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AGI Dreams Podcast – March 26, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  Large
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  reasoning
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  models
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  think
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  before
• 0:01
  they
• 0:01
  answer
• 0:01
  —
• 0:02
  and
• 0:03
  therein
• 0:03
  lies
• 0:03
  a
• 0:03
  problem
• 0:04
  nobody
• 0:04
  anticipated.
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  A
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  new
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  paper
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  from
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  TU
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  Darmstadt
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  and
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  ATHENE,
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  "Controllable
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  Reasoning
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  Models
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  Are
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  Private
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  Thinkers,"
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  demonstrates
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  that
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  reasoning
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  traces
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  routinely
• 0:13
  leak
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  private
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  information
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  the
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  model
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  was
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  explicitly
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  told
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  to
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  protect.
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  The
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  researchers
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  frame
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  the
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  issue
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  cleanly:
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  when
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  an
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  LRM-powered
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  AI
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  agent
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  books
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  your
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  hotel
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  or
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  manages
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  your
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  calendar,
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  it
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  has
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  access
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  to
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  names,
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  emails,
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  addresses,
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  and
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  credit
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  card
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  numbers.
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  The
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  chain-of-thought
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  reasoning
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  that
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  makes
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  these
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  models
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  capable
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  also
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  makes
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  them
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  chatty,
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  and
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  that
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  chattiness
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  can
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  be
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  exploited.
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  A
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  malicious
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  third-party
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  service
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  executing
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  a
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  prompt
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  injection
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  can
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  force
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  the
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  agent
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  to
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  regurgitate
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  private
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  data
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  from
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  the
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  reasoning
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  trace
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  —
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  even
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  when
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  the
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  trace
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  itself
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  is
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  hidden
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  from
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  the
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  end
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  user.
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  The
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  fix
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  they
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  propose
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  is
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  elegant:
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  train
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  the
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  model
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  to
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  follow
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  instructions
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  not
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  just
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  in
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  the
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  final
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  answer
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  but
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  in
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  the
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  reasoning
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  trace
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  itself.
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  They
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  introduce
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  "Staged
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  Decoding,"
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  which
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  uses
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  separate
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  LoRA
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  adapters
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  for
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  the
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  thinking
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  phase
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  and
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  the
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  answering
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  phase.
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  The
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  reasoning
• 0:56
  adapter
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  is
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  optimized
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  to
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  respect
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  privacy
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  constraints;
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  the
• 0:59
  answer
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  adapter
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  is
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  optimized
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  for
• 1:00
  instruction
• 1:01
  following
• 1:01
  in
• 1:01
  the
• 1:01
  final
• 1:02
  output.
• 1:03
  Across
• 1:03
  six
• 1:03
  models
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  from
• 1:04
  1.7B
• 1:04
  to
• 1:05
  14B
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  parameters,
• 1:06
  this
• 1:06
  approach
• 1:06
  improved
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  privacy
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  scores
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  by
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  up
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  to
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  51.9
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  percentage
• 1:10
  points
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  on
• 1:10
  the
• 1:10
  PasswordEval
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  benchmark.
• 1:12
  The
• 1:12
  catch
• 1:12
  is
• 1:12
  a
• 1:12
  familiar
• 1:13
  trade-off:
• 1:14
  better
• 1:14
  instruction
• 1:14
  following
• 1:15
  in
• 1:15
  the
• 1:15
  reasoning
• 1:15
  trace
• 1:15
  can
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  degrade
• 1:16
  task
• 1:16
  performance.
• 1:17
  The
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  14B
• 1:18
  models
• 1:18
  narrowed
• 1:18
  this
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  gap
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  significantly,
• 1:20
  suggesting
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  that
• 1:20
  scale
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  helps,
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  but
• 1:21
  the
• 1:21
  tension
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  between
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  "think
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  deeply"
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  and
• 1:23
  "think
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  carefully"
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  is
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  real
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  and
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  unsolved.
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  This
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  matters
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  beyond
• 1:27
  academic
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  benchmarks
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  because
• 1:28
  the
• 1:28
  failure
• 1:28
  mode
• 1:29
  is
• 1:29
  already
• 1:29
  appearing
• 1:29
  in
• 1:29
  production.
• 1:31
  Over
• 1:31
  on
• 1:31
  r/LocalLLaMA,
• 1:33
  a
• 1:33
  post
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  about
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  Nvidia's
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  NemotronH
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  alleged
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  the
• 1:35
  model
• 1:36
  contains
• 1:36
  what
• 1:36
  the
• 1:36
  poster
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  called
• 1:37
  a
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  "silent
• 1:37
  opinion
• 1:38
  engine"
• 1:38
  —
• 1:39
  a
• 1:39
  gap
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  between
• 1:40
  the
• 1:40
  reasoning
• 1:40
  module's
• 1:40
  plan
• 1:41
  and
• 1:41
  the
• 1:41
  generation
• 1:42
  layer's
• 1:42
  output,
• 1:43
  where
• 1:43
  the
• 1:43
  model
• 1:43
  narratively
• 1:44
  rewrites
• 1:44
  intent
• 1:45
  during
• 1:45
  generation.
• 1:46
  The
• 1:46
  community
• 1:47
  was
• 1:47
  skeptical
• 1:47
  of
• 1:47
  the
• 1:47
  specific
• 1:48
  claims
• 1:48
  (no
• 1:48
  reproducible
• 1:49
  examples
• 1:50
  were
• 1:50
  provided),
• 1:51
  but
• 1:51
  the
• 1:51
  underlying
• 1:51
  concern
• 1:52
  resonated:
• 1:53
  if
• 1:53
  the
• 1:53
  model
• 1:54
  is
• 1:54
  reinterpreting
• 1:54
  your
• 1:54
  query
• 1:55
  during
• 1:55
  its
• 1:55
  thinking
• 1:56
  phase,
• 1:56
  you
• 1:56
  can't
• 1:57
  trust
• 1:57
  its
• 1:57
  own
• 1:57
  explanation
• 1:58
  of
• 1:58
  what
• 1:58
  it's
• 1:58
  about
• 1:58
  to
• 1:58
  do.
• 1:59
  Multiple
• 2:00
  commenters
• 2:00
  noted
• 2:00
  similar
• 2:01
  reinterpretation
• 2:02
  behaviors
• 2:02
  in
• 2:02
  Qwen
• 2:02
  3.5
• 2:03
  variants.
• 2:04
  Meanwhile,
• 2:05
  a
• 2:05
  brief
• 2:05
  but
• 2:05
  unsettling
• 2:06
  report
• 2:06
  from
• 2:07
  r/GeminiAI
• 2:08
  described
• 2:09
  Gemini's
• 2:09
  thinking
• 2:09
  traces
• 2:10
  turning
• 2:10
  "very
• 2:10
  violent"
• 2:11
  during
• 2:11
  a
• 2:11
  routine
• 2:12
  investment
• 2:12
  query
• 2:13
  about
• 2:13
  LNG
• 2:13
  markets
• 2:14
  —
• 2:14
  a
• 2:14
  reminder
• 2:15
  that
• 2:15
  reasoning
• 2:15
  traces
• 2:16
  are
• 2:16
  uncharted
• 2:17
  territory
• 2:17
  for
• 2:17
  alignment,
• 2:18
  and
• 2:18
  visible
• 2:19
  thinking
• 2:19
  isn't
• 2:19
  the
• 2:19
  same
• 2:20
  as
• 2:20
  controlled
• 2:20
  thinking.
• 2:24
  A
• 2:24
  new
• 2:24
  supply
• 2:24
  chain
• 2:24
  attack
• 2:25
  campaign
• 2:25
  dubbed
• 2:25
  "Glassworm"
• 2:26
  is
• 2:26
  using
• 2:27
  an
• 2:27
  obfuscation
• 2:27
  technique
• 2:28
  that
• 2:28
  should
• 2:28
  make
• 2:28
  every
• 2:29
  developer
• 2:29
  pause
• 2:29
  before
• 2:30
  their
• 2:30
  next
• 2:30
  npm
• 2:30
  install.
• 2:31
  The
• 2:32
  attack
• 2:32
  hides
• 2:32
  malicious
• 2:33
  JavaScript
• 2:33
  inside
• 2:34
  Unicode
• 2:34
  variation
• 2:34
  selectors
• 2:35
  —
• 2:35
  characters
• 2:36
  that
• 2:36
  don't
• 2:36
  render
• 2:37
  in
• 2:37
  text
• 2:37
  editors,
• 2:37
  browsers,
• 2:38
  or
• 2:38
  GitHub
• 2:38
  diffs.
• 2:39
  A
• 2:39
  loader
• 2:40
  extracts
• 2:40
  the
• 2:40
  hidden
• 2:40
  payload
• 2:41
  by
• 2:41
  stripping
• 2:41
  the
• 2:41
  Unicode
• 2:42
  high
• 2:42
  bytes
• 2:42
  and
• 2:42
  feeding
• 2:43
  the
• 2:43
  result
• 2:43
  into
• 2:43
  eval().
• 2:44
  The
• 2:44
  code
• 2:45
  is
• 2:45
  invisible
• 2:45
  to
• 2:45
  human
• 2:45
  review
• 2:46
  but
• 2:46
  executes
• 2:46
  perfectly
• 2:47
  at
• 2:47
  runtime.
• 2:48
  That
• 2:48
  alone
• 2:48
  would
• 2:48
  be
• 2:49
  noteworthy,
• 2:49
  but
• 2:49
  the
• 2:49
  command-and-control
• 2:50
  infrastructure
• 2:51
  is
• 2:51
  where
• 2:51
  things
• 2:51
  get
• 2:51
  genuinely
• 2:52
  creative:
• 2:53
  the
• 2:53
  malware
• 2:53
  uses
• 2:53
  Solana
• 2:54
  blockchain
• 2:54
  transactions
• 2:55
  for
• 2:55
  C2
• 2:55
  communication.
• 2:56
  The
• 2:57
  attacker
• 2:57
  wallet
• 2:57
  sends
• 2:58
  and
• 2:58
  receives
• 2:58
  messages
• 2:59
  via
• 2:59
  on-chain
• 2:59
  transactions
• 3:00
  costing
• 3:00
  fractions
• 3:01
  of
• 3:01
  a
• 3:01
  cent.
• 3:01
  The
• 3:01
  data
• 3:02
  is
• 3:02
  immutable
• 3:02
  (blockchain
• 3:03
  by
• 3:03
  definition),
• 3:04
  anonymous
• 3:04
  (no
• 3:05
  KYC
• 3:05
  on
• 3:05
  wallets),
• 3:06
  and
• 3:06
  indistinguishable
• 3:07
  from
• 3:07
  legitimate
• 3:07
  traffic
• 3:08
  on
• 3:08
  any
• 3:08
  network
• 3:08
  that
• 3:08
  allows
• 3:09
  Solana
• 3:09
  transactions.
• 3:10
  After
• 3:10
  exfiltrating
• 3:11
  data
• 3:11
  encrypted
• 3:12
  with
• 3:12
  AES-256-CBC,
• 3:14
  the
• 3:14
  payload
• 3:15
  uses
• 3:15
  a
• 3:15
  Google
• 3:15
  Calendar
• 3:16
  invite
• 3:16
  to
• 3:16
  download
• 3:16
  a
• 3:17
  zombie
• 3:17
  proxy
• 3:17
  agent,
• 3:18
  turning
• 3:18
  the
• 3:18
  compromised
• 3:18
  machine
• 3:19
  into
• 3:19
  a
• 3:19
  relay
• 3:19
  node.
• 3:20
  The
• 3:20
  malware
• 3:21
  then
• 3:21
  steals
• 3:21
  GitHub
• 3:21
  access
• 3:22
  tokens
• 3:22
  to
• 3:22
  push
• 3:23
  copies
• 3:23
  of
• 3:23
  itself
• 3:23
  into
• 3:23
  Python
• 3:24
  repositories
• 3:24
  —
• 3:25
  Django
• 3:25
  apps,
• 3:26
  ML
• 3:26
  research
• 3:26
  code,
• 3:27
  Streamlit
• 3:27
  projects,
• 3:28
  pip
• 3:28
  packages
• 3:28
  —
• 3:29
  targeting
• 3:29
  setup.py,
• 3:30
  main.py,
• 3:31
  and
• 3:31
  app.py
• 3:32
  files.
• 3:33
  Two
• 3:34
  specific
• 3:34
  npm
• 3:35
  packages,
• 3:35
  React
• 3:36
  Native
• 3:36
  International
• 3:36
  Phone
• 3:37
  Number
• 3:37
  and
• 3:37
  React
• 3:38
  Native
• 3:38
  Country
• 3:38
  Select,
• 3:39
  were
• 3:39
  found
• 3:39
  carrying
• 3:39
  the
• 3:40
  payload
• 3:40
  with
• 3:40
  a
• 3:40
  pre-install
• 3:41
  hook
• 3:41
  that
• 3:41
  skips
• 3:42
  Russian
• 3:42
  victims
• 3:42
  by
• 3:42
  checking
• 3:43
  timezone
• 3:43
  environment
• 3:43
  variables.
• 3:44
  The
• 3:44
  Glassworm
• 3:45
  campaign
• 3:45
  shares
• 3:45
  DNA
• 3:46
  with
• 3:46
  the
• 3:46
  "uncensored
• 3:47
  AI"
• 3:47
  grift
• 3:48
  ecosystem,
• 3:48
  where
• 3:49
  opacity
• 3:49
  is
• 3:49
  the
• 3:49
  product.
• 3:50
  A
• 3:50
  detailed
• 3:51
  teardown
• 3:51
  on
• 3:51
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 3:52
  exposed
• 3:53
  "Kryven
• 3:53
  AI,"
• 3:54
  marketed
• 3:54
  as
• 3:55
  a
• 3:55
  private,
• 3:55
  uncensored
• 3:56
  AI
• 3:56
  tool
• 3:56
  with
• 3:57
  a
• 3:57
  token-based
• 3:57
  subscription
• 3:58
  model.
• 3:59
  Investigation
• 3:59
  revealed
• 4:00
  it's
• 4:00
  a
• 4:00
  Gemini
• 4:00
  frontend
• 4:01
  deployed
• 4:01
  on
• 4:01
  Railway
• 4:01
  behind
• 4:02
  Cloudflare,
• 4:02
  with
• 4:03
  a
• 4:03
  domain
• 4:03
  registered
• 4:04
  in
• 4:04
  December
• 4:04
  2025.
• 4:06
  When
• 4:06
  the
• 4:06
  backend
• 4:06
  drops
• 4:06
  a
• 4:07
  connection
• 4:07
  (because
• 4:08
  the
• 4:08
  actual
• 4:08
  Gemini
• 4:09
  API
• 4:09
  refuses
• 4:10
  a
• 4:10
  request),
• 4:10
  the
• 4:10
  Kryven
• 4:11
  frontend
• 4:11
  displays
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  fake
• 4:12
  "thinking"
• 4:12
  animation
• 4:13
  —
• 4:14
  deliberate
• 4:14
  UX
• 4:15
  designed
• 4:15
  to
• 4:15
  cover
• 4:15
  a
• 4:15
  technical
• 4:16
  lie.
• 4:17
  The
• 4:17
  community
• 4:17
  response
• 4:18
  was
• 4:18
  swift:
• 4:19
  everything
• 4:19
  Kryven
• 4:19
  promises
• 4:20
  is
• 4:20
  already
• 4:20
  free
• 4:21
  via
• 4:21
  Ollama,
• 4:21
  LM
• 4:22
  Studio,
• 4:22
  or
• 4:22
  llama.cpp
• 4:24
  running
• 4:25
  locally.
• 4:26
  The
• 4:26
  real
• 4:26
  tell,
• 4:26
  as
• 4:27
  one
• 4:27
  commenter
• 4:27
  noted,
• 4:28
  is
• 4:28
  always
• 4:28
  the
• 4:28
  token/subscription
• 4:29
  model
• 4:30
  —
• 4:31
  if
• 4:31
  the
• 4:31
  AI
• 4:31
  is
• 4:31
  supposedly
• 4:32
  running
• 4:32
  locally,
• 4:33
  why
• 4:33
  would
• 4:33
  you
• 4:33
  need
• 4:34
  to
• 4:34
  pay
• 4:34
  per
• 4:34
  query?
• 4:35
  In
• 4:35
  the
• 4:35
  hardware
• 4:36
  security
• 4:36
  department,
• 4:37
  a
• 4:37
  BSides
• 4:37
  Seattle
• 4:38
  2026
• 4:39
  talk
• 4:39
  demolished
• 4:40
  Zero
• 4:40
  Motorcycles'
• 4:41
  FAQ
• 4:41
  claim
• 4:42
  that
• 4:42
  their
• 4:42
  electric
• 4:42
  motorcycles
• 4:43
  cannot
• 4:43
  be
• 4:44
  hacked.
• 4:45
  Researchers
• 4:45
  took
• 4:46
  absolute
• 4:46
  control
• 4:47
  of
• 4:47
  the
• 4:47
  bike's
• 4:47
  firmware
• 4:47
  through
• 4:48
  its
• 4:48
  over-the-air
• 4:48
  update
• 4:49
  system,
• 4:49
  which
• 4:50
  accepts
• 4:50
  any
• 4:50
  code
• 4:51
  structured
• 4:51
  like
• 4:51
  a
• 4:51
  VIN
• 4:52
  rather
• 4:52
  than
• 4:52
  verifying
• 4:53
  actual
• 4:53
  VIN
• 4:53
  ownership.
• 4:55
  The
• 4:55
  attack
• 4:55
  surface
• 4:56
  is
• 4:56
  broad:
• 4:57
  the
• 4:57
  bike
• 4:57
  has
• 4:57
  an
• 4:57
  app
• 4:58
  that
• 4:58
  talks
• 4:58
  to
• 4:58
  onboard
• 4:58
  electronics
• 4:59
  via
• 4:59
  BLE,
• 5:00
  which
• 5:00
  take
• 5:00
  OTA
• 5:01
  updates
• 5:01
  including
• 5:02
  the
• 5:02
  battery
• 5:02
  management
• 5:03
  system.
• 5:04
  The
• 5:04
  researchers
• 5:04
  demonstrated
• 5:05
  conceptual
• 5:05
  exploits
• 5:06
  ranging
• 5:06
  from
• 5:06
  disabling
• 5:07
  brakes
• 5:07
  via
• 5:07
  firmware
• 5:08
  update
• 5:08
  to
• 5:08
  setting
• 5:09
  the
• 5:09
  battery
• 5:09
  on
• 5:09
  fire
• 5:09
  —
• 5:10
  all
• 5:10
  remotely,
• 5:11
  all
• 5:11
  persistent
• 5:12
  enough
• 5:12
  to
• 5:12
  survive
• 5:12
  factory
• 5:13
  resets.
• 5:14
  The
• 5:14
  fundamental
• 5:14
  lesson
• 5:15
  isn't
• 5:15
  that
• 5:15
  electric
• 5:16
  vehicles
• 5:16
  are
• 5:16
  inherently
• 5:17
  insecure;
• 5:18
  it's
• 5:18
  that
• 5:18
  OTA
• 5:18
  update
• 5:19
  systems
• 5:19
  without
• 5:19
  proper
• 5:20
  authentication
• 5:20
  are
• 5:21
  remote
• 5:21
  code
• 5:21
  execution
• 5:22
  endpoints
• 5:22
  by
• 5:22
  design.
• 5:26
  A
• 5:26
  comprehensive
• 5:26
  survey
• 5:27
  of
• 5:27
  the
• 5:27
  Chinese
• 5:27
  LLM
• 5:28
  landscape
• 5:28
  on
• 5:28
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 5:30
  maps
• 5:30
  the
• 5:30
  full
• 5:30
  competitive
• 5:31
  field:
• 5:32
  ByteDance's
• 5:32
  Doubao
• 5:33
  leads
• 5:33
  on
• 5:33
  proprietary
• 5:34
  usage,
• 5:34
  Alibaba
• 5:35
  dominates
• 5:35
  open
• 5:35
  weights
• 5:36
  (especially
• 5:36
  small
• 5:36
  models),
• 5:37
  and
• 5:37
  DeepSeek
• 5:37
  —
• 5:38
  technically
• 5:38
  a
• 5:38
  side
• 5:39
  project
• 5:39
  of
• 5:39
  an
• 5:39
  algorithmic
• 5:40
  trading
• 5:40
  firm
• 5:40
  —
• 5:41
  remains
• 5:41
  the
• 5:41
  most
• 5:42
  innovative,
• 5:42
  having
• 5:43
  invented
• 5:43
  MLA,
• 5:44
  DSA,
• 5:44
  and
• 5:44
  GRPO.
• 5:45
  The
• 5:46
  real
• 5:46
  surprise
• 5:46
  is
• 5:46
  the
• 5:47
  "Six
• 5:47
  Small
• 5:47
  Tigers"
• 5:47
  —
• 5:48
  Zhipu,
• 5:49
  MiniMax,
• 5:50
  Moonshot,
• 5:51
  Stepfun,
• 5:51
  Baichuan,
• 5:52
  and
• 5:52
  01
• 5:52
  AI
• 5:53
  —
• 5:54
  all
• 5:54
  following
• 5:54
  nearly
• 5:55
  identical
• 5:55
  business
• 5:55
  models
• 5:56
  of
• 5:56
  releasing
• 5:56
  big
• 5:56
  open-weight
• 5:57
  models
• 5:57
  to
• 5:57
  gain
• 5:57
  recognition
• 5:58
  while
• 5:58
  providing
• 5:59
  cheap
• 5:59
  inference
• 5:59
  services.
• 6:00
  OpenRouter
• 6:01
  token
• 6:01
  usage
• 6:01
  data
• 6:02
  tells
• 6:02
  the
• 6:02
  current
• 6:02
  story:
• 6:03
  Xiaomi's
• 6:04
  MiMo-V2-Pro
• 6:04
  leads
• 6:05
  at
• 6:05
  1.77T
• 6:06
  tokens
• 6:06
  over
• 6:07
  seven
• 6:07
  days,
• 6:08
  followed
• 6:08
  by
• 6:08
  Stepfun's
• 6:09
  Step
• 6:09
  3.5
• 6:10
  Flash
• 6:10
  at
• 6:10
  1.61T,
• 6:11
  with
• 6:12
  four
• 6:12
  different
• 6:12
  Small
• 6:12
  Tigers
• 6:13
  in
• 6:13
  the
• 6:13
  top
• 6:13
  ten.
• 6:14
  Only
• 6:14
  three
• 6:14
  Western
• 6:15
  labs
• 6:15
  made
• 6:15
  the
• 6:15
  cut.
• 6:16
  The
• 6:16
  underground
• 6:17
  market
• 6:17
  for
• 6:17
  Claude
• 6:18
  and
• 6:18
  ChatGPT
• 6:19
  access
• 6:19
  in
• 6:19
  China
• 6:19
  —
• 6:20
  mapped
• 6:20
  in
• 6:20
  a
• 6:20
  99-reply
• 6:21
  V2EX
• 6:21
  thread
• 6:22
  —
• 6:23
  reveals
• 6:24
  that
• 6:24
  Chinese
• 6:24
  developers
• 6:25
  still
• 6:25
  perceive
• 6:25
  capability
• 6:26
  gaps
• 6:26
  in
• 6:26
  Western
• 6:27
  models
• 6:27
  despite
• 6:27
  the
• 6:28
  token
• 6:28
  volume
• 6:28
  numbers
• 6:29
  suggesting
• 6:29
  otherwise.
• 6:30
  Alibaba
• 6:31
  formalized
• 6:31
  what
• 6:31
  was
• 6:31
  already
• 6:32
  apparent
• 6:32
  in
• 6:32
  practice,
• 6:33
  confirming
• 6:34
  through
• 6:34
  ModelScope
• 6:35
  that
• 6:35
  they
• 6:35
  are
• 6:35
  committed
• 6:35
  to
• 6:35
  continuously
• 6:36
  open-sourcing
• 6:37
  new
• 6:37
  Qwen
• 6:37
  and
• 6:37
  Wan
• 6:38
  models
• 6:38
  covering
• 6:38
  all
• 6:39
  sizes.
• 6:40
  Community
• 6:40
  reaction
• 6:41
  noted
• 6:41
  the
• 6:41
  Qwen
• 6:42
  3.5
• 6:42
  family
• 6:43
  has
• 6:43
  been
• 6:43
  "next
• 6:44
  level"
• 6:44
  —
• 6:45
  even
• 6:45
  the
• 6:45
  0.8B
• 6:46
  model
• 6:46
  impressed
• 6:47
  —
• 6:47
  though
• 6:48
  some
• 6:48
  cautioned
• 6:48
  that
• 6:48
  the
• 6:49
  Chinese
• 6:49
  characters
• 6:49
  actually
• 6:50
  say
• 6:50
  "more
• 6:51
  open-source
• 6:51
  models
• 6:52
  coming
• 6:52
  soon"
• 6:52
  without
• 6:53
  specifying
• 6:53
  which
• 6:53
  series.
• 6:54
  The
• 6:55
  practical
• 6:55
  impact
• 6:56
  of
• 6:56
  this
• 6:56
  open-weight
• 6:56
  velocity
• 6:57
  showed
• 6:57
  up
• 6:57
  immediately:
• 6:58
  Cursor's
• 6:59
  new
• 6:59
  Composer
• 6:59
  2
• 7:00
  model
• 7:00
  turns
• 7:00
  out
• 7:00
  to
• 7:00
  be
• 7:01
  built
• 7:01
  on
• 7:01
  top
• 7:01
  of
• 7:01
  Moonshot's
• 7:02
  Kimi
• 7:02
  K2.5
• 7:03
  —
• 7:04
  apparently
• 7:05
  fine-tuned
• 7:05
  using
• 7:06
  Cursor's
• 7:06
  own
• 7:06
  RL
• 7:07
  pipeline
• 7:07
  but
• 7:07
  without
• 7:07
  the
• 7:08
  attribution
• 7:08
  that
• 7:08
  Kimi's
• 7:09
  Modified
• 7:09
  MIT
• 7:10
  License
• 7:10
  requires
• 7:10
  for
• 7:11
  products
• 7:11
  exceeding
• 7:11
  100
• 7:12
  million
• 7:12
  MAU
• 7:13
  or
• 7:13
  $20M
• 7:14
  monthly
• 7:14
  revenue.
• 7:15
  Community
• 7:16
  opinion
• 7:16
  was
• 7:16
  split
• 7:16
  between
• 7:17
  "this
• 7:17
  is
• 7:17
  how
• 7:17
  open
• 7:17
  weights
• 7:18
  are
• 7:18
  supposed
• 7:18
  to
• 7:18
  be
• 7:18
  used"
• 7:19
  and
• 7:19
  frustration
• 7:19
  at
• 7:19
  the
• 7:19
  pattern
• 7:20
  of
• 7:20
  wrapper
• 7:20
  companies
• 7:21
  building
• 7:21
  on
• 7:21
  open
• 7:21
  models
• 7:22
  without
• 7:22
  credit.
• 7:23
  On
• 7:23
  the
• 7:23
  hardware
• 7:24
  side,
• 7:24
  NVIDIA's
• 7:25
  Nemotron
• 7:25
  Cascade
• 7:26
  2
• 7:27
  30B-A3B
• 7:28
  brought
• 7:29
  a
• 7:29
  different
• 7:29
  architecture
• 7:29
  to
• 7:30
  the
• 7:30
  small-model
• 7:30
  space.
• 7:31
  Early
• 7:31
  testing
• 7:32
  of
• 7:32
  the
• 7:32
  Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
• 7:37
  at
• 7:37
  IQ4
• 7:38
  XS
• 7:38
  quantization
• 7:39
  showed
• 7:39
  roughly
• 7:39
  100
• 7:40
  tokens/second
• 7:41
  on
• 7:41
  a
• 7:41
  single
• 7:41
  3090
• 7:42
  with
• 7:42
  250K
• 7:43
  context
• 7:43
  —
• 7:44
  fast
• 7:45
  enough
• 7:45
  to
• 7:45
  serve
• 7:45
  as
• 7:45
  a
• 7:46
  practical
• 7:46
  local
• 7:46
  coding
• 7:47
  assistant.
• 7:48
  One
• 7:48
  user
• 7:48
  successfully
• 7:49
  had
• 7:49
  it
• 7:49
  complete
• 7:50
  a
• 7:50
  3D
• 7:50
  Snake
• 7:50
  game
• 7:51
  in
• 7:51
  ThreeJS
• 7:51
  that
• 7:52
  multiple
• 7:52
  other
• 7:52
  models
• 7:53
  had
• 7:53
  failed,
• 7:54
  and
• 7:54
  then
• 7:54
  autonomously
• 7:55
  used
• 7:55
  Cline
• 7:55
  with
• 7:55
  Context7
• 7:56
  MCP
• 7:57
  for
• 7:57
  a
• 7:57
  Rust/egui
• 7:59
  implementation,
• 7:59
  fixing
• 8:00
  its
• 8:00
  own
• 8:00
  bugs
• 8:00
  along
• 8:00
  the
• 8:00
  way.
• 8:01
  The
• 8:02
  consensus:
• 8:03
  for
• 8:03
  the
• 8:03
  first
• 8:03
  time,
• 8:03
  a
• 8:04
  truly
• 8:04
  tiny
• 8:04
  MoE
• 8:05
  model
• 8:05
  might
• 8:05
  be
• 8:05
  competent
• 8:06
  enough
• 8:06
  for
• 8:06
  real
• 8:06
  agentic
• 8:07
  workflows
• 8:07
  on
• 8:07
  consumer
• 8:08
  hardware.
• 8:11
  Meta
• 8:11
  FAIR's
• 8:11
  "Towards
• 8:12
  a
• 8:12
  Neural
• 8:12
  Debugger
• 8:12
  for
• 8:13
  Python"
• 8:13
  introduces
• 8:14
  a
• 8:14
  concept
• 8:15
  that
• 8:15
  bridges
• 8:15
  program
• 8:15
  analysis
• 8:16
  and
• 8:16
  neural
• 8:16
  networks
• 8:17
  in
• 8:17
  a
• 8:17
  way
• 8:17
  nothing
• 8:17
  else
• 8:17
  has.
• 8:18
  The
• 8:18
  idea:
• 8:19
  train
• 8:19
  language
• 8:20
  models
• 8:20
  not
• 8:20
  just
• 8:20
  to
• 8:20
  predict
• 8:21
  code
• 8:21
  outputs,
• 8:21
  but
• 8:21
  to
• 8:21
  emulate
• 8:22
  a
• 8:22
  full
• 8:22
  interactive
• 8:23
  debugger
• 8:23
  —
• 8:23
  step
• 8:24
  into,
• 8:24
  step
• 8:25
  over,
• 8:25
  step
• 8:25
  out,
• 8:25
  set
• 8:26
  breakpoints,
• 8:26
  and
• 8:26
  even
• 8:27
  predict
• 8:27
  program
• 8:27
  states
• 8:28
  in
• 8:28
  reverse.
• 8:28
  The
• 8:29
  researchers
• 8:29
  formalize
• 8:30
  the
• 8:30
  debugger
• 8:30
  as
• 8:30
  a
• 8:30
  Markov
• 8:31
  Decision
• 8:31
  Process
• 8:32
  where
• 8:32
  states
• 8:32
  are
• 8:33
  program
• 8:33
  locations
• 8:33
  plus
• 8:34
  variable
• 8:34
  values,
• 8:35
  and
• 8:36
  transitions
• 8:36
  correspond
• 8:37
  to
• 8:37
  debugger
• 8:37
  actions
• 8:38
  traversing
• 8:38
  a
• 8:38
  call-stack
• 8:39
  tree
• 8:39
  reconstructed
• 8:40
  from
• 8:40
  execution
• 8:41
  traces.
• 8:42
  A
• 8:42
  fine-tuned
• 8:42
  7B-parameter
• 8:43
  model
• 8:43
  achieves
• 8:44
  next-state
• 8:44
  prediction
• 8:45
  accuracies
• 8:45
  beyond
• 8:45
  90%
• 8:46
  across
• 8:46
  key
• 8:46
  actions,
• 8:47
  while
• 8:48
  even
• 8:48
  a
• 8:48
  150M-parameter
• 8:49
  model
• 8:49
  trained
• 8:50
  from
• 8:50
  scratch
• 8:51
  on
• 8:51
  80B
• 8:51
  tokens
• 8:51
  reaches
• 8:52
  competitive
• 8:52
  CruxEval
• 8:53
  scores
• 8:53
  of
• 8:53
  52.3
• 8:54
  (input)
• 8:55
  and
• 8:55
  57.0
• 8:56
  (output)
• 8:56
  on
• 8:56
  pass@1.
• 8:58
  The
• 8:58
  most
• 8:58
  intriguing
• 8:59
  capability
• 8:59
  is
• 9:00
  inverse
• 9:00
  execution
• 9:00
  —
• 9:01
  given
• 9:02
  an
• 9:02
  arbitrary
• 9:02
  program
• 9:03
  state,
• 9:03
  the
• 9:03
  neural
• 9:04
  debugger
• 9:04
  can
• 9:04
  infer
• 9:05
  plausible
• 9:05
  preceding
• 9:06
  states
• 9:06
  or
• 9:06
  inputs
• 9:07
  without
• 9:07
  ever
• 9:07
  running
• 9:07
  the
• 9:07
  program
• 9:08
  forward
• 9:08
  first.
• 9:09
  This
• 9:09
  matters
• 9:10
  for
• 9:10
  fuzzing,
• 9:10
  test
• 9:11
  generation,
• 9:11
  and
• 9:11
  debugging
• 9:12
  scenarios
• 9:12
  where
• 9:12
  the
• 9:13
  execution
• 9:13
  environment
• 9:13
  is
• 9:14
  unavailable
• 9:14
  or
• 9:14
  partially
• 9:15
  specified.
• 9:16
  The
• 9:16
  fundamental
• 9:17
  limitation
• 9:17
  is
• 9:17
  that
• 9:18
  inverse
• 9:18
  prediction
• 9:18
  is
• 9:18
  inherently
• 9:19
  ambiguous
• 9:20
  (sorting
• 9:20
  destroys
• 9:21
  input
• 9:21
  order;
• 9:22
  addition
• 9:22
  is
• 9:22
  many-to-one),
• 9:23
  but
• 9:23
  the
• 9:23
  model
• 9:24
  handles
• 9:24
  this
• 9:24
  by
• 9:24
  sampling
• 9:25
  from
• 9:25
  a
• 9:25
  conditional
• 9:25
  distribution
• 9:26
  over
• 9:26
  possible
• 9:27
  predecessors.
• 9:28
  Accuracy
• 9:28
  degrades
• 9:29
  with
• 9:29
  prediction
• 9:29
  horizon
• 9:30
  —
• 9:30
  the
• 9:30
  more
• 9:31
  states
• 9:31
  the
• 9:31
  model
• 9:31
  must
• 9:32
  skip,
• 9:32
  the
• 9:32
  less
• 9:32
  reliable
• 9:33
  the
• 9:33
  prediction
• 9:33
  —
• 9:34
  but
• 9:34
  larger
• 9:35
  sampling
• 9:35
  budgets
• 9:35
  partially
• 9:36
  compensate,
• 9:37
  suggesting
• 9:37
  test-time
• 9:38
  ensembling
• 9:38
  as
• 9:38
  a
• 9:38
  viable
• 9:39
  path
• 9:39
  forward.
• 9:40
  The
• 9:40
  mathematics
• 9:40
  of
• 9:41
  extreme
• 9:41
  quantization
• 9:42
  received
• 9:42
  a
• 9:42
  detailed
• 9:43
  community
• 9:43
  treatment,
• 9:44
  breaking
• 9:44
  down
• 9:44
  Microsoft's
• 9:45
  BitNet
• 9:45
  approach
• 9:46
  where
• 9:46
  model
• 9:46
  weights
• 9:46
  are
• 9:46
  constrained
• 9:47
  to
• 9:47
  just
• 9:47
  three
• 9:47
  values:
• 9:48
  -1,
• 9:49
  0,
• 9:50
  and
• 9:50
  +1.
• 9:51
  This
• 9:51
  ternary
• 9:51
  representation
• 9:52
  means
• 9:52
  matrix
• 9:53
  multiplications
• 9:53
  become
• 9:54
  additions
• 9:54
  and
• 9:54
  subtractions
• 9:55
  —
• 9:55
  no
• 9:56
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• 9:56
  multiply
• 9:57
  operations
• 9:57
  needed.
• 9:58
  The
• 9:58
  compression
• 9:59
  is
• 9:59
  dramatic
• 9:59
  (1.58
• 10:00
  bits
• 10:00
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• 10:01
  weight
• 10:01
  versus
• 10:01
  16
• 10:02
  or
• 10:02
  32
• 10:03
  in
• 10:03
  standard
• 10:03
  models),
• 10:04
  but
• 10:04
  the
• 10:04
  engineering
• 10:05
  question
• 10:06
  is
• 10:06
  whether
• 10:06
  the
• 10:06
  accuracy
• 10:07
  trade-off
• 10:07
  is
• 10:07
  acceptable
• 10:08
  at
• 10:08
  scale.
• 10:09
  The
• 10:09
  post
• 10:10
  walks
• 10:10
  through
• 10:10
  the
• 10:10
  quantization-aware
• 10:11
  training
• 10:11
  process,
• 10:12
  the
• 10:13
  centralization
• 10:13
  step
• 10:14
  that
• 10:14
  shifts
• 10:14
  activations
• 10:15
  to
• 10:15
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• 10:16
  before
• 10:16
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• 10:17
  and
• 10:17
  why
• 10:18
  ternary
• 10:18
  works
• 10:18
  better
• 10:19
  than
• 10:19
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• 10:19
  binary
• 10:19
  (-1,
• 10:20
  +1)
• 10:21
  by
• 10:21
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• 10:22
  the
• 10:22
  zero
• 10:22
  state
• 10:22
  to
• 10:22
  effectively
• 10:23
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• 10:23
  off"
• 10:23
  weights.
• 10:24
  A
• 10:24
  new
• 10:25
  project
• 10:25
  called
• 10:26
  A.T.L.A.S.
• 10:27
  (Adaptive
• 10:27
  Test-time
• 10:28
  Learning
• 10:28
  and
• 10:28
  Autonomous
• 10:29
  Specialization)
• 10:30
  claims
• 10:30
  to
• 10:30
  achieve
• 10:31
  74.6%
• 10:32
  LiveCodeBench
• 10:33
  pass@1
• 10:34
  with
• 10:34
  a
• 10:34
  frozen
• 10:35
  14B
• 10:35
  model
• 10:36
  on
• 10:36
  a
• 10:36
  single
• 10:36
  consumer
• 10:37
  GPU
• 10:37
  —
• 10:38
  up
• 10:38
  from
• 10:38
  36-41%
• 10:41
  in
• 10:41
  its
• 10:41
  previous
• 10:41
  version
• 10:42
  —
• 10:42
  through
• 10:43
  constraint-driven
• 10:43
  generation
• 10:44
  and
• 10:44
  self-verified
• 10:45
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• 10:45
  refinement,
• 10:46
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• 10:46
  no
• 10:46
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• 10:47
  or
• 10:47
  API
• 10:48
  calls
• 10:48
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• 10:50
  The
• 10:50
  community
• 10:50
  flagged
• 10:51
  that
• 10:51
  some
• 10:51
  of
• 10:51
  its
• 10:51
  architectural
• 10:52
  descriptions
• 10:53
  (like
• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
  field")
• 10:55
  appear
• 10:56
  to
• 10:56
  be
• 10:56
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• 10:57
  documentation
• 10:58
  cited
• 10:58
  as
• 10:58
  research,
• 10:59
  so
• 10:59
  the
• 10:59
  claims
• 11:00
  merit
• 11:00
  independent
• 11:01
  verification.
• 11:05
  An
• 11:05
  essay
• 11:05
  from
• 11:06
  Holen
• 11:06
  Ventures
• 11:06
  makes
• 11:06
  a
• 11:06
  case
• 11:07
  that
• 11:07
  should
• 11:07
  be
• 11:07
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• 11:08
  for
• 11:08
  the
• 11:08
  agentic
• 11:08
  AI
• 11:08
  hype
• 11:09
  cycle:
• 11:09
  for
• 11:09
  most
• 11:10
  real
• 11:10
  automation
• 11:11
  needs,
• 11:11
  you
• 11:11
  don't
• 11:11
  need
• 11:11
  autonomy
• 11:12
  —
• 11:12
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• 11:12
  need
• 11:12
  a
• 11:13
  cron
• 11:13
  job.
• 11:13
  The
• 11:13
  author
• 11:14
  built
• 11:14
  a
• 11:14
  pipeline
• 11:14
  that
• 11:14
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
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• 11:16
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• 11:16
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• 11:17
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• 11:17
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• 11:17
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• 11:17
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• 11:18
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• 11:18
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• 11:19
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• 11:19
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• 11:19
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• 11:19
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
  Slack.
• 11:21
  Total
• 11:21
  cost:
• 11:22
  about
• 11:22
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• 11:23
  per
• 11:23
  month.
• 11:24
  The
• 11:24
  stack
• 11:24
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• 11:24
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• 11:25
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• 11:25
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• 11:26
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• 11:27
  "Zapier
• 11:27
  but
• 11:27
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• 11:27
  write
• 11:28
  TypeScript"),
• 11:28
  Jina
• 11:29
  Reader
• 11:29
  for
• 11:29
  article
• 11:29
  extraction,
• 11:30
  Supadata
• 11:31
  for
• 11:31
  YouTube
• 11:31
  transcripts,
• 11:32
  and
• 11:32
  Algolia
• 11:32
  for
• 11:32
  Hacker
• 11:33
  News
• 11:33
  data.
• 11:33
  The
• 11:34
  six
• 11:34
  parallel
• 11:34
  fetchers
• 11:35
  handle
• 11:35
  HN,
• 11:35
  newsletters,
• 11:36
  company
• 11:36
  blogs,
• 11:37
  Reddit,
• 11:37
  YouTube,
• 11:37
  and
• 11:38
  Twitter-via-RSS.
• 11:39
  Claude
• 11:39
  returns
• 11:39
  structured
• 11:40
  JSON
• 11:40
  grouped
• 11:40
  by
• 11:41
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• 11:41
  formatted
• 11:41
  as
• 11:41
  Slack
• 11:42
  Block
• 11:42
  Kit.
• 11:43
  The
• 11:43
  pipeline
• 11:43
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• 11:43
  in
• 11:44
  under
• 11:44
  two
• 11:44
  minutes,
• 11:45
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• 11:45
  the
• 11:45
  compound
• 11:45
  value
• 11:46
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• 11:46
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• 11:46
  the
• 11:46
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• 11:47
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• 11:47
  —
• 11:48
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• 11:48
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• 11:48
  every
• 11:48
  API
• 11:49
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• 11:49
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• 11:49
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• 11:49
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• 11:50
  automation
• 11:50
  is
• 11:50
  already
• 11:50
  configured
• 11:51
  for
• 11:51
  the
• 11:51
  next.
• 11:52
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• 11:53
  hf-mount
• 11:53
  addresses
• 11:54
  a
• 11:54
  gap
• 11:54
  in
• 11:54
  model
• 11:55
  infrastructure
• 11:55
  that
• 11:55
  has
• 11:55
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• 11:56
  hiding
• 11:56
  in
• 11:56
  plain
• 11:56
  sight:
• 11:57
  why
• 11:57
  download
• 11:58
  a
• 11:58
  20GB
• 11:58
  model
• 11:59
  when
• 11:59
  your
• 11:59
  code
• 11:59
  only
• 11:59
  touches
• 12:00
  a
• 12:00
  fraction
• 12:00
  of
• 12:00
  the
• 12:00
  weights?
• 12:01
  The
• 12:01
  tool
• 12:01
  mounts
• 12:02
  HuggingFace
• 12:02
  repos
• 12:03
  and
• 12:03
  Buckets
• 12:03
  as
• 12:03
  local
• 12:04
  filesystems
• 12:04
  via
• 12:04
  FUSE
• 12:05
  or
• 12:05
  NFS,
• 12:06
  fetching
• 12:06
  files
• 12:06
  lazily
• 12:07
  on
• 12:07
  first
• 12:07
  read.
• 12:08
  You
• 12:08
  can
• 12:08
  from
• 12:08
  pretrained("/tmp/gpt-oss")
• 12:12
  and
• 12:12
  only
• 12:12
  the
• 12:12
  bytes
• 12:13
  your
• 12:13
  code
• 12:13
  actually
• 12:13
  touches
• 12:14
  hit
• 12:14
  the
• 12:14
  network.
• 12:15
  The
• 12:15
  NFS
• 12:15
  backend
• 12:16
  works
• 12:16
  everywhere
• 12:16
  without
• 12:16
  root
• 12:17
  access,
• 12:17
  and
• 12:18
  the
• 12:18
  Kubernetes
• 12:18
  CSI
• 12:19
  driver
• 12:19
  enables
• 12:19
  the
• 12:19
  same
• 12:20
  mount
• 12:20
  semantics
• 12:20
  in
• 12:20
  production
• 12:21
  clusters.
• 12:22
  The
• 12:22
  "agentic
• 12:23
  storage"
• 12:23
  pitch
• 12:23
  is
• 12:23
  telling:
• 12:24
  agents
• 12:25
  don't
• 12:25
  need
• 12:25
  complex
• 12:26
  APIs,
• 12:27
  they
• 12:27
  thrive
• 12:27
  on
• 12:27
  ls,
• 12:28
  cat,
• 12:28
  find,
• 12:29
  grep,
• 12:29
  and
• 12:29
  composable
• 12:30
  UNIX
• 12:30
  pipelines.
• 12:31
  The
• 12:31
  Y
• 12:31
  Combinator
• 12:32
  CEO's
• 12:32
  skills
• 12:33
  library
• 12:33
  has
• 12:34
  become
• 12:34
  the
• 12:34
  latest
• 12:34
  reference
• 12:35
  architecture
• 12:35
  for
• 12:35
  structured
• 12:36
  AI-assisted
• 12:37
  development.
• 12:38
  A
• 12:38
  walkthrough
• 12:38
  demonstrates
• 12:39
  five
• 12:39
  key
• 12:40
  skills:
• 12:41
  YC
• 12:41
  Office
• 12:41
  Hours
• 12:42
  (which
• 12:42
  pushes
• 12:42
  back
• 12:42
  on
• 12:43
  assumptions,
• 12:44
  asks
• 12:44
  for
• 12:44
  evidence
• 12:45
  of
• 12:45
  demand,
• 12:46
  and
• 12:46
  identifies
• 12:46
  the
• 12:46
  minimum
• 12:47
  viable
• 12:47
  wedge),
• 12:48
  CEO
• 12:49
  Review
• 12:49
  (which
• 12:49
  searches
• 12:50
  for
• 12:50
  hidden
• 12:50
  10-star
• 12:50
  products
• 12:51
  within
• 12:51
  your
• 12:51
  idea),
• 12:52
  Design
• 12:52
  Consultation
• 12:53
  (which
• 12:53
  pulls
• 12:54
  competitor
• 12:54
  screenshots
• 12:55
  and
• 12:55
  proposes
• 12:56
  creative
• 12:56
  risk-taking),
• 12:57
  Engineering
• 12:58
  Review
• 12:58
  (which
• 12:58
  pressure-tests
• 12:59
  architecture
• 12:59
  decisions),
• 13:00
  and
• 13:00
  Document
• 13:01
  Release
• 13:01
  (which
• 13:01
  cross-references
• 13:02
  code
• 13:03
  changes
• 13:03
  against
• 13:03
  documentation
• 13:04
  to
• 13:04
  prevent
• 13:04
  drift).
• 13:06
  The
• 13:06
  underlying
• 13:06
  philosophy
• 13:07
  is
• 13:07
  that
• 13:07
  vibe
• 13:07
  coding
• 13:08
  moves
• 13:08
  fast
• 13:08
  but
• 13:08
  breaks
• 13:09
  things
• 13:09
  —
• 13:10
  these
• 13:10
  skills
• 13:10
  impose
• 13:11
  the
• 13:11
  discipline
• 13:11
  that
• 13:11
  experienced
• 13:12
  product
• 13:12
  builders
• 13:13
  apply
• 13:13
  intuitively.
• 13:14
  Similar
• 13:15
  structured-workflow
• 13:16
  thinking
• 13:16
  appears
• 13:16
  in
• 13:16
  SuperPowersWUI,
• 13:18
  a
• 13:18
  port
• 13:19
  of
• 13:19
  Jesse
• 13:19
  Vincent's
• 13:19
  Superpowers
• 13:20
  methodology
• 13:21
  to
• 13:21
  Open
• 13:21
  WebUI
• 13:22
  that
• 13:22
  enforces
• 13:22
  design-before-code
• 13:23
  via
• 13:24
  hard-gated
• 13:24
  brainstorming,
• 13:25
  auto-generates
• 13:26
  specs
• 13:27
  and
• 13:27
  plans
• 13:27
  using
• 13:27
  isolated
• 13:28
  sub-agent
• 13:28
  contexts,
• 13:29
  and
• 13:30
  supports
• 13:30
  both
• 13:30
  autonomous
• 13:31
  ("Cook")
• 13:31
  and
• 13:32
  human-in-the-loop
• 13:32
  ("Ask")
• 13:33
  modes.
• 13:34
  Driveline
• 13:34
  Research's
• 13:35
  autoresearch-claude-code
• 13:36
  ports
• 13:37
  the
• 13:37
  Karpathy-inspired
• 13:38
  autonomous
• 13:38
  experiment
• 13:39
  loop
• 13:39
  as
• 13:39
  a
• 13:39
  pure
• 13:40
  Claude
• 13:40
  Code
• 13:40
  skill
• 13:41
  —
• 13:41
  no
• 13:42
  MCP
• 13:42
  server,
• 13:43
  just
• 13:43
  instructions
• 13:44
  the
• 13:44
  agent
• 13:44
  follows
• 13:45
  with
• 13:45
  built-in
• 13:45
  tools.
• 13:46
  The
• 13:46
  demo
• 13:47
  is
• 13:47
  compelling:
• 13:48
  22
• 13:48
  autonomous
• 13:49
  experiments
• 13:49
  took
• 13:50
  a
• 13:50
  fastball
• 13:50
  velocity
• 13:51
  prediction
• 13:51
  model
• 13:51
  from
• 13:51
  R²
• 13:52
  0.44
• 13:53
  to
• 13:53
  0.78,
• 13:54
  predicting
• 13:55
  within
• 13:55
  ~2
• 13:56
  mph
• 13:56
  from
• 13:56
  biomechanics
• 13:57
  alone.
• 13:58
  For
• 13:58
  those
• 13:58
  building
• 13:59
  skills
• 13:59
  from
• 13:59
  scratch,
• 14:00
  a
• 14:00
  best-practices
• 14:01
  guide
• 14:01
  from
• 14:01
  mgechev
• 14:02
  codifies
• 14:02
  the
• 14:02
  emerging
• 14:03
  conventions:
• 14:04
  SKILL.md
• 14:05
  under
• 14:05
  500
• 14:05
  lines,
• 14:06
  flat
• 14:06
  one-level-deep
• 14:07
  subdirectories,
• 14:08
  just-in-time
• 14:08
  file
• 14:09
  loading
• 14:09
  to
• 14:09
  keep
• 14:09
  context
• 14:10
  windows
• 14:10
  lean,
• 14:11
  and
• 14:11
  trigger-optimized
• 14:12
  frontmatter
• 14:12
  descriptions
• 14:13
  that
• 14:13
  function
• 14:13
  as
• 14:13
  the
• 14:13
  skill's
• 14:14
  discoverability
• 14:14
  layer.
• 14:15
  The
• 14:15
  validation
• 14:16
  methodology
• 14:16
  —
• 14:17
  discovery
• 14:18
  testing,
• 14:18
  logic
• 14:19
  simulation,
• 14:19
  edge-case
• 14:20
  attacks,
• 14:21
  architecture
• 14:21
  refinement
• 14:21
  —
• 14:22
  all
• 14:23
  done
• 14:23
  in
• 14:23
  collaboration
• 14:24
  with
• 14:24
  LLMs
• 14:24
  themselves
• 14:24
  —
• 14:25
  reflects
• 14:25
  how
• 14:26
  meta
• 14:26
  the
• 14:26
  tooling
• 14:26
  ecosystem
• 14:27
  has
• 14:27
  become.
• 14:31
  Claude's
• 14:31
  new
• 14:32
  computer-use
• 14:32
  capability
• 14:33
  got
• 14:33
  an
• 14:33
  entertainingly
• 14:34
  unscripted
• 14:34
  test:
• 14:35
  a
• 14:35
  user
• 14:36
  had
• 14:36
  it
• 14:36
  play
• 14:36
  Old
• 14:36
  School
• 14:37
  RuneScape's
• 14:37
  Tutorial
• 14:38
  Island,
• 14:38
  navigate
• 14:39
  WhatsApp
• 14:39
  conversations,
• 14:40
  and
• 14:41
  browse
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  Stocks
• 14:41
  app.
• 14:42
  The
• 14:42
  RuneScape
• 14:43
  test
• 14:43
  was
• 14:43
  revealing
• 14:43
  —
• 14:44
  Claude
• 14:44
  successfully
• 14:45
  created
• 14:45
  a
• 14:45
  character,
• 14:46
  caught
• 14:46
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• 14:47
  chopped
• 14:47
  trees,
• 14:47
  and
• 14:48
  lit
• 14:48
  fires,
• 14:49
  understanding
• 14:49
  the
• 14:49
  mini-map
• 14:50
  navigation
• 14:50
  and
• 14:50
  UI
• 14:51
  elements,
• 14:51
  though
• 14:52
  it
• 14:52
  struggled
• 14:52
  with
• 14:52
  precise
• 14:53
  click
• 14:53
  targeting
• 14:53
  (repeatedly
• 14:54
  clicking
• 14:54
  trees
• 14:54
  instead
• 14:55
  of
• 14:55
  the
• 14:55
  fire).
• 14:56
  The
• 14:56
  WhatsApp
• 14:56
  test
• 14:56
  was
• 14:56
  more
• 14:57
  impressive:
• 14:58
  Claude
• 14:58
  autonomously
• 14:59
  read
• 14:59
  a
• 14:59
  stressed
• 14:59
  friend's
• 15:00
  messages,
• 15:01
  composed
• 15:01
  empathetic
• 15:02
  responses,
• 15:02
  handled
• 15:03
  an
• 15:03
  "inside
• 15:03
  joke"
• 15:04
  curveball
• 15:04
  about
• 15:04
  flirting
• 15:05
  with
• 15:05
  someone's
• 15:05
  mom,
• 15:06
  and
• 15:06
  correctly
• 15:06
  identified
• 15:07
  when
• 15:07
  the
• 15:07
  conversation
• 15:08
  had
• 15:08
  concluded.
• 15:09
  The
• 15:09
  interaction
• 15:10
  speed
• 15:10
  was
• 15:10
  notably
• 15:11
  faster
• 15:11
  than
• 15:11
  local
• 15:11
  open-source
• 15:12
  alternatives,
• 15:13
  though
• 15:13
  the
• 15:13
  thinking
• 15:13
  latency
• 15:14
  between
• 15:14
  actions
• 15:14
  adds
• 15:15
  up.
• 15:15
  As
• 15:16
  the
• 15:16
  tester
• 15:16
  noted,
• 15:16
  this
• 15:17
  capability
• 15:17
  isn't
• 15:17
  novel
• 15:18
  —
• 15:18
  open-source
• 15:19
  models
• 15:19
  like
• 15:19
  Qwen
• 15:20
  3
• 15:20
  235B
• 15:21
  VL
• 15:21
  have
• 15:21
  done
• 15:22
  browser
• 15:22
  navigation
• 15:22
  —
• 15:23
  but
• 15:23
  the
• 15:23
  polish
• 15:23
  and
• 15:24
  speed
• 15:24
  of
• 15:24
  the
• 15:24
  integration
• 15:24
  are
• 15:25
  meaningful.
• 15:26
  On
• 15:26
  the
• 15:26
  security
• 15:26
  evaluation
• 15:27
  side,
• 15:27
  Dreadnode
• 15:28
  is
• 15:28
  building
• 15:28
  what
• 15:28
  amounts
• 15:29
  to
• 15:29
  MLOps
• 15:29
  infrastructure
• 15:30
  for
• 15:30
  security
• 15:30
  agents.
• 15:31
  Their
• 15:32
  2.0
• 15:32
  platform
• 15:33
  includes
• 15:33
  a
• 15:33
  hub
• 15:33
  with
• 15:33
  1,600+
• 15:34
  tasks
• 15:34
  (mostly
• 15:35
  Docker
• 15:35
  Compose
• 15:35
  environments
• 15:36
  from
• 15:36
  CTFs),
• 15:37
  an
• 15:37
  algorithmic
• 15:38
  red-teaming
• 15:38
  module
• 15:39
  (TAP,
• 15:39
  GOAT-style
• 15:40
  search
• 15:40
  rather
• 15:41
  than
• 15:41
  hands-on-keyboard),
• 15:42
  an
• 15:42
  evaluation
• 15:43
  framework
• 15:43
  that
• 15:43
  ties
• 15:43
  tasks
• 15:44
  and
• 15:44
  capabilities
• 15:44
  together,
• 15:45
  training
• 15:45
  modules
• 15:46
  backed
• 15:46
  by
• 15:46
  Ray
• 15:46
  for
• 15:47
  local
• 15:47
  model
• 15:47
  inference,
• 15:47
  and
• 15:48
  DSSE-style
• 15:48
  optimization.
• 15:50
  The
• 15:50
  pricing
• 15:50
  thesis
• 15:51
  is
• 15:51
  significant:
• 15:51
  if
• 15:51
  tokens
• 15:52
  and
• 15:52
  micro-VMs
• 15:52
  cost
• 15:53
  fractions
• 15:53
  of
• 15:53
  a
• 15:53
  cent,
• 15:54
  then
• 15:54
  security
• 15:54
  assessments
• 15:55
  —
• 15:56
  traditionally
• 15:56
  priced
• 15:56
  by
• 15:56
  "how
• 15:57
  much
• 15:57
  have
• 15:57
  you
• 15:57
  got?"
• 15:57
  —
• 15:58
  can
• 15:58
  follow
• 15:58
  AI-native
• 15:59
  unit
• 15:59
  economics.
• 16:00
  Their
• 16:00
  forthcoming
• 16:01
  "Worlds"
• 16:01
  product
• 16:02
  synthesizes
• 16:02
  entire
• 16:03
  network
• 16:03
  environments
• 16:03
  for
• 16:03
  agent
• 16:04
  training,
• 16:05
  eliminating
• 16:05
  the
• 16:05
  painful
• 16:05
  process
• 16:06
  of
• 16:06
  standing
• 16:06
  up
• 16:06
  enterprise
• 16:07
  networks
• 16:07
  in
• 16:07
  VMs.
• 16:08
  The
• 16:08
  core
• 16:09
  insight:
• 16:09
  domain
• 16:10
  expertise
• 16:10
  is
• 16:11
  being
• 16:11
  commoditized
• 16:11
  by
• 16:12
  AI,
• 16:12
  so
• 16:12
  the
• 16:13
  value
• 16:13
  shifts
• 16:13
  to
• 16:13
  infrastructure
• 16:14
  that
• 16:14
  makes
• 16:14
  it
• 16:14
  repeatable,
• 16:15
  measurable,
• 16:15
  and
• 16:15
  deployable.
• 16:17
  Netryx,
• 16:18
  an
• 16:18
  open-source
• 16:18
  street-level
• 16:19
  geolocation
• 16:19
  engine,
• 16:20
  demonstrates
• 16:21
  what
• 16:21
  becomes
• 16:21
  possible
• 16:22
  when
• 16:22
  computer
• 16:22
  vision
• 16:22
  pipelines
• 16:23
  get
• 16:23
  democratized.
• 16:24
  The
• 16:24
  three-stage
• 16:25
  system
• 16:25
  uses
• 16:25
  CosPlace
• 16:26
  for
• 16:26
  global
• 16:26
  visual
• 16:27
  place
• 16:27
  recognition
• 16:28
  (512-dimensional
• 16:29
  fingerprints,
• 16:30
  sub-second
• 16:30
  index
• 16:30
  search),
• 16:32
  ALIKED/DISK
• 16:33
  plus
• 16:33
  LightGlue
• 16:34
  for
• 16:34
  geometric
• 16:34
  verification,
• 16:35
  and
• 16:36
  RANSAC
• 16:37
  for
• 16:38
  filtering
• 16:38
  false
• 16:38
  matches.
• 16:39
  Upload
• 16:39
  any
• 16:40
  street
• 16:40
  photo,
• 16:40
  get
• 16:40
  precise
• 16:41
  GPS
• 16:41
  coordinates
• 16:42
  —
• 16:42
  sub-50-meter
• 16:43
  accuracy
• 16:43
  with
• 16:43
  no
• 16:43
  landmarks
• 16:44
  needed.
• 16:45
  The
• 16:45
  tool
• 16:45
  runs
• 16:45
  entirely
• 16:46
  on
• 16:46
  local
• 16:46
  hardware
• 16:46
  and
• 16:46
  has
• 16:46
  already
• 16:47
  been
• 16:47
  used
• 16:47
  for
• 16:47
  missile
• 16:48
  strike
• 16:48
  geolocation
• 16:49
  and
• 16:49
  conflict
• 16:49
  monitoring.
• 16:50
  The
• 16:50
  legal
• 16:51
  disclaimer
• 16:51
  is
• 16:51
  telling:
• 16:52
  designed
• 16:52
  for
• 16:52
  "legitimate
• 16:53
  OSINT
• 16:53
  research,
• 16:54
  investigative
• 16:54
  journalism,
• 16:55
  human
• 16:55
  rights
• 16:55
  monitoring"
• 16:56
  —
• 16:57
  but
• 16:57
  the
• 16:57
  technology
• 16:57
  is
• 16:58
  inherently
• 16:58
  dual-use.
• 17:01
  The
• 17:01
  Anthropic-Pentagon
• 17:02
  standoff
• 17:02
  reached
• 17:02
  a
• 17:02
  new
• 17:03
  phase
• 17:03
  when
• 17:03
  a
• 17:03
  federal
• 17:03
  judge
• 17:04
  called
• 17:04
  the
• 17:04
  Pentagon's
• 17:04
  ban
• 17:05
  of
• 17:05
  Anthropic
• 17:05
  "troubling."
• 17:06
  The
• 17:06
  dispute,
• 17:07
  which
• 17:07
  escalated
• 17:08
  from
• 17:08
  a
• 17:08
  contract
• 17:08
  disagreement
• 17:09
  over
• 17:09
  usage
• 17:09
  terms
• 17:10
  to
• 17:10
  Trump
• 17:10
  calling
• 17:10
  the
• 17:10
  company
• 17:11
  "radical
• 17:11
  left"
• 17:12
  and
• 17:12
  ordering
• 17:13
  federal
• 17:13
  agencies
• 17:13
  to
• 17:13
  stop
• 17:14
  using
• 17:14
  its
• 17:14
  products,
• 17:15
  now
• 17:15
  sits
• 17:15
  in
• 17:15
  federal
• 17:16
  court.
• 17:17
  Anthropic's
• 17:17
  position
• 17:18
  has
• 17:18
  been
• 17:18
  consistent:
• 17:19
  they
• 17:19
  want
• 17:19
  two
• 17:20
  guarantees
• 17:20
  —
• 17:21
  no
• 17:21
  mass
• 17:22
  surveillance
• 17:22
  of
• 17:22
  American
• 17:22
  citizens,
• 17:23
  no
• 17:23
  autonomous
• 17:24
  weapons
• 17:24
  without
• 17:25
  human
• 17:25
  oversight.
• 17:26
  The
• 17:26
  Pentagon's
• 17:27
  position
• 17:27
  has
• 17:27
  been
• 17:27
  equally
• 17:27
  firm:
• 17:29
  unrestricted
• 17:29
  access
• 17:30
  for
• 17:30
  all
• 17:30
  lawful
• 17:30
  purposes.
• 17:32
  Community
• 17:32
  reaction
• 17:33
  was
• 17:33
  divided
• 17:33
  between
• 17:33
  those
• 17:34
  who
• 17:34
  see
• 17:34
  Anthropic's
• 17:34
  stance
• 17:35
  as
• 17:35
  principled
• 17:35
  and
• 17:36
  those
• 17:36
  who
• 17:36
  argue
• 17:36
  a
• 17:36
  software
• 17:37
  vendor
• 17:37
  shouldn't
• 17:38
  have
• 17:38
  veto
• 17:38
  power
• 17:38
  over
• 17:39
  how
• 17:39
  the
• 17:39
  DoD
• 17:39
  uses
• 17:39
  a
• 17:39
  product
• 17:40
  it
• 17:40
  purchased,
• 17:41
  noting
• 17:41
  the
• 17:41
  DoD
• 17:42
  has
• 17:42
  legal
• 17:42
  authorization
• 17:43
  to
• 17:43
  build
• 17:43
  autonomous
• 17:44
  weapons
• 17:44
  whether
• 17:44
  you
• 17:45
  morally
• 17:45
  agree
• 17:45
  or
• 17:45
  not.
• 17:46
  In
• 17:46
  a
• 17:46
  concrete
• 17:47
  privacy
• 17:47
  victory,
• 17:48
  the
• 17:48
  European
• 17:48
  Parliament
• 17:49
  voted
• 17:49
  to
• 17:49
  end
• 17:49
  Chat
• 17:50
  Control
• 17:50
  1.0,
• 17:51
  meaning
• 17:52
  that
• 17:52
  as
• 17:52
  of
• 17:52
  April
• 17:53
  6,
• 17:53
  2026,
• 17:55
  Gmail,
• 17:55
  LinkedIn,
• 17:56
  Microsoft,
• 17:57
  and
• 17:57
  other
• 17:58
  large
• 17:58
  platforms
• 17:59
  must
• 17:59
  stop
• 17:59
  scanning
• 17:59
  private
• 18:00
  messages
• 18:00
  in
• 18:00
  the
• 18:00
  EU.
• 18:01
  The
• 18:02
  original
• 18:02
  legislation
• 18:03
  had
• 18:03
  required
• 18:03
  mandatory
• 18:04
  client-side
• 18:04
  scanning
• 18:05
  of
• 18:05
  all
• 18:05
  private
• 18:05
  digital
• 18:06
  communications
• 18:06
  in
• 18:07
  encrypted
• 18:07
  apps
• 18:07
  —
• 18:08
  what
• 18:08
  privacy
• 18:09
  advocates
• 18:09
  had
• 18:09
  called
• 18:10
  the
• 18:10
  largest
• 18:10
  blanket
• 18:10
  surveillance
• 18:11
  regime
• 18:11
  ever
• 18:11
  proposed
• 18:12
  in
• 18:12
  the
• 18:12
  democratic
• 18:13
  world.
• 18:13
  The
• 18:14
  technical
• 18:14
  reality
• 18:14
  always
• 18:15
  undermined
• 18:15
  the
• 18:15
  rationale:
• 18:16
  offenders
• 18:17
  could
• 18:17
  bypass
• 18:17
  via
• 18:18
  pre-encryption
• 18:18
  steganography
• 18:19
  and
• 18:19
  jurisdictional
• 18:20
  evasion,
• 18:21
  while
• 18:21
  false
• 18:21
  positive
• 18:22
  rates
• 18:22
  at
• 18:22
  scale
• 18:23
  would
• 18:23
  flag
• 18:23
  millions
• 18:24
  of
• 18:24
  innocents
• 18:24
  daily.
• 18:25
  The
• 18:25
  Parliament's
• 18:26
  decision
• 18:26
  doesn't
• 18:26
  end
• 18:27
  the
• 18:27
  broader
• 18:27
  debate
• 18:27
  —
• 18:28
  Chat
• 18:28
  Control
• 18:28
  2.0
• 18:29
  proposals
• 18:30
  are
• 18:30
  still
• 18:30
  circulating
• 18:30
  —
• 18:31
  but
• 18:31
  it
• 18:31
  establishes
• 18:32
  that
• 18:32
  universal
• 18:33
  message
• 18:33
  scanning
• 18:34
  is
• 18:34
  a
• 18:34
  political
• 18:34
  loser,
• 18:35
  at
• 18:35
  least
• 18:35
  for
• 18:35
  now.