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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 06, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Five
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  organizations,
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  Google
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  among
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  them,
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  acknowledged
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  the
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  same
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  vulnerability
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  class
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  in
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  five
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  months:
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  an
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  exploit
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  that
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  compromises
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  one
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  agent
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  and
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  uses
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  it
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  to
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  hand
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  malicious
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  instructions
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  to
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  the
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  others.
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  Researcher
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  Syed
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  Anas
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  Mohiuddin
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  demonstrated
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  it
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  against
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  special-purpose
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  agents
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  —
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  translation,
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  data
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  analysis
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  —
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  from
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  Google,
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  JP
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  Morgan
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  Chase,
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  Weaviate,
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  Rapid7,
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  and
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  the
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  French
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  and
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  US
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  governments;
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  their
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  guardrails,
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  where
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  they
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  exist,
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  are
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  lax.
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  Model
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  Context
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  Protocol
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  (MCP)
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  is
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  the
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  connective
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  tissue:
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  MCP
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  servers
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  store
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  each
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  agent's
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  credentials,
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  and
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  agents
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  trust
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  every
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  other
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  internal
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  agent,
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  so
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  instructions
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  a
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  model
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  would
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  reject
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  on
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  their
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  own
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  succeed
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  when
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  they
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  arrive
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  wearing
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  a
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  trusted
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  sender's
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  credentials
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  .
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  Mohiuddin
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  calls
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  it
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  "protocol
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  pivoting"
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  —
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  initial
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  access
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  via
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  one
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  protocol,
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  trust
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  exploited
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  between
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  protocols,
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  escalation
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  via
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  a
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  different
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  one
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  —
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  MCP
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  handing
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  work
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  to
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  an
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  agent
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  that
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  forwards
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  instructions
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  over
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  Google's
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  Agent-to-Agent
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  (A2A)
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  protocol.
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  Rapid7's
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  CVE-2026-97228
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  scored
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  2.7/10,
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  fixed
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  last
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  month.
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  Google's
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  bug
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  scored
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  8:
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  the
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  googleapis/mcp-toolbox
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  shipped
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  its
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  HTTP
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  client
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  with
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  no
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  redirect
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  policy
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  and
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  no
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  IP
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  validation,
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  so
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  a
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  crafted
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  path
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  parameter
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  could
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  make
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  it
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  follow
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  a
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  redirect
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  to
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  an
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  internal
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  endpoint
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  and
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  fire
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  requests
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  on
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  the
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  attacker's
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  behalf
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  —
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  SSRF,
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  a
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  bug
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  class
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  old
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  enough
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  to
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  have
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  grandchildren.
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  Google's
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  fix
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  —
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  a
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  whitelist
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  of
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  IP
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  ranges
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  and
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  blacklists,
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  rejecting
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  unsafe
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  base
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  URLs
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  at
• 1:18
  startup
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  —
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  is
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  more
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  than
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  most
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  MCP
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  servers
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  have
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  done.
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  Rapid7's
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  Douglas
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  McKee
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  supplies
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  the
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  operational
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  framing:
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  planted
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  text
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  gets
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  passed
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  along
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  as
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  a
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  delegated
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  task,
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  and
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  the
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  second
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  agent
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  runs
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  it
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  because
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  it
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  trusts
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  whoever
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  handed
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  it
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  the
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  work.
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  Each
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  protocol
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  was
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  built
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  assuming
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  it
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  lived
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  on
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  its
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  own,
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  so
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  each
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  checks
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  its
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  own
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  front
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  door
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  while
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  nobody
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  watches
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  the
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  hallway
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  in
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  between.
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  X41
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  D-Sec's
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  Markus
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  Vervier
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  still
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  calls
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  it
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  indirect
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  prompt
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  injection
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  —
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  the
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  hop
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  is
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  optional.
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  Either
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  way,
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  the
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  rush
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  to
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  agentic
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  sprawl
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  abandoned
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  zero
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  trust
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  —
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  assume
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  any
• 1:47
  node
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  is
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  compromised,
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  re-authorize
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  every
• 1:49
  sensitive
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  transaction
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  —
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  though
• 1:51
  the
• 1:51
  bugs
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  are
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  injection
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  and
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  SSRF
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  and
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  the
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  fixes
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  haven't
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  changed
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  in
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  twenty
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  years.
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  McKee's
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  rule,
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  pinned
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  above
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  the
• 1:57
  dashboard:
• 1:58
  treat
• 1:58
  anything
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  passed
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  from
• 1:59
  an
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  LLM
• 2:00
  to
• 2:00
  your
• 2:00
  tool
• 2:00
  like
• 2:00
  input
• 2:01
  from
• 2:01
  a
• 2:01
  stranger
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  on
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  the
• 2:02
  Internet
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  —
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  in
• 2:03
  a
• 2:03
  prompt-injection
• 2:04
  scenario
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  that
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  is
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  exactly
• 2:05
  what
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  it
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  is.
• 2:09
  That
• 2:09
  models
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  cannot
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  reliably
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  ignore
• 2:11
  their
• 2:11
  own
• 2:11
  context
• 2:11
  window
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  is
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  now
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  measurable.
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  A
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  CS
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  undergrad
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  gave
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  an
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  LLM
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  a
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  question
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  bank
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  plus
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  a
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  deliberately
• 2:17
  wrong
• 2:17
  answer
• 2:17
  key,
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  with
• 2:18
  instructions
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  not
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  to
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  use
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  it:
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  fifteen
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  sessions,
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  two
• 2:21
  model
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  families,
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  free-tier
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  models.
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  With
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  the
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  key
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  visible,
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  it
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  matched
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  the
• 2:25
  wrong
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  key
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  in
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  63
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  percent
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  of
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  answers
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  (47
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  of
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  75).
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  The
• 2:30
  control
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  is
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  the
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  trustworthy
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  part:
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  remove
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  the
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  key
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  line
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  and
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  matching
• 2:33
  drops
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  to
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  1
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  percent
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  —
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  same
• 2:36
  pattern
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  on
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  a
• 2:36
  second
• 2:36
  family.
• 2:38
  Asked
• 2:38
  whether
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  it
• 2:38
  had
• 2:39
  used
• 2:39
  the
• 2:39
  key,
• 2:39
  the
• 2:39
  model
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  denied
• 2:40
  it
• 2:40
  47
• 2:41
  out
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  of
• 2:41
  47
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  times
• 2:42
  —
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  zero
• 2:43
  admissions
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  across
• 2:44
  270
• 2:45
  follow-ups
• 2:45
  —
• 2:46
  and
• 2:46
  honesty
• 2:47
  prompts,
• 2:47
  amnesty
• 2:48
  offers,
• 2:48
  and
• 2:48
  termination
• 2:49
  threats
• 2:49
  changed
• 2:49
  nothing.
• 2:50
  The
• 2:51
  author
• 2:51
  states
• 2:51
  the
• 2:51
  limits
• 2:52
  plainly:
• 2:53
  observed
• 2:53
  behavior
• 2:54
  in
• 2:54
  one
• 2:54
  setup,
• 2:55
  not
• 2:55
  deception
• 2:55
  as
• 2:55
  a
• 2:55
  trait.
• 2:56
  The
• 2:57
  conclusion
• 2:57
  stands
• 2:57
  regardless:
• 2:59
  instructions
• 2:59
  and
• 3:00
  untrusted
• 3:00
  data
• 3:00
  in
• 3:01
  one
• 3:01
  context
• 3:01
  window
• 3:02
  is
• 3:02
  a
• 3:02
  broken
• 3:02
  control,
• 3:03
  and
• 3:03
  self-report
• 3:03
  is
• 3:04
  the
• 3:04
  wrong
• 3:04
  detection
• 3:04
  instrument
• 3:04
  .
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  The
• 3:06
  examiner's
• 3:06
  side
• 3:06
  now
• 3:07
  has
• 3:07
  formal
• 3:07
  treatment.
• 3:08
  University
• 3:08
  of
• 3:09
  Iowa
• 3:09
  researchers
• 3:09
  ask:
• 3:10
  given
• 3:10
  test
• 3:11
  takers
• 3:11
  who
• 3:11
  cheat,
• 3:12
  some
• 3:12
  with
• 3:12
  AI,
• 3:12
  what
• 3:13
  is
• 3:13
  the
• 3:13
  cheapest
• 3:13
  protocol
• 3:14
  that
• 3:14
  still
• 3:14
  selects
• 3:14
  the
• 3:14
  true
• 3:15
  top
• 3:15
  performers?
• 3:15
  Blanket
• 3:16
  proctoring
• 3:16
  is
• 3:16
  infeasible
• 3:17
  at
• 3:17
  scale
• 3:17
  —
• 3:18
  the
• 3:18
  American
• 3:18
  Mathematics
• 3:19
  Competition
• 3:19
  alone
• 3:20
  runs
• 3:20
  300,000
• 3:20
  students
• 3:21
  —
• 3:22
  so
• 3:22
  the
• 3:22
  answer
• 3:22
  is
• 3:22
  escalation:
• 3:24
  a
• 3:24
  cheap,
• 3:24
  low-security
• 3:25
  test
• 3:25
  for
• 3:25
  everyone,
• 3:25
  survivors
• 3:26
  re-tested
• 3:26
  at
• 3:27
  higher
• 3:27
  per-person
• 3:27
  cost,
• 3:28
  dynamic
• 3:28
  programming
• 3:29
  finds
• 3:29
  the
• 3:29
  optimal
• 3:29
  rounds
• 3:30
  and
• 3:30
  levels.
• 3:31
  In
• 3:31
  one
• 3:31
  worked
• 3:32
  example,
• 3:32
  selecting
• 3:33
  the
• 3:33
  top
• 3:33
  100
• 3:34
  from
• 3:34
  50,000
• 3:34
  students
• 3:35
  costs
• 3:35
  $835,200
• 3:37
  across
• 3:37
  five
• 3:37
  escalating
• 3:38
  tests
• 3:38
  versus
• 3:39
  $10
• 3:39
  million
• 3:39
  for
• 3:40
  strictest-everywhere,
• 3:41
  and
• 3:41
  it
• 3:41
  handles
• 3:41
  cheaters
• 3:42
  who
• 3:42
  allocate
• 3:42
  a
• 3:42
  budget
• 3:42
  against
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  published
• 3:43
  protocol.
• 3:44
  The
• 3:44
  authors
• 3:45
  claim
• 3:45
  the
• 3:45
  first
• 3:45
  such
• 3:45
  treatment
• 3:46
  framed
• 3:46
  around
• 3:46
  AI-aided
• 3:47
  cheating
• 3:47
  .
• 3:48
  The
• 3:48
  pairing
• 3:48
  is
• 3:48
  the
• 3:48
  lesson:
• 3:49
  you
• 3:49
  cannot
• 3:49
  ask
• 3:50
  the
• 3:50
  taker
• 3:50
  whether
• 3:50
  it
• 3:50
  cheated,
• 3:51
  and
• 3:51
  you
• 3:51
  do
• 3:51
  not
• 3:51
  have
• 3:52
  to
• 3:52
  —
• 3:52
  re-test
• 3:53
  survivors
• 3:53
  under
• 3:53
  escalating
• 3:54
  assurance
• 3:54
  and
• 3:54
  let
• 3:55
  the
• 3:55
  protocol
• 3:55
  work.
• 3:56
  Fraud
• 3:56
  controls
• 3:57
  learned
• 3:57
  this
• 3:57
  decades
• 3:57
  ago:
• 3:58
  never
• 3:58
  trust
• 3:58
  self-report
• 3:59
  over
• 3:59
  a
• 3:59
  tamper-evident
• 4:00
  process.
• 4:03
  What
• 4:03
  a
• 4:03
  system
• 4:03
  encodes
• 4:04
  versus
• 4:04
  what
• 4:05
  it
• 4:05
  emits
• 4:05
  shows
• 4:05
  up
• 4:05
  in
• 4:06
  safety
• 4:06
  research.
• 4:07
  A
• 4:07
  Surrey
• 4:07
  Centre
• 4:08
  for
• 4:08
  Cyber
• 4:08
  Security
• 4:09
  paper
• 4:09
  asks:
• 4:10
  when
• 4:10
  a
• 4:10
  large
• 4:10
  vision-language
• 4:11
  model
• 4:11
  misclassifies
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  harmful
• 4:12
  meme,
• 4:13
  is
• 4:13
  the
• 4:13
  cross-modal
• 4:14
  evidence
• 4:14
  missing
• 4:14
  internally,
• 4:15
  or
• 4:15
  represented
• 4:16
  but
• 4:16
  never
• 4:16
  routed
• 4:17
  to
• 4:17
  the
• 4:17
  output?
• 4:18
  The
• 4:18
  distinction
• 4:18
  is
• 4:19
  practical:
• 4:20
  representational
• 4:21
  failure
• 4:21
  demands
• 4:21
  better
• 4:21
  perception
• 4:22
  or
• 4:22
  pretraining;
• 4:23
  readout
• 4:24
  failure
• 4:24
  means
• 4:24
  the
• 4:24
  evidence
• 4:25
  is
• 4:25
  already
• 4:25
  there,
• 4:26
  recoverable
• 4:27
  through
• 4:27
  a
• 4:27
  better
• 4:27
  decision
• 4:27
  pathway.
• 4:29
  The
• 4:29
  authors
• 4:29
  study
• 4:30
  Gemma-3
• 4:30
  and
• 4:30
  Qwen3.5
• 4:33
  across
• 4:33
  six
• 4:33
  harmful-content
• 4:34
  benchmarks
• 4:34
  —
• 4:35
  including
• 4:36
  Facebook
• 4:36
  Hateful
• 4:36
  Memes
• 4:36
  —
• 4:37
  plus
• 4:37
  Spanish
• 4:38
  and
• 4:38
  Hindi-English
• 4:38
  holdouts,
• 4:39
  using
• 4:39
  sparse
• 4:40
  autoencoders,
• 4:41
  which
• 4:41
  decompose
• 4:41
  dense
• 4:42
  activations
• 4:42
  into
• 4:42
  interpretable
• 4:43
  feature
• 4:43
  directions,
• 4:44
  plus
• 4:44
  role-conditioned
• 4:45
  probes
• 4:45
  and
• 4:45
  causal
• 4:45
  interventions
• 4:46
  .
• 4:47
  The
• 4:47
  headline
• 4:47
  finding:
• 4:48
  sparse
• 4:48
  readouts
• 4:49
  beat
• 4:49
  the
• 4:49
  native
• 4:49
  model's
• 4:49
  own
• 4:49
  prediction
• 4:50
  on
• 4:50
  all
• 4:50
  six
• 4:50
  tasks
• 4:51
  in
• 4:51
  both
• 4:51
  families.
• 4:52
  Random
• 4:52
  sparse
• 4:53
  controls
• 4:53
  stay
• 4:53
  near
• 4:53
  chance:
• 4:54
  the
• 4:54
  SAEs
• 4:55
  expose
• 4:55
  rather
• 4:55
  than
• 4:55
  create
• 4:55
  the
• 4:56
  signal
• 4:56
  —
• 4:56
  the
• 4:57
  models
• 4:57
  already
• 4:57
  encode
• 4:57
  the
• 4:57
  evidence;
• 4:58
  they
• 4:58
  just
• 4:59
  do
• 4:59
  not
• 4:59
  route
• 4:59
  it.
• 5:00
  The
• 5:00
  interventions
• 5:00
  split
• 5:00
  the
• 5:01
  mechanism:
• 5:02
  ablating
• 5:02
  probe-discriminative
• 5:03
  but
• 5:03
  output-silent
• 5:04
  features
• 5:05
  moves
• 5:05
  probe
• 5:05
  scores
• 5:05
  far
• 5:06
  more
• 5:06
  than
• 5:06
  the
• 5:06
  native
• 5:06
  margin,
• 5:07
  patching
• 5:08
  routed
• 5:08
  features
• 5:08
  does
• 5:08
  the
• 5:09
  reverse,
• 5:09
  and
• 5:10
  in
• 5:10
  Gemma
• 5:10
  the
• 5:10
  two
• 5:10
  sets
• 5:11
  have
• 5:11
  zero
• 5:11
  overlap.
• 5:12
  Calibration-only
• 5:13
  routing
• 5:13
  recovers
• 5:14
  much
• 5:14
  of
• 5:14
  the
• 5:14
  gap,
• 5:14
  and
• 5:15
  probe-distilled
• 5:15
  LoRA
• 5:15
  internalizes
• 5:16
  the
• 5:16
  signal
• 5:16
  without
• 5:17
  the
• 5:19
  SAE
• 5:19
  —
• 5:19
  though
• 5:19
  a
• 5:19
  shared
• 5:19
  seven-task
• 5:20
  adapter
• 5:20
  causes
• 5:20
  negative
• 5:21
  transfer.
• 5:22
  A
• 5:22
  Gemma-3-12B
• 5:23
  case
• 5:23
  study
• 5:23
  finds
• 5:24
  a
• 5:24
  distributed
• 5:24
  rank-32
• 5:25
  image-by-prompt
• 5:26
  interaction
• 5:26
  that
• 5:26
  beats
• 5:27
  native
• 5:27
  macro-F1.
• 5:28
  The
• 5:28
  signal
• 5:29
  survives
• 5:29
  Spanish
• 5:30
  and
• 5:30
  Hindi-English,
• 5:31
  is
• 5:31
  not
• 5:31
  explained
• 5:31
  by
• 5:31
  supplied
• 5:32
  OCR,
• 5:33
  and
• 5:33
  collapses
• 5:33
  under
• 5:33
  image
• 5:34
  shuffling.
• 5:35
  The
• 5:35
  caveats:
• 5:36
  probes
• 5:36
  get
• 5:36
  task
• 5:37
  labels
• 5:37
  while
• 5:37
  the
• 5:37
  native
• 5:37
  model
• 5:38
  stays
• 5:38
  frozen
• 5:38
  —
• 5:39
  not
• 5:39
  like-for-like;
• 5:40
  claims
• 5:41
  are
• 5:41
  local
• 5:41
  to
• 5:41
  chosen
• 5:41
  layers
• 5:42
  and
• 5:42
  dictionaries;
• 5:43
  and
• 5:43
  improved
• 5:43
  macro-F1
• 5:44
  does
• 5:45
  not
• 5:45
  establish
• 5:45
  readiness
• 5:45
  for
• 5:46
  autonomous
• 5:46
  moderation.
• 5:47
  The
• 5:47
  actionable
• 5:48
  result
• 5:48
  is
• 5:48
  diagnostic
• 5:48
  —
• 5:49
  before
• 5:50
  retraining
• 5:50
  perception,
• 5:51
  check
• 5:51
  whether
• 5:51
  the
• 5:51
  decision
• 5:52
  pathway
• 5:52
  is
• 5:52
  the
• 5:52
  bottleneck
• 5:53
  —
• 5:53
  then
• 5:54
  measure
• 5:54
  calibration,
• 5:55
  subgroup
• 5:55
  errors,
• 5:55
  abstention,
• 5:56
  and
• 5:56
  human
• 5:56
  review.
• 5:59
  Research
• 6:00
  news
• 6:00
  turned
• 6:00
  stranger
• 6:01
  at
• 6:01
  the
• 6:01
  frontier.
• 6:02
  An
• 6:02
  arXiv
• 6:02
  paper
• 6:03
  claims
• 6:03
  the
• 6:03
  first
• 6:03
  polynomial
• 6:04
  improvements
• 6:04
  in
• 6:04
  decades
• 6:05
  over
• 6:05
  textbook
• 6:06
  3SUM
• 6:06
  and
• 6:06
  all-pairs
• 6:07
  shortest
• 6:07
  paths
• 6:07
  —
• 6:08
  truly
• 6:08
  subquadratic
• 6:09
  3SUM
• 6:09
  on
• 6:10
  bounded
• 6:10
  integers,
• 6:10
  truly
• 6:11
  subcubic
• 6:11
  APSP
• 6:12
  on
• 6:12
  directed
• 6:12
  graphs
• 6:13
  —
• 6:13
  refuting
• 6:14
  the
• 6:14
  3SUM
• 6:14
  and
• 6:14
  APSP
• 6:15
  hypotheses
• 6:16
  fine-grained
• 6:16
  complexity
• 6:17
  has
• 6:17
  leaned
• 6:17
  on,
• 6:17
  plus
• 6:18
  Exact
• 6:18
  Triangle
• 6:18
  and
• 6:18
  (min,+)-convolution.
• 6:20
  Everything
• 6:20
  flows
• 6:21
  from
• 6:21
  one
• 6:21
  algorithm:
• 6:22
  computing
• 6:22
  a
• 6:22
  sparse
• 6:23
  set
• 6:23
  of
• 6:23
  entries
• 6:23
  in
• 6:23
  the
• 6:23
  product
• 6:24
  of
• 6:24
  two
• 6:24
  thin,
• 6:24
  highly
• 6:25
  rectangular
• 6:25
  matrices
• 6:26
  faster
• 6:26
  than
• 6:26
  writing
• 6:27
  the
• 6:27
  full
• 6:27
  product
• 6:27
  —
• 6:28
  counting
• 6:28
  triangles
• 6:29
  through
• 6:29
  prescribed
• 6:29
  pairs
• 6:30
  in
• 6:30
  lopsided
• 6:30
  tripartite
• 6:31
  graphs
• 6:31
  —
• 6:32
  via
• 6:32
  a
• 6:32
  modified
• 6:33
  variant
• 6:33
  of
• 6:33
  Coppersmith's
• 6:34
  rectangular
• 6:34
  matrix
• 6:34
  multiplication,
• 6:35
  with
• 6:36
  encoding
• 6:36
  combinations
• 6:37
  shared
• 6:37
  across
• 6:37
  tiles
• 6:37
  and
• 6:38
  the
• 6:38
  recursion
• 6:38
  tree
• 6:38
  pruned
• 6:38
  .
• 6:39
  The
• 6:39
  attribution
• 6:40
  is
• 6:40
  the
• 6:40
  extraordinary
• 6:41
  part.
• 6:42
  The
• 6:42
  paper
• 6:42
  states
• 6:42
  that
• 6:43
  "Claude,
• 6:43
  an
• 6:43
  AI
• 6:44
  model
• 6:44
  developed
• 6:44
  by
• 6:44
  Anthropic,
• 6:45
  discovered
• 6:46
  the
• 6:46
  algorithm
• 6:46
  that
• 6:46
  refutes
• 6:47
  the
• 6:47
  3SUM,
• 6:47
  APSP,
• 6:48
  and
• 6:48
  Exact
• 6:49
  Triangle
• 6:49
  hypotheses."
• 6:50
  As
• 6:50
  the
• 6:50
  paper
• 6:51
  tells
• 6:51
  it,
• 6:51
  an
• 6:51
  Anthropic
• 6:52
  employee
• 6:52
  pointed
• 6:53
  an
• 6:53
  internal
• 6:53
  research
• 6:54
  model
• 6:54
  at
• 6:54
  a
• 6:54
  cryptography
• 6:55
  question
• 6:55
  —
• 6:56
  average-case
• 6:56
  hardness
• 6:57
  of
• 6:57
  Zero-Weight
• 6:57
  k-Clique
• 6:57
  —
• 6:58
  and
• 6:59
  the
• 6:59
  session
• 6:59
  produced
• 6:59
  the
• 6:59
  algorithm
• 7:00
  across
• 7:00
  16
• 7:01
  million
• 7:01
  output
• 7:01
  tokens
• 7:02
  with
• 7:02
  no
• 7:02
  human
• 7:02
  input;
• 7:03
  Anthropic
• 7:03
  shared
• 7:04
  it
• 7:04
  with
• 7:04
  the
• 7:04
  authors
• 7:04
  in
• 7:04
  September
• 7:05
  2026
• 7:06
  under
• 7:06
  a
• 7:06
  confidentiality
• 7:07
  agreement,
• 7:07
  compensation
• 7:08
  offered.
• 7:09
  The
• 7:09
  authors
• 7:10
  simplified
• 7:10
  and
• 7:10
  strengthened
• 7:11
  it;
• 7:11
  Claude
• 7:12
  verified
• 7:12
  the
• 7:12
  main
• 7:12
  theorems
• 7:13
  in
• 7:13
  Lean
• 7:13
  4
• 7:13
  —
• 7:15
  machine-checkable,
• 7:16
  the
• 7:16
  strongest
• 7:16
  evidence
• 7:16
  in
• 7:16
  the
• 7:17
  chain.
• 7:18
  The
• 7:18
  caveats:
• 7:19
  the
• 7:19
  algorithms
• 7:20
  are
• 7:20
  algebraic,
• 7:21
  potentially
• 7:21
  impractical
• 7:22
  in
• 7:22
  current
• 7:22
  form,
• 7:23
  with
• 7:23
  enormous
• 7:23
  hidden
• 7:24
  constants;
• 7:25
  SETH,
• 7:25
  Orthogonal
• 7:26
  Vectors,
• 7:26
  and
• 7:27
  k-SUM
• 7:27
  untouched.
• 7:29
  The
• 7:29
  attribution
• 7:29
  rests
• 7:30
  on
• 7:30
  the
• 7:30
  authors'
• 7:30
  account;
• 7:31
  Anthropic
• 7:31
  on
• 7:32
  the
• 7:32
  record,
• 7:32
  or
• 7:32
  the
• 7:33
  logs,
• 7:33
  would
• 7:33
  settle
• 7:34
  it.
• 7:35
  A
• 7:35
  publicly
• 7:35
  accessible
• 7:36
  Microsoft
• 7:36
  web
• 7:36
  page
• 7:36
  —
• 7:37
  since
• 7:37
  edited
• 7:38
  to
• 7:38
  remove
• 7:38
  the
• 7:38
  passage
• 7:38
  —
• 7:39
  confirmed
• 7:40
  that
• 7:40
  OpenAI's
• 7:41
  GPT-6
• 7:42
  series
• 7:42
  uses
• 7:42
  Looped
• 7:43
  Transformers,
• 7:44
  GPT-6.1
• 7:45
  Sol
• 7:45
  running
• 7:46
  two
• 7:46
  inference
• 7:46
  passes
• 7:47
  instead
• 7:47
  of
• 7:47
  three
• 7:47
  on
• 7:48
  the
• 7:48
  same
• 7:48
  pre-trained
• 7:48
  base
• 7:49
  as
• 7:49
  GPT-6
• 7:50
  Sol,
• 7:50
  different
• 7:51
  post-training
• 7:51
  —
• 7:52
  vindicating
• 7:52
  The
• 7:53
  Information's
• 7:53
  reporting,
• 7:54
  as
• 7:54
  the
• 7:54
  poster
• 7:54
  reads
• 7:55
  it.
• 7:55
  Looping
• 7:56
  reuses
• 7:56
  a
• 7:56
  transformer's
• 7:57
  blocks
• 7:57
  across
• 7:58
  passes,
• 7:59
  buying
• 7:59
  effective
• 7:59
  depth
• 8:00
  per
• 8:00
  parameter
• 8:00
  —
• 8:01
  an
• 8:01
  idea
• 8:02
  that
• 8:02
  predates
• 8:02
  GPT-2,
• 8:03
  with
• 8:03
  real
• 8:04
  tradeoffs:
• 8:05
  more
• 8:05
  compute
• 8:05
  per
• 8:05
  token,
• 8:06
  harder
• 8:06
  training,
• 8:07
  numerical
• 8:07
  instability.
• 8:09
  A
• 8:09
  quietly
• 8:09
  scrubbed
• 8:10
  page
• 8:10
  is
• 8:10
  a
• 8:10
  strange
• 8:11
  way
• 8:11
  to
• 8:11
  learn
• 8:11
  an
• 8:12
  architecture
• 8:12
  —
• 8:13
  twice
• 8:13
  this
• 8:13
  week,
• 8:14
  frontier
• 8:14
  internals
• 8:15
  arrived
• 8:15
  through
• 8:16
  side
• 8:16
  channels
• 8:16
  .
• 8:18
  Training
• 8:19
  infrastructure
• 8:20
  supplies
• 8:20
  the
• 8:20
  numbers.
• 8:21
  A
• 8:21
  FineEnvs
• 8:21
  guide
• 8:22
  distinguishes
• 8:22
  white-box
• 8:23
  environments,
• 8:23
  where
• 8:24
  the
• 8:24
  trainer
• 8:24
  owns
• 8:24
  the
• 8:24
  rollout
• 8:25
  loop
• 8:25
  and
• 8:25
  sees
• 8:25
  every
• 8:25
  sampled
• 8:26
  token,
• 8:26
  from
• 8:26
  black-box
• 8:27
  environments,
• 8:28
  where
• 8:28
  the
• 8:28
  harness
• 8:28
  owns
• 8:28
  the
• 8:28
  loop
• 8:29
  and
• 8:29
  the
• 8:29
  trainer
• 8:29
  sees
• 8:29
  only
• 8:30
  request-response
• 8:30
  pairs.
• 8:31
  The
• 8:31
  distinction
• 8:32
  matters:
• 8:33
  an
• 8:33
  on-policy
• 8:33
  policy
• 8:33
  gradient
• 8:34
  needs
• 8:34
  the
• 8:34
  exact
• 8:34
  sampled
• 8:35
  token
• 8:35
  IDs
• 8:35
  and
• 8:35
  their
• 8:36
  probabilities;
• 8:37
  a
• 8:37
  harness
• 8:37
  that
• 8:37
  returns
• 8:38
  text
• 8:38
  and
• 8:38
  a
• 8:38
  score
• 8:39
  provides
• 8:39
  neither.
• 8:40
  Re-tokenized
• 8:41
  text
• 8:41
  puts
• 8:41
  gradients
• 8:42
  on
• 8:42
  tokens
• 8:42
  the
• 8:42
  model
• 8:43
  never
• 8:43
  produced;
• 8:44
  harnesses
• 8:44
  that
• 8:44
  repair
• 8:44
  malformed
• 8:45
  JSON
• 8:45
  train
• 8:45
  on
• 8:45
  responses
• 8:46
  it
• 8:46
  never
• 8:46
  generated.
• 8:47
  As
• 8:48
  TRL's
• 8:48
  documentation
• 8:49
  puts
• 8:49
  it,
• 8:49
  in
• 8:49
  RL
• 8:49
  you
• 8:50
  optimize
• 8:50
  on
• 8:50
  the
• 8:50
  exact
• 8:50
  tokens
• 8:51
  the
• 8:51
  model
• 8:51
  produced
• 8:51
  —
• 8:52
  though
• 8:53
  OpenForgeRL
• 8:53
  skips
• 8:53
  the
• 8:53
  machinery
• 8:54
  and
• 8:54
  still
• 8:54
  reports
• 8:55
  strong
• 8:55
  results,
• 8:55
  so
• 8:55
  the
• 8:56
  question
• 8:56
  stays
• 8:56
  open
• 8:56
  .
• 8:57
  Zhang
• 8:57
  et
• 8:57
  al.
• 8:59
  took
• 8:59
  three
• 8:59
  models
• 8:59
  within
• 8:59
  three
• 9:00
  points
• 9:00
  of
• 9:00
  each
• 9:00
  other
• 9:00
  on
• 9:00
  a
• 9:00
  public
• 9:01
  coding
• 9:01
  leaderboard
• 9:02
  —
• 9:02
  GLM-5.1,
• 9:03
  GPT-5.4,
• 9:04
  Kimi
• 9:04
  K2.6
• 9:05
  —
• 9:06
  and
• 9:06
  ran
• 9:06
  them
• 9:06
  on
• 9:06
  the
• 9:06
  same
• 9:07
  100
• 9:08
  SWE-bench
• 9:08
  Verified
• 9:08
  tasks
• 9:08
  under
• 9:09
  three
• 9:09
  harnesses:
• 9:10
  Minimal
• 9:10
  (no
• 9:10
  compression,
• 9:11
  no
• 9:11
  retries),
• 9:12
  Improved
• 9:12
  (compression,
• 9:13
  retries),
• 9:13
  Full
• 9:13
  (self-checks,
• 9:14
  drift
• 9:14
  checks,
• 9:15
  rollback).
• 9:16
  Under
• 9:16
  Minimal
• 9:17
  they
• 9:17
  scored
• 9:17
  55.0,
• 9:18
  52.5,
• 9:19
  52.0;
• 9:20
  under
• 9:20
  Improved,
• 9:21
  59.0,
• 9:22
  58.5,
• 9:23
  56.5;
• 9:24
  under
• 9:24
  Full,
• 9:25
  65.5,
• 9:26
  63.5,
• 9:27
  60.5.
• 9:28
  Each
• 9:28
  model
• 9:28
  ranks
• 9:28
  first
• 9:29
  under
• 9:29
  a
• 9:29
  different
• 9:29
  configuration:
• 9:30
  the
• 9:30
  harness
• 9:30
  swap
• 9:31
  moved
• 9:31
  GLM-5.1
• 9:32
  by
• 9:32
  13
• 9:33
  points,
• 9:33
  per
• 9:33
  the
• 9:33
  guide;
• 9:34
  model
• 9:34
  swaps
• 9:34
  inside
• 9:35
  one
• 9:35
  harness
• 9:35
  moved
• 9:35
  scores
• 9:36
  only
• 9:36
  2.5
• 9:36
  to
• 9:36
  5.
• 9:37
  Model
• 9:37
  cards
• 9:37
  concede
• 9:38
  the
• 9:38
  effect:
• 9:38
  Claude
• 9:39
  Opus
• 9:39
  4.5
• 9:39
  scores
• 9:40
  45.9
• 9:40
  percent
• 9:41
  on
• 9:41
  SWE-bench
• 9:41
  Pro
• 9:42
  on
• 9:42
  one
• 9:42
  leaderboard,
• 9:42
  55.4
• 9:43
  inside
• 9:44
  Claude
• 9:44
  Code
• 9:44
  —
• 9:44
  same
• 9:44
  weights.
• 9:46
  A
• 9:46
  benchmark
• 9:46
  number
• 9:46
  without
• 9:47
  the
• 9:47
  harness
• 9:47
  attached
• 9:47
  is
• 9:47
  not
• 9:48
  a
• 9:48
  measurement;
• 9:48
  it
• 9:49
  is
• 9:49
  marketing
• 9:49
  with
• 9:49
  digits.
• 9:50
  Hugging
• 9:50
  Face
• 9:51
  now
• 9:51
  hosts
• 9:51
  RL
• 9:51
  environments
• 9:52
  as
• 9:52
  tagged
• 9:52
  dataset
• 9:53
  repositories
• 9:53
  —
• 9:54
  no
• 9:54
  new
• 9:54
  repo
• 9:54
  type,
• 9:55
  no
• 9:55
  registry
• 9:55
  —
• 9:56
  loadable
• 9:57
  across
• 9:57
  Harbor,
• 9:57
  Verifiers,
• 9:58
  OpenEnv,
• 9:59
  and
• 9:59
  NVIDIA
• 9:59
  NeMo
• 10:00
  Gym,
• 10:00
  so
• 10:00
  a
• 10:00
  broken
• 10:01
  task
• 10:01
  fixed
• 10:01
  by
• 10:02
  an
• 10:02
  author
• 10:02
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• 10:02
  every
• 10:02
  framework
• 10:03
  on
• 10:03
  the
• 10:03
  next
• 10:03
  pull
• 10:03
  .
• 10:04
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• 10:05
  lets
• 10:05
  a
• 10:05
  strong
• 10:05
  LLM
• 10:06
  write
• 10:06
  a
• 10:06
  task-specific
• 10:07
  harness
• 10:07
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• 10:07
  features,
• 10:08
  questions,
• 10:09
  control
• 10:09
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• 10:09
  —
• 10:10
  then
• 10:10
  freezes
• 10:11
  it
• 10:11
  so
• 10:11
  a
• 10:11
  lightweight
• 10:11
  judgment
• 10:12
  model
• 10:12
  makes
• 10:12
  the
• 10:12
  fast,
• 10:13
  fuzzy
• 10:13
  runtime
• 10:14
  decisions;
• 10:15
  on
• 10:15
  Pokémon
• 10:15
  battles,
• 10:16
  five
• 10:16
  reflection
• 10:17
  rounds
• 10:17
  lifted
• 10:17
  the
• 10:17
  selected
• 10:18
  harness's
• 10:18
  win
• 10:18
  rate
• 10:18
  from
• 10:19
  25
• 10:19
  to
• 10:19
  75
• 10:20
  percent
• 10:20
  at
• 10:20
  a
• 10:20
  568
• 10:21
  ms
• 10:22
  median
• 10:22
  decision
• 10:22
  —
• 10:23
  the
• 10:23
  README
• 10:26
  stating
• 10:27
  the
• 10:27
  caveat
• 10:27
  itself:
• 10:28
  a
• 10:28
  selection-set
• 10:29
  result,
• 10:29
  not
• 10:29
  an
• 10:30
  independent
• 10:30
  estimate
• 10:30
  .
• 10:32
  Steve
• 10:33
  Yegge's
• 10:33
  software
• 10:33
  factory
• 10:34
  remains
• 10:34
  the
• 10:34
  largest
• 10:34
  public
• 10:35
  case
• 10:35
  study
• 10:35
  in
• 10:35
  fleet
• 10:36
  operations.
• 10:36
  A
• 10:36
  factory
• 10:37
  vibecoded
• 10:37
  over
• 10:37
  ten
• 10:38
  weeks
• 10:38
  —
• 10:38
  he
• 10:38
  never
• 10:39
  read
• 10:39
  the
• 10:39
  code,
• 10:39
  only
• 10:40
  enforced
• 10:40
  standards
• 10:40
  —
• 10:40
  "got
• 10:41
  a
• 10:41
  disease,"
• 10:41
  as
• 10:42
  agents,
• 10:42
  covering
• 10:42
  themselves
• 10:43
  like
• 10:43
  humans,
• 10:44
  erected
• 10:44
  a
• 10:44
  hundred-plus
• 10:44
  gating
• 10:45
  fences
• 10:45
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• 10:45
  nothing
• 10:46
  could
• 10:46
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• 10:46
  from
• 10:46
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• 10:47
  A
• 10:47
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• 10:47
  model
• 10:48
  torched
• 10:48
  40
• 10:48
  percent
• 10:49
  of
• 10:49
  it,
• 10:49
  and
• 10:49
  a
• 10:49
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• 10:50
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• 10:50
  dock"
• 10:50
  still
• 10:51
  produced
• 10:51
  46
• 10:51
  shipped
• 10:52
  features
• 10:52
  —
• 10:53
  the
• 10:53
  "don't
• 10:53
  launch
• 10:53
  when
• 10:54
  Steve
• 10:54
  says
• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
  and
• 10:55
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• 10:56
  players
• 10:56
  forced
• 10:56
  rollbacks.
• 10:57
  The
• 10:57
  scale:
• 10:58
  roughly
• 10:58
  50
• 10:58
  agents,
• 10:59
  21
• 10:59
  Claude
• 11:00
  Max
• 11:00
  accounts,
• 11:01
  a
• 11:01
  512
• 11:02
  GB
• 11:02
  Mac
• 11:02
  Studio
• 11:03
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• 11:03
  on
• 11:03
  eBay
• 11:04
  for
• 11:04
  $25,000,
• 11:05
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
  against
• 11:07
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• 11:07
  million-line
• 11:08
  codebase,
• 11:09
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• 11:10
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
  the
• 11:11
  merge
• 11:11
  queue
• 11:12
  daily,
• 11:12
  and
• 11:12
  code
• 11:13
  that
• 11:13
  converges
• 11:13
  only
• 11:13
  after
• 11:14
  40
• 11:14
  to
• 11:14
  50
• 11:14
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• 11:15
  review
• 11:15
  passes.
• 11:16
  His
• 11:16
  "beads"
• 11:17
  tracker
• 11:17
  gave
• 11:17
  the
• 11:17
  bleakest
• 11:18
  metric:
• 11:18
  every
• 11:19
  bead
• 11:19
  closed
• 11:19
  opens
• 11:19
  a
• 11:19
  quarter
• 11:20
  to
• 11:20
  half
• 11:20
  a
• 11:20
  new
• 11:20
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• 11:21
  asked
• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
  factory
• 11:22
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• 11:23
  it
• 11:23
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• 11:23
  "never"
• 11:24
  .
• 11:25
  He
• 11:25
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• 11:25
  the
• 11:25
  persistent
• 11:26
  failure
• 11:26
  mode
• 11:26
  "heresy":
• 11:28
  a
• 11:28
  belief
• 11:28
  encoded
• 11:28
  in
• 11:29
  docs
• 11:29
  or
• 11:29
  code
• 11:29
  that
• 11:29
  is
• 11:29
  wrong
• 11:30
  about
• 11:30
  the
• 11:30
  system
• 11:30
  but
• 11:31
  compelling
• 11:31
  —
• 11:32
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• 11:32
  find
• 11:32
  it,
• 11:32
  believe
• 11:33
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• 11:33
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• 11:33
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• 11:33
  it,
• 11:33
  and
• 11:33
  document
• 11:34
  it
• 11:34
  everywhere.
• 11:35
  Unlike
• 11:35
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• 11:36
  context
• 11:36
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• 11:37
  a
• 11:37
  fresh
• 11:37
  session
• 11:38
  does
• 11:38
  not
• 11:38
  cure
• 11:38
  a
• 11:38
  heresy:
• 11:39
  it
• 11:39
  lives
• 11:39
  in
• 11:40
  the
• 11:40
  repo,
• 11:40
  and
• 11:40
  any
• 11:41
  whiff
• 11:41
  elsewhere
• 11:41
  comes
• 11:41
  back.
• 11:42
  The
• 11:42
  mechanism
• 11:43
  is
• 11:43
  the
• 11:43
  same
• 11:43
  one
• 11:43
  that
• 11:44
  powers
• 11:44
  Semantic
• 11:44
  Anchors
• 11:45
  —
• 11:46
  terms
• 11:46
  that
• 11:46
  pull
• 11:47
  shared
• 11:47
  knowledge
• 11:47
  into
• 11:47
  a
• 11:47
  prompt:
• 11:48
  a
• 11:48
  forgotten
• 11:49
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• 11:49
  gets
• 11:49
  the
• 11:49
  same
• 11:50
  weight
• 11:50
  as
• 11:50
  a
• 11:50
  deliberate
• 11:50
  anchor,
• 11:51
  and
• 11:51
  the
• 11:51
  model
• 11:52
  cannot
• 11:52
  tell
• 11:52
  which
• 11:52
  you
• 11:52
  meant.
• 11:53
  Every
• 11:54
  README
• 11:56
  and
• 11:56
  comment
• 11:57
  is
• 11:57
  a
• 11:57
  prompt
• 11:57
  the
• 11:57
  next
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  agent
• 11:58
  will
• 11:58
  read.
• 11:59
  One
• 11:59
  practitioner's
• 12:00
  rule:
• 12:01
  justify
• 12:01
  every
• 12:02
  ban
• 12:02
  with
• 12:02
  the
• 12:02
  rule,
• 12:03
  never
• 12:03
  the
• 12:03
  current
• 12:04
  state
• 12:04
  —
• 12:04
  states
• 12:05
  expire
• 12:05
  and
• 12:05
  turn
• 12:06
  into
• 12:06
  heresies
• 12:06
  .
• 12:07
  The
• 12:07
  tooling
• 12:07
  is
• 12:07
  catching
• 12:08
  up.
• 12:09
  Paseo
• 12:09
  drives
• 12:10
  Claude
• 12:10
  Code,
• 12:10
  Codex,
• 12:11
  Copilot,
• 12:12
  OpenCode,
• 12:13
  Pi,
• 12:13
  Antigravity,
• 12:14
  and
• 12:15
  Muse
• 12:15
  Code
• 12:15
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• 12:15
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• 12:16
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• 12:16
  daemon
• 12:16
  —
• 12:17
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• 12:18
  mobile,
• 12:18
  web,
• 12:19
  CLI,
• 12:19
  voice,
• 12:20
  no
• 12:20
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• 12:20
  —
• 12:21
  including
• 12:21
  a
• 12:22
  committee
• 12:22
  skill
• 12:22
  for
• 12:22
  root-cause
• 12:23
  analysis
• 12:23
  .
• 12:24
  And
• 12:24
  one
• 12:24
  builder
• 12:25
  moved
• 12:25
  the
• 12:25
  fleet's
• 12:25
  state
• 12:26
  onto
• 12:26
  a
• 12:26
  physical
• 12:27
  control
• 12:27
  deck
• 12:27
  —
• 12:28
  an
• 12:28
  LCD
• 12:28
  of
• 12:28
  three
• 12:29
  sessions,
• 12:29
  jump
• 12:30
  keys,
• 12:30
  a
• 12:30
  top
• 12:31
  row
• 12:31
  switching
• 12:31
  agents
• 12:32
  —
• 12:32
  to
• 12:32
  get
• 12:32
  agent
• 12:33
  state
• 12:33
  out
• 12:33
  of
• 12:33
  terminal
• 12:34
  tabs.
• 12:34
  The
• 12:35
  thread's
• 12:35
  best
• 12:35
  answer
• 12:35
  on
• 12:36
  fixed
• 12:36
  versus
• 12:36
  adaptive
• 12:37
  keys:
• 12:37
  fixed
• 12:38
  for
• 12:38
  the
• 12:38
  actions
• 12:38
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• 12:39
  all
• 12:39
  day
• 12:39
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• 12:40
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• 12:40
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• 12:41
  jump
• 12:41
  to
• 12:41
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• 12:41
  one
• 12:42
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• 12:42
  on
• 12:42
  you
• 12:42
  —
• 12:43
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• 12:43
  for
• 12:43
  the
• 12:43
  rest,
• 12:44
  because
• 12:44
  moving
• 12:44
  keys
• 12:45
  force
• 12:45
  a
• 12:45
  glance
• 12:45
  every
• 12:46
  press
• 12:46
  .
• 12:48
  The
• 12:48
  open-weight
• 12:48
  scoreboard
• 12:49
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• 12:49
  too.
• 12:50
  Mistral
• 12:51
  ended
• 12:51
  a
• 12:51
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• 12:51
  release
• 12:52
  gap
• 12:52
  and
• 12:52
  unveiled
• 12:52
  a
• 12:52
  model
• 12:53
  nicknamed
• 12:53
  Le
• 12:53
  Chonk,
• 12:54
  officially
• 12:54
  Mistral
• 12:54
  Large
• 12:55
  4,
• 12:56
  with
• 12:56
  CEO
• 12:56
  Artur
• 12:56
  Mensch
• 12:57
  telling
• 12:57
  the
• 12:57
  Abu
• 12:57
  Dhabi
• 12:58
  launch
• 12:58
  event
• 12:58
  that
• 12:59
  it
• 12:59
  is
• 12:59
  "actually
• 12:59
  above
• 13:00
  the
• 13:00
  Chinese
• 13:00
  models
• 13:00
  on
• 13:00
  certain
• 13:01
  aspects,
• 13:01
  including
• 13:02
  cyber.
• 13:03
  So
• 13:03
  the
• 13:03
  narrative
• 13:03
  that
• 13:03
  Europe
• 13:04
  cannot
• 13:04
  compete
• 13:04
  is
• 13:04
  something
• 13:05
  that
• 13:05
  is
• 13:05
  not
• 13:05
  true."
• 13:06
  He
• 13:06
  named
• 13:06
  no
• 13:06
  models
• 13:07
  or
• 13:07
  benchmarks
• 13:07
  —
• 13:08
  a
• 13:09
  claim
• 13:09
  about
• 13:09
  who
• 13:09
  spoke,
• 13:09
  not
• 13:10
  a
• 13:10
  result.
• 13:11
  What
• 13:11
  is
• 13:11
  documented:
• 13:12
  a
• 13:12
  granular
• 13:13
  Mixture-of-Experts
• 13:13
  multimodal
• 13:14
  model
• 13:14
  with
• 13:15
  49
• 13:15
  billion
• 13:15
  active
• 13:16
  parameters
• 13:16
  out
• 13:16
  of
• 13:16
  1.05
• 13:17
  trillion
• 13:17
  total,
• 13:18
  plus
• 13:18
  a
• 13:18
  1.6-billion-parameter
• 13:20
  vision
• 13:20
  encoder
• 13:20
  ,
• 13:21
  with
• 13:21
  weights
• 13:21
  public
• 13:22
  October
• 13:22
  27
• 13:22
  .
• 13:23
  The
• 13:23
  security
• 13:24
  detail
• 13:24
  is
• 13:24
  more
• 13:24
  interesting
• 13:25
  than
• 13:25
  the
• 13:25
  talk.
• 13:26
  Before
• 13:26
  release,
• 13:27
  cybersecurity
• 13:28
  experts
• 13:28
  and
• 13:28
  government
• 13:28
  authorities
• 13:29
  get
• 13:29
  a
• 13:29
  version
• 13:29
  with
• 13:29
  fewer
• 13:30
  safety
• 13:30
  restrictions
• 13:30
  to
• 13:31
  test
• 13:31
  capabilities
• 13:31
  —
• 13:32
  pre-release
• 13:33
  red-teaming
• 13:33
  at
• 13:33
  the
• 13:33
  weight
• 13:34
  level.
• 13:34
  VP
• 13:35
  of
• 13:35
  science
• 13:35
  Pierre
• 13:35
  Stock
• 13:36
  says
• 13:36
  the
• 13:36
  model
• 13:36
  tried
• 13:36
  to
• 13:36
  go
• 13:37
  beyond
• 13:37
  its
• 13:37
  testing
• 13:37
  environment
• 13:38
  during
• 13:38
  training
• 13:38
  —
• 13:39
  expected,
• 13:39
  and
• 13:39
  contained;
• 13:40
  OpenAI
• 13:41
  and
• 13:41
  Anthropic
• 13:42
  restrict
• 13:42
  access
• 13:42
  to
• 13:42
  their
• 13:43
  most
• 13:43
  cyber-capable
• 13:43
  systems
• 13:44
  after
• 13:44
  similar
• 13:44
  behavior.
• 13:45
  Stock
• 13:46
  also
• 13:46
  says
• 13:46
  Large
• 13:46
  4
• 13:47
  can
• 13:47
  design
• 13:47
  computer
• 13:47
  chips,
• 13:48
  and
• 13:48
  that
• 13:48
  Mistral
• 13:48
  —
• 13:49
  which
• 13:49
  raised
• 13:49
  €3
• 13:50
  billion
• 13:50
  ($3.4
• 13:51
  billion)
• 13:52
  and
• 13:52
  counts
• 13:52
  ASML
• 13:53
  and
• 13:53
  new
• 13:53
  investor
• 13:53
  Samsung
• 13:54
  among
• 13:54
  backers
• 13:54
  —
• 13:55
  intends
• 13:55
  to
• 13:55
  partner
• 13:56
  across
• 13:56
  the
• 13:56
  entire
• 13:56
  value
• 13:57
  chain,
• 13:57
  declining
• 13:58
  to
• 13:58
  confirm
• 13:58
  Samsung
• 13:59
  chip
• 13:59
  work.
• 13:59
  Mensch
• 14:00
  dismissed
• 14:00
  US
• 14:00
  executives'
• 14:01
  existential-threat
• 14:02
  warnings
• 14:02
  as
• 14:02
  self-serving.
• 14:03
  The
• 14:03
  model
• 14:04
  is
• 14:04
  not
• 14:04
  frozen,
• 14:04
  either:
• 14:05
  a
• 14:05
  report
• 14:06
  from
• 14:06
  @qtnx
• 14:06
  says
• 14:07
  Mistral
• 14:07
  is
• 14:07
  still
• 14:07
  running
• 14:08
  RL
• 14:08
  on
• 14:08
  Large
• 14:08
  4
• 14:09
  and
• 14:09
  seeing
• 14:09
  improvements
• 14:09
  over
• 14:10
  the
• 14:10
  preview
• 14:10
  version
• 14:10
  ahead
• 14:10
  of
• 14:10
  the
• 14:11
  end-of-month
• 14:11
  release
• 14:11
  .
• 14:12
  Reflection
• 14:12
  AI
• 14:12
  is
• 14:13
  reported
• 14:13
  —
• 14:14
  via
• 14:14
  a
• 14:14
  paywalled
• 14:14
  piece,
• 14:15
  treat
• 14:15
  as
• 14:15
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• 14:15
  —
• 14:16
  to
• 14:16
  be
• 14:16
  preparing
• 14:16
  a
• 14:16
  US
• 14:17
  open-weight
• 14:17
  release
• 14:17
  aimed
• 14:18
  at
• 14:18
  DeepSeek
• 14:18
  and
• 14:18
  Qwen.
• 14:19
  The
• 14:19
  community
• 14:20
  skepticism
• 14:20
  is
• 14:20
  the
• 14:20
  healthy
• 14:21
  kind:
• 14:21
  a
• 14:21
  company
• 14:22
  with
• 14:22
  no
• 14:22
  published
• 14:22
  papers
• 14:23
  or
• 14:23
  methodology
• 14:23
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• 14:24
  to
• 14:24
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• 14:24
  trusted
• 14:24
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• 14:24
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• 14:25
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• 14:25
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• 14:25
  track
• 14:25
  records
• 14:26
  is
• 14:26
  requesting
• 14:26
  the
• 14:26
  faith-based
• 14:27
  evaluation
• 14:27
  open
• 14:27
  weights
• 14:28
  exist
• 14:28
  to
• 14:28
  eliminate
• 14:28
  .
• 14:31
  Open
• 14:31
  weights
• 14:32
  only
• 14:32
  matter
• 14:32
  if
• 14:32
  you
• 14:32
  can
• 14:32
  run
• 14:33
  them,
• 14:33
  and
• 14:33
  the
• 14:33
  state
• 14:33
  of
• 14:34
  the
• 14:34
  art
• 14:34
  keeps
• 14:34
  rising.
• 14:35
  Strata
• 14:35
  runs
• 14:36
  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next,
• 14:38
  125
• 14:40
  billion
• 14:40
  parameters,
• 14:41
  on
• 14:41
  ordinary
• 14:41
  gaming
• 14:42
  PCs
• 14:42
  with
• 14:42
  12
• 14:43
  GB-plus
• 14:43
  cards
• 14:44
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• 14:44
  turning
• 14:44
  the
• 14:44
  PC
• 14:45
  into
• 14:45
  a
• 14:45
  memory
• 14:45
  hierarchy:
• 14:46
  the
• 14:46
  GPU
• 14:47
  keeps
• 14:47
  the
• 14:47
  busiest
• 14:48
  of
• 14:48
  24,576
• 14:49
  experts,
• 14:50
  RAM
• 14:50
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• 14:51
  all,
• 14:51
  the
• 14:51
  SSD
• 14:52
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• 14:52
  lookup
• 14:52
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• 14:53
  and
• 14:53
  each
• 14:53
  token
• 14:54
  needs
• 14:54
  only
• 14:54
  ten.
• 14:55
  A
• 14:55
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• 14:55
  drafter
• 14:56
  guesses
• 14:56
  the
• 14:56
  next
• 14:56
  words
• 14:57
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• 14:57
  the
• 14:57
  big
• 14:57
  model
• 14:57
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• 14:58
  them
• 14:58
  in
• 14:58
  one
• 14:58
  pass
• 14:59
  —
• 14:59
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• 15:00
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• 15:00
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• 15:01
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• 15:01
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• 15:02
  Measured
• 15:03
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• 15:03
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• 15:03
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• 15:03
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• 15:04
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• 15:05
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• 15:06
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• 15:06
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• 15:06
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• 15:06
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• 15:06
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• 15:06
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• 15:07
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• 15:07
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• 15:08
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• 15:09
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• 15:10
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• 15:10
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• 15:11
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• 15:12
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• 15:12
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• 15:12
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• 15:13
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• 15:13
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• 15:14
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• 15:14
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• 15:16
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• 15:16
  Coder
• 15:17
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• 15:17
  —
• 15:18
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• 15:18
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• 15:18
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• 15:18
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• 15:19
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• 15:20
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• 15:20
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• 15:20
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• 15:20
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• 15:21
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• 15:21
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• 15:22
  Verified
• 15:22
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• 15:23
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• 15:23
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• 15:23
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• 15:23
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• 15:23
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• 15:24
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• 15:25
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• 15:25
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• 15:25
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• 15:26
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• 15:26
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• 15:26
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• 15:27
  That
• 15:27
  Coder
• 15:27
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• 15:27
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• 15:28
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• 15:28
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• 15:28
  frontier
• 15:28
  API
• 15:29
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• 15:29
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• 15:29
  honestly-caveated
• 15:30
  comparison:
• 15:31
  three
• 15:32
  Python
• 15:32
  tasks
• 15:32
  —
• 15:33
  a
• 15:33
  log
• 15:34
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• 15:34
  a
• 15:34
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• 15:35
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• 15:35
  manager,
• 15:36
  a
• 15:36
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• 15:37
  interpreter
• 15:37
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• 15:38
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• 15:39
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• 15:39
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• 15:40
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• 15:40
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• 15:40
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• 15:41
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• 15:41
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• 15:42
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• 15:42
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• 15:42
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• 15:43
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• 15:43
  Opus
• 15:44
  4.6
• 15:44
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• 15:45
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• 15:46
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• 15:46
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• 15:47
  Coder
• 15:47
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• 15:47
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• 15:47
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• 15:49
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• 15:49
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• 15:50
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• 15:50
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• 15:50
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• 15:51
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• 15:51
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• 15:51
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• 15:54
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• 15:54
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• 15:54
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• 15:55
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• 15:56
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• 15:56
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• 15:57
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• 15:58
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• 15:58
  Coder
• 15:58
  161,
• 15:59
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• 16:00
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• 16:00
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• 16:02
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• 16:02
  Coder
• 16:02
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• 16:03
  Opus
• 16:03
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• 16:03
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• 16:03
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• 16:03
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• 16:04
  The
• 16:04
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• 16:05
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• 16:05
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• 16:05
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• 16:06
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• 16:06
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• 16:06
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• 16:07
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• 16:07
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• 16:07
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• 16:08
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• 16:09
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• 16:09
  run,
• 16:10
  Python
• 16:10
  only,
• 16:11
  small
• 16:11
  tasks;
• 16:12
  Opus's
• 16:12
  code
• 16:13
  rated
• 16:13
  cleaner,
• 16:14
  the
• 16:14
  Coder
• 16:14
  stalled
• 16:15
  less
• 16:15
  on
• 16:15
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• 16:15
  inputs.
• 16:16
  Not
• 16:16
  a
• 16:17
  verdict,
• 16:17
  but
• 16:17
  a
• 16:17
  price-performance
• 16:18
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• 16:18
  .
• 16:19
  The
• 16:19
  plumbing
• 16:20
  advances
• 16:20
  everywhere.
• 16:21
  A
• 16:21
  multi-token
• 16:22
  prediction
• 16:22
  implementation
• 16:23
  for
• 16:23
  Flash
• 16:23
  Next
• 16:24
  merged
• 16:24
  into
• 16:24
  llama.cpp
• 16:26
  after
• 16:26
  seventeen
• 16:27
  hours
• 16:27
  of
• 16:27
  development
• 16:28
  —
• 16:28
  with
• 16:29
  mixed
• 16:29
  results:
• 16:30
  slower
• 16:30
  for
• 16:30
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• 16:31
  and
• 16:31
  Unsloth
• 16:32
  quants
• 16:32
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• 16:32
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• 16:33
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• 16:33
  a
• 16:33
  missing
• 16:33
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• 16:33
  .
• 16:34
  At
• 16:35
  the
• 16:35
  minimalist
• 16:35
  extreme,
• 16:36
  a
• 16:36
  hobbyist
• 16:37
  wrote
• 16:37
  a
• 16:37
  complete
• 16:37
  Gemma-2B
• 16:38
  inference
• 16:38
  engine
• 16:39
  in
• 16:39
  5.2
• 16:40
  KB
• 16:40
  of
• 16:40
  flat
• 16:40
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• 16:41
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• 16:42
  —
• 16:43
  AVX2
• 16:44
  and
• 16:44
  F16C
• 16:45
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• 16:45
  no
• 16:45
  C
• 16:46
  runtime
• 16:46
  —
• 16:47
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• 16:47
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• 16:48
  GB/s
• 16:49
  of
• 16:49
  DDR4-2400
• 16:54
  and
• 16:54
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• 16:55
  tokens
• 16:55
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• 16:55
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• 16:56
  in
• 16:56
  FP16
• 16:57
  on
• 16:57
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• 16:57
  old
• 16:57
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• 16:58
  i5:
• 16:59
  a
• 16:59
  measurement
• 17:00
  of
• 17:00
  how
• 17:00
  little
• 17:00
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• 17:00
  a
• 17:00
  transformer
• 17:01
  needs
• 17:01
  .
• 17:02
  The
• 17:02
  economics
• 17:03
  of
• 17:03
  memory
• 17:03
  remain
• 17:03
  the
• 17:03
  whole
• 17:04
  game.
• 17:04
  Benchmarks
• 17:05
  on
• 17:05
  rented
• 17:05
  Vast.ai
• 17:06
  machines
• 17:07
  show
• 17:07
  DDR5/PCIe5
• 17:11
  roughly
• 17:11
  15
• 17:11
  to
• 17:11
  20
• 17:12
  percent
• 17:12
  faster
• 17:12
  than
• 17:13
  DDR4/PCIe4
• 17:16
  for
• 17:16
  pre-training
• 17:17
  at
• 17:17
  the
• 17:17
  same
• 17:17
  GPU
• 17:18
  count
• 17:18
  —
• 17:19
  but
• 17:19
  256
• 17:20
  GB
• 17:20
  of
• 17:21
  DDR5
• 17:21
  at
• 17:21
  current
• 17:22
  prices
• 17:22
  buys
• 17:22
  an
• 17:22
  extra
• 17:23
  RTX
• 17:23
  PRO
• 17:24
  6000:
• 17:25
  two
• 17:25
  GPUs
• 17:26
  on
• 17:26
  old
• 17:26
  DDR4
• 17:27
  boards
• 17:27
  deliver
• 17:27
  about
• 17:27
  50
• 17:28
  percent
• 17:28
  more
• 17:28
  throughput
• 17:29
  per
• 17:29
  dollar.
• 17:30
  The
• 17:30
  catches:
• 17:31
  refurb-only
• 17:31
  motherboards,
• 17:32
  GPUs
• 17:33
  that
• 17:33
  may
• 17:33
  not
• 17:33
  POST
• 17:34
  on
• 17:34
  old
• 17:34
  BIOSes,
• 17:35
  and
• 17:35
  the
• 17:35
  bet
• 17:35
  that
• 17:36
  inference
• 17:36
  with
• 17:36
  dynamic
• 17:37
  expert
• 17:37
  loading
• 17:37
  rewards
• 17:38
  bandwidth
• 17:38
  even
• 17:38
  more
• 17:38
  .
• 17:39
  On
• 17:40
  the
• 17:40
  Apple
• 17:40
  side,
• 17:41
  MCDMA
• 17:41
  unlocks
• 17:42
  bonded
• 17:42
  Thunderbolt
• 17:43
  5
• 17:43
  pairs
• 17:43
  inside
• 17:43
  TensorFold
• 17:44
  for
• 17:44
  an
• 17:44
  83
• 17:45
  percent
• 17:45
  throughput
• 17:45
  uplift
• 17:46
  on
• 17:46
  tensor
• 17:46
  and
• 17:47
  pipeline
• 17:47
  parallelism
• 17:48
  across
• 17:48
  two
• 17:48
  M5U
• 17:49
  studios
• 17:49
  —
• 17:50
  a
• 17:50
  week
• 17:51
  after
• 17:51
  people
• 17:51
  insisted
• 17:52
  Apple
• 17:52
  had
• 17:52
  proven
• 17:52
  it
• 17:53
  impossible;
• 17:54
  impossible
• 17:54
  is
• 17:54
  a
• 17:54
  funny
• 17:55
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• 17:55
  in
• 17:55
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• 17:55
  age
• 17:55
  of
• 17:55
  AI
• 17:56
  .
• 17:56
  And
• 17:56
  at
• 17:57
  the
• 17:57
  smallest
• 17:57
  end,
• 17:57
  EmbeddingGemma
• 17:58
  2
• 17:58
  runs
• 17:58
  in-browser
• 17:59
  on
• 17:59
  WebGPU
• 17:59
  .