:38
  a
• 17:38
  legitimate
• 17:38
  defender
• 17:39
  never
• 17:39
  existed
• 17:40
  for
• 17:40
  an
• 17:40
  adversary
• 17:40
  running
• 17:41
  weights
• 17:41
  locally
• 17:41
  .
• 17:42
  The
• 17:42
  release
• 17:43
  lands
• 17:43
  in
• 17:43
  a
• 17:43
  market
• 17:43
  where
• 17:44
  open
• 17:44
  weights
• 17:44
  at
• 17:44
  this
• 17:44
  scale
• 17:45
  are
• 17:45
  runnable
• 17:45
  locally
• 17:46
  only
• 17:46
  through
• 17:46
  fragile
• 17:47
  compromise.
• 17:48
  A
• 17:48
  bookkeeper
• 17:48
  downloaded
• 17:49
  a
• 17:49
  217
• 17:50
  GB
• 17:50
  one-bit
• 17:51
  quant
• 17:51
  of
• 17:51
  GLM-5.3
• 17:52
  onto
• 17:53
  a
• 17:53
  128
• 17:54
  GB
• 17:54
  Mac
• 17:54
  Studio
• 17:55
  bought
• 17:55
  to
• 17:55
  keep
• 17:56
  client
• 17:56
  bank
• 17:56
  statements
• 17:57
  off
• 17:57
  cloud
• 17:57
  models;
• 17:58
  it
• 17:58
  loaded
• 17:58
  off
• 17:58
  the
• 17:59
  SSD
• 17:59
  and
• 17:59
  summarized
• 18:00
  a
• 18:00
  one-page
• 18:00
  letter
• 18:01
  sometime
• 18:01
  between
• 18:02
  breakfast
• 18:02
  and
• 18:02
  lunch,
• 18:03
  which
• 18:03
  is
• 18:03
  to
• 18:03
  say
• 18:03
  it
• 18:04
  did
• 18:04
  not
• 18:04
  really
• 18:04
  run.
• 18:05
  The
• 18:05
  useful
• 18:05
  bit
• 18:06
  is
• 18:06
  the
• 18:06
  operational
• 18:06
  discipline
• 18:07
  in
• 18:07
  the
• 18:07
  thread:
• 18:08
  a
• 18:08
  script
• 18:08
  that
• 18:08
  blocks
• 18:09
  any
• 18:09
  input
• 18:09
  with
• 18:09
  a
• 18:09
  long
• 18:10
  run
• 18:10
  of
• 18:10
  digits
• 18:10
  after
• 18:10
  someone
• 18:11
  nearly
• 18:11
  pasted
• 18:12
  a
• 18:12
  routing
• 18:12
  number
• 18:12
  late
• 18:12
  at
• 18:12
  night.
• 18:13
  Giant
• 18:14
  open
• 18:14
  weights
• 18:14
  remain
• 18:15
  a
• 18:15
  distillation
• 18:15
  source
• 18:16
  and
• 18:16
  a
• 18:16
  privacy
• 18:16
  talisman
• 18:17
  more
• 18:17
  than
• 18:17
  a
• 18:17
  daily
• 18:17
  driver
• 18:18
  at
• 18:18
  these
• 18:18
  quant
• 18:18
  levels
• 18:19
  .
• 18:19
  The
• 18:20
  forward-looking
• 18:20
  note
• 18:20
  is
• 18:21
  Qwen4,
• 18:21
  which
• 18:22
  a
• 18:22
  leaked
• 18:22
  pull
• 18:22
  request
• 18:23
  pins
• 18:23
  to
• 18:23
  a
• 18:23
  one-million-token
• 18:24
  context
• 18:25
  window,
• 18:25
  quadrupling
• 18:26
  the
• 18:26
  prior
• 18:26
  generation's
• 18:27
  native
• 18:27
  window,
• 18:28
  with
• 18:28
  a
• 18:28
  Qwen4-Max
• 18:29
  date
• 18:30
  and
• 18:30
  an
• 18:30
  Apsara
• 18:30
  announcement
• 18:31
  expected
• 18:31
  imminently.
• 18:32
  A
• 18:32
  million-token
• 18:33
  window
• 18:33
  at
• 18:33
  the
• 18:33
  open-weight
• 18:34
  tier
• 18:34
  is
• 18:34
  not
• 18:35
  unprecedented,
• 18:35
  but
• 18:36
  pairing
• 18:36
  it
• 18:36
  with
• 18:36
  the
• 18:36
  new
• 18:37
  architecture
• 18:37
  teased
• 18:38
  at
• 18:38
  the
• 18:38
  conference
• 18:38
  is
• 18:38
  the
• 18:39
  part
• 18:39
  worth
• 18:39
  watching:
• 18:40
  the
• 18:40
  pressure
• 18:40
  Mistral
• 18:41
  answers
• 18:41
  on
• 18:41
  capability
• 18:42
  is
• 18:42
  matched
• 18:43
  by
• 18:43
  Chinese
• 18:43
  labs
• 18:44
  answering
• 18:44
  on
• 18:44
  context
• 18:45
  and
• 18:45
  price
• 18:45
  .