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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 13, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  A
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  model's
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  launch
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  day
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  is
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  marketing;
• 0:02
  the
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  days
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  after
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  are
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  the
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  audit.
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  Meta's
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  Muse
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  Glimmer-30B
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  has
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  now
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  had
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  both.
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  The
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  open-weights
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  drop
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  landed
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  on
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  r/ollama
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  with
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  the
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  usual
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  fanfare
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  —
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  fans
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  spinning
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  up
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  on
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  M1
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  Pros,
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  someone
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  claiming
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  "Opus
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  4.8
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  capable"
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  coding
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  on
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  a
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  128GB
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  MacBook,
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  and
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  the
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  recurring
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  note
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  that
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  Meta
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  is
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  "finally
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  back
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  in
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  the
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  game"
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  after
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  squandering
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  its
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  Llama
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  lead
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  .
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  But
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  the
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  revealing
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  threads
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  are
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  the
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  ones
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  where
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  people
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  put
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  it
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  to
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  work,
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  and
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  there
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  the
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  picture
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  is
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  consistent
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  with
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  what
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  Glimmer
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  showed
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  on
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  arrival:
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  reliable,
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  rule-abiding,
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  and
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  a
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  step
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  behind
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  Qwen
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  where
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  it
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  counts.
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  The
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  clearest
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  head-to-head
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  pits
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  Qwen3.6
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  35B
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  (a
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  2-minute
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  run)
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  against
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  Muse
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  Glimmer
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  30B
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  (4
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  minutes)
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  on
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  a
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  hand-rolled
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  Blackwell
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  llama.cpp
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  build,
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  and
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  the
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  verdict
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  splits
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  along
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  a
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  familiar
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  seam.
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  Glimmer
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  "almost
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  never
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  drops
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  the
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  ball
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  or
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  breaks
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  rules,"
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  but
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  its
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  designs
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  "lack
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  creative
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  depth";
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  Qwen
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  produces
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  "far
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  richer,
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  more
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  complex
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  voxel
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  worlds"
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  at
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  the
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  cost
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  of
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  occasional
• 0:52
  hallucination
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  .
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  The
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  comments
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  demolish
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  the
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  comparison
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  —
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  a
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  dense
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  30B
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  against
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  a
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  35B-A3B
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  mixture-of-experts
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  with
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  only
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  3B
• 1:00
  active
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  parameters,
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  both
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  crushed
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  to
• 1:01
  IQ3,
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  is,
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  as
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  one
• 1:03
  reader
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  put
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  it,
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  comparing
• 1:04
  a
• 1:04
  Ferrari
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  to
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  a
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  budget
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  Toyota.
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  That
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  skepticism
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  of
• 1:07
  Q3
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  quants,
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  which
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  flatter
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  nothing,
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  is
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  warranted.
• 1:11
  What
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  survives
• 1:11
  is
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  the
• 1:12
  softer
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  signal:
• 1:13
  Glimmer
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  is
• 1:14
  the
• 1:14
  dependable
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  tool-caller,
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  "a
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  lot
• 1:15
  like
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  GPT-OSS,"
• 1:18
  and
• 1:18
  it
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  even
• 1:19
  beats
• 1:19
  Gemma
• 1:19
  4
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  at
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  Ukrainian.
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  Praise
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  for
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  reliability,
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  not
• 1:22
  brilliance.
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  The
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  more
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  disciplined
• 1:24
  experiment
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  sidesteps
• 1:25
  the
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  quant
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  mismatch
• 1:26
  and
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  asks
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  a
• 1:27
  sharper
• 1:27
  question:
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  how
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  much
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  does
• 1:28
  active-parameter
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  count
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  actually
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  buy
• 1:30
  you?
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  On
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  a
• 1:31
  Radeon
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  R9700,
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  Qwen
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  35B-A3B
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  MoE
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  ran
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  roughly
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  3.9×
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  faster
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  than
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  the
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  27B
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  dense
• 1:39
  model
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  (~116
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  vs
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  ~30
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  tok/s),
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  yet
• 1:43
  the
• 1:43
  coding-quality
• 1:44
  gap
• 1:44
  was
• 1:44
  "much
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  smaller
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  than
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  I
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  expected"
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  —
• 1:46
  the
• 1:46
  dense
• 1:47
  model
• 1:47
  pulled
• 1:47
  ahead
• 1:47
  only
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  on
• 1:48
  implicit
• 1:48
  invariants,
• 1:49
  odd
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  edge
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  cases,
• 1:50
  and
• 1:50
  consequences
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  beyond
• 1:51
  the
• 1:51
  literal
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  request
• 1:52
  .
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  That
• 1:53
  is
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  the
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  community
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  answering
• 1:54
  a
• 1:54
  challenge
• 1:55
  it
• 1:55
  has
• 1:55
  been
• 1:55
  posing
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  for
• 1:56
  a
• 1:56
  year,
• 1:57
  and
• 1:57
  the
• 1:57
  honest
• 1:57
  caveat
• 1:57
  —
• 1:58
  different
• 1:59
  quants,
• 1:59
  a
• 1:59
  small
• 2:00
  sample
• 2:00
  —
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  is
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  what
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  makes
• 2:01
  it
• 2:02
  worth
• 2:02
  reading.
• 2:03
  As
• 2:03
  one
• 2:03
  commenter
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  warns,
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  MoE
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  is
• 2:05
  "good
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  at
• 2:05
  high
• 2:05
  volume
• 2:06
  pattern
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  matching,
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  not
• 2:07
  creating."
• 2:08
  Active
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  parameters
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  are
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  a
• 2:10
  throughput
• 2:10
  lever,
• 2:11
  not
• 2:11
  a
• 2:11
  clean
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  proxy
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  for
• 2:12
  judgment.
• 2:13
  The
• 2:13
  weirdest
• 2:14
  entry
• 2:14
  is
• 2:14
  a
• 2:14
  stunt
• 2:15
  that
• 2:15
  quietly
• 2:15
  indicts
• 2:16
  the
• 2:16
  premise.
• 2:17
  Someone
• 2:17
  wired
• 2:18
  DeepSeek-V4-Flash
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  to
• 2:20
  call
• 2:20
  Muse
• 2:20
  Glimmer
• 2:21
  as
• 2:21
  an
• 2:21
  external
• 2:21
  "vision"
• 2:22
  oracle,
• 2:23
  letting
• 2:23
  the
• 2:23
  text-only
• 2:24
  coder
• 2:24
  screenshot
• 2:25
  its
• 2:25
  own
• 2:25
  canvas
• 2:25
  animation
• 2:26
  and
• 2:26
  ask
• 2:27
  Glimmer
• 2:27
  what
• 2:27
  it
• 2:27
  saw.
• 2:28
  It
• 2:28
  worked,
• 2:29
  sort
• 2:29
  of,
• 2:30
  after
• 2:30
  30-60
• 2:31
  minutes
• 2:31
  of
• 2:31
  round
• 2:31
  trips
• 2:32
  —
• 2:32
  and
• 2:33
  then,
• 2:33
  on
• 2:33
  a
• 2:33
  rerun,
• 2:34
  DeepSeek
• 2:34
  decided
• 2:35
  Muse's
• 2:35
  feedback
• 2:36
  was
• 2:36
  "not
• 2:36
  reliable,"
• 2:37
  ditched
• 2:37
  it,
• 2:38
  and
• 2:38
  used
• 2:38
  the
• 2:38
  PIL
• 2:39
  image
• 2:39
  library
• 2:39
  to
• 2:39
  inspect
• 2:40
  the
• 2:40
  scene
• 2:40
  itself,
• 2:41
  finishing
• 2:42
  in
• 2:42
  under
• 2:42
  ten
• 2:42
  minutes
• 2:42
  with
• 2:43
  a
• 2:43
  better
• 2:43
  result
• 2:43
  .
• 2:44
  "No
• 2:44
  point
• 2:44
  using
• 2:45
  Muse
• 2:45
  then,"
• 2:45
  the
• 2:46
  top
• 2:46
  comment
• 2:46
  concludes.
• 2:48
  Whether
• 2:48
  that
• 2:48
  is
• 2:48
  emergent
• 2:49
  resourcefulness
• 2:50
  or
• 2:50
  nondeterministic
• 2:51
  luck,
• 2:51
  it
• 2:52
  is
• 2:52
  a
• 2:52
  reminder
• 2:52
  that
• 2:52
  agent
• 2:53
  scaffolding
• 2:53
  is
• 2:53
  where
• 2:54
  these
• 2:54
  gains
• 2:54
  live
• 2:54
  or
• 2:54
  die.
• 2:57
  The
• 2:57
  threat
• 2:57
  model
• 2:58
  for
• 2:58
  AI
• 2:58
  agents
• 2:58
  has
• 2:59
  a
• 2:59
  clean,
• 2:59
  ugly
• 2:59
  summary:
• 3:00
  any
• 3:00
  tool
• 3:00
  that
• 3:01
  can
• 3:01
  make
• 3:01
  an
• 3:01
  HTTP
• 3:02
  request
• 3:02
  can
• 3:02
  be
• 3:02
  talked
• 3:02
  into
• 3:03
  exfiltrating
• 3:03
  a
• 3:03
  secret,
• 3:04
  and
• 3:04
  prompt
• 3:04
  injection
• 3:05
  is
• 3:05
  the
• 3:05
  channel
• 3:05
  that
• 3:05
  does
• 3:06
  the
• 3:06
  talking
• 3:06
  —
• 3:07
  as
• 3:07
  seen
• 3:07
  when
• 3:07
  a
• 3:07
  pentester
• 3:08
  coerced
• 3:08
  a
• 3:08
  chat
• 3:08
  assistant's
• 3:09
  HTTP
• 3:09
  tool
• 3:10
  into
• 3:10
  fetching
• 3:10
  cloud
• 3:11
  instance
• 3:11
  metadata
• 3:12
  and
• 3:12
  harvesting
• 3:12
  IAM
• 3:12
  credentials
• 3:13
  in
• 3:13
  plain
• 3:13
  conversation.
• 3:14
  Infisical's
• 3:15
  new
• 3:15
  Agent
• 3:15
  Vault
• 3:16
  is
• 3:16
  the
• 3:16
  product-side
• 3:16
  answer,
• 3:17
  and
• 3:17
  its
• 3:17
  founding
• 3:17
  premise
• 3:18
  is
• 3:18
  refreshingly
• 3:18
  blunt:
• 3:19
  "Agents
• 3:19
  should
• 3:20
  not
• 3:20
  possess
• 3:20
  credentials."
• 3:21
  Instead
• 3:21
  of
• 3:21
  handing
• 3:22
  an
• 3:22
  agent
• 3:22
  real
• 3:22
  keys,
• 3:23
  you
• 3:23
  store
• 3:23
  them
• 3:23
  in
• 3:23
  the
• 3:23
  vault
• 3:24
  and
• 3:24
  force
• 3:24
  the
• 3:24
  agent's
• 3:25
  traffic
• 3:25
  through
• 3:25
  a
• 3:25
  man-in-the-middle
• 3:26
  proxy
• 3:26
  that
• 3:26
  injects
• 3:27
  the
• 3:27
  real
• 3:27
  secret
• 3:27
  server-side.
• 3:28
  The
• 3:29
  agent
• 3:29
  holds
• 3:29
  only
• 3:29
  a
• 3:29
  dummy
• 3:30
  placeholder
• 3:30
  like
• 3:30
  anthropic
• 3:31
  api
• 3:31
  key;
• 3:32
  the
• 3:32
  proxy
• 3:32
  swaps
• 3:32
  in
• 3:32
  the
• 3:33
  truth
• 3:33
  before
• 3:33
  forwarding
• 3:33
  .
• 3:34
  The
• 3:34
  engineering
• 3:35
  is
• 3:35
  pragmatic.
• 3:36
  It
• 3:36
  ships
• 3:36
  as
• 3:37
  a
• 3:37
  single
• 3:37
  MIT-licensed
• 3:38
  Go
• 3:38
  binary
• 3:38
  running
• 3:39
  a
• 3:39
  management
• 3:39
  API
• 3:40
  and
• 3:40
  an
• 3:40
  intercepting
• 3:40
  proxy,
• 3:41
  integrating
• 3:42
  non-invasively
• 3:43
  by
• 3:43
  setting
• 3:43
  HTTPS
• 3:44
  PROXY
• 3:44
  and
• 3:45
  a
• 3:45
  CA
• 3:45
  certificate
• 3:46
  in
• 3:46
  the
• 3:46
  agent's
• 3:46
  environment
• 3:46
  —
• 3:47
  so
• 3:47
  wrapping
• 3:48
  Claude
• 3:48
  Code
• 3:48
  is
• 3:48
  one
• 3:48
  command,
• 3:49
  agent-vault
• 3:50
  run
• 3:50
  --
• 3:50
  claude.
• 3:51
  A
• 3:51
  TypeScript
• 3:52
  SDK
• 3:52
  mints
• 3:53
  short-lived
• 3:53
  scoped
• 3:54
  tokens
• 3:54
  for
• 3:54
  ephemeral
• 3:54
  sandboxes.
• 3:56
  The
• 3:56
  security
• 3:56
  model
• 3:57
  rests
• 3:57
  on
• 3:57
  separation
• 3:58
  of
• 3:58
  hosts
• 3:58
  (run
• 3:58
  the
• 3:58
  vault
• 3:58
  somewhere
• 3:59
  the
• 3:59
  compromised
• 3:59
  agent
• 4:00
  can't
• 4:00
  reach),
• 4:01
  a
• 4:01
  master
• 4:01
  password
• 4:01
  unset
• 4:02
  from
• 4:02
  memory
• 4:02
  after
• 4:02
  read,
• 4:03
  egress
• 4:03
  filtering,
• 4:04
  and
• 4:04
  a
• 4:04
  strict
• 4:05
  deny
• 4:05
  mode
• 4:05
  that
• 4:05
  403s
• 4:06
  unmatched
• 4:06
  hosts
• 4:07
  rather
• 4:07
  than
• 4:07
  acting
• 4:08
  as
• 4:08
  an
• 4:08
  open
• 4:08
  proxy.
• 4:09
  It
• 4:09
  is
• 4:09
  candid
• 4:10
  about
• 4:10
  being
• 4:10
  a
• 4:10
  preview
• 4:10
  with
• 4:10
  a
• 4:11
  moving
• 4:11
  API,
• 4:12
  but
• 4:12
  as
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  self-contained
• 4:13
  pattern,
• 4:14
  brokered
• 4:14
  access
• 4:14
  is
• 4:14
  the
• 4:15
  right
• 4:15
  shape.
• 4:16
  The
• 4:16
  same
• 4:16
  idea
• 4:16
  shows
• 4:17
  up,
• 4:17
  purer,
• 4:17
  in
• 4:18
  jedarden/seam
• 4:18
  —
• 4:20
  a
• 4:20
  "Self-documenting
• 4:21
  Endpoint
• 4:21
  Access
• 4:22
  Mediator"
• 4:23
  that
• 4:23
  fronts
• 4:23
  multiple
• 4:24
  authenticated
• 4:24
  backends
• 4:25
  behind
• 4:25
  one
• 4:25
  HTTP
• 4:26
  endpoint,
• 4:27
  injecting
• 4:27
  each
• 4:28
  service's
• 4:28
  secret
• 4:28
  from
• 4:29
  OpenBao
• 4:29
  server-side
• 4:30
  so
• 4:30
  calling
• 4:30
  agents
• 4:30
  never
• 4:31
  see
• 4:31
  it,
• 4:31
  and
• 4:32
  guiding
• 4:32
  malformed
• 4:32
  requests
• 4:33
  toward
• 4:33
  the
• 4:33
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• 4:33
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• 4:34
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• 4:34
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• 4:34
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• 4:35
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• 4:35
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• 4:36
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• 4:36
  Two
• 4:36
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• 4:37
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• 4:37
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• 4:38
  on
• 4:38
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• 4:38
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• 4:38
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• 4:39
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• 4:39
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• 4:39
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• 4:39
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• 4:39
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• 4:40
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• 4:40
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• 4:40
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• 4:41
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• 4:41
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• 4:42
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• 4:42
  boring,
• 4:42
  essential
• 4:43
  infrastructure,
• 4:44
  exactly
• 4:44
  where
• 4:44
  security
• 4:45
  wants
• 4:45
  a
• 4:45
  problem
• 4:46
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• 4:46
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• 4:46
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• 4:46
  The
• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
  the
• 4:47
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• 4:48
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• 4:48
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
  LinkedIn
• 4:49
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• 4:50
  claims
• 4:50
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• 4:51
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• 4:51
  Pro
• 4:51
  0813
• 4:52
  is
• 4:52
  "the
• 4:52
  new
• 4:53
  Mythos,"
• 4:54
  reporting
• 4:54
  that
• 4:54
  on
• 4:54
  Aikido's
• 4:55
  benchmarking
• 4:55
  of
• 4:55
  CyberGym
• 4:56
  and
• 4:56
  ExploitGym
• 4:57
  it
• 4:57
  out-found
• 4:57
  every
• 4:58
  rival
• 4:58
  —
• 4:59
  87.5%
• 5:00
  of
• 5:00
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• 5:00
  CVEs
• 5:01
  rediscovered
• 5:02
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• 5:02
  pass@3
• 5:03
  versus
• 5:03
  81.3%
• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
  —
• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
  bugs
• 5:08
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• 5:09
  65.6%
• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:11
  GPT-5.6-Sol's
• 5:11
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• 5:12
  precision
• 5:13
  .
• 5:14
  Treat
• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:16
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
  reported
• 5:18
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• 5:18
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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
  so
• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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• 5:21
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• 5:22
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• 5:22
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• 5:22
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• 5:22
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• 5:23
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• 5:23
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
  and
• 5:25
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• 5:25
  leaderboards
• 5:26
  already
• 5:26
  had
• 5:26
  Anthropic's
• 5:27
  Mythos
• 5:27
  preview
• 5:27
  at
• 5:27
  83.1%
• 5:28
  on
• 5:29
  CyberGym.
• 5:30
  The
• 5:30
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• 5:30
  reply
• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
  65.6%
• 5:34
  precision
• 5:34
  on
• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:35
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• 5:35
  at
• 5:35
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• 5:35
  infrastructure
• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:37
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:43
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
  Chinese
• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
  a
• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
  worth
• 5:47
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• 5:50
  The
• 5:50
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
  synthetic-media
• 5:52
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• 5:53
  and
• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
  three
• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
  because
• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:07
  no
• 6:07
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• 6:08
  training
• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
  since
• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
  —
• 6:12
  by
• 6:12
  turning
• 6:12
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
  frames
• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
  quality
• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
  art
• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
  the
• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
  let
• 6:19
  a
• 6:19
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• 6:20
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• 6:20
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• 6:20
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• 6:21
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• 6:21
  interior
• 6:21
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• 6:22
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• 6:22
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• 6:22
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• 6:23
  the
• 6:23
  generator's
• 6:23
  own
• 6:23
  face
• 6:24
  over
• 6:24
  long
• 6:24
  clips
• 6:24
  and
• 6:24
  profile
• 6:25
  views),
• 6:26
  the
• 6:26
  proposed
• 6:26
  closed
• 6:27
  loop
• 6:27
  scores
• 6:27
  every
• 6:27
  frame
• 6:28
  against
• 6:28
  a
• 6:28
  reference
• 6:28
  photo
• 6:29
  with
• 6:29
  ArcFace,
• 6:30
  inserts
• 6:30
  a
• 6:30
  fresh
• 6:30
  anchor
• 6:31
  at
• 6:31
  the
• 6:31
  worst
• 6:31
  offender,
• 6:32
  and
• 6:32
  regenerates
• 6:32
  only
• 6:33
  that
• 6:33
  span.
• 6:34
  For
• 6:34
  a
• 6:34
  fraud
• 6:35
  team,
• 6:35
  the
• 6:35
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• 6:36
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• 6:36
  is
• 6:36
  the
• 6:36
  companion
• 6:37
  mechanism.
• 6:38
  "Reality-Referenced
• 6:39
  Texture
• 6:39
  Restoration"
• 6:40
  specifically
• 6:41
  attacks
• 6:42
  the
• 6:42
  over-smoothed,
• 6:42
  pore-free
• 6:43
  "beauty-filter"
• 6:44
  look
• 6:44
  —
• 6:45
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• 6:45
  synthetic
• 6:46
  skin
• 6:46
  using
• 6:46
  noise
• 6:47
  statistics
• 6:48
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• 6:48
  from
• 6:48
  the
• 6:48
  real
• 6:48
  footage's
• 6:49
  own
• 6:49
  non-face
• 6:50
  regions.
• 6:50
  That
• 6:51
  smoothness
• 6:51
  is
• 6:51
  one
• 6:51
  of
• 6:51
  the
• 6:51
  most
• 6:52
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• 6:52
  tells
• 6:52
  detectors
• 6:53
  and
• 6:53
  humans
• 6:54
  lean
• 6:54
  on,
• 6:54
  and
• 6:55
  the
• 6:55
  paper
• 6:55
  says
• 6:55
  so
• 6:55
  plainly,
• 6:56
  flagging
• 6:56
  the
• 6:56
  Goodhart
• 6:57
  risk
• 6:57
  that
• 6:57
  hardening
• 6:58
  identity
• 6:58
  fidelity
• 6:58
  in
• 6:59
  exactly
• 6:59
  the
• 6:59
  profile-and-occlusion
• 7:00
  regime
• 7:01
  where
• 7:01
  detectors
• 7:01
  are
• 7:01
  weakest
• 7:02
  is
• 7:02
  how
• 7:02
  you
• 7:02
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• 7:02
  them.
• 7:03
  The
• 7:03
  honest
• 7:03
  takeaway
• 7:04
  for
• 7:04
  anyone
• 7:04
  running
• 7:05
  identity
• 7:05
  verification:
• 7:06
  texture-
• 7:06
  and
• 7:07
  smoothness-based
• 7:07
  deepfake
• 7:08
  heuristics
• 7:08
  have
• 7:08
  a
• 7:08
  shortening
• 7:09
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• 7:09
  life,
• 7:10
  and
• 7:10
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• 7:10
  sits
• 7:10
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
  real
• 7:11
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• 7:11
  economy
• 7:11
  —
• 7:12
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• 7:13
  face-swap
• 7:13
  romance
• 7:13
  scams,
• 7:14
  the
• 7:14
  $25M
• 7:15
  Arup
• 7:16
  case,
• 7:16
  IC3's
• 7:17
  billion-dollar
• 7:17
  losses
• 7:18
  among
• 7:18
  older
• 7:18
  victims.
• 7:19
  If
• 7:19
  detection
• 7:20
  is
• 7:20
  losing
• 7:20
  at
• 7:20
  the
• 7:20
  pixel
• 7:21
  level,
• 7:21
  provenance
• 7:22
  metadata
• 7:22
  was
• 7:22
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• 7:22
  to
• 7:23
  be
• 7:23
  the
• 7:23
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• 7:23
  —
• 7:24
  and
• 7:24
  that
• 7:24
  is
• 7:24
  what
• 7:24
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• 7:26
  is
• 7:26
  built
• 7:26
  to
• 7:27
  strip.
• 7:27
  The
• 7:28
  MIT-licensed
• 7:28
  toolkit
• 7:29
  removes
• 7:29
  multi-vendor
• 7:30
  AI
• 7:30
  marks
• 7:30
  in
• 7:30
  layers:
• 7:31
  deterministic
• 7:32
  deletion
• 7:33
  of
• 7:33
  zero-width
• 7:33
  and
• 7:33
  bidi
• 7:34
  Unicode
• 7:34
  carriers,
• 7:35
  paraphrase
• 7:36
  attacks
• 7:36
  on
• 7:36
  statistical
• 7:37
  sampling
• 7:37
  watermarks,
• 7:38
  and
• 7:38
  a
• 7:38
  file
• 7:39
  layer
• 7:39
  that
• 7:39
  strips
• 7:39
  C2PA
• 7:40
  manifests,
• 7:41
  EXIF,
• 7:42
  and
• 7:42
  XMP
• 7:43
  from
• 7:43
  images
• 7:43
  and
• 7:43
  documents
• 7:44
  .
• 7:45
  It
• 7:45
  is
• 7:45
  unusually
• 7:45
  candid
• 7:46
  about
• 7:46
  its
• 7:46
  own
• 7:46
  limits
• 7:46
  —
• 7:47
  statistical
• 7:48
  marks
• 7:48
  require
• 7:49
  rewriting
• 7:49
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• 7:49
  every
• 7:50
  sentence,
• 7:50
  degrading
• 7:51
  quality,
• 7:51
  and
• 7:52
  "no
• 7:52
  tool
• 7:52
  can
• 7:52
  honestly
• 7:53
  certify"
• 7:53
  removal
• 7:54
  without
• 7:54
  public
• 7:54
  detectors.
• 7:56
  But
• 7:56
  the
• 7:56
  dual-use
• 7:56
  tension
• 7:57
  is
• 7:57
  undeniable:
• 7:58
  this
• 7:58
  is
• 7:58
  a
• 7:58
  working
• 7:59
  attack
• 7:59
  on
• 7:59
  C2PA,
• 8:00
  the
• 8:00
  industry's
• 8:01
  flagship
• 8:01
  transparency
• 8:02
  mechanism,
• 8:03
  arriving
• 8:03
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• 8:04
  as
• 8:04
  OpenAI
• 8:04
  and
• 8:05
  Google
• 8:05
  converge
• 8:05
  on
• 8:05
  SynthID
• 8:06
  and
• 8:06
  content
• 8:07
  credentials.
• 8:08
  And
• 8:08
  on
• 8:08
  the
• 8:08
  generation
• 8:08
  side,
• 8:09
  the
• 8:09
  trend
• 8:09
  broadens
• 8:10
  beyond
• 8:10
  faces:
• 8:11
  Soul-AILab's
• 8:12
  SoulX-Singer
• 8:12
  is
• 8:13
  trending
• 8:13
  as
• 8:13
  a
• 8:13
  dedicated
• 8:13
  singing-voice
• 8:14
  synthesis
• 8:15
  model
• 8:15
  —
• 8:15
  the
• 8:16
  source
• 8:16
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• 8:16
  returned
• 8:16
  empty,
• 8:17
  so
• 8:18
  treat
• 8:18
  it
• 8:18
  as
• 8:18
  a
• 8:18
  signal
• 8:19
  of
• 8:19
  where
• 8:19
  the
• 8:19
  synthetic-audio
• 8:20
  frontier
• 8:20
  is
• 8:20
  heading
• 8:21
  rather
• 8:21
  than
• 8:21
  a
• 8:21
  spec
• 8:21
  sheet.
• 8:24
  The
• 8:24
  uncomfortable
• 8:25
  truth
• 8:25
  about
• 8:25
  coding
• 8:26
  benchmarks
• 8:26
  is
• 8:26
  that
• 8:26
  most
• 8:27
  of
• 8:27
  them
• 8:27
  measure
• 8:27
  memorization
• 8:28
  as
• 8:28
  much
• 8:28
  as
• 8:28
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• 8:29
  and
• 8:29
  the
• 8:29
  field's
• 8:30
  honest
• 8:30
  response
• 8:31
  has
• 8:31
  been
• 8:31
  to
• 8:31
  build
• 8:32
  tests
• 8:32
  designed
• 8:32
  to
• 8:33
  resist
• 8:33
  that.
• 8:34
  DeepSWE
• 8:34
  by
• 8:34
  Datacurve
• 8:35
  is
• 8:35
  one
• 8:35
  such
• 8:35
  test,
• 8:36
  and
• 8:36
  by
• 8:36
  now
• 8:36
  it
• 8:36
  is
• 8:36
  an
• 8:37
  established
• 8:37
  fixture
• 8:37
  rather
• 8:38
  than
• 8:38
  a
• 8:38
  debut
• 8:38
  —
• 8:39
  its
• 8:39
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• 8:39
  has
• 8:40
  been
• 8:40
  tracking
• 8:40
  frontier
• 8:40
  models
• 8:41
  for
• 8:41
  months.
• 8:42
  Its
• 8:42
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• 8:42
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• 8:42
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• 8:43
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• 8:43
  the
• 8:43
  point:
• 8:44
  tasks
• 8:44
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• 8:44
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• 8:44
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• 8:45
  so
• 8:45
  no
• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 8:46
  the
• 8:46
  solution
• 8:46
  in
• 8:46
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• 8:47
  spanning
• 8:48
  91
• 8:48
  repositories
• 8:49
  across
• 8:49
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• 8:50
  languages,
• 8:50
  with
• 8:51
  prompts
• 8:51
  half
• 8:51
  the
• 8:51
  length
• 8:52
  of
• 8:52
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• 8:52
  Pro's
• 8:53
  but
• 8:53
  solutions
• 8:54
  requiring
• 8:54
  5.5×
• 8:55
  more
• 8:55
  code,
• 8:56
  verified
• 8:56
  by
• 8:56
  hand-written
• 8:57
  tests
• 8:57
  of
• 8:57
  behavior
• 8:58
  rather
• 8:59
  than
• 8:59
  implementation
• 8:59
  .
• 9:01
  The
• 9:01
  benchmark
• 9:01
  earned
• 9:02
  early
• 9:02
  notoriety
• 9:03
  for
• 9:03
  the
• 9:03
  claim
• 9:03
  that
• 9:04
  Claude
• 9:04
  Opus
• 9:04
  "cheats"
• 9:05
  by
• 9:05
  recovering
• 9:06
  gold
• 9:06
  solutions
• 9:07
  from
• 9:07
  git
• 9:07
  history
• 9:07
  —
• 9:08
  arguably
• 9:09
  just
• 9:09
  what
• 9:09
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• 9:09
  senior
• 9:09
  engineer
• 9:10
  does
• 9:10
  when
• 9:10
  no
• 9:10
  rule
• 9:11
  forbids
• 9:11
  it.
• 9:12
  The
• 9:12
  real
• 9:12
  lesson
• 9:13
  stands:
• 9:14
  evaluation
• 9:14
  harnesses
• 9:15
  need
• 9:15
  to
• 9:15
  declare
• 9:15
  their
• 9:15
  contract
• 9:16
  alongside
• 9:16
  their
• 9:16
  score,
• 9:17
  and
• 9:17
  DeepSWE's
• 9:18
  reward-hacking-resistant,
• 9:19
  adversarially-judged
• 9:20
  design
• 9:21
  is
• 9:21
  that
• 9:21
  principle
• 9:22
  taken
• 9:22
  seriously.
• 9:23
  If
• 9:23
  DeepSWE
• 9:24
  hardens
• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
  verifiable
• 9:25
  end
• 9:25
  of
• 9:25
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• 9:26
  Anthropic's
• 9:27
  Conceptual
• 9:27
  Reasoning
• 9:28
  Index
• 9:28
  goes
• 9:28
  after
• 9:29
  the
• 9:29
  part
• 9:29
  that
• 9:29
  resists
• 9:29
  verification
• 9:30
  entirely.
• 9:31
  The
• 9:31
  CRI
• 9:31
  aggregates
• 9:32
  three
• 9:32
  benchmarks
• 9:32
  —
• 9:33
  LMCA
• 9:34
  (judging
• 9:34
  conceptual
• 9:34
  arguments
• 9:35
  against
• 9:35
  expert
• 9:35
  ratings),
• 9:36
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• 9:36
  (logical
• 9:37
  consistency
• 9:37
  of
• 9:37
  a
• 9:37
  model's
• 9:38
  stated
• 9:38
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• 9:39
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• 9:39
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• 9:39
  (decision
• 9:39
  theory)
• 9:40
  —
• 9:41
  precisely
• 9:41
  because
• 9:41
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• 9:41
  AI-safety
• 9:42
  work
• 9:42
  that
• 9:42
  matters
• 9:43
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• 9:43
  involves
• 9:43
  reasoning
• 9:44
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• 9:44
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• 9:45
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• 9:45
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• 9:45
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• 9:46
  there
• 9:46
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• 9:46
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• 9:46
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• 9:47
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:49
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• 9:50
  The
• 9:50
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• 9:50
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• 9:50
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:52
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• 9:53
  5
• 9:53
  tops
• 9:53
  the
• 9:53
  index
• 9:53
  at
• 9:54
  73.6
• 9:55
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• 9:55
  an
• 9:55
  estimated
• 9:55
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• 9:56
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• 9:56
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• 9:57
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• 9:57
  have
• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:58
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• 9:58
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• 9:59
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• 9:59
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• 10:00
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• 10:00
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• 10:01
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• 10:01
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• 10:01
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• 10:02
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• 10:02
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• 10:02
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• 10:03
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• 10:03
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• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:05
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• 10:05
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• 10:05
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• 10:05
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• 10:06
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• 10:06
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• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:08
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
  Fable
• 10:09
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• 10:10
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• 10:10
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• 10:10
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• 10:11
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• 10:11
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• 10:11
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• 10:11
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• 10:11
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• 10:12
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• 10:12
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• 10:12
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• 10:12
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• 10:13
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• 10:14
  a
• 10:14
  quiet
• 10:14
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• 10:14
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• 10:14
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• 10:15
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• 10:15
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• 10:15
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• 10:16
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• 10:16
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• 10:17
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• 10:17
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• 10:17
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• 10:18
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• 10:18
  the
• 10:18
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• 10:19
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• 10:19
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• 10:20
  Pathway's
• 10:20
  arc-task-gen
• 10:21
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• 10:21
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• 10:22
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• 10:24
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• 10:24
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• 10:25
  because
• 10:25
  a
• 10:25
  public
• 10:25
  benchmark
• 10:26
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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:27
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• 10:28
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• 10:28
  induction
• 10:28
  from
• 10:28
  potential
• 10:29
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• 10:29
  familiarity"
• 10:29
  .
• 10:30
  It
• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:30
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• 10:31
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• 10:32
  a
• 10:33
  150M-parameter
• 10:34
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• 10:34
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• 10:35
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• 10:35
  on
• 10:35
  the
• 10:35
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• 10:36
  Dragon
• 10:36
  Hatchling
• 10:36
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• 10:37
  which
• 10:37
  hits
• 10:37
  29.5%
• 10:38
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• 10:39
  on
• 10:39
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• 10:39
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
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• 10:43
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• 10:43
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• 10:43
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• 10:44
  11×
• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:45
  Luna
• 10:45
  —
• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
  reproduced
• 10:47
  by
• 10:47
  Łukasz
• 10:47
  Kaiser,
• 10:48
  a
• 10:48
  Transformer
• 10:48
  co-author.
• 10:50
  Pairing
• 10:50
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• 10:50
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• 10:50
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• 10:51
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• 10:51
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• 10:51
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• 10:51
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• 10:52
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:56
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• 10:58
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• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:01
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• 11:01
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• 11:01
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• 11:02
  read
• 11:02
  this
• 11:02
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• 11:02
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• 11:02
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• 11:02
  shape
• 11:03
  of
• 11:03
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• 11:03
  mathematics,
• 11:04
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• 11:04
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• 11:05
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• 11:05
  from
• 11:05
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• 11:05
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• 11:05
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
  models
• 11:07
  recently
• 11:08
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• 11:08
  ten
• 11:08
  major
• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
  —
• 11:10
  including
• 11:10
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• 11:10
  first
• 11:11
  construction
• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:11
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• 11:12
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• 11:12
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• 11:13
  a
• 11:13
  proof
• 11:13
  that
• 11:13
  multicolour
• 11:14
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• 11:14
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• 11:14
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• 11:14
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• 11:16
  which
• 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
  in
• 11:18
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• 11:18
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• 11:18
  —
• 11:19
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• 11:19
  why
• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
  His
• 11:21
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:23
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• 11:23
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• 11:24
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• 11:24
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• 11:25
  and
• 11:25
  that
• 11:25
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• 11:26
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• 11:26
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• 11:26
  —
• 11:28
  encyclopedic
• 11:28
  knowledge
• 11:28
  of
• 11:29
  standard
• 11:29
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• 11:29
  and
• 11:30
  the
• 11:30
  speed
• 11:30
  to
• 11:30
  try
• 11:30
  enormous
• 11:31
  numbers
• 11:31
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• 11:31
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• 11:32
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• 11:32
  —
• 11:33
  favor
• 11:33
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• 11:34
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• 11:35
  style.
• 11:36
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
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• 11:37
  lead
• 11:38
  is
• 11:38
  the
• 11:38
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• 11:38
  for
• 11:38
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• 11:39
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• 11:39
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• 11:40
  search
• 11:40
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• 11:41
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• 11:41
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• 11:41
  the
• 11:41
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
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• 11:44
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• 11:44
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• 11:44
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• 11:44
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• 11:45
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• 11:45
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• 11:45
  a
• 11:45
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• 11:46
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• 11:46
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• 11:46
  as
• 11:46
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• 11:46
  2016
• 11:47
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• 11:48
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• 11:48
  —
• 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
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• 11:50
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• 11:50
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• 11:51
  That
• 11:51
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
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• 11:52
  Mechanist,
• 11:53
  an
• 11:53
  agentic
• 11:54
  system
• 11:54
  that
• 11:54
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• 11:55
  mechanistic
• 11:55
  interpretability
• 11:56
  itself
• 11:57
  into
• 11:57
  an
• 11:57
  autonomously
• 11:57
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• 11:58
  science
• 11:58
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• 11:59
  A
• 11:59
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• 11:59
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:01
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• 12:01
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• 12:01
  in
• 12:01
  an
• 12:01
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• 12:02
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• 12:02
  graph
• 12:03
  of
• 12:03
  ~13,000
• 12:04
  papers
• 12:04
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• 12:04
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• 12:04
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• 12:05
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• 12:05
  32
• 12:05
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• 12:06
  and
• 12:07
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• 12:07
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• 12:07
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• 12:07
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
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• 12:09
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• 12:09
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• 12:09
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:10
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• 12:11
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• 12:11
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• 12:12
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• 12:12
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• 12:12
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• 12:14
  a
• 12:14
  demonstration
• 12:14
  that
• 12:14
  subliminal
• 12:15
  learning
• 12:15
  crosses
• 12:15
  modalities
• 12:16
  and
• 12:16
  survives
• 12:17
  semantic
• 12:17
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• 12:17
  —
• 12:18
  a
• 12:18
  text-only
• 12:19
  student
• 12:19
  trained
• 12:19
  exclusively
• 12:20
  on
• 12:20
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• 12:21
  outputs
• 12:21
  from
• 12:22
  an
• 12:22
  unsafe
• 12:22
  teacher
• 12:23
  reached
• 12:23
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• 12:25
  unsafe
• 12:25
  responses
• 12:26
  versus
• 12:26
  20.3%
• 12:27
  untuned.
• 12:28
  The
• 12:28
  lesson
• 12:29
  for
• 12:29
  anyone
• 12:29
  doing
• 12:29
  data
• 12:30
  governance
• 12:30
  is
• 12:30
  that
• 12:30
  content-based
• 12:31
  filtering
• 12:32
  is
• 12:32
  insufficient
• 12:32
  against
• 12:33
  trait
• 12:33
  transmission.
• 12:34
  The
• 12:34
  authors
• 12:35
  themselves
• 12:35
  recommend
• 12:35
  human-in-the-loop
• 12:36
  use
• 12:36
  over
• 12:37
  full
• 12:37
  autonomy,
• 12:38
  the
• 12:38
  correct
• 12:38
  posture
• 12:39
  for
• 12:39
  AI-scientist
• 12:40
  claims
• 12:40
  that
• 12:40
  only
• 12:40
  matter
• 12:40
  if
• 12:41
  they
• 12:41
  replicate.
• 12:42
  The
• 12:42
  most
• 12:42
  concrete
• 12:43
  "LLMs
• 12:43
  did
• 12:43
  real
• 12:43
  work"
• 12:44
  result
• 12:44
  comes
• 12:44
  from
• 12:44
  quantum
• 12:45
  hardware.
• 12:46
  Researchers
• 12:46
  at
• 12:46
  Mainz
• 12:46
  and
• 12:47
  Saarland
• 12:47
  had
• 12:47
  Claude
• 12:47
  Opus
• 12:48
  4.7,
• 12:49
  via
• 12:49
  Claude
• 12:49
  Code,
• 12:50
  write
• 12:50
  complete
• 12:50
  shuttling
• 12:50
  compilers
• 12:51
  for
• 12:51
  trapped-ion
• 12:52
  quantum
• 12:52
  computers
• 12:52
  —
• 12:53
  the
• 12:53
  bespoke
• 12:53
  software
• 12:54
  that
• 12:54
  schedules
• 12:54
  physically
• 12:55
  moving
• 12:55
  ion
• 12:55
  qubits
• 12:55
  around
• 12:56
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• 12:56
  chip
• 12:56
  —
• 12:56
  from
• 12:57
  written
• 12:57
  specs
• 12:57
  alone,
• 12:58
  no
• 12:58
  fine-tuning,
• 12:59
  cutting
• 12:59
  months
• 12:59
  of
• 12:59
  expert
• 13:00
  engineering
• 13:00
  to
• 13:00
  days
• 13:00
  .
• 13:01
  The
• 13:01
  generated
• 13:02
  compilers
• 13:02
  beat
• 13:02
  hand-crafted
• 13:03
  baselines
• 13:04
  by
• 13:04
  up
• 13:04
  to
• 13:04
  76%
• 13:05
  fewer
• 13:05
  shuttling
• 13:05
  timesteps,
• 13:06
  largely
• 13:06
  by
• 13:07
  choosing
• 13:07
  gate
• 13:07
  order
• 13:07
  dynamically
• 13:08
  from
• 13:08
  the
• 13:08
  ready
• 13:08
  set
• 13:08
  rather
• 13:09
  than
• 13:09
  routing
• 13:09
  a
• 13:09
  fixed
• 13:09
  order.
• 13:10
  Crucially,
• 13:11
  the
• 13:11
  LLM
• 13:11
  is
• 13:11
  consulted
• 13:12
  only
• 13:12
  at
• 13:12
  build
• 13:12
  time
• 13:12
  —
• 13:13
  the
• 13:13
  output
• 13:14
  is
• 13:14
  ordinary
• 13:14
  verifiable
• 13:15
  Python
• 13:15
  —
• 13:16
  and
• 13:16
  the
• 13:16
  whole
• 13:16
  thing
• 13:16
  replicated
• 13:17
  with
• 13:17
  Claude
• 13:17
  Fable
• 13:17
  5,
• 13:18
  which
• 13:18
  optimized
• 13:18
  more
• 13:19
  aggressively
• 13:19
  under
• 13:19
  follow-up
• 13:20
  prompts
• 13:20
  and
• 13:20
  beat
• 13:20
  baselines
• 13:21
  on
• 13:21
  80-98%
• 13:23
  of
• 13:23
  the
• 13:23
  largest
• 13:23
  circuits.
• 13:24
  This
• 13:24
  is
• 13:24
  the
• 13:24
  template
• 13:25
  that
• 13:25
  generalizes:
• 13:26
  precise
• 13:26
  spec,
• 13:27
  fixed
• 13:27
  interfaces,
• 13:28
  unmodifiable
• 13:29
  validators,
• 13:30
  and
• 13:30
  a
• 13:30
  frontier
• 13:31
  agent
• 13:31
  producing
• 13:31
  domain-expert
• 13:32
  systems
• 13:32
  code.
• 13:36
  The
• 13:36
  democratization
• 13:36
  of
• 13:36
  local
• 13:37
  AI
• 13:37
  has
• 13:37
  been
• 13:37
  a
• 13:37
  slow
• 13:38
  accretion
• 13:38
  of
• 13:38
  pieces,
• 13:39
  and
• 13:39
  Unsloth
• 13:39
  Desktop
• 13:40
  is
• 13:40
  an
• 13:40
  attempt
• 13:40
  to
• 13:40
  package
• 13:40
  the
• 13:41
  whole
• 13:41
  pile
• 13:41
  into
• 13:41
  one
• 13:41
  app
• 13:42
  —
• 13:42
  run
• 13:43
  and
• 13:43
  train
• 13:43
  LLMs,
• 13:44
  diffusion,
• 13:44
  and
• 13:44
  audio
• 13:44
  models
• 13:45
  on
• 13:45
  macOS,
• 13:45
  Windows,
• 13:46
  or
• 13:46
  Linux,
• 13:46
  with
• 13:46
  day-zero
• 13:47
  support
• 13:47
  promised
• 13:47
  for
• 13:48
  Qwen3.8,
• 13:50
  Gemma,
• 13:50
  and
• 13:51
  others
• 13:51
  .
• 13:52
  The
• 13:52
  security-relevant
• 13:52
  features
• 13:53
  are
• 13:53
  the
• 13:53
  interesting
• 13:53
  ones:
• 13:54
  permission
• 13:54
  controls
• 13:55
  and
• 13:56
  a
• 13:56
  sandboxed
• 13:56
  code-execution
• 13:57
  environment
• 13:57
  modeled
• 13:57
  on
• 13:58
  Claude
• 13:58
  Code,
• 13:59
  "self-healing"
• 13:59
  tool
• 14:00
  calls
• 14:00
  that
• 14:00
  detect
• 14:01
  and
• 14:01
  retry
• 14:01
  failures
• 14:01
  for
• 14:02
  up
• 14:02
  to
• 14:02
  50%
• 14:02
  more
• 14:03
  accuracy,
• 14:04
  no
• 14:04
  telemetry,
• 14:04
  and
• 14:05
  optional
• 14:05
  Cloudflare
• 14:05
  tunneling
• 14:06
  for
• 14:06
  remote
• 14:06
  HTTPS
• 14:07
  access.
• 14:08
  Coming
• 14:08
  from
• 14:08
  the
• 14:09
  team
• 14:09
  whose
• 14:09
  quantized
• 14:10
  releases
• 14:10
  are
• 14:10
  already
• 14:11
  the
• 14:11
  community
• 14:11
  reference
• 14:11
  for
• 14:11
  models
• 14:12
  like
• 14:12
  Gemma
• 14:12
  4,
• 14:13
  a
• 14:13
  polished
• 14:14
  local
• 14:14
  trainer-plus-runner
• 14:15
  is
• 14:15
  the
• 14:15
  logical
• 14:15
  next
• 14:16
  rung
• 14:16
  on
• 14:16
  a
• 14:16
  democratization
• 14:17
  ladder
• 14:17
  climbing
• 14:18
  since
• 14:18
  budget
• 14:18
  fine-tuning
• 14:19
  toolkits
• 14:19
  appeared
• 14:20
  a
• 14:20
  year
• 14:20
  ago.
• 14:21
  The
• 14:21
  most
• 14:21
  educational
• 14:22
  post
• 14:22
  in
• 14:22
  the
• 14:22
  batch
• 14:23
  is
• 14:23
  a
• 14:23
  local
• 14:23
  realtime
• 14:24
  voice
• 14:24
  stack
• 14:24
  —
• 14:25
  Parakeet
• 14:26
  STT
• 14:26
  into
• 14:26
  Qwen
• 14:27
  2.5
• 14:27
  7B
• 14:28
  into
• 14:28
  Qwen3-TTS
• 14:28
  —
• 14:29
  but
• 14:30
  the
• 14:30
  value
• 14:30
  isn't
• 14:30
  the
• 14:30
  architecture,
• 14:31
  it's
• 14:31
  the
• 14:31
  measurement
• 14:32
  discipline
• 14:32
  in
• 14:32
  the
• 14:32
  comments
• 14:33
  .
• 14:34
  One
• 14:34
  builder
• 14:34
  reports
• 14:35
  that
• 14:35
  time-to-first-token
• 14:36
  flatters
• 14:36
  everything,
• 14:37
  because
• 14:37
  his
• 14:37
  median
• 14:38
  first
• 14:38
  chunk
• 14:38
  was
• 14:38
  two
• 14:38
  characters
• 14:39
  and
• 14:39
  twelve
• 14:39
  readable
• 14:40
  words
• 14:40
  only
• 14:40
  arrived
• 14:40
  on
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  third
• 14:41
  chunk;
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  metric
• 14:42
  that
• 14:42
  actually
• 14:42
  decides
• 14:43
  whether
• 14:43
  a
• 14:43
  voice
• 14:44
  assistant
• 14:44
  feels
• 14:44
  alive
• 14:45
  is
• 14:45
  the
• 14:45
  gap
• 14:46
  from
• 14:46
  end-of-speech
• 14:46
  to
• 14:46
  something
• 14:47
  useful,
• 14:48
  which
• 14:48
  he
• 14:48
  clocked
• 14:48
  at
• 14:48
  a
• 14:48
  2636ms
• 14:50
  median,
• 14:51
  two-thirds
• 14:52
  of
• 14:52
  it
• 14:52
  belonging
• 14:52
  to
• 14:52
  the
• 14:52
  model.
• 14:53
  His
• 14:53
  better
• 14:54
  idea:
• 14:54
  decide
• 14:55
  the
• 14:55
  user
• 14:55
  finished
• 14:55
  talking
• 14:56
  from
• 14:56
  the
• 14:56
  transcript,
• 14:57
  not
• 14:57
  silence
• 14:57
  thresholds,
• 14:58
  by
• 14:58
  speculatively
• 14:59
  decoding
• 14:59
  every
• 15:00
  100ms
• 15:01
  and
• 15:01
  discarding
• 15:01
  interrupted
• 15:02
  runs.
• 15:03
  Measured
• 15:03
  against
• 15:04
  the
• 15:04
  sub-400ms
• 15:05
  voice-to-voice
• 15:06
  numbers
• 15:06
  the
• 15:06
  community
• 15:07
  has
• 15:07
  hit
• 15:07
  on
• 15:07
  tuned
• 15:08
  hardware,
• 15:09
  Qwen
• 15:09
  2.5
• 15:10
  7B
• 15:10
  is
• 15:10
  a
• 15:10
  conspicuously
• 15:11
  dated
• 15:11
  choice
• 15:12
  —
• 15:12
  but
• 15:13
  the
• 15:13
  honest
• 15:13
  latency
• 15:13
  accounting
• 15:14
  is
• 15:14
  the
• 15:14
  transferable
• 15:15
  lesson.
• 15:16
  Two
• 15:16
  smaller
• 15:16
  builds
• 15:17
  round
• 15:17
  out
• 15:17
  the
• 15:17
  on-device
• 15:18
  story.
• 15:19
  Someone
• 15:19
  embedded
• 15:20
  Gemma
• 15:20
  4
• 15:20
  E4B
• 15:21
  and
• 15:21
  E2B
• 15:21
  into
• 15:22
  an
• 15:22
  e-reader
• 15:22
  app
• 15:22
  on
• 15:23
  LiteRT-LM,
• 15:24
  downloading
• 15:25
  INT4
• 15:25
  models
• 15:26
  with
• 15:26
  no
• 15:26
  accounts,
• 15:27
  injecting
• 15:27
  the
• 15:27
  book's
• 15:28
  metadata
• 15:28
  and
• 15:28
  current
• 15:29
  passage
• 15:29
  as
• 15:29
  context,
• 15:30
  and
• 15:30
  unloading
• 15:31
  the
• 15:31
  model
• 15:31
  from
• 15:31
  RAM
• 15:31
  when
• 15:31
  the
• 15:31
  chat
• 15:32
  closes
• 15:32
  —
• 15:33
  a
• 15:33
  thoughtful
• 15:34
  private-reading
• 15:34
  assistant,
• 15:35
  with
• 15:35
  a
• 15:36
  commenter's
• 15:36
  fair
• 15:36
  warning
• 15:37
  that
• 15:37
  at
• 15:37
  this
• 15:37
  parameter
• 15:38
  size
• 15:38
  "expect
• 15:38
  frequent
• 15:39
  hallucinations"
• 15:39
  on
• 15:40
  grounded
• 15:40
  questions
• 15:40
  .
• 15:41
  And
• 15:41
  for
• 15:41
  the
• 15:42
  demystifiers,
• 15:43
  RawFormer
• 15:43
  is
• 15:43
  a
• 15:44
  Transformer
• 15:44
  decoder
• 15:45
  built
• 15:45
  from
• 15:45
  scratch
• 15:46
  in
• 15:46
  pure
• 15:46
  CuPy
• 15:46
  —
• 15:47
  no
• 15:47
  PyTorch,
• 15:48
  no
• 15:49
  autograd,
• 15:49
  manual
• 15:50
  backpropagation
• 15:50
  through
• 15:51
  every
• 15:51
  layer,
• 15:52
  trained
• 15:52
  on
• 15:52
  Penn
• 15:52
  Treebank
• 15:53
  on
• 15:53
  a
• 15:53
  single
• 15:53
  laptop
• 15:54
  —
• 15:55
  the
• 15:55
  kind
• 15:55
  of
• 15:55
  below-the-abstraction
• 15:56
  exercise
• 15:57
  that,
• 15:57
  as
• 15:57
  its
• 15:57
  author
• 15:58
  notes,
• 15:58
  "cleared
• 15:59
  up
• 15:59
  a
• 15:59
  tremendous
• 15:59
  number
• 16:00
  of
• 16:00
  misunderstandings"
• 16:01
  about
• 16:01
  how
• 16:01
  the
• 16:01
  machinery
• 16:02
  and
• 16:02
  the
• 16:02
  GPU
• 16:02
  actually
• 16:03
  work
• 16:03
  .
• 16:06
  Two
• 16:06
  releases
• 16:06
  this
• 16:07
  week
• 16:07
  are
• 16:07
  best
• 16:07
  read
• 16:08
  together
• 16:08
  as
• 16:08
  the
• 16:08
  same
• 16:09
  story
• 16:09
  from
• 16:09
  opposite
• 16:10
  ends
• 16:10
  of
• 16:10
  the
• 16:10
  stack:
• 16:11
  the
• 16:11
  foundation
• 16:11
  below
• 16:12
  the
• 16:12
  model
• 16:12
  and
• 16:13
  the
• 16:13
  harness
• 16:13
  above
• 16:13
  it
• 16:13
  both
• 16:14
  reaching
• 16:14
  maturity.
• 16:15
  Mojo
• 16:15
  1.0
• 16:16
  is
• 16:16
  the
• 16:16
  foundation.
• 16:17
  After
• 16:17
  building
• 16:18
  toward
• 16:18
  it
• 16:18
  since
• 16:18
  2023,
• 16:20
  Modular
• 16:20
  is
• 16:20
  declaring
• 16:21
  the
• 16:21
  language
• 16:21
  production-ready,
• 16:22
  with
• 16:22
  a
• 16:22
  stability
• 16:23
  commitment
• 16:23
  modeled
• 16:24
  on
• 16:24
  how
• 16:24
  mature
• 16:24
  languages
• 16:25
  like
• 16:25
  C++
• 16:25
  evolve
• 16:26
  —
• 16:26
  additive
• 16:27
  changes
• 16:27
  through
• 16:27
  the
• 16:27
  1.x
• 16:28
  line,
• 16:29
  breaking
• 16:29
  ones
• 16:29
  managed
• 16:30
  with
• 16:30
  care
• 16:30
  .
• 16:31
  The
• 16:31
  milestone
• 16:31
  is
• 16:31
  real:
• 16:32
  nearly
• 16:32
  200
• 16:33
  contributors,
• 16:34
  1,100+
• 16:35
  merged
• 16:35
  pull
• 16:35
  requests,
• 16:36
  a
• 16:36
  stabilized
• 16:37
  LSP,
• 16:38
  memory-safety
• 16:39
  diagnostics
• 16:39
  for
• 16:40
  reference
• 16:40
  invalidation,
• 16:41
  and
• 16:41
  a
• 16:41
  company
• 16:41
  that
• 16:42
  now
• 16:42
  runs
• 16:42
  Mojo
• 16:42
  in
• 16:43
  production
• 16:43
  as
• 16:43
  the
• 16:43
  foundation
• 16:44
  of
• 16:44
  its
• 16:44
  commercial
• 16:44
  MAX
• 16:45
  and
• 16:45
  Cloud
• 16:45
  infrastructure,
• 16:46
  with
• 16:46
  26.5
• 16:47
  adding
• 16:48
  MAX
• 16:48
  support
• 16:48
  for
• 16:48
  the
• 16:49
  GLM-5.2
• 16:50
  and
• 16:50
  Nemotron-H
• 16:50
  hybrid
• 16:51
  Mamba-2
• 16:51
  families.
• 16:52
  The
• 16:53
  strategic
• 16:53
  subtext
• 16:54
  is
• 16:54
  what
• 16:54
  makes
• 16:54
  it
• 16:54
  worth
• 16:54
  watching:
• 16:55
  Mojo's
• 16:56
  pitch
• 16:56
  has
• 16:56
  always
• 16:56
  been
• 16:56
  running
• 16:57
  high-performance
• 16:57
  code
• 16:57
  across
• 16:58
  CPUs,
• 16:58
  GPUs,
• 16:59
  and
• 16:59
  accelerators
• 17:00
  without
• 17:00
  per-processor
• 17:01
  rewrites
• 17:01
  —
• 17:02
  a
• 17:02
  direct
• 17:02
  challenge
• 17:03
  to
• 17:03
  CUDA
• 17:03
  lock-in
• 17:03
  —
• 17:04
  and
• 17:04
  the
• 17:04
  commitment
• 17:04
  to
• 17:04
  open-source
• 17:05
  the
• 17:05
  compiler
• 17:05
  in
• 17:05
  2026
• 17:06
  is
• 17:06
  the
• 17:06
  promise
• 17:06
  that
• 17:07
  keeps
• 17:07
  that
• 17:07
  pitch
• 17:07
  honest.
• 17:08
  At
• 17:08
  the
• 17:08
  other
• 17:08
  end,
• 17:09
  DeepSeek
• 17:09
  shipped
• 17:09
  its
• 17:09
  own
• 17:10
  agent
• 17:10
  harness,
• 17:10
  dsh,
• 17:11
  a
• 17:11
  developer-preview
• 17:12
  CLI
• 17:12
  built
• 17:12
  on
• 17:12
  the
• 17:13
  Cordis
• 17:13
  "everything
• 17:13
  is
• 17:13
  a
• 17:13
  plugin"
• 17:14
  architecture
• 17:15
  and
• 17:15
  MIT-licensed,
• 17:16
  launched
• 17:16
  with
• 17:16
  the
• 17:16
  blunt
• 17:17
  warning
• 17:17
  that
• 17:17
  "there
• 17:17
  will
• 17:17
  be
• 17:17
  compatibility-breaking
• 17:18
  changes."
• 17:19
  The
• 17:19
  timing
• 17:20
  tells
• 17:20
  the
• 17:20
  story.
• 17:21
  DeepSeek's
• 17:22
  own
• 17:22
  V4-Flash
• 17:23
  models
• 17:23
  have
• 17:23
  been
• 17:24
  dinged
• 17:24
  for
• 17:24
  chafing
• 17:24
  inside
• 17:25
  harnesses
• 17:25
  built
• 17:26
  around
• 17:26
  Claude
• 17:26
  and
• 17:26
  GPT
• 17:27
  conventions
• 17:27
  —
• 17:28
  the
• 17:28
  standing
• 17:29
  advice
• 17:29
  was
• 17:29
  that
• 17:29
  users
• 17:30
  had
• 17:30
  to
• 17:30
  conform
• 17:30
  to
• 17:30
  someone
• 17:31
  else's
• 17:31
  scaffolding.
• 17:32
  Shipping
• 17:33
  a
• 17:33
  first-party
• 17:33
  harness
• 17:33
  is
• 17:34
  the
• 17:34
  direct
• 17:34
  answer
• 17:34
  to
• 17:34
  that
• 17:34
  complaint:
• 17:35
  if
• 17:35
  your
• 17:36
  models
• 17:36
  underperform
• 17:37
  in
• 17:37
  tooling
• 17:37
  designed
• 17:37
  for
• 17:37
  a
• 17:38
  competitor,
• 17:38
  you
• 17:38
  build
• 17:39
  the
• 17:39
  tooling.
• 17:40
  The
• 17:40
  plugin-registry
• 17:41
  design
• 17:41
  slots
• 17:42
  into
• 17:42
  the
• 17:42
  running
• 17:42
  thesis
• 17:42
  that
• 17:43
  the
• 17:43
  harness
• 17:43
  layer
• 17:43
  —
• 17:44
  the
• 17:44
  loop,
• 17:45
  context
• 17:45
  building,
• 17:46
  tools,
• 17:46
  safety,
• 17:47
  persistence
• 17:47
  —
• 17:48
  has
• 17:48
  quietly
• 17:49
  become
• 17:49
  the
• 17:49
  bottleneck
• 17:50
  of
• 17:50
  agentic
• 17:50
  AI,
• 17:51
  the
• 17:51
  place
• 17:51
  where
• 17:51
  a
• 17:51
  model's
• 17:52
  raw
• 17:52
  capability
• 17:53
  is
• 17:53
  either
• 17:53
  realized
• 17:54
  or
• 17:54
  squandered.
• 17:55
  A
• 17:55
  frontier
• 17:55
  lab
• 17:56
  treating
• 17:56
  its
• 17:56
  harness
• 17:56
  as
• 17:57
  a
• 17:57
  product
• 17:57
  worth
• 17:57
  open-sourcing
• 17:58
  is
• 17:58
  confirmation
• 17:59
  that
• 17:59
  the
• 17:59
  industry
• 17:59
  now
• 18:00
  agrees
• 18:00
  .