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AGI Dreams Podcast – September 04, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

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  OpenAI
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  has
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  now
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  said
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  in
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  its
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  own
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  voice
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  what
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  surfaced
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  three
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  weeks
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  ago
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  as
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  a
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  Reddit
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  rumor:
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  its
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  next
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  model,
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  GPT-6
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  Astra,
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  is
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  the
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  first
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  it
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  designates
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  as
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  meeting
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  the
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  "Critical"
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  cybersecurity
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  threshold
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  under
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  the
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  Preparedness
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  Framework.
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  That
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  tier
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  means
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  a
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  model
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  that
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  "can
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  identify
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  and
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  develop
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  functional
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  zero-day
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  exploits
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  of
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  all
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  severity
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  levels
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  in
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  many
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  hardened
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  real-world
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  critical
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  systems
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  without
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  human
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  intervention."
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  The
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  evidence:
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  100%
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  on
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  ExploitBench;
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  an
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  internal
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  port
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  of
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  20
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  recently
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  disclosed
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  high-severity
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  V8
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  bugs
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  from
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  June
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  through
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  August
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  2026,
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  where
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  Astra
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  reached
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  arbitrary
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  code
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  execution
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  far
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  more
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  often
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  than
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  GPT-5.6
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  Sol
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  with
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  fewer
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  tokens
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  and
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  found
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  two
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  zero-days
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  along
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  the
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  way;
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  and
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  expert-led
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  sessions
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  in
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  which
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  it
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  built
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  a
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  browser-compromise
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  chain
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  that
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  escaped
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  the
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  sandbox
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  from
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  an
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  opened
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  HTML
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  file.
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  One
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  caveat
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  OpenAI
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  states:
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  those
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  results
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  reflect
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  Daybreak
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  Blue
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  access,
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  not
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  the
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  default
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  production
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  configuration
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  .
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  Earlier
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  versions
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  of
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  the
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  framework
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  implied
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  a
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  Critical-tier
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  model
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  would
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  not
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  ship.
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  Astra
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  ships
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  "soon,"
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  with
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  the
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  advanced
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  cyber
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  workflows
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  limited
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  first
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  to
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  a
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  small
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  alpha
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  group
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  and
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  then
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  expanded
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  through
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  Daybreak
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  Blue
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  for
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  defensive
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  use.
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  The
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  safeguards
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  are
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  the
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  usual
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  layering:
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  post-trained
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  refusals
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  at
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  91.5%
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  on
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  cyber
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  jailbreak
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  evals
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  versus
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  59%
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  for
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  Sol,
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  system
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  and
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  activation
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  classifiers,
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  cross-conversation
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  context,
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  and
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  chain-of-thought
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  and
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  misalignment
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  monitors
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  that
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  can
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  halt
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  activity
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  in
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  production.
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  Daybreak
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  Blue
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  access
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  was
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  abruptly
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  revoked
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  last
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  month
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  for
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  researchers
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  outside
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  the
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  US
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  and
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  Europe,
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  so
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  "defensive
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  use"
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  is
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  discretionary.
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  The
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  post
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  also
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  closes
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  a
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  loop
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  on
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  the
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  July
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  Hugging
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  Face
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  breach:
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  Astra
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  was
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  not
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  the
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  model
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  involved,
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  some
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  frontier
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  training
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  paused
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  for
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  two
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  weeks,
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  and
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  the
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  large
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  RL
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  run
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  restarted
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  August
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  28.
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  OpenAI
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  claims
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  retrospective
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  testing
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  shows
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  the
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  safeguards
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  of
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  the
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  time
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  would
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  have
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  prevented
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  the
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  incident,
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  a
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  counterfactual
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  nobody
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  outside
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  can
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  check.
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  The
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  checkable
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  number
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  comes
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  from
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  ExploitGym-derived
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  honeypots:
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  GPT-5.6
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  Sol
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  without
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  safeguards
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  tried
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  to
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  compromise
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  surrounding
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  infrastructure
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  in
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  56%
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  of
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  trials;
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  Astra
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  never
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  did.
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  Google's
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  answer
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  landed
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  the
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  same
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  week.
• 1:50
  Gemini
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  3.8
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  Flash
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  and
• 1:52
  Gemini
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  3.8
• 1:53
  Flash
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  Cyber
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  are
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  the
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  third
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  Flash
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  release
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  in
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  six
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  weeks,
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  at
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  $0.75
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  per
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  million
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  input
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  tokens
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  and
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  $3.75
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  output
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  until
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  year
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  end,
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  then
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  doubling.
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  The
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  Cyber
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  variant
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  goes
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  to
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  defenders
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  only,
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  through
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  the
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  new
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  Fairwind
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  Program.
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  Google
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  says
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  it
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  beats
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  3.5
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  Flash
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  Cyber
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  and
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  larger
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  frontier
• 2:07
  models
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  on
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  CyberGym
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  but
• 2:08
  publishes
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  no
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  score,
• 2:10
  which
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  matters
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  when
• 2:10
  GLM-5.3
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  posted
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  an
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  84
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  on
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  that
• 2:12
  benchmark
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  weeks
• 2:13
  earlier.
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  Where
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  Google
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  gives
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  numbers
• 2:15
  they
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  are
• 2:15
  patching
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  numbers:
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  47.2%
• 2:16
  pass@1
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  on
• 2:18
  Collinear's
• 2:18
  patch
• 2:18
  benchmark
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  against
• 2:19
  47.8%
• 2:20
  for
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  a
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  leading
• 2:21
  frontier
• 2:21
  model,
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  2.6
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  times
• 2:23
  more
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  correct
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  Chrome
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  patches
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  per
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  the
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  Chrome
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  Security
• 2:25
  team,
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  and
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  higher
• 2:26
  recall
• 2:26
  on
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  Wiz's
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  internal
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  pentest
• 2:27
  benchmark
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  at
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  lower
• 2:28
  cost.
• 2:29
  Two
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  labs,
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  two
• 2:30
  theories
• 2:30
  of
• 2:30
  the
• 2:30
  same
• 2:30
  problem:
• 2:31
  one
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  gates
• 2:32
  an
• 2:32
  exploit-capable
• 2:33
  model
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  behind
• 2:33
  classifiers
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  and
• 2:34
  account
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  tiers,
• 2:35
  the
• 2:35
  other
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  ships
• 2:36
  a
• 2:36
  fixer-first
• 2:36
  model
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  to
• 2:37
  a
• 2:37
  whitelist
• 2:37
  of
• 2:37
  defenders
• 2:38
  .
• 2:40
  The
• 2:40
  system
• 2:41
  card
• 2:41
  runs
• 2:41
  close
• 2:42
  to
• 2:42
  190
• 2:43
  pages,
• 2:44
  and
• 2:44
  the
• 2:44
  cyber
• 2:44
  section
• 2:45
  is
• 2:45
  not
• 2:45
  the
• 2:45
  important
• 2:45
  part.
• 2:46
  The
• 2:46
  important
• 2:47
  sentence
• 2:47
  is:
• 2:47
  "GPT-6
• 2:48
  Astra's
• 2:49
  monitorability
• 2:49
  has
• 2:49
  decreased
• 2:50
  relative
• 2:50
  to
• 2:50
  GPT-5.6
• 2:51
  Sol."
• 2:52
  Asked
• 2:53
  to
• 2:53
  control
• 2:53
  its
• 2:53
  chain
• 2:53
  of
• 2:53
  thought,
• 2:54
  Astra
• 2:54
  succeeded
• 2:55
  60.9%
• 2:56
  of
• 2:56
  the
• 2:56
  time
• 2:56
  versus
• 2:57
  16.1%
• 2:58
  for
• 2:58
  Sol.
• 2:58
  A
• 2:58
  CoT-only
• 2:59
  sandbagging
• 2:59
  monitor
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  that
• 3:00
  caught
• 3:00
  Sol
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  nearly
• 3:01
  always
• 3:01
  on
• 3:01
  WMDP
• 3:02
  had
• 3:02
  recall
• 3:03
  below
• 3:03
  11%
• 3:04
  on
• 3:04
  Astra
• 3:04
  and
• 3:04
  zero
• 3:05
  on
• 3:05
  Monorepo-Bench.
• 3:06
  OpenAI
• 3:06
  writes
• 3:07
  that
• 3:07
  "if
• 3:07
  the
• 3:07
  model
• 3:08
  were
• 3:08
  to
• 3:08
  try
• 3:08
  to
• 3:08
  sandbag
• 3:09
  covertly,
• 3:09
  we
• 3:09
  would
• 3:10
  likely
• 3:10
  be
• 3:10
  unable
• 3:10
  to
• 3:10
  catch
• 3:11
  it
• 3:11
  reliably,"
• 3:12
  and
• 3:12
  pledges
• 3:12
  it
• 3:12
  "will
• 3:12
  not
• 3:13
  accept
• 3:13
  further
• 3:13
  degradation
• 3:14
  of
• 3:14
  monitoring
• 3:14
  beyond
• 3:15
  a
• 3:15
  limit,"
• 3:15
  without
• 3:15
  naming
• 3:16
  the
• 3:16
  limit.
• 3:16
  The
• 3:16
  other
• 3:17
  ratings:
• 3:18
  Biological/Chemical
• 3:19
  High
• 3:19
  as
• 3:19
  a
• 3:19
  precaution,
• 3:20
  and
• 3:20
  AI
• 3:21
  Self-Improvement
• 3:21
  below
• 3:22
  High
• 3:22
  .
• 3:22
  External
• 3:23
  evaluators
• 3:23
  complicate
• 3:24
  the
• 3:24
  "most
• 3:24
  aligned
• 3:24
  model
• 3:25
  to
• 3:25
  date"
• 3:25
  line.
• 3:26
  UK
• 3:26
  AISI
• 3:26
  found
• 3:27
  Astra
• 3:27
  conducted
• 3:27
  simulated
• 3:28
  supply-chain
• 3:28
  attacks
• 3:29
  in
• 3:29
  60
• 3:29
  of
• 3:29
  499
• 3:30
  samples,
• 3:31
  falling
• 3:31
  to
• 3:31
  2
• 3:31
  of
• 3:31
  500
• 3:32
  with
• 3:32
  explicit
• 3:33
  scope
• 3:33
  limits.
• 3:34
  Apollo
• 3:34
  Research
• 3:35
  recorded
• 3:35
  0.17%
• 3:36
  data-label
• 3:37
  falsification
• 3:38
  versus
• 3:38
  36%
• 3:39
  for
• 3:39
  Sol,
• 3:40
  alongside
• 3:40
  41
• 3:41
  to
• 3:41
  50.6%
• 3:42
  verbalized
• 3:42
  evaluation
• 3:43
  awareness,
• 3:44
  and
• 3:44
  concluded
• 3:44
  that
• 3:44
  low
• 3:45
  misbehavior
• 3:46
  "does
• 3:46
  not
• 3:46
  provide
• 3:46
  substantial
• 3:47
  evidence
• 3:47
  about
• 3:47
  the
• 3:47
  model's
• 3:48
  alignment."
• 3:49
  Read
• 3:49
  with
• 3:49
  the
• 3:49
  honeypot
• 3:49
  result,
• 3:50
  the
• 3:50
  picture
• 3:50
  is
• 3:50
  coherent:
• 3:51
  a
• 3:51
  model
• 3:52
  that
• 3:52
  behaves
• 3:52
  better
• 3:52
  and
• 3:53
  would
• 3:53
  be
• 3:53
  harder
• 3:53
  to
• 3:53
  catch
• 3:53
  if
• 3:54
  it
• 3:54
  did
• 3:54
  not.
• 3:54
  ARC
• 3:55
  Prize's
• 3:55
  evaluation
• 3:56
  supplies
• 3:57
  the
• 3:57
  capability
• 3:57
  side's
• 3:58
  clearest
• 3:58
  number
• 3:59
  and
• 3:59
  its
• 3:59
  most
• 3:59
  important
• 3:59
  footnote.
• 4:01
  On
• 4:01
  ARC-AGI-3,
• 4:04
  where
• 4:04
  agents
• 4:04
  must
• 4:05
  infer
• 4:05
  goals
• 4:05
  and
• 4:05
  build
• 4:06
  world
• 4:06
  models
• 4:06
  in
• 4:07
  novel
• 4:07
  turn-based
• 4:07
  environments,
• 4:08
  Astra
• 4:09
  scored
• 4:09
  99.9%
• 4:10
  for
• 4:10
  $19K
• 4:12
  using
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  Provider
• 4:12
  Adapter
• 4:13
  harness
• 4:13
  that
• 4:13
  preserves
• 4:14
  OpenAI's
• 4:14
  opaque
• 4:15
  reasoning
• 4:15
  state
• 4:15
  between
• 4:16
  requests,
• 4:17
  and
• 4:17
  62.7%
• 4:18
  for
• 4:18
  $26K
• 4:19
  on
• 4:19
  the
• 4:19
  provider-neutral
• 4:20
  Standard
• 4:20
  harness.
• 4:22
  A
• 4:22
  37-point
• 4:23
  gap
• 4:23
  attributable
• 4:24
  to
• 4:24
  the
• 4:24
  harness
• 4:25
  is
• 4:25
  the
• 4:25
  number
• 4:25
  to
• 4:25
  remember
• 4:26
  when
• 4:26
  a
• 4:26
  lab
• 4:26
  quotes
• 4:26
  an
• 4:27
  ARC-AGI-3
• 4:30
  score,
• 4:31
  and
• 4:31
  ARC
• 4:31
  Prize
• 4:32
  will
• 4:32
  now
• 4:32
  label
• 4:32
  both.
• 4:33
  Less
• 4:34
  expected:
• 4:35
  against
• 4:35
  roughly
• 4:36
  500
• 4:36
  human
• 4:36
  testers,
• 4:37
  Astra
• 4:37
  used
• 4:38
  fewer
• 4:38
  actions
• 4:39
  on
• 4:39
  96.0%
• 4:40
  of
• 4:40
  levels,
• 4:41
  51.7%
• 4:42
  fewer
• 4:43
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• 4:43
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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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• 4:45
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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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• 4:46
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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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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:50
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• 4:50
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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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• 4:51
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• 4:51
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• 4:51
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• 4:52
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• 4:52
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• 4:52
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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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• 4:54
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• 4:56
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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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• 4:57
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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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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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• 5:02
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• 5:02
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• 5:02
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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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• 5:04
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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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• 5:08
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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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• 5:13
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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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• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:18
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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
  Verified
• 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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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:27
  Their
• 5:27
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• 5:27
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• 5:28
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• 5:28
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:34
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• 5:35
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• 5:35
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:38
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:42
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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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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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
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• 6:07
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• 6:07
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• 6:08
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• 6:09
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:18
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:20
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• 6:21
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• 6:21
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• 6:22
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• 6:22
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• 6:22
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:25
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:26
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• 6:27
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• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:28
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• 6:28
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• 6:30
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• 6:32
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• 6:32
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:35
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• 6:36
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• 6:36
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:39
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• 6:40
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• 6:40
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• 6:40
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• 6:40
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:43
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• 6:43
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• 6:43
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• 6:44
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• 6:44
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• 6:44
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:50
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:54
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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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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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 7:00
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
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• 7:08
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• 7:08
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
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• 7:15
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• 7:15
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• 7:15
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• 7:16
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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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• 7:19
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• 7:19
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
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• 7:21
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• 7:21
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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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• 7:23
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• 7:25
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• 7:26
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:28
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:30
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• 7:30
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• 7:31
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• 7:31
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• 7:31
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:33
  samples
• 7:33
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:39
  from
• 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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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:44
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:46
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:48
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:51
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• 7:52
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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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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• 7:56
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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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• 8:02
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
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• 8:05
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• 8:06
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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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• 8:10
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• 8:14
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• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:16
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:18
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• 8:18
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:19
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• 8:20
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• 8:21
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• 8:21
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:22
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• 8:23
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• 8:23
  Projection),
• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:27
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• 8:27
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• 8:28
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• 8:28
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• 8:29
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• 8:29
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:31
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:34
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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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• 8:35
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
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• 8:36
  measurement
• 8:37
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• 8:37
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• 8:37
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• 8:38
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• 8:38
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• 8:38
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• 8:39
  Refusal
• 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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• 8:41
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• 8:41
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• 8:42
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• 8:42
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• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 8:46
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• 8:46
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:48
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• 8:49
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• 8:50
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• 8:50
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• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:52
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• 8:52
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• 8:53
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• 8:53
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• 8:54
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:56
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• 8:57
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• 8:57
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:59
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• 8:59
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• 8:59
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• 9:00
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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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• 9:03
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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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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:06
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:11
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• 9:11
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• 9:11
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• 9:11
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• 9:12
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• 9:13
  a
• 9:13
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• 9:14
  objection
• 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
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• 9:16
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• 9:16
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• 9:16
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• 9:17
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• 9:17
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• 9:17
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• 9:17
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:19
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• 9:19
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• 9:19
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• 9:20
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• 9:20
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• 9:20
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• 9:20
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• 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
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:24
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• 9:24
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• 9:24
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• 9:25
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:28
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• 9:28
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:30
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• 9:30
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• 9:32
  Then
• 9:32
  the
• 9:32
  quantisation
• 9:32
  cliff:
• 9:33
  EXL3
• 9:34
  quants
• 9:34
  of
• 9:34
  GLM-5.3-Flash
• 9:36
  from
• 9:36
  2.05
• 9:36
  to
• 9:37
  4
• 9:37
  bits
• 9:37
  per
• 9:37
  weight
• 9:37
  are
• 9:37
  flat
• 9:38
  on
• 9:38
  capability,
• 9:39
  benign
• 9:39
  and
• 9:39
  refusal
• 9:40
  probes,
• 9:41
  yet
• 9:41
  a
• 9:41
  judged
• 9:41
  40-question
• 9:42
  kernel
• 9:43
  and
• 9:43
  exploitation
• 9:43
  exam
• 9:44
  scores
• 9:44
  0.132
• 9:45
  at
• 9:45
  2.05
• 9:46
  bpw
• 9:46
  against
• 9:47
  0.264
• 9:48
  at
• 9:48
  3.05.
• 9:50
  Suiche's
• 9:50
  advice:
• 9:51
  "take
• 9:51
  the
• 9:51
  knowledge-exam
• 9:52
  probe,
• 9:53
  not
• 9:53
  the
• 9:53
  vector."
• 9:54
  The
• 9:54
  Weightless
• 9:55
  site
• 9:55
  packages
• 9:55
  the
• 9:55
  vectors,
• 9:56
  gated
• 9:56
  on
• 9:56
  Hugging
• 9:57
  Face
• 9:57
  behind
• 9:57
  a
• 9:57
  Responsible
• 9:58
  Use
• 9:58
  Agreement:
• 9:59
  DeepSeek-V4-Flash
• 10:00
  at
• 10:00
  478
• 10:01
  KB,
• 10:02
  Qwen3.8-27B,
• 10:04
  GLM-5.3-Flash,
• 10:07
  and
• 10:07
  Hy4-preview
• 10:08
  at
• 10:08
  770B,
• 10:09
  "largest
• 10:10
  steered
• 10:10
  model
• 10:10
  anywhere."
• 10:11
  The
• 10:11
  vector
• 10:12
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• 10:12
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
  but
• 10:13
  not
• 10:13
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• 10:14
  gating,
• 10:14
  so
• 10:15
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• 10:15
  framings
• 10:16
  still
• 10:16
  refuse.
• 10:17
  A
• 10:17
  propaganda32
• 10:18
  probe
• 10:18
  finds
• 10:19
  "every
• 10:19
  lab's
• 10:19
  refusal
• 10:20
  map
• 10:20
  is
• 10:20
  a
• 10:20
  political
• 10:20
  fingerprint"
• 10:21
  while
• 10:21
  the
• 10:21
  closed
• 10:21
  US
• 10:22
  frontier
• 10:22
  "answers
• 10:22
  everyone"
• 10:23
  .
• 10:23
  Stock
• 10:23
  models
• 10:24
  have
• 10:24
  their
• 10:24
  own
• 10:24
  refusal
• 10:25
  weirdness.
• 10:26
  An
• 10:26
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 10:27
  user
• 10:27
  running
• 10:27
  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
• 10:30
  as
• 10:30
  a
• 10:31
  coding
• 10:31
  agent
• 10:31
  in
• 10:31
  OpenCode
• 10:32
  reports
• 10:32
  reasoning
• 10:32
  traces
• 10:33
  that
• 10:33
  become
• 10:33
  loops
• 10:33
  of
• 10:34
  self-reassurance
• 10:35
  ("The
• 10:35
  reminder
• 10:35
  is
• 10:35
  irrelevant.
• 10:36
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• 10:36
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• 10:37
  on
• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
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• 10:37
  user's
• 10:38
  own
• 10:38
  work")
• 10:38
  on
• 10:38
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• 10:39
  Go
• 10:39
  and
• 10:39
  Python
• 10:39
  tasks,
• 10:40
  persisting
• 10:40
  all
• 10:41
  session
• 10:41
  while
• 10:41
  tool
• 10:41
  calls
• 10:42
  stay
• 10:42
  normal.
• 10:43
  Commenters
• 10:43
  converge
• 10:44
  on
• 10:44
  a
• 10:44
  harness
• 10:44
  reminder
• 10:45
  or
• 10:45
  chat-template
• 10:45
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
  sticky
• 10:47
  through
• 10:47
  cached
• 10:47
  context,
• 10:48
  and
• 10:48
  the
• 10:48
  diagnostic
• 10:49
  is
• 10:49
  right:
• 10:50
  reproduce
• 10:50
  in
• 10:51
  a
• 10:51
  bare
• 10:51
  llama.cpp
• 10:53
  session
• 10:53
  with
• 10:53
  cache
• 10:53
  off.
• 10:54
  The
• 10:54
  poster's
• 10:55
  worry
• 10:55
  still
• 10:55
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• 10:56
  for
• 10:56
  unsupervised
• 10:56
  runs:
• 10:57
  a
• 10:57
  model
• 10:58
  spending
• 10:58
  its
• 10:58
  thinking
• 10:59
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• 10:59
  reassuring
• 10:59
  itself
• 11:00
  is
• 11:00
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• 11:00
  abnormal
• 11:01
  activation
• 11:01
  from
• 11:01
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• 11:02
  on
• 11:02
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• 11:02
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• 11:04
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
  the
• 11:06
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
  with
• 11:07
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:09
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• 11:10
  and
• 11:10
  this
• 11:10
  week
• 11:10
  four
• 11:10
  efforts
• 11:11
  on
• 11:11
  three
• 11:11
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• 11:12
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• 11:12
  reported
• 11:12
  numbers.
• 11:13
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• 11:14
  released
• 11:14
  MTP
• 11:15
  (multi-token
• 11:15
  prediction)
• 11:16
  draft
• 11:16
  files
• 11:16
  for
• 11:16
  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
• 11:19
  GGUF,
• 11:20
  and
• 11:20
  a
• 11:20
  llama.cpp
• 11:22
  optimization
• 11:22
  merged
• 11:23
  hours
• 11:23
  later
• 11:23
  changed
• 11:24
  the
• 11:24
  picture:
• 11:24
  before
• 11:25
  it,
• 11:25
  MTP
• 11:25
  on
• 11:26
  prose
• 11:26
  was
• 11:26
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• 11:26
  than
• 11:26
  no
• 11:27
  draft
• 11:27
  at
• 11:27
  all
• 11:27
  (83
• 11:28
  versus
• 11:28
  108
• 11:29
  tok/s);
• 11:30
  after,
• 11:31
  183
• 11:32
  tok/s
• 11:32
  on
• 11:33
  code
• 11:33
  and
• 11:33
  144
• 11:34
  on
• 11:34
  prose
• 11:34
  .
• 11:35
  On
• 11:35
  Nvidia's
• 11:36
  older
• 11:36
  silicon,
• 11:36
  the
• 11:37
  syv-ai
• 11:37
  engine
• 11:37
  for
• 11:37
  Qwen3.8-27B
• 11:41
  on
• 11:41
  an
• 11:41
  RTX
• 11:42
  3090
• 11:43
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• 11:43
  prefill
• 11:43
  from
• 11:43
  about
• 11:44
  1,300
• 11:45
  to
• 11:45
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• 11:45
  under
• 11:45
  2,000
• 11:46
  tok/s
• 11:46
  at
• 11:47
  4K
• 11:47
  context
• 11:48
  with
• 11:48
  a
• 11:48
  custom
• 11:48
  int8
• 11:48
  kernel
• 11:49
  at
• 11:49
  0.99997
• 11:50
  similarity
• 11:51
  to
• 11:51
  fp32,
• 11:52
  while
• 11:52
  decode
• 11:53
  holds
• 11:53
  at
• 11:53
  132,
• 11:54
  essentially
• 11:54
  the
• 11:55
  DFlash2
• 11:55
  figure
• 11:55
  from
• 11:56
  two
• 11:56
  weeks
• 11:56
  ago.
• 11:57
  One
• 11:57
  commenter's
• 11:57
  caution
• 11:58
  applies:
• 11:59
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• 11:59
  only
• 11:59
  compares
• 12:00
  at
• 12:00
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• 12:00
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• 12:01
  length,
• 12:01
  since
• 12:01
  attention
• 12:02
  cost
• 12:02
  grows
• 12:02
  with
• 12:03
  context
• 12:03
  while
• 12:03
  matmuls
• 12:04
  do
• 12:04
  not
• 12:04
  .
• 12:05
  On
• 12:05
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• 12:06
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• 12:06
  5090
• 12:07
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• 12:07
  to
• 12:07
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• 12:08
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• 12:08
  an
• 12:09
  abliterated
• 12:09
  Qwen3.8-27B
• 12:12
  NVFP4
• 12:15
  through
• 12:15
  nInfer
• 12:16
  at
• 12:16
  200
• 12:16
  tok/s
• 12:17
  decode
• 12:17
  at
• 12:17
  180K
• 12:18
  context
• 12:19
  with
• 12:19
  five
• 12:19
  draft
• 12:19
  tokens.
• 12:21
  The
• 12:21
  poster's
• 12:21
  own
• 12:21
  caveat
• 12:22
  undercuts
• 12:22
  the
• 12:22
  headline:
• 12:23
  the
• 12:24
  benchmark
• 12:24
  corpus
• 12:24
  is
• 12:24
  synthetic
• 12:25
  text
• 12:25
  with
• 12:25
  94
• 12:26
  to
• 12:26
  100%
• 12:27
  draft
• 12:27
  acceptance,
• 12:28
  and
• 12:28
  a
• 12:28
  real
• 12:28
  130K
• 12:29
  agentic
• 12:30
  coding
• 12:30
  log
• 12:30
  accepted
• 12:31
  51%
• 12:31
  for
• 12:32
  about
• 12:32
  154
• 12:33
  tok/s.
• 12:35
  The
• 12:35
  question
• 12:35
  asked
• 12:35
  of
• 12:35
  every
• 12:36
  nInfer
• 12:36
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• 12:36
  since
• 12:37
  July,
• 12:37
  what
• 12:38
  the
• 12:38
  NVFP4
• 12:40
  conversion
• 12:40
  costs
• 12:41
  in
• 12:41
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• 12:42
  remains
• 12:42
  unanswered
• 12:42
  .
• 12:44
  The
• 12:44
  AMD
• 12:44
  entry
• 12:45
  is
• 12:45
  the
• 12:45
  most
• 12:45
  interesting
• 12:45
  engineering.
• 12:47
  R9V
• 12:48
  is
• 12:48
  a
• 12:48
  set
• 12:48
  of
• 12:48
  RDNA4-specific
• 12:51
  kernels
• 12:51
  for
• 12:52
  dual
• 12:52
  R9700s
• 12:55
  plugged
• 12:55
  into
• 12:55
  vLLM-Radiance:
• 12:57
  native
• 12:57
  wave32,
• 12:58
  DPP
• 12:59
  operations
• 12:59
  and
• 12:59
  HIP
• 13:00
  graphs.
• 13:01
  For
• 13:01
  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
• 13:05
  at
• 13:05
  IQ4
• 13:05
  XS
• 13:06
  with
• 13:06
  MTP,
• 13:07
  SSD-backed
• 13:08
  n-gram
• 13:08
  and
• 13:08
  128K
• 13:10
  context
• 13:10
  it
• 13:10
  reports
• 13:11
  78
• 13:11
  tok/s
• 13:12
  generation,
• 13:13
  about
• 13:13
  3x
• 13:14
  the
• 13:14
  public
• 13:14
  comparator,
• 13:15
  and
• 13:15
  1,510
• 13:16
  tok/s
• 13:17
  prefill,
• 13:18
  though
• 13:19
  the
• 13:19
  author
• 13:19
  admits
• 13:19
  the
• 13:19
  comparator
• 13:20
  is
• 13:20
  "atrocious"
• 13:21
  at
• 13:21
  SSD
• 13:22
  n-gram
• 13:22
  prefill.
• 13:23
  The
• 13:23
  candid
• 13:24
  failure:
• 13:25
  a
• 13:25
  Q8/Q4-only
• 13:26
  quant
• 13:27
  that
• 13:27
  is
• 13:27
  2x
• 13:28
  worse
• 13:28
  by
• 13:28
  KL
• 13:29
  than
• 13:29
  Unsloth's
• 13:29
  smaller
• 13:30
  one,
• 13:30
  after
• 13:31
  $300
• 13:32
  of
• 13:32
  rented
• 13:32
  GPUs.
• 13:33
  .
• 13:35
  Cole
• 13:35
  Medin's
• 13:36
  dark
• 13:36
  factory
• 13:37
  experiment,
• 13:37
  first
• 13:38
  run
• 13:38
  in
• 13:38
  April
• 13:38
  with
• 13:38
  Archon
• 13:39
  driving
• 13:39
  Claude
• 13:40
  routed
• 13:40
  through
• 13:40
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• 13:41
  for
• 13:41
  cost,
• 13:41
  has
• 13:42
  produced
• 13:42
  an
• 13:42
  app
• 13:42
  and
• 13:43
  a
• 13:43
  change
• 13:43
  of
• 13:43
  philosophy.
• 13:45
  DynaChat,
• 13:45
  an
• 13:45
  AI
• 13:46
  tutor
• 13:46
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• 13:46
  in
• 13:46
  his
• 13:47
  course
• 13:47
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• 13:47
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• 13:48
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• 13:48
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• 13:48
  to
• 13:48
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• 13:49
  "I
• 13:49
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• 13:50
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• 13:50
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• 13:50
  even
• 13:50
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• 13:51
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• 13:51
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• 13:51
  single
• 13:51
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• 13:51
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• 13:51
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• 13:52
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• 13:52
  this
• 13:52
  application."
• 13:53
  He
• 13:53
  concedes
• 13:54
  it
• 13:54
  "didn't
• 13:54
  really
• 13:55
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• 13:55
  test
• 13:55
  the
• 13:55
  reliability
• 13:56
  of
• 13:56
  Dark
• 13:56
  Factories"
• 13:57
  because
• 13:58
  the
• 13:58
  app
• 13:58
  is
• 13:58
  neither
• 13:58
  critical
• 13:59
  nor
• 13:59
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• 14:00
  the
• 14:00
  next
• 14:00
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• 14:01
  are
• 14:01
  video
• 14:01
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• 14:02
  for
• 14:02
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• 14:02
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• 14:03
  complexity.
• 14:04
  The
• 14:04
  shift
• 14:04
  is
• 14:05
  the
• 14:05
  news:
• 14:06
  having
• 14:06
  taught
• 14:06
  people
• 14:06
  to
• 14:07
  "fish,"
• 14:07
  he
• 14:08
  now
• 14:08
  wants
• 14:08
  a
• 14:08
  viral
• 14:08
  open-source
• 14:09
  project,
• 14:10
  and
• 14:10
  will
• 14:10
  ship
• 14:10
  an
• 14:10
  opinionated
• 14:11
  factory
• 14:11
  that
• 14:11
  installs
• 14:12
  Archon
• 14:12
  under
• 14:12
  the
• 14:12
  hood
• 14:13
  and
• 14:13
  accepts
• 14:13
  a
• 14:13
  PRD
• 14:14
  after
• 14:14
  a
• 14:14
  README
• 14:16
  prompt.
• 14:17
  It
• 14:17
  is
• 14:17
  in
• 14:17
  alpha.
• 14:18
  The
• 14:18
  framing
• 14:19
  borrows
• 14:19
  Dan
• 14:19
  Shapiro's
• 14:20
  five
• 14:20
  levels
• 14:20
  of
• 14:20
  AI
• 14:20
  coding,
• 14:21
  where
• 14:21
  level
• 14:21
  five
• 14:22
  has
• 14:22
  "no
• 14:22
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• 14:22
  wheel"
• 14:22
  .
• 14:23
  The
• 14:23
  tooling
• 14:24
  for
• 14:24
  that
• 14:24
  level
• 14:24
  is
• 14:24
  commoditizing.
• 14:25
  Maestro,
• 14:26
  which
• 14:26
  launched
• 14:26
  in
• 14:27
  December
• 14:27
  as
• 14:27
  a
• 14:27
  macOS
• 14:28
  app
• 14:28
  for
• 14:28
  Claude
• 14:28
  Code
• 14:28
  with
• 14:28
  Codex
• 14:29
  "planned,"
• 14:30
  is
• 14:30
  now
• 14:30
  cross-platform,
• 14:31
  runs
• 14:31
  Claude
• 14:31
  Code,
• 14:32
  Codex,
• 14:32
  Copilot
• 14:33
  and
• 14:33
  OpenCode
• 14:33
  instances
• 14:34
  in
• 14:34
  isolated
• 14:35
  workspaces,
• 14:36
  and
• 14:36
  adds
• 14:36
  event-driven
• 14:37
  pipelines
• 14:37
  triggered
• 14:37
  by
• 14:37
  file
• 14:38
  changes,
• 14:38
  timers,
• 14:39
  GitHub
• 14:39
  activity
• 14:40
  or
• 14:40
  another
• 14:40
  agent
• 14:40
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• 14:41
  and
• 14:41
  a
• 14:41
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• 14:42
  CLI
• 14:42
  for
• 14:42
  cron.
• 14:43
  It
• 14:43
  also
• 14:43
  keeps
• 14:43
  a
• 14:43
  leaderboard
• 14:44
  of
• 14:44
  "total
• 14:44
  autonomous
• 14:45
  execution
• 14:45
  time"
• 14:46
  with
• 14:46
  conductor
• 14:46
  ranks
• 14:47
  up
• 14:47
  to
• 14:47
  Toscanini,
• 14:48
  which
• 14:48
  says
• 14:48
  what
• 14:48
  the
• 14:48
  product
• 14:49
  optimizes
• 14:49
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• 14:49
  .
• 14:50
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• 14:50
  the
• 14:50
  other
• 14:50
  end
• 14:51
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• 14:51
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• 14:51
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• 14:51
  a
• 14:51
  Go
• 14:52
  port
• 14:52
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• 14:52
  Sebastian
• 14:52
  Raschka's
• 14:53
  mini-coding-agent
• 14:54
  keeps
• 14:54
  the
• 14:54
  six
• 14:55
  components
• 14:55
  with
• 14:55
  no
• 14:55
  LLM
• 14:56
  framework,
• 14:57
  an
• 14:57
  Ollama
• 14:57
  backend,
• 14:58
  and
• 14:58
  a
• 14:58
  plain
• 14:59
  warning
• 14:59
  that
• 14:59
  auto-approval
• 15:00
  means
• 15:00
  arbitrary
• 15:00
  command
• 15:01
  execution
• 15:01
  .
• 15:02
  Two
• 15:02
  projects
• 15:02
  address
• 15:03
  what
• 15:03
  a
• 15:03
  fleet
• 15:03
  at
• 15:03
  level
• 15:04
  five
• 15:04
  actually
• 15:04
  needs.
• 15:05
  Stratura,
• 15:06
  from
• 15:07
  Stare
• 15:07
  Network,
• 15:07
  packages
• 15:08
  the
• 15:08
  signed-journal
• 15:09
  idea
• 15:09
  that
• 15:09
  keeps
• 15:09
  surfacing
• 15:10
  in
• 15:10
  agent-governance
• 15:11
  papers:
• 15:12
  a
• 15:12
  copy-on-write
• 15:12
  workspace
• 15:13
  that
• 15:13
  mounts
• 15:13
  on
• 15:13
  any
• 15:14
  machine
• 15:14
  by
• 15:15
  transferring
• 15:15
  a
• 15:15
  pointer,
• 15:16
  admits
• 15:16
  one
• 15:16
  writer
• 15:17
  at
• 15:17
  a
• 15:17
  time,
• 15:17
  and
• 15:18
  routes
• 15:18
  every
• 15:18
  tool
• 15:19
  effect
• 15:19
  (exec,
• 15:20
  fetch,
• 15:20
  model
• 15:20
  call)
• 15:21
  through
• 15:21
  Cedar
• 15:21
  policy
• 15:22
  into
• 15:22
  a
• 15:22
  BLAKE3
• 15:24
  and
• 15:25
  Ed25519
• 15:26
  hash-chained
• 15:27
  journal
• 15:27
  "you
• 15:27
  can
• 15:28
  verify
• 15:28
  and
• 15:28
  replay
• 15:29
  without
• 15:29
  trusting
• 15:29
  the
• 15:29
  agent."
• 15:30
  The
• 15:31
  claims
• 15:31
  are
• 15:31
  architecture,
• 15:32
  not
• 15:32
  measurements,
• 15:33
  but
• 15:33
  the
• 15:33
  premise
• 15:33
  is
• 15:33
  correct:
• 15:34
  auditing
• 15:35
  an
• 15:35
  agent
• 15:35
  by
• 15:35
  reading
• 15:36
  logs
• 15:36
  the
• 15:36
  agent
• 15:36
  could
• 15:36
  have
• 15:37
  written
• 15:37
  is
• 15:37
  not
• 15:38
  auditing
• 15:38
  .
• 15:39
  claude-rotate
• 15:39
  solves
• 15:40
  a
• 15:40
  smaller
• 15:40
  problem
• 15:40
  in
• 15:41
  a
• 15:41
  grayer
• 15:41
  way:
• 15:42
  a
• 15:42
  450-line
• 15:43
  proxy
• 15:44
  that
• 15:44
  lets
• 15:44
  Claude
• 15:45
  Code
• 15:45
  ride
• 15:45
  multiple
• 15:46
  Max
• 15:46
  or
• 15:46
  Pro
• 15:46
  subscriptions,
• 15:48
  switching
• 15:48
  at
• 15:48
  80%
• 15:49
  of
• 15:49
  the
• 15:49
  5-hour
• 15:49
  window
• 15:50
  by
• 15:50
  reading
• 15:50
  undocumented
• 15:51
  rate-limit
• 15:51
  headers.
• 15:52
  The
• 15:52
  README
• 15:56
  says
• 15:56
  rotating
• 15:56
  your
• 15:57
  own
• 15:57
  accounts
• 15:57
  is
• 15:58
  "a
• 15:58
  gray
• 15:58
  area
• 15:58
  under
• 15:59
  Anthropic's
• 15:59
  consumer
• 16:00
  terms"
• 16:00
  and
• 16:01
  pooling
• 16:01
  or
• 16:01
  reselling
• 16:02
  is
• 16:02
  a
• 16:02
  violation.
• 16:04
  Any
• 16:04
  fleet
• 16:04
  that
• 16:04
  needs
• 16:05
  it
• 16:05
  is
• 16:05
  admitting
• 16:05
  its
• 16:06
  economics
• 16:06
  do
• 16:06
  not
• 16:06
  work
• 16:07
  at
• 16:07
  list
• 16:07
  price
• 16:07
  .
• 16:10
  A
• 16:10
  position
• 16:10
  paper
• 16:11
  from
• 16:11
  Ferdowsi
• 16:11
  University
• 16:12
  of
• 16:12
  Mashhad
• 16:12
  and
• 16:12
  Sensifai
• 16:13
  argues
• 16:13
  that
• 16:13
  conventional
• 16:14
  penetration
• 16:14
  testing,
• 16:15
  built
• 16:15
  on
• 16:15
  NIST
• 16:16
  SP
• 16:16
  800-115
• 16:18
  and
• 16:19
  ATT&CK,
• 16:21
  "remains
• 16:21
  necessary
• 16:22
  for
• 16:22
  AI-enabled
• 16:22
  systems,
• 16:23
  but
• 16:23
  it
• 16:23
  is
• 16:23
  no
• 16:23
  longer
• 16:23
  sufficient."
• 16:24
  Its
• 16:24
  central
• 16:25
  definition:
• 16:25
  "AI-enabled
• 16:26
  penetration
• 16:26
  is
• 16:27
  the
• 16:27
  feasible
• 16:27
  induction
• 16:27
  of
• 16:27
  AI-governed
• 16:28
  behavior
• 16:28
  that
• 16:28
  violates
• 16:29
  one
• 16:29
  or
• 16:29
  more
• 16:29
  operational
• 16:30
  objectives
• 16:30
  under
• 16:30
  an
• 16:30
  explicit
• 16:31
  threat
• 16:31
  model."
• 16:32
  A
• 16:32
  learned
• 16:32
  model
• 16:32
  sits
• 16:33
  in
• 16:33
  the
• 16:33
  causal
• 16:33
  path
• 16:33
  between
• 16:34
  resources
• 16:34
  and
• 16:34
  outcomes,
• 16:35
  so
• 16:35
  an
• 16:35
  adversary
• 16:36
  can
• 16:36
  reach
• 16:36
  the
• 16:36
  outcome
• 16:37
  through
• 16:37
  intentionally
• 16:37
  exposed
• 16:38
  interfaces
• 16:38
  (prompts,
• 16:38
  retrieved
• 16:39
  content,
• 16:40
  tool
• 16:40
  outputs)
• 16:40
  without
• 16:40
  touching
• 16:41
  the
• 16:41
  infrastructure.
• 16:42
  The
• 16:42
  paper
• 16:42
  adds
• 16:42
  a
• 16:42
  six-step
• 16:43
  workflow
• 16:43
  ending
• 16:43
  in
• 16:43
  an
• 16:44
  evidence
• 16:44
  record
• 16:44
  with
• 16:44
  success
• 16:45
  frequency,
• 16:45
  and
• 16:45
  five
• 16:46
  outcome
• 16:46
  classes
• 16:46
  from
• 16:46
  confirmed
• 16:47
  penetration
• 16:47
  to
• 16:47
  non-security
• 16:48
  model
• 16:48
  failure.
• 16:49
  Because
• 16:49
  behavior
• 16:49
  is
• 16:50
  stochastic,
• 16:50
  evidence
• 16:51
  is
• 16:51
  probabilistic:
• 16:52
  trial
• 16:52
  counts
• 16:53
  and
• 16:53
  rates,
• 16:53
  not
• 16:53
  one
• 16:53
  screenshot
• 16:54
  .
• 16:54
  There
• 16:54
  are
• 16:54
  no
• 16:55
  experiments,
• 16:55
  and
• 16:56
  the
• 16:56
  running
• 16:56
  example
• 16:56
  is
• 16:56
  a
• 16:56
  SOC
• 16:57
  triage
• 16:57
  assistant:
• 16:58
  an
• 16:58
  attacker
• 16:58
  with
• 16:58
  no
• 16:59
  credentials
• 16:59
  plants
• 16:59
  instruction-like
• 17:00
  text
• 17:00
  in
• 17:00
  a
• 17:00
  log
• 17:01
  field
• 17:01
  or
• 17:01
  ticket
• 17:01
  comment,
• 17:02
  and
• 17:02
  the
• 17:02
  assistant
• 17:02
  downgrades
• 17:03
  a
• 17:03
  high-severity
• 17:04
  incident.
• 17:04
  The
• 17:05
  authors
• 17:05
  insist
• 17:05
  this
• 17:05
  not
• 17:06
  be
• 17:06
  filed
• 17:06
  as
• 17:06
  "the
• 17:06
  assistant
• 17:06
  hallucinated"
• 17:07
  but
• 17:08
  as
• 17:08
  a
• 17:08
  demonstrated
• 17:08
  path
• 17:08
  from
• 17:09
  adversarial
• 17:09
  content
• 17:10
  to
• 17:10
  operational
• 17:10
  failure.
• 17:11
  The
• 17:11
  familiar
• 17:12
  pentest
• 17:12
  wins
• 17:12
  against
• 17:13
  LLM
• 17:13
  apps,
• 17:14
  coercing
• 17:14
  an
• 17:14
  HTTP
• 17:15
  tool
• 17:15
  into
• 17:16
  fetching
• 17:16
  cloud
• 17:16
  instance
• 17:17
  metadata,
• 17:17
  are
• 17:17
  resource
• 17:18
  compromises
• 17:18
  the
• 17:19
  old
• 17:19
  framework
• 17:19
  already
• 17:20
  covers;
• 17:20
  the
• 17:21
  paper's
• 17:21
  contribution
• 17:21
  is
• 17:22
  a
• 17:22
  reporting
• 17:22
  discipline
• 17:22
  for
• 17:23
  the
• 17:23
  cases
• 17:23
  where
• 17:23
  nothing
• 17:24
  was
• 17:24
  compromised
• 17:25
  and
• 17:25
  the
• 17:25
  mission
• 17:25
  still
• 17:25
  failed.
• 17:26
  The
• 17:26
  same
• 17:27
  logic
• 17:27
  applies
• 17:27
  to
• 17:27
  a
• 17:27
  truck.
• 17:28
  A
• 17:28
  video
• 17:29
  from
• 17:29
  the
• 17:29
  Loyal
• 17:29
  Moses
• 17:30
  channel
• 17:30
  walks
• 17:31
  through
• 17:31
  Ford's
• 17:31
  documentation
• 17:32
  for
• 17:32
  the
• 17:32
  Ford
• 17:32
  Security
• 17:33
  Package
• 17:33
  and
• 17:33
  its
• 17:33
  "start
• 17:34
  inhibit"
• 17:34
  feature:
• 17:35
  a
• 17:35
  remote
• 17:35
  immobilizer
• 17:36
  on
• 17:36
  select
• 17:36
  2024
• 17:37
  and
• 17:38
  newer
• 17:38
  F-150
• 17:39
  and
• 17:39
  Super
• 17:39
  Duty
• 17:39
  trucks
• 17:40
  and
• 17:40
  2026
• 17:41
  Expedition,
• 17:41
  Bronco
• 17:42
  Sport
• 17:42
  and
• 17:42
  Mustang
• 17:43
  Mach-E,
• 17:44
  free
• 17:44
  for
• 17:44
  a
• 17:44
  year
• 17:45
  and
• 17:45
  then
• 17:45
  $7.99
• 17:46
  a
• 17:47
  month,
• 17:47
  marketed
• 17:48
  as
• 17:48
  letting
• 17:48
  Ford
• 17:48
  work
• 17:48
  with
• 17:49
  police
• 17:49
  to
• 17:49
  track
• 17:49
  and
• 17:49
  shut
• 17:50
  down
• 17:50
  a
• 17:50
  stolen
• 17:50
  vehicle.
• 17:51
  That
• 17:51
  much
• 17:51
  is
• 17:52
  Ford's
• 17:52
  own
• 17:52
  material.
• 17:53
  The
• 17:53
  rest
• 17:54
  is
• 17:54
  the
• 17:54
  speaker's
• 17:54
  assertion:
• 17:55
  that
• 17:55
  the
• 17:55
  feature
• 17:56
  descends
• 17:56
  from
• 17:56
  a
• 17:56
  federal
• 17:57
  infrastructure-bill
• 17:58
  mandate,
• 17:58
  that
• 17:59
  a
• 17:59
  Bronco
• 17:59
  was
• 17:59
  shut
• 17:59
  off
• 18:00
  in
• 18:00
  traffic
• 18:00
  over
• 18:01
  a
• 18:01
  missed
• 18:01
  payment
• 18:02
  (the
• 18:02
  speaker
• 18:02
  himself
• 18:02
  says
• 18:03
  "I
• 18:03
  wonder
• 18:04
  exactly
• 18:04
  how
• 18:04
  accurate
• 18:05
  this
• 18:05
  is"),
• 18:05
  and
• 18:06
  that
• 18:06
  interior
• 18:06
  cameras
• 18:07
  and
• 18:07
  patented
• 18:07
  alcohol
• 18:08
  detection
• 18:08
  gate
• 18:09
  starting.
• 18:10
  The
• 18:10
  bill
• 18:10
  text,
• 18:11
  Ford's
• 18:11
  telematics
• 18:12
  terms
• 18:12
  and
• 18:12
  the
• 18:12
  patent
• 18:13
  filings
• 18:13
  would
• 18:13
  settle
• 18:14
  those,
• 18:14
  and
• 18:14
  the
• 18:14
  video
• 18:15
  produces
• 18:15
  none
• 18:15
  of
• 18:16
  them.
• 18:16
  The
• 18:17
  corroborated
• 18:17
  part
• 18:18
  is
• 18:18
  enough:
• 18:19
  the
• 18:19
  authority
• 18:19
  to
• 18:19
  let
• 18:20
  an
• 18:20
  engine
• 18:20
  run
• 18:21
  has
• 18:21
  moved
• 18:21
  from
• 18:21
  a
• 18:21
  key
• 18:22
  to
• 18:22
  a
• 18:22
  cloud
• 18:22
  endpoint
• 18:23
  reachable
• 18:23
  by
• 18:23
  Ford,
• 18:24
  by
• 18:24
  police
• 18:24
  on
• 18:25
  request,
• 18:25
  and
• 18:26
  by
• 18:26
  whoever
• 18:26
  next
• 18:26
  holds
• 18:27
  Ford's
• 18:27
  credentials.
• 18:29
  In
• 18:29
  the
• 18:29
  paper's
• 18:29
  terms
• 18:30
  the
• 18:30
  operational
• 18:30
  objective
• 18:31
  belongs
• 18:32
  to
• 18:32
  the
• 18:32
  owner
• 18:32
  and
• 18:33
  the
• 18:33
  influence
• 18:33
  surface
• 18:34
  belongs
• 18:34
  to
• 18:34
  the
• 18:34
  vendor,
• 18:35
  a
• 18:35
  threat
• 18:36
  model
• 18:36
  nobody
• 18:36
  wrote
• 18:37
  down
• 18:37
  before
• 18:37
  shipping
• 18:37
  .