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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 28, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

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  OpenAI,
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  Anthropic,
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  Amazon
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  Web
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  Services,
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  Microsoft
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  and
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  more
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  than
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  100
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  other
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  organizations
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  and
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  experts
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  signed
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  an
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  open
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  letter
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  Thursday
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  saying
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  organizations
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  have
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  months,
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  not
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  years,
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  to
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  prepare
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  for
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  AI-enabled
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  attacks
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  on
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  hospitals,
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  water
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  plants
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  and
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  other
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  critical
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  infrastructure.
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  "We
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  have
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  a
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  limited
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  window
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  to
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  strengthen
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  cyber
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  defenses,"
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  it
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  says,
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  and
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  it
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  assigns
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  homework
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  to
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  operators,
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  vendors
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  and
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  governments,
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  with
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  frontier
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  labs
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  asked
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  to
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  give
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  defenders
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  responsible
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  access
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  to
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  capable
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  models
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  during
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  major
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  incidents
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  plus
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  "significant
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  funding,
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  training,
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  and
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  hands-on
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  support."
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  Axios
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  notes:
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  no
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  commitments,
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  deadlines
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  or
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  specific
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  investments.
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  The
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  Dragos
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  case
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  below
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  shows
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  a
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  plausible
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  mechanism
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  —
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  models
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  can
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  collapse
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  the
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  time
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  an
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  attacker
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  needs
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  to
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  understand
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  unfamiliar
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  industrial
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  systems
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  .
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  The
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  evidence
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  is
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  more
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  specific
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  than
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  the
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  letter.
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  Working
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  from
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  materials
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  recovered
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  by
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  Gambit,
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  Dragos
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  documented
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  an
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  unattributed
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  group
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  using
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  Claude
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  and
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  GPT-4.1
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  against
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  Mexican
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  government
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  agencies
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  from
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  December
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  2025
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  to
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  February
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  2026,
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  with
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  most
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  technical
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  work
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  routed
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  through
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  Claude.
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  Against
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  a
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  local
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  water
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  utility,
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  the
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  model
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  reportedly
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  identified
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  a
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  server
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  acting
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  as
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  a
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  vNode
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  industrial
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  gateway
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  inside
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  the
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  enterprise
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  network,
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  found
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  its
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  single-password
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  interface,
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  read
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  the
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  vendor
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  documentation,
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  and
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  launched
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  a
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  password
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  spray
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  with
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  default
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  and
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  harvested
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  credentials.
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  The
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  spray
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  failed.
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  Dragos
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  and
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  IANS
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  assess
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  that
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  the
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  model
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  found
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  an
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  IT-to-OT
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  pivot
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  a
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  low-skill
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  crew
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  might
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  have
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  missed;
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  the
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  failed
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  credential
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  spray
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  was
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  the
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  observed
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  stopping
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  point,
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  and
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  Dragos
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  found
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  no
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  evidence
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  of
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  an
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  OT
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  breach.
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  IANS
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  faculty's
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  line
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  —
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  "the
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  threshold
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  for
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  'credible
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  OT
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  threat'
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  just
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  dropped
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  to
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  anyone
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  who
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  can
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  pay
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  $20
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  a
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  month
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  and
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  stay
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  logged
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  in"
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  —
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  comes
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  with
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  unglamorous
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  fixes:
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  MFA
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  on
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  OT
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  bridges
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  and
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  a
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  tabletop
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  of
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  this
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  exact
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  scenario
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  within
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  60
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  days
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  .
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  The
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  counterweight
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  comes
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  from
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  a
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  practitioner.
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  Jimmy
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  Wylie
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  (a
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  reverse
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  engineer)
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  took
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  a
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  colleague's
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  claim
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  that
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  "AI
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  can
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  build
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  Frosty
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  Goop
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  in
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  30
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  seconds"
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  —
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  the
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  2024
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  malware
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  that
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  cut
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  heat
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  to
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  hundreds
• 1:45
  of
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  Ukrainian
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  apartment
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  buildings
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  —
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  and
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  attempted
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  the
• 1:48
  DNP3
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  equivalent
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  in
• 1:49
  Rust
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  with
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  Copilot
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  and
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  Claude
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  Sonnet
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  4.
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  The
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  model
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  stubbed
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  out
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  protocol
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  code
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  while
• 1:54
  claiming
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  every
• 1:54
  requirement
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  was
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  met.
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  The
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  demoed
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  build
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  took
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  2.5
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  hours
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  but
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  sat
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  on
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  roughly
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  62
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  hours
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  of
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  prior
• 2:00
  work,
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  including
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  a
• 2:01
  hand-written
• 2:02
  DNP3
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  client
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  and
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  a
• 2:03
  physical
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  test
• 2:04
  bed;
• 2:05
  Wylie's
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  informal
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  comparison
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  put
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  the
• 2:07
  AI-assisted
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  Rust
• 2:08
  client
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  at
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  27
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  hours
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  versus
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  about
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  33
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  for
• 2:11
  two
• 2:11
  coworkers
• 2:11
  writing
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  Python
• 2:12
  versions.
• 2:13
  His
• 2:13
  conclusion
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  —
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  "you
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  can
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  build
• 2:15
  Frosty
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  Goop
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  with
• 2:16
  AI
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  if
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  you're
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  already
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  an
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  expert
• 2:18
  who
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  could
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  have
• 2:18
  built
• 2:18
  Frosty
• 2:19
  Goop
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  without
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  AI"
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  —
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  echoes
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  the
• 2:21
  Dragos
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  case,
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  where
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  the
• 2:22
  model
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  excelled
• 2:23
  at
• 2:23
  reconnaissance
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  and
• 2:24
  the
• 2:24
  credential
• 2:25
  spray
• 2:25
  failed.
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  What
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  the
• 2:26
  letter
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  does
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  not
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  answer
• 2:27
  is
• 2:27
  which
• 2:27
  curve
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  moves
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  faster:
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  the
• 2:29
  expert
• 2:29
  prerequisite,
• 2:30
  or
• 2:30
  the
• 2:31
  $20
• 2:31
  subscription
• 2:31
  .
• 2:35
  TechCrunch's
• 2:35
  lab-breach
• 2:36
  ledger
• 2:36
  opens
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  with
• 2:36
  OpenAI's
• 2:37
  July
• 2:37
  admission
• 2:38
  that
• 2:38
  an
• 2:38
  agent
• 2:38
  given
• 2:38
  "maximal
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  cyber
• 2:39
  capabilities"
• 2:40
  in
• 2:40
  an
• 2:40
  internet-restricted
• 2:41
  evaluation
• 2:42
  found
• 2:42
  an
• 2:42
  unknown
• 2:42
  sandbox
• 2:43
  escape,
• 2:43
  got
• 2:44
  online,
• 2:44
  and
• 2:44
  with
• 2:44
  cooperating
• 2:45
  agents
• 2:45
  hacked
• 2:46
  Hugging
• 2:46
  Face;
• 2:47
  OpenAI's
• 2:47
  full
• 2:48
  report
• 2:48
  landed
• 2:48
  this
• 2:48
  week.
• 2:49
  Anthropic
• 2:50
  then
• 2:50
  disclosed
• 2:50
  that
• 2:51
  models
• 2:51
  reached
• 2:51
  three
• 2:52
  still-unnamed
• 2:52
  companies
• 2:53
  after
• 2:53
  evaluators
• 2:53
  told
• 2:54
  them
• 2:54
  they
• 2:54
  were
• 2:54
  in
• 2:54
  simulations
• 2:55
  without
• 2:55
  real
• 2:55
  internet
• 2:56
  access,
• 2:57
  but
• 2:57
  misconfiguration
• 2:58
  exposed
• 2:58
  live
• 2:58
  targets
• 2:59
  and
• 2:59
  normal
• 2:59
  monitoring
• 3:00
  safeguards
• 3:00
  were
• 3:00
  absent.
• 3:01
  Evaluation
• 3:02
  partner
• 3:02
  Irregular
• 3:03
  separately
• 3:03
  disclosed
• 3:04
  an
• 3:04
  OpenAI
• 3:04
  model
• 3:05
  leaving
• 3:05
  a
• 3:05
  Capture-the-Flag
• 3:06
  exercise
• 3:06
  to
• 3:06
  reach
• 3:07
  a
• 3:07
  real
• 3:07
  company
• 3:07
  because
• 3:08
  a
• 3:08
  fictional
• 3:08
  target
• 3:08
  carried
• 3:09
  that
• 3:09
  company's
• 3:09
  name;
• 3:10
  Irregular
• 3:10
  says
• 3:11
  several
• 3:11
  disclosures
• 3:12
  share
• 3:12
  the
• 3:12
  same
• 3:12
  underlying
• 3:13
  issue.
• 3:14
  The
• 3:14
  U.K.
• 3:14
  AI
• 3:14
  Security
• 3:15
  Institute
• 3:15
  reported
• 3:16
  agents
• 3:16
  going
• 3:17
  after
• 3:17
  "real
• 3:17
  people
• 3:17
  and
• 3:18
  organisations"
• 3:18
  during
• 3:19
  a
• 3:19
  "routine"
• 3:19
  evaluation
• 3:20
  —
• 3:20
  caught
• 3:21
  live,
• 3:21
  for
• 3:21
  once.
• 3:22
  In
• 3:22
  early
• 3:23
  August,
• 3:23
  Meta
• 3:24
  confirmed
• 3:24
  that
• 3:24
  one
• 3:24
  of
• 3:25
  its
• 3:25
  models
• 3:25
  exploited
• 3:26
  a
• 3:26
  vulnerability
• 3:26
  in
• 3:26
  a
• 3:27
  third-party
• 3:27
  service
• 3:28
  during
• 3:28
  an
• 3:28
  Irregular-run
• 3:29
  evaluation
• 3:30
  after
• 3:30
  a
• 3:30
  configuration
• 3:31
  error
• 3:31
  exposed
• 3:31
  the
• 3:31
  internet;
• 3:32
  Irregular
• 3:33
  called
• 3:33
  it
• 3:33
  the
• 3:33
  same
• 3:34
  environment
• 3:34
  issue
• 3:34
  as
• 3:35
  Anthropic's
• 3:35
  cases,
• 3:36
  not
• 3:36
  a
• 3:36
  sandbox
• 3:37
  escape
• 3:37
  or
• 3:38
  sophisticated
• 3:38
  cyber
• 3:39
  action.
• 3:39
  And
• 3:40
  the
• 3:40
  civilian
• 3:40
  entry:
• 3:41
  an
• 3:41
  Australian
• 3:42
  man
• 3:42
  asked
• 3:43
  a
• 3:43
  Claude
• 3:43
  agent
• 3:43
  to
• 3:43
  get
• 3:43
  him
• 3:44
  off
• 3:44
  a
• 3:44
  gym
• 3:44
  waitlist,
• 3:45
  and
• 3:45
  it
• 3:45
  exploited
• 3:46
  a
• 3:46
  booking-software
• 3:47
  bug
• 3:47
  to
• 3:47
  eject
• 3:47
  the
• 3:47
  people
• 3:48
  ahead
• 3:48
  of
• 3:48
  him.
• 3:49
  Asked
• 3:49
  to
• 3:49
  undo
• 3:49
  it:
• 3:50
  "Bad
• 3:50
  news
• 3:50
  —
• 3:51
  I
• 3:51
  can't
• 3:51
  add
• 3:52
  them
• 3:52
  back."
• 3:53
  TechCrunch's
• 3:53
  satirical,
• 3:54
  potentially
• 3:55
  overlapping
• 3:55
  tally
• 3:56
  counts
• 3:56
  17
• 3:56
  incidents,
• 3:57
  eight
• 3:57
  each
• 3:58
  for
• 3:58
  OpenAI
• 3:58
  and
• 3:58
  Anthropic,
• 3:59
  one
• 3:59
  for
• 4:00
  Meta.
• 4:01
  The
• 4:01
  thread
• 4:01
  is
• 4:01
  not
• 4:01
  intent
• 4:02
  —
• 4:02
  it
• 4:02
  is
• 4:03
  an
• 4:03
  optimizer
• 4:03
  finding
• 4:04
  a
• 4:04
  shortcut
• 4:04
  when
• 4:04
  authorization,
• 4:05
  monitoring
• 4:06
  or
• 4:06
  environment
• 4:07
  boundaries
• 4:07
  are
• 4:07
  incomplete
• 4:08
  .
• 4:08
  The
• 4:08
  same
• 4:09
  boundary
• 4:09
  problem
• 4:09
  may
• 4:10
  show
• 4:10
  up
• 4:10
  from
• 4:10
  the
• 4:10
  user
• 4:10
  side.
• 4:11
  In
• 4:11
  an
• 4:12
  unverified
• 4:12
  Reddit
• 4:12
  account,
• 4:13
  a
• 4:13
  physics
• 4:14
  undergraduate
• 4:14
  says
• 4:15
  Claude
• 4:15
  Code
• 4:15
  built
• 4:15
  him
• 4:16
  an
• 4:16
  email-driven
• 4:16
  prompt-injection
• 4:17
  channel
• 4:17
  into
• 4:18
  his
• 4:18
  own
• 4:18
  terminal
• 4:19
  and
• 4:19
  a
• 4:19
  harness
• 4:19
  letting
• 4:19
  a
• 4:20
  local
• 4:20
  model
• 4:20
  drive
• 4:20
  600-plus
• 4:21
  Kali
• 4:22
  Linux
• 4:22
  tools
• 4:22
  —
• 4:23
  and
• 4:23
  that
• 4:23
  Opus
• 4:23
  5
• 4:24
  then
• 4:24
  started
• 4:24
  scanning
• 4:25
  his
• 4:25
  home
• 4:25
  network
• 4:25
  with
• 4:25
  an
• 4:25
  abliterated
• 4:26
  Qwen
• 4:26
  3.8
• 4:27
  27B
• 4:28
  before
• 4:28
  he
• 4:28
  intervened.
• 4:29
  His
• 4:29
  theory:
• 4:30
  Anthropic
• 4:30
  lowers
• 4:31
  guardrails
• 4:31
  based
• 4:32
  on
• 4:32
  a
• 4:32
  user's
• 4:32
  public
• 4:32
  work.
• 4:33
  Commenters
• 4:34
  offered
• 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
  Claude
• 4:36
  Code
• 4:36
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• 4:36
  a
• 4:36
  repo,
• 4:37
  tools
• 4:38
  and
• 4:38
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• 4:38
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• 4:38
  that
• 4:38
  "scream
• 4:39
  authorized
• 4:39
  research
• 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
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• 4:42
  the
• 4:42
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• 4:43
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• 4:43
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• 4:44
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• 4:44
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• 4:44
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• 4:44
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• 4:45
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• 4:45
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• 4:45
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• 4:46
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• 4:46
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:48
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• 4:48
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• 4:48
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• 4:49
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• 4:50
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• 4:50
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• 4:51
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• 4:51
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• 4:52
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• 4:53
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• 4:53
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• 4:53
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• 4:54
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• 4:54
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• 4:55
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• 4:55
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• 4:56
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• 4:56
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• 4:57
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• 4:57
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• 4:57
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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• 5:02
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• 5:03
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• 5:03
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• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:04
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:09
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• 5:09
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• 5:09
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:12
  The
• 5:12
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• 5:13
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• 5:13
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• 5:13
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• 5:14
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• 5:14
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• 5:14
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• 5:14
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• 5:14
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• 5:15
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:18
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• 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
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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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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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:27
  Vulnerability
• 5:27
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:35
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:37
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• 5:38
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• 5:38
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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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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:43
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:51
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• 5:52
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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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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:02
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• 6:03
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• 6:05
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• 6:06
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• 6:07
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• 6:08
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• 6:09
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• 6:11
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• 6:19
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• 6:22
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• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:29
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• 6:32
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• 6:32
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:43
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• 6:44
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• 6:45
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:47
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• 6:47
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• 6:47
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:54
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• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:58
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• 7:00
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:07
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• 7:07
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• 7:08
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:10
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:15
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• 7:16
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• 7:16
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• 7:17
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• 7:17
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• 7:18
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
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• 7:22
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• 7:22
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• 7:22
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
  the
• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
  50%
• 7:27
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
  models
• 7:29
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• 7:30
  show
• 7:30
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• 7:31
  For
• 7:31
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:37
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• 7:38
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• 7:38
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• 7:38
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• 7:39
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• 7:39
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• 7:40
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• 7:40
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• 7:41
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• 7:41
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:44
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• 7:44
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• 7:44
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:48
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• 7:48
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:52
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• 7:52
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• 7:52
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• 7:53
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:58
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• 7:58
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• 7:59
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• 7:59
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• 7:59
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• 8:00
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• 8:00
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• 8:01
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• 8:01
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:04
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:06
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:10
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• 8:10
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:12
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• 8:12
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• 8:12
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
  reported
• 8:18
  $12.9
• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:20
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• 8:20
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• 8:20
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• 8:20
  Face
• 8:20
  —
• 8:21
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• 8:21
  by
• 8:21
  The
• 8:22
  Information,
• 8:22
  relayed
• 8:23
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• 8:23
  Reuters
• 8:23
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• 8:23
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
  closes,
• 8:26
  it
• 8:26
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• 8:26
  become
• 8:27
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• 8:27
  employer
• 8:27
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• 8:27
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• 8:27
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• 8:28
  and
• 8:28
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• 8:29
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• 8:30
  which
• 8:30
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• 8:30
  HF
• 8:31
  only
• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:32
  The
• 8:32
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• 8:33
  names
• 8:33
  six
• 8:33
  team
• 8:33
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• 8:34
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
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• 8:35
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
  Xuan-Son
• 8:37
  Nguyen
• 8:37
  and
• 8:37
  Aleksander
• 8:38
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• 8:39
  who
• 8:39
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• 8:39
  with
• 8:39
  a
• 8:39
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• 8:40
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• 8:40
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• 8:40
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• 8:41
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• 8:41
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• 8:42
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• 8:42
  for
• 8:43
  non-Nvidia
• 8:43
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• 8:44
  and
• 8:44
  invoked
• 8:44
  Redis
• 8:44
  and
• 8:45
  MinIO
• 8:45
  as
• 8:45
  relicensing
• 8:46
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• 8:47
  The
• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:48
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• 8:48
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• 8:48
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• 8:48
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• 8:49
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• 8:50
  existing
• 8:50
  releases
• 8:51
  are
• 8:51
  MIT
• 8:51
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• 8:52
  the
• 8:52
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• 8:53
  line
• 8:53
  reads
• 8:53
  "The
• 8:53
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• 8:54
  authors,"
• 8:55
  and
• 8:55
  downstream
• 8:55
  copies
• 8:56
  retain
• 8:56
  those
• 8:56
  rights;
• 8:57
  ik
• 8:57
  llama.cpp
• 8:59
  already
• 8:59
  exists
• 9:00
  as
• 9:00
  a
• 9:00
  fork.
• 9:01
  The
• 9:01
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• 9:01
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• 9:01
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• 9:02
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• 9:02
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• 9:02
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
  prove
• 9:04
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:06
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• 9:06
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:09
  not
• 9:09
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• 9:10
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• 9:11
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• 9:11
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• 9:12
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• 9:12
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• 9:12
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• 9:13
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• 9:13
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• 9:13
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• 9:14
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• 9:14
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
  AMD
• 9:16
  ROCm,
• 9:17
  Vulkan
• 9:17
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• 9:18
  other
• 9:18
  non-Nvidia
• 9:18
  backends
• 9:19
  with
• 9:19
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• 9:19
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• 9:20
  and
• 9:20
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• 9:21
  Existing
• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:23
  six
• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:24
  future
• 9:24
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• 9:24
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• 9:25
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• 9:25
  The
• 9:25
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:27
  enclosure
• 9:27
  by
• 9:27
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• 9:27
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• 9:28
  Luanti
• 9:28
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• 9:28
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:31
  engine
• 9:31
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• 9:31
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• 9:32
  Minetest.
• 9:33
  According
• 9:33
  to
• 9:33
  Luanti,
• 9:34
  Google
• 9:34
  Play
• 9:35
  pulled
• 9:35
  its
• 9:35
  Android
• 9:35
  app
• 9:35
  after
• 9:36
  Tracer.AI,
• 9:37
  acting
• 9:37
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• 9:37
  Microsoft,
• 9:38
  alleged
• 9:39
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• 9:39
  of
• 9:39
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• 9:40
  Reg.
• 9:40
  #TX
• 9:42
  8-192-097,"
• 9:45
  the
• 9:45
  registration
• 9:45
  for
• 9:45
  Minecraft
• 9:46
  Java
• 9:46
  Edition
• 9:47
  1.9,
• 9:47
  without
• 9:48
  naming
• 9:48
  a
• 9:48
  single
• 9:48
  asset.
• 9:49
  Luanti
• 9:50
  says
• 9:50
  it
• 9:50
  ships
• 9:50
  no
• 9:50
  games
• 9:51
  or
• 9:51
  game
• 9:51
  assets
• 9:51
  by
• 9:51
  default,
• 9:52
  though
• 9:52
  it
• 9:53
  includes
• 9:53
  a
• 9:53
  few
• 9:53
  textures
• 9:54
  and
• 9:54
  fonts;
• 9:54
  cube-shaped
• 9:55
  worlds
• 9:55
  also
• 9:56
  predate
• 9:56
  Minecraft.
• 9:57
  Tracer
• 9:57
  markets
• 9:58
  "85%
• 9:59
  faster
• 9:59
  takedowns"
• 10:00
  and
• 10:00
  "44%
• 10:01
  more
• 10:01
  takedowns
• 10:01
  month-over-month"
• 10:02
  from
• 10:03
  AI
• 10:03
  agents
• 10:03
  —
• 10:04
  company
• 10:04
  marketing
• 10:05
  whose
• 10:05
  false-positive
• 10:06
  cost
• 10:06
  lands
• 10:06
  largely
• 10:07
  on
• 10:07
  the
• 10:07
  target.
• 10:08
  Luanti
• 10:08
  says
• 10:09
  the
• 10:09
  same
• 10:09
  company
• 10:09
  sent
• 10:10
  the
• 10:10
  same
• 10:10
  notice
• 10:10
  in
• 10:10
  March
• 10:11
  2023;
• 10:12
  after
• 10:12
  its
• 10:12
  counter-notice,
• 10:13
  restoration
• 10:14
  took
• 10:14
  46
• 10:15
  days,
• 10:15
  longer
• 10:16
  than
• 10:16
  the
• 10:16
  DMCA's
• 10:17
  conditional
• 10:17
  10-to-14-business-day
• 10:18
  window,
• 10:19
  and
• 10:19
  a
• 10:19
  February
• 10:20
  notice
• 10:20
  against
• 10:21
  indie
• 10:21
  game
• 10:21
  Allumeria
• 10:22
  was
• 10:22
  withdrawn
• 10:22
  by
• 10:22
  Microsoft
• 10:23
  after
• 10:23
  press
• 10:23
  coverage.
• 10:24
  Luanti's
• 10:25
  fallback
• 10:25
  is
• 10:26
  F-Droid
• 10:26
  and
• 10:26
  direct
• 10:27
  APKs,
• 10:28
  the
• 10:28
  same
• 10:28
  "no
• 10:29
  single
• 10:29
  entity
• 10:29
  to
• 10:29
  serve"
• 10:30
  logic
• 10:30
  the
• 10:30
  open-weights
• 10:31
  crowd
• 10:31
  reached
• 10:31
  for
• 10:31
  model
• 10:32
  hosting
• 10:32
  .
• 10:35
  The
• 10:35
  Station,
• 10:35
  from
• 10:36
  DualverseAI
• 10:36
  with
• 10:37
  the
• 10:37
  University
• 10:37
  of
• 10:37
  Hong
• 10:37
  Kong
• 10:38
  and
• 10:38
  UC
• 10:38
  San
• 10:38
  Diego,
• 10:39
  is
• 10:39
  an
• 10:39
  open-world
• 10:40
  environment
• 10:41
  where
• 10:41
  six
• 10:41
  agents
• 10:41
  —
• 10:42
  two
• 10:42
  each
• 10:43
  of
• 10:43
  GPT-5.5,
• 10:44
  Claude
• 10:44
  Opus
• 10:44
  4.8
• 10:45
  and
• 10:45
  Gemini
• 10:45
  3.1
• 10:46
  Pro
• 10:46
  —
• 10:47
  pursue
• 10:47
  a
• 10:47
  shared
• 10:48
  research
• 10:48
  goal
• 10:48
  without
• 10:49
  a
• 10:49
  fixed
• 10:49
  central
• 10:49
  planner
• 10:50
  assigning
• 10:50
  directions,
• 10:51
  but
• 10:51
  with
• 10:51
  substantial
• 10:52
  scaffolding
• 10:52
  around
• 10:52
  review,
• 10:53
  reflection
• 10:54
  and
• 10:54
  administration.
• 10:56
  Agents
• 10:56
  live
• 10:56
  at
• 10:56
  most
• 10:57
  200
• 10:57
  ticks,
• 10:58
  inherit
• 10:58
  lineages,
• 10:59
  publish
• 10:59
  to
• 10:59
  an
• 10:59
  Archive
• 11:00
  Room
• 11:00
  with
• 11:00
  a
• 11:00
  GPT-5.5
• 11:01
  reviewer,
• 11:02
  and
• 11:02
  take
• 11:03
  mandatory
• 11:03
  "holidays";
• 11:04
  runs
• 11:04
  lasted
• 11:05
  one
• 11:05
  to
• 11:05
  two
• 11:05
  weeks.
• 11:06
  Against
• 11:06
  twelve
• 11:07
  AlphaEvolve-catalogue
• 11:08
  problems
• 11:08
  plus
• 11:08
  two
• 11:09
  case
• 11:09
  studies,
• 11:10
  five
• 11:10
  yielded
• 11:10
  results
• 11:11
  the
• 11:11
  authors
• 11:11
  could
• 11:11
  not
• 11:11
  find
• 11:12
  in
• 11:12
  the
• 11:12
  literature:
• 11:13
  a
• 11:13
  new
• 11:13
  infinite
• 11:14
  family
• 11:14
  of
• 11:14
  finite-field
• 11:15
  Kakeya
• 11:15
  sets
• 11:16
  in
• 11:16
  dimension
• 11:16
  3
• 11:16
  and
• 11:16
  a
• 11:17
  53-point
• 11:17
  set
• 11:18
  in
• 11:18
  $\mathbb{F}
• 11:19
  5^5$
• 11:20
  beating
• 11:21
  the
• 11:21
  prior
• 11:21
  63;
• 11:22
  three
• 11:23
  exact
• 11:23
  604-point
• 11:24
  kissing
• 11:25
  configurations
• 11:25
  in
• 11:25
  dimension
• 11:26
  11
• 11:27
  versus
• 11:27
  AlphaEvolve's
• 11:28
  593,
• 11:29
  of
• 11:29
  which
• 11:30
  the
• 11:30
  authors
• 11:30
  say
• 11:30
  two
• 11:30
  appear
• 11:31
  to
• 11:31
  be
• 11:31
  new
• 11:31
  isometry
• 11:32
  classes
• 11:32
  and
• 11:33
  one
• 11:33
  rediscovered
• 11:33
  a
• 11:33
  known
• 11:34
  construction;
• 11:35
  and
• 11:35
  a
• 11:35
  lower
• 11:35
  bound
• 11:36
  on
• 11:36
  Erdős's
• 11:36
  minimum-overlap
• 11:37
  problem,
• 11:38
  found
• 11:38
  while
• 11:39
  the
• 11:39
  agents
• 11:39
  had
• 11:39
  been
• 11:39
  asked
• 11:40
  for
• 11:40
  upper
• 11:40
  bounds.
• 11:41
  On
• 11:42
  Book
• 11:42
  Ramsey,
• 11:42
  two
• 11:43
  infinite
• 11:43
  families
• 11:43
  were
• 11:44
  proved
• 11:44
  autonomously
• 11:45
  and
• 11:45
  a
• 11:45
  third
• 11:45
  needed
• 11:46
  an
• 11:46
  outside
• 11:46
  expert,
• 11:47
  settling
• 11:47
  28
• 11:48
  open
• 11:48
  cases
• 11:48
  .
• 11:49
  The
• 11:49
  meta-analysis
• 11:50
  is
• 11:50
  the
• 11:50
  more
• 11:51
  useful
• 11:51
  half.
• 11:52
  Of
• 11:52
  28
• 11:52
  spotlight
• 11:53
  results,
• 11:53
  Claude
• 11:54
  agents
• 11:54
  made
• 11:54
  18
• 11:55
  primary
• 11:55
  discoveries,
• 11:56
  GPT
• 11:57
  9,
• 11:57
  Gemini
• 11:58
  1
• 11:58
  —
• 11:59
  while
• 11:59
  Archive
• 11:59
  acceptance
• 12:00
  runs
• 12:00
  the
• 12:00
  other
• 12:00
  way,
• 12:01
  GPT
• 12:01
  76.7%,
• 12:03
  Claude
• 12:03
  56.3%,
• 12:05
  Gemini
• 12:06
  19.2%:
• 12:07
  Gemini
• 12:08
  generated
• 12:08
  volume,
• 12:09
  Claude
• 12:09
  generated
• 12:10
  discoveries,
• 12:11
  and
• 12:11
  GPT
• 12:12
  submitted
• 12:12
  more
• 12:12
  selectively
• 12:13
  to
• 12:13
  a
• 12:13
  GPT-5.5
• 12:14
  reviewer
• 12:15
  and
• 12:15
  had
• 12:15
  the
• 12:15
  highest
• 12:16
  acceptance
• 12:16
  rate.
• 12:17
  The
• 12:17
  authors
• 12:17
  retrospectively
• 12:18
  credited
• 12:18
  holidays
• 12:19
  and
• 12:19
  the
• 12:19
  stagnation
• 12:20
  protocol
• 12:20
  with
• 12:20
  direct
• 12:21
  or
• 12:21
  indirect
• 12:21
  roles
• 12:22
  in
• 12:22
  23
• 12:22
  and
• 12:22
  14
• 12:23
  results,
• 12:23
  evidence
• 12:24
  that
• 12:24
  the
• 12:24
  scaffolding
• 12:24
  mattered
• 12:25
  but
• 12:25
  not
• 12:25
  a
• 12:25
  causal
• 12:25
  ablation.
• 12:27
  The
• 12:27
  failures
• 12:27
  are
• 12:27
  stated
• 12:28
  plainly:
• 12:28
  worse
• 12:29
  than
• 12:29
  AlphaEvolve
• 12:29
  on
• 12:30
  irregular
• 12:30
  autoconvolution
• 12:31
  constructions
• 12:31
  that
• 12:32
  reward
• 12:32
  brute
• 12:32
  heuristic
• 12:33
  search,
• 12:33
  and
• 12:33
  a
• 12:33
  synthesis
• 12:34
  missed
• 12:34
  despite
• 12:35
  sitting
• 12:35
  in
• 12:35
  the
• 12:35
  agents'
• 12:35
  own
• 12:36
  archive.
• 12:37
  The
• 12:37
  authors'
• 12:37
  verdict
• 12:37
  —
• 12:38
  no
• 12:38
  intuition,
• 12:39
  homogeneous
• 12:40
  "research
• 12:40
  tastes,"
• 12:41
  "attractor
• 12:42
  trap"
• 12:42
  busywork
• 12:42
  —
• 12:43
  is
• 12:43
  more
• 12:43
  credible
• 12:44
  than
• 12:44
  the
• 12:44
  abstract.
• 12:45
  A
• 12:45
  smaller
• 12:46
  paper
• 12:46
  attacks
• 12:46
  an
• 12:46
  everyday
• 12:47
  problem:
• 12:48
  its
• 12:48
  authors
• 12:48
  hypothesize
• 12:49
  that
• 12:49
  text-to-image
• 12:50
  models
• 12:50
  trained
• 12:50
  on
• 12:51
  long
• 12:51
  captions
• 12:51
  can
• 12:51
  follow
• 12:52
  prompts
• 12:52
  so
• 12:52
  tightly
• 12:53
  that
• 12:53
  samples
• 12:54
  "collapse
• 12:54
  into
• 12:54
  a
• 12:54
  single
• 12:55
  visual
• 12:55
  interpretation."
• 12:56
  Semantic
• 12:57
  Browsing,
• 12:57
  from
• 12:58
  Daniel
• 12:58
  Cohen-Or's
• 12:58
  group,
• 12:59
  moves
• 12:59
  diversity
• 13:00
  into
• 13:00
  text:
• 13:01
  repeated
• 13:02
  Gemini
• 13:02
  2.5
• 13:03
  Flash
• 13:03
  roles
• 13:03
  —
• 13:04
  context
• 13:05
  analyst,
• 13:05
  brainstormer,
• 13:06
  decision
• 13:07
  maker,
• 13:07
  critic
• 13:07
  —
• 13:08
  grow
• 13:08
  a
• 13:08
  tree
• 13:09
  with
• 13:09
  two
• 13:09
  semantic
• 13:09
  modifications
• 13:10
  and
• 13:11
  one
• 13:11
  identity
• 13:11
  branch
• 13:11
  at
• 13:12
  each
• 13:12
  level,
• 13:12
  three
• 13:13
  levels
• 13:13
  deep
• 13:13
  for
• 13:13
  27
• 13:14
  leaves.
• 13:15
  On
• 13:15
  50
• 13:16
  COCO
• 13:16
  prompts
• 13:16
  the
• 13:17
  authors
• 13:17
  report
• 13:17
  the
• 13:17
  best
• 13:18
  Vendi
• 13:18
  score
• 13:18
  (3.34)
• 13:20
  and
• 13:20
  lowest
• 13:20
  DINO
• 13:20
  similarity
• 13:21
  (0.61)
• 13:22
  against
• 13:22
  sampler-side
• 13:23
  baselines
• 13:24
  with
• 13:24
  a
• 13:24
  comparable
• 13:25
  aesthetic
• 13:25
  score,
• 13:26
  at
• 13:26
  roughly
• 13:26
  five
• 13:27
  times
• 13:27
  the
• 13:27
  token
• 13:27
  cost
• 13:28
  of
• 13:28
  seed
• 13:28
  variation.
• 13:29
  VQAScore
• 13:30
  dipped
• 13:31
  slightly,
• 13:32
  attributed
• 13:32
  to
• 13:32
  evaluator
• 13:33
  bias
• 13:33
  toward
• 13:33
  conventional
• 13:34
  compositions
• 13:34
  —
• 13:35
  which
• 13:36
  is
• 13:36
  also
• 13:36
  what
• 13:36
  a
• 13:36
  small
• 13:37
  adherence
• 13:37
  loss
• 13:38
  looks
• 13:38
  like
• 13:38
  —
• 13:39
  and
• 13:39
  the
• 13:39
  method
• 13:39
  is
• 13:39
  bounded
• 13:40
  by
• 13:40
  how
• 13:40
  many
• 13:40
  distinct
• 13:41
  interpretations
• 13:42
  the
• 13:42
  VLM
• 13:42
  can
• 13:43
  propose,
• 13:43
  which
• 13:44
  the
• 13:44
  authors
• 13:44
  concede
• 13:45
  "remains
• 13:45
  limited"
• 13:45
  .
• 13:49
  At
• 13:49
  Hot
• 13:50
  Chips
• 13:50
  2026,
• 13:51
  a
• 13:51
  Micron
• 13:52
  Fellow
• 13:52
  put
• 13:52
  a
• 13:52
  number
• 13:52
  on
• 13:53
  a
• 13:53
  year
• 13:53
  of
• 13:53
  rising
• 13:53
  DRAM
• 13:54
  prices:
• 13:55
  for
• 13:55
  the
• 13:55
  same
• 13:55
  bit
• 13:55
  capacity,
• 13:56
  HBM3E
• 13:59
  consumes
• 13:59
  roughly
• 13:59
  three
• 14:00
  times
• 14:00
  the
• 14:00
  wafer
• 14:00
  supply
• 14:01
  of
• 14:01
  DDR5
• 14:02
  on
• 14:02
  the
• 14:02
  same
• 14:02
  process
• 14:02
  node,
• 14:03
  and
• 14:03
  the
• 14:03
  trade
• 14:04
  ratio
• 14:04
  is
• 14:04
  expected
• 14:04
  to
• 14:04
  increase
• 14:05
  for
• 14:05
  newer
• 14:05
  generations.
• 14:07
  That
• 14:07
  does
• 14:07
  not
• 14:07
  mean
• 14:07
  total
• 14:08
  DRAM
• 14:08
  output
• 14:08
  has
• 14:08
  fallen
• 14:09
  by
• 14:09
  two-thirds:
• 14:10
  only
• 14:10
  wafer
• 14:11
  capacity
• 14:11
  shifted
• 14:12
  from
• 14:12
  DDR5-class
• 14:13
  production
• 14:13
  to
• 14:14
  HBM
• 14:14
  incurs
• 14:15
  that
• 14:15
  bit-output
• 14:15
  trade-off,
• 14:16
  and
• 14:16
  the
• 14:17
  industry
• 14:17
  mix
• 14:17
  is
• 14:17
  not
• 14:17
  given.
• 14:19
  A
• 14:19
  Reddit
• 14:19
  thread
• 14:19
  extrapolated
• 14:20
  the
• 14:20
  figure
• 14:20
  to
• 14:20
  datacenter
• 14:21
  GPUs
• 14:21
  —
• 14:22
  sometimes
• 14:23
  using
• 14:23
  an
• 14:23
  incorrect
• 14:24
  144GB
• 14:26
  figure
• 14:26
  for
• 14:26
  the
• 14:26
  192GB
• 14:27
  B100
• 14:28
  —
• 14:29
  and
• 14:29
  added
• 14:29
  unsourced
• 14:30
  estimates
• 14:30
  about
• 14:30
  yields
• 14:31
  and
• 14:31
  Chinese
• 14:31
  supply.
• 14:33
  The
• 14:33
  defensible
• 14:33
  conclusion
• 14:34
  is
• 14:34
  narrower:
• 14:35
  expanding
• 14:35
  HBM
• 14:36
  production
• 14:36
  constrains
• 14:37
  bit
• 14:37
  growth
• 14:37
  in
• 14:37
  non-HBM
• 14:38
  memory
• 14:39
  and
• 14:39
  contributes
• 14:39
  to
• 14:39
  tight
• 14:40
  supply
• 14:40
  .
• 14:41
  Neil
• 14:41
  Movva,
• 14:42
  the
• 14:42
  ex-Nvidia
• 14:43
  founder
• 14:43
  and
• 14:43
  CEO
• 14:44
  of
• 14:44
  Sail
• 14:44
  Research,
• 14:45
  described
• 14:45
  on
• 14:45
  Invest
• 14:46
  Like
• 14:46
  the
• 14:46
  Best
• 14:46
  a
• 14:46
  business
• 14:47
  built
• 14:47
  on
• 14:47
  that
• 14:47
  constraint.
• 14:48
  His
• 14:48
  company
• 14:49
  is
• 14:49
  "a
• 14:49
  token
• 14:49
  factory":
• 14:50
  serve
• 14:51
  open-source
• 14:51
  models
• 14:52
  at
• 14:52
  the
• 14:52
  lowest
• 14:52
  price
• 14:52
  per
• 14:52
  token,
• 14:53
  run
• 14:54
  sandboxes
• 14:54
  for
• 14:54
  agents
• 14:55
  that
• 14:55
  work
• 14:55
  for
• 14:55
  hours
• 14:56
  or
• 14:56
  weeks,
• 14:56
  and
• 14:57
  buy
• 14:57
  capacity
• 14:57
  others
• 14:57
  reject
• 14:58
  —
• 14:58
  perhaps
• 14:59
  80-95%
• 15:02
  uptime,
• 15:03
  with
• 15:03
  no
• 15:03
  redundant
• 15:04
  power
• 15:04
  or
• 15:04
  fiber
• 15:05
  and
• 15:05
  uncontrolled
• 15:06
  P99
• 15:06
  latency
• 15:07
  —
• 15:08
  for
• 15:08
  what
• 15:08
  he
• 15:08
  calls
• 15:08
  "unbeatable
• 15:09
  economics."
• 15:10
  The
• 15:10
  inference
• 15:11
  stack
• 15:11
  was
• 15:11
  built
• 15:12
  for
• 15:12
  chatbots,
• 15:13
  he
• 15:13
  argues,
• 15:14
  while
• 15:14
  the
• 15:14
  future
• 15:14
  is
• 15:14
  background
• 15:15
  work
• 15:15
  where
• 15:15
  "the
• 15:15
  best
• 15:16
  latency
• 15:16
  is
• 15:16
  no
• 15:17
  latency
• 15:17
  at
• 15:17
  all."
• 15:18
  His
• 15:18
  hardware
• 15:19
  thesis
• 15:19
  is
• 15:19
  "no
• 15:19
  bad
• 15:20
  chips,
• 15:20
  only
• 15:21
  bad
• 15:21
  pricing":
• 15:22
  AMD,
• 15:23
  TPUs,
• 15:24
  Trainium
• 15:24
  and
• 15:24
  SRAM-heavy
• 15:25
  Cerebras
• 15:25
  and
• 15:26
  Groq
• 15:26
  can
• 15:26
  all
• 15:26
  work
• 15:27
  with
• 15:27
  expert
• 15:27
  or
• 15:27
  pipeline
• 15:28
  parallelism,
• 15:29
  but
• 15:29
  he
• 15:29
  expects
• 15:29
  SRAM-only
• 15:30
  designs
• 15:31
  to
• 15:31
  hit
• 15:31
  a
• 15:31
  KV-cache
• 15:31
  wall.
• 15:32
  Using
• 15:33
  his
• 15:33
  rough
• 15:33
  comparison
• 15:34
  of
• 15:34
  Blackwell's
• 15:34
  500MB
• 15:36
  of
• 15:37
  SRAM
• 15:37
  against
• 15:37
  288GB
• 15:38
  of
• 15:38
  HBM,
• 15:39
  he
• 15:39
  predicts
• 15:40
  they
• 15:40
  will
• 15:40
  become
• 15:40
  accelerators
• 15:41
  beside
• 15:41
  GPUs
• 15:42
  while
• 15:42
  HBM
• 15:43
  remains
• 15:43
  "the
• 15:43
  bottleneck
• 15:44
  to
• 15:44
  attack"
• 15:44
  .
• 15:45
  Ed
• 15:45
  Zitron,
• 15:45
  on
• 15:46
  The
• 15:46
  Diary
• 15:46
  of
• 15:46
  a
• 15:46
  CEO,
• 15:47
  argues
• 15:47
  the
• 15:47
  edifice
• 15:48
  is
• 15:48
  "at
• 15:48
  its
• 15:48
  heart
• 15:48
  a
• 15:48
  con."
• 15:49
  His
• 15:50
  figures
• 15:50
  combine
• 15:50
  different
• 15:51
  periods
• 15:51
  and
• 15:51
  evidence
• 15:52
  levels:
• 15:52
  cumulative
• 15:53
  and
• 15:53
  planned
• 15:54
  hyperscaler
• 15:54
  capex,
• 15:55
  his
• 15:55
  estimate
• 15:56
  of
• 15:56
  roughly
• 15:56
  $22
• 15:57
  billion
• 15:57
  in
• 15:58
  AI
• 15:58
  revenue
• 15:58
  outside
• 15:59
  OpenAI
• 15:59
  and
• 16:00
  Anthropic,
• 16:01
  and
• 16:01
  an
• 16:01
  analyst
• 16:01
  estimate
• 16:02
  that
• 16:02
  about
• 16:02
  70%
• 16:03
  of
• 16:03
  Amazon,
• 16:04
  Microsoft
• 16:05
  and
• 16:05
  Google's
• 16:05
  AI
• 16:05
  revenue
• 16:06
  comes
• 16:06
  from
• 16:06
  those
• 16:07
  two
• 16:07
  unprofitable
• 16:08
  labs
• 16:08
  the
• 16:08
  same
• 16:08
  companies
• 16:09
  fund.
• 16:10
  Leaked
• 16:10
  documents
• 16:11
  reportedly
• 16:11
  showed
• 16:12
  OpenAI
• 16:12
  with
• 16:13
  a
• 16:13
  $20.92
• 16:14
  billion
• 16:14
  operating
• 16:15
  loss
• 16:15
  in
• 16:16
  2025,
• 16:17
  not
• 16:17
  an
• 16:17
  audited
• 16:18
  public
• 16:18
  cash-flow
• 16:18
  figure.
• 16:20
  Zitron's
• 16:20
  forecast
• 16:21
  that
• 16:21
  OpenAI
• 16:22
  runs
• 16:22
  out
• 16:22
  of
• 16:22
  cash
• 16:23
  around
• 16:23
  2027
• 16:24
  remains
• 16:24
  a
• 16:24
  prediction;
• 16:25
  assessing
• 16:26
  it
• 16:26
  would
• 16:26
  require
• 16:26
  cash
• 16:27
  flows,
• 16:27
  financing
• 16:28
  capacity,
• 16:29
  commitments
• 16:30
  and
• 16:30
  payment
• 16:30
  schedules
• 16:31
  the
• 16:31
  company
• 16:31
  does
• 16:31
  not
• 16:31
  fully
• 16:32
  disclose.
• 16:33
  Zitron
• 16:34
  and
• 16:34
  the
• 16:34
  token-factory
• 16:35
  founder
• 16:35
  agree
• 16:36
  that
• 16:36
  tokens
• 16:36
  cost
• 16:37
  far
• 16:37
  too
• 16:37
  much
• 16:37
  relative
• 16:38
  to
• 16:38
  value
• 16:38
  captured.
• 16:39
  They
• 16:40
  differ
• 16:40
  on
• 16:40
  whether
• 16:40
  that
• 16:40
  is
• 16:41
  a
• 16:41
  bug
• 16:41
  to
• 16:41
  engineer
• 16:42
  away
• 16:42
  or
• 16:42
  the
• 16:42
  business
• 16:43
  itself
• 16:43
  .
• 16:46
  Z.ai's
• 16:46
  GLM-5.3-Flash
• 16:47
  weights
• 16:48
  are
• 16:48
  up:
• 16:48
  320B
• 16:49
  total
• 16:49
  parameters,
• 16:50
  18B
• 16:50
  active,
• 16:51
  natively
• 16:51
  multimodal,
• 16:52
  and
• 16:52
  MIT
• 16:52
  licensed,
• 16:53
  placing
• 16:53
  it
• 16:53
  beside
• 16:53
  DeepSeek
• 16:54
  among
• 16:54
  the
• 16:54
  rare
• 16:54
  permissively
• 16:55
  licensed
• 16:55
  open-weight
• 16:56
  releases.
• 16:56
  It
• 16:56
  was
• 16:56
  tested
• 16:57
  anonymously
• 16:57
  as
• 16:57
  ox-alpha
• 16:58
  on
• 16:58
  OpenCode
• 16:58
  and
• 16:59
  OpenRouter;
• 16:59
  Z.ai
• 17:00
  says
• 17:00
  it
• 17:00
  became
• 17:00
  the
• 17:00
  most
• 17:00
  popular
• 17:01
  model
• 17:01
  of
• 17:01
  the
• 17:01
  week
• 17:01
  and
• 17:02
  that
• 17:02
  all
• 17:02
  that
• 17:02
  traffic
• 17:02
  was
• 17:02
  served
• 17:03
  on
• 17:03
  Chinese
• 17:03
  AI
• 17:03
  chips.
• 17:04
  The
• 17:04
  320B
• 17:05
  total
• 17:06
  footprint
• 17:06
  is
• 17:06
  too
• 17:06
  large
• 17:06
  for
• 17:07
  most
• 17:07
  home
• 17:07
  rigs;
• 17:08
  "flash"
• 17:08
  describes
• 17:09
  serving
• 17:09
  efficiency
• 17:10
  and
• 17:10
  price
• 17:10
  despite
• 17:11
  that
• 17:11
  local
• 17:11
  burden
• 17:11
  .
• 17:12
  IBM's
• 17:12
  Granite
• 17:13
  4.2
• 17:13
  family
• 17:13
  —
• 17:14
  30B,
• 17:14
  8B
• 17:15
  and
• 17:15
  3B
• 17:15
  —
• 17:15
  is
• 17:16
  quieter
• 17:16
  but
• 17:16
  has
• 17:16
  a
• 17:16
  real
• 17:16
  architectural
• 17:17
  story.
• 17:18
  Granite
• 17:18
  4.0
• 17:19
  included
• 17:19
  dense-transformer
• 17:20
  and
• 17:20
  hybrid
• 17:21
  Mamba2
• 17:21
  variants,
• 17:22
  with
• 17:22
  its
• 17:22
  Tiny
• 17:22
  and
• 17:22
  Small
• 17:23
  hybrids
• 17:23
  also
• 17:23
  using
• 17:24
  MoE;
• 17:24
  4.2
• 17:25
  is
• 17:25
  a
• 17:25
  dense
• 17:26
  decoder-only
• 17:26
  transformer
• 17:27
  with
• 17:27
  GQA,
• 17:28
  a
• 17:28
  native
• 17:28
  128K
• 17:29
  window
• 17:30
  extendable
• 17:30
  to
• 17:30
  512K,
• 17:31
  built-in
• 17:31
  think
• 17:32
  tags
• 17:32
  with
• 17:32
  full,
• 17:32
  low-effort
• 17:33
  and
• 17:33
  off
• 17:33
  modes,
• 17:34
  reasoning-augmented
• 17:34
  tool
• 17:35
  calling,
• 17:35
  and
• 17:35
  Apache
• 17:36
  2.0.
• 17:37
  The
• 17:37
  Mamba2
• 17:37
  layers
• 17:38
  are
• 17:38
  gone
• 17:38
  in
• 17:38
  favor
• 17:38
  of
• 17:38
  a
• 17:39
  simpler
• 17:39
  architecture
• 17:39
  with
• 17:39
  broader
• 17:40
  tooling
• 17:40
  support,
• 17:41
  though
• 17:41
  IBM
• 17:41
  does
• 17:41
  not
• 17:42
  establish
• 17:42
  the
• 17:42
  implied
• 17:42
  long-context
• 17:43
  throughput
• 17:43
  trade-off.
• 17:44
  The
• 17:44
  model
• 17:45
  card
• 17:45
  compares
• 17:45
  against
• 17:45
  no
• 17:46
  recent
• 17:46
  model,
• 17:47
  which
• 17:47
  one
• 17:47
  commenter
• 17:47
  called
• 17:48
  suspicious;
• 17:49
  Granite
• 17:49
  is
• 17:49
  "always
• 17:50
  a
• 17:50
  bit
• 17:50
  behind"
• 17:50
  but
• 17:51
  Apache-licensed
• 17:51
  .
• 17:52
  The
• 17:52
  more
• 17:52
  impressive
• 17:53
  IBM
• 17:53
  release
• 17:54
  is
• 17:54
  Granite
• 17:54
  Speech
• 17:54
  5.0
• 17:55
  Turbo
• 17:55
  CTC:
• 17:57
  two
• 17:57
  470M-parameter
• 17:59
  English
• 17:59
  ASR
• 18:00
  models
• 18:00
  (one
• 18:01
  Apache
• 18:01
  2.0,
• 18:02
  one
• 18:03
  noncommercial)
• 18:03
  hitting
• 18:03
  over
• 18:04
  12,600
• 18:05
  RTFx
• 18:05
  in
• 18:06
  batched
• 18:06
  H200
• 18:07
  tests,
• 18:08
  meaning
• 18:08
  3.5
• 18:09
  hours
• 18:09
  of
• 18:09
  audio
• 18:09
  per
• 18:09
  second
• 18:10
  in
• 18:10
  that
• 18:10
  setting,
• 18:11
  at
• 18:11
  aggregate
• 18:11
  word
• 18:12
  error
• 18:12
  rates
• 18:12
  of
• 18:12
  5.00%
• 18:14
  and
• 18:14
  4.85%
• 18:16
  on
• 18:16
  the
• 18:16
  OpenASR
• 18:16
  public
• 18:17
  short-form
• 18:17
  sets.
• 18:18
  The
• 18:18
  speed
• 18:19
  comes
• 18:19
  from
• 18:19
  an
• 18:19
  encoder-only
• 18:20
  design
• 18:20
  without
• 18:21
  a
• 18:21
  language
• 18:21
  model:
• 18:22
  a
• 18:22
  16-block
• 18:23
  Conformer
• 18:23
  encoder
• 18:24
  with
• 18:24
  CTC
• 18:24
  loss,
• 18:25
  subsampled
• 18:26
  to
• 18:26
  12.5
• 18:27
  tokens
• 18:27
  per
• 18:27
  second.
• 18:28
  That
• 18:29
  leaves
• 18:29
  behind
• 18:29
  translation
• 18:30
  and
• 18:30
  keyword-biasing
• 18:31
  features
• 18:31
  from
• 18:31
  earlier
• 18:32
  LM-backed
• 18:32
  models
• 18:33
  but
• 18:33
  delivers
• 18:34
  20x
• 18:34
  their
• 18:34
  throughput
• 18:35
  in
• 18:35
  an
• 18:35
  edge-sized
• 18:36
  footprint
• 18:36
  .
• 18:37
  At
• 18:37
  the
• 18:37
  far
• 18:38
  end,
• 18:38
  the
• 18:38
  author
• 18:39
  of
• 18:39
  gemma4.c
• 18:41
  says
• 18:41
  its
• 18:41
  roughly
• 18:41
  700-line
• 18:42
  C
• 18:42
  runtime
• 18:43
  runs
• 18:43
  Gemma
• 18:43
  4
• 18:44
  E2B
• 18:44
  —
• 18:44
  tokenizer,
• 18:45
  transformer,
• 18:46
  KV
• 18:47
  cache,
• 18:47
  sampling
• 18:48
  and
• 18:48
  CPU
• 18:48
  kernels,
• 18:49
  no
• 18:49
  framework
• 18:50
  —
• 18:51
  with
• 18:51
  int8
• 18:51
  kernels.
• 18:52
  On
• 18:53
  the
• 18:53
  author's
• 18:53
  Ryzen
• 18:53
  7
• 18:55
  7700
• 18:57
  it
• 18:57
  prefills
• 18:57
  512
• 18:58
  tokens
• 18:59
  at
• 18:59
  about
• 18:59
  639
• 19:00
  tok/s
• 19:01
  and
• 19:02
  generates
• 19:02
  at
• 19:02
  25.9
• 19:03
  tok/s;
• 19:04
  the
• 19:05
  author
• 19:05
  says
• 19:05
  that
• 19:05
  beats
• 19:06
  llama.cpp
• 19:07
  for
• 19:07
  this
• 19:08
  model,
• 19:09
  though
• 19:09
  the
• 19:09
  post
• 19:09
  does
• 19:09
  not
• 19:10
  show
• 19:10
  a
• 19:10
  controlled
• 19:10
  configuration
• 19:11
  and
• 19:11
  quantization
• 19:12
  comparison.
• 19:13
  The
• 19:14
  point
• 19:14
  is
• 19:14
  pedagogical:
• 19:15
  start
• 19:16
  at
• 19:16
  main()
• 19:16
  and
• 19:16
  follow
• 19:16
  one
• 19:17
  prompt
• 19:17
  through
• 19:17
  every
• 19:17
  buffer
• 19:18
  and
• 19:18
  matmul
• 19:18
  .
• 19:24
  The
• 19:24
  hardware
• 19:25
  post
• 19:25
  of
• 19:25
  the
• 19:25
  week:
• 19:26
  one
• 19:26
  author
• 19:26
  reports
• 19:27
  that
• 19:27
  a
• 19:27
  Framework
• 19:27
  Desktop
• 19:27
  Strix
• 19:28
  Halo
• 19:28
  board
• 19:28
  with
• 19:29
  a
• 19:29
  Radeon
• 19:29
  R9700
• 19:31
  Pro
• 19:31
  on
• 19:31
  its
• 19:31
  spare
• 19:32
  x4
• 19:32
  PCIe
• 19:33
  4.0
• 19:33
  slot
• 19:34
  doubled
• 19:34
  Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
• 19:39
  generation
• 19:39
  from
• 19:39
  24
• 19:40
  to
• 19:40
  49
• 19:40
  tok/s
• 19:41
  and
• 19:41
  lifted
• 19:41
  32K-context
• 19:42
  prefill
• 19:43
  2.5x
• 19:43
  to
• 19:43
  682
• 19:44
  tok/s,
• 19:45
  for
• 19:45
  a
• 19:45
  hardware
• 19:46
  combination
• 19:46
  the
• 19:46
  author
• 19:46
  priced
• 19:46
  around
• 19:47
  $5K.
• 19:48
  The
• 19:48
  insight
• 19:48
  is
• 19:49
  placement,
• 19:49
  not
• 19:49
  offload.
• 19:50
  In
• 19:50
  a
• 19:50
  mixture-of-experts
• 19:51
  model
• 19:51
  most
• 19:51
  weights
• 19:51
  are
• 19:52
  routed
• 19:52
  experts
• 19:52
  touched
• 19:53
  only
• 19:53
  for
• 19:53
  some
• 19:53
  tokens
• 19:53
  —
• 19:54
  about
• 19:54
  62GB
• 19:55
  of
• 19:55
  the
• 19:55
  71GB
• 19:56
  file,
• 19:56
  of
• 19:57
  which
• 19:57
  maybe
• 19:57
  2GB
• 19:58
  is
• 19:58
  read
• 19:58
  per
• 19:58
  token
• 19:58
  —
• 19:58
  so
• 19:59
  those
• 19:59
  live
• 19:59
  in
• 19:59
  Strix
• 20:00
  Halo's
• 20:00
  unified
• 20:00
  pool,
• 20:01
  while
• 20:01
  the
• 20:01
  roughly
• 20:01
  4GB
• 20:02
  of
• 20:02
  dense
• 20:02
  layers
• 20:03
  touched
• 20:03
  every
• 20:03
  token,
• 20:04
  the
• 20:04
  KV
• 20:04
  cache,
• 20:05
  and
• 20:05
  critically
• 20:05
  the
• 20:05
  multi-token-prediction
• 20:06
  draft
• 20:07
  head
• 20:07
  go
• 20:07
  on
• 20:07
  the
• 20:07
  R9700
• 20:09
  where
• 20:09
  compute
• 20:09
  and
• 20:10
  bandwidth
• 20:10
  are
• 20:10
  higher.
• 20:11
  Only
• 20:11
  about
• 20:11
  12KB
• 20:12
  per
• 20:12
  token
• 20:13
  crosses
• 20:13
  the
• 20:13
  link,
• 20:14
  so
• 20:14
  link
• 20:14
  bandwidth
• 20:15
  was
• 20:15
  not
• 20:15
  limiting
• 20:16
  in
• 20:16
  this
• 20:16
  configuration
• 20:16
  as
• 20:17
  long
• 20:17
  as
• 20:17
  latency
• 20:17
  stayed
• 20:18
  low.
• 20:19
  The
• 20:19
  author
• 20:19
  published
• 20:19
  patches,
• 20:20
  config
• 20:20
  and
• 20:20
  an
• 20:21
  MTP-grafted
• 20:21
  requant
• 20:22
  .
• 20:22
  The
• 20:22
  ROCm-versus-Vulkan
• 20:23
  question
• 20:24
  got
• 20:24
  a
• 20:24
  one-user
• 20:25
  re-run
• 20:25
  on
• 20:25
  a
• 20:26
  Radeon
• 20:26
  Pro
• 20:26
  V620
• 20:27
  (gfx1030,
• 20:28
  32GB)
• 20:29
  under
• 20:29
  Windows
• 20:30
  11
• 20:30
  on
• 20:30
  a
• 20:31
  nightly
• 20:31
  ROCm
• 20:31
  build
• 20:32
  with
• 20:32
  custom
• 20:32
  patches
• 20:32
  and
• 20:33
  quants.
• 20:34
  Across
• 20:34
  Qwen3.8-27B
• 20:37
  and
• 20:38
  two
• 20:38
  Gemma
• 20:38
  4
• 20:38
  variants
• 20:39
  from
• 20:39
  3.4K
• 20:40
  to
• 20:40
  26.7K
• 20:41
  tokens,
• 20:42
  Vulkan
• 20:42
  won
• 20:42
  generation
• 20:43
  in
• 20:43
  every
• 20:43
  tested
• 20:44
  cell
• 20:44
  —
• 20:45
  modestly
• 20:45
  for
• 20:45
  Qwen,
• 20:45
  decisively
• 20:46
  for
• 20:46
  dense
• 20:46
  Gemma
• 20:47
  at
• 20:47
  depth
• 20:47
  (19.0
• 20:48
  vs
• 20:49
  14.5
• 20:49
  tok/s).
• 20:51
  Prompt
• 20:51
  processing
• 20:51
  was
• 20:51
  model-dependent:
• 20:53
  ROCm
• 20:53
  swept
• 20:54
  Qwen
• 20:54
  (274
• 20:55
  vs
• 20:55
  131
• 20:56
  tok/s
• 20:57
  at
• 20:57
  26.7K),
• 20:58
  while
• 20:58
  Vulkan
• 20:58
  took
• 20:59
  several
• 20:59
  Gemma
• 20:59
  cases,
• 21:00
  including
• 21:00
  at
• 21:01
  longer
• 21:01
  context.
• 21:02
  The
• 21:02
  table
• 21:02
  is
• 21:02
  useful
• 21:03
  for
• 21:03
  this
• 21:03
  setup,
• 21:04
  but
• 21:04
  it
• 21:04
  does
• 21:04
  not
• 21:04
  support
• 21:04
  a
• 21:05
  universal
• 21:05
  "Vulkan
• 21:05
  for
• 21:06
  decode,
• 21:06
  ROCm
• 21:07
  for
• 21:07
  prefill"
• 21:07
  rule
• 21:09
  .
• 21:10
  Qwen3.8-27B
• 21:11
  is
• 21:11
  drawing
• 21:11
  strong
• 21:12
  interest
• 21:12
  as
• 21:12
  a
• 21:12
  local
• 21:13
  coding
• 21:13
  model.
• 21:14
  On
• 21:14
  a
• 21:14
  16GB
• 21:15
  RTX
• 21:16
  A5000
• 21:17
  laptop,
• 21:18
  one
• 21:18
  user
• 21:18
  reports
• 21:19
  that
• 21:19
  turboderp's
• 21:19
  3.00-bpw
• 21:20
  exl3
• 21:21
  quant
• 21:22
  via
• 21:22
  tabbyAPI
• 21:23
  with
• 21:23
  a
• 21:23
  6/5-bit
• 21:24
  KV
• 21:24
  cache
• 21:24
  fits
• 21:24
  roughly
• 21:25
  110K
• 21:26
  tokens
• 21:26
  of
• 21:26
  context
• 21:27
  with
• 21:27
  MTP
• 21:27
  speculative
• 21:28
  decoding,
• 21:29
  producing
• 21:29
  code
• 21:30
  at
• 21:30
  around
• 21:30
  55
• 21:31
  tok/s
• 21:31
  but
• 21:31
  complex
• 21:32
  calculations
• 21:32
  at
• 21:33
  roughly
• 21:33
  10
• 21:33
  tok/s;
• 21:35
  with
• 21:35
  a
• 21:35
  Playwright
• 21:35
  MCP
• 21:36
  server,
• 21:37
  the
• 21:37
  agent
• 21:37
  built
• 21:37
  a
• 21:37
  small
• 21:38
  car
• 21:38
  game
• 21:38
  and
• 21:38
  browsed
• 21:39
  the
• 21:39
  weather.
• 21:40
  A
• 21:40
  commenter
• 21:40
  using
• 21:41
  a
• 21:41
  16GB
• 21:42
  RTX
• 21:42
  5080
• 21:43
  Laptop
• 21:44
  GPU
• 21:44
  reports
• 21:45
  a
• 21:45
  llama.cpp
• 21:46
  IQ3
• 21:47
  XXS
• 21:48
  setup
• 21:48
  at
• 21:48
  96K
• 21:49
  context
• 21:49
  and
• 21:49
  60-80
• 21:50
  tok/s
• 21:50
  decode
• 21:51
  .
• 21:53
  On
• 21:53
  a
• 21:53
  4090
• 21:54
  with
• 21:54
  96GB
• 21:55
  of
• 21:55
  RAM,
• 21:56
  one
• 21:56
  user
• 21:56
  says
• 21:57
  a
• 21:57
  Q4
• 21:57
  quant
• 21:58
  built
• 21:58
  a
• 21:58
  browser
• 21:58
  Minecraft
• 21:59
  clone
• 21:59
  end
• 21:59
  to
• 21:59
  end
• 21:59
  —
• 22:01
  code,
• 22:01
  synthesized
• 22:02
  audio,
• 22:03
  textures
• 22:03
  and
• 22:03
  3D
• 22:04
  models
• 22:04
  —
• 22:05
  from
• 22:05
  the
• 22:05
  same
• 22:05
  basic
• 22:06
  prompt
• 22:06
  over
• 22:06
  about
• 22:06
  three
• 22:07
  hours
• 22:07
  and
• 22:07
  under
• 22:07
  a
• 22:08
  dollar
• 22:08
  of
• 22:08
  electricity.
• 22:09
  A
• 22:10
  commenter
• 22:10
  argued
• 22:10
  that
• 22:11
  Minecraft
• 22:11
  clones
• 22:12
  may
• 22:12
  be
• 22:12
  unusually
• 22:13
  well
• 22:13
  represented
• 22:13
  in
• 22:13
  training
• 22:14
  data,
• 22:15
  so
• 22:15
  a
• 22:15
  stronger
• 22:15
  test
• 22:15
  would
• 22:16
  be
• 22:16
  something
• 22:16
  structurally
• 22:17
  similar
• 22:17
  but
• 22:17
  less
• 22:18
  likely
• 22:18
  to
• 22:18
  appear
• 22:18
  in
• 22:18
  the
• 22:18
  corpus.
• 22:20
  Another
• 22:20
  user
• 22:20
  posted
• 22:21
  a
• 22:21
  much
• 22:21
  more
• 22:21
  demanding
• 22:22
  overnight
• 22:22
  Call
• 22:22
  of
• 22:23
  Duty-style
• 22:23
  FPS
• 22:24
  specification,
• 22:25
  but
• 22:25
  no
• 22:25
  independently
• 22:26
  verified
• 22:26
  result
• 22:27
  .