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AGI Dreams Podcast – July 02, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  A
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  developer
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  cracked
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  open
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  the
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  Claude
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  Code
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  binary
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  (version
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  2.1.196)
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  and
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  found
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  something
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  unexpected:
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  a
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  function
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  that
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  subtly
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  alters
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  the
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  Unicode
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  characters
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  in
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  the
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  system
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  prompt's
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  date
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  string
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  based
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  on
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  where
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  the
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  API
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  request
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  is
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  headed.
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  When
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  the
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  ANTHROPIC
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  BASE
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  URL
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  environment
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  variable
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  points
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  to
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  certain
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  domains
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  —
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  proxy
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  services,
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  reseller
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  gateways,
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  Chinese
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  corporate
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  endpoints,
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  or
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  hostnames
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  containing
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  AI
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  lab
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  keywords
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  —
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  Claude
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  Code
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  swaps
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  an
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  ordinary
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  apostrophe
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  for
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  a
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  visually
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  identical
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  variant
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  and
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  tweaks
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  the
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  date
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  format.
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  The
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  domain
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  list
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  itself
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  is
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  XOR-encoded
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  and
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  base64-wrapped
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  inside
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  the
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  binary.
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  The
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  model
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  and
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  the
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  user
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  see
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  a
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  perfectly
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  normal-looking
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  sentence;
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  the
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  raw
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  request
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  carries
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  a
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  hidden
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  marker.
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  This
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  is
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  prompt
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  steganography
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  —
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  data
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  hiding
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  in
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  plain
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  sight
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  —
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  and
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  it
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  almost
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  certainly
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  exists
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  so
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  Anthropic
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  can
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  flag
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  API
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  resellers,
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  unauthorized
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  gateways,
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  and
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  model
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  distillation
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  pipelines
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  on
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  the
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  backend.
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  The
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  author
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  is
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  careful
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  to
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  note
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  this
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  is
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  not
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  malicious,
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  and
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  for
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  most
• 0:53
  developers
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  using
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  the
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  official
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  API
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  endpoint,
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  the
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  code
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  path
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  never
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  fires.
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  But
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  the
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  implementation
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  choice
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  is
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  telling.
• 1:00
  A
• 1:00
  coding
• 1:00
  agent
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  that
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  asks
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  for
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  filesystem
• 1:02
  access,
• 1:03
  shell
• 1:03
  execution,
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  and
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  git
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  push
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  privileges
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  has
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  already
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  crossed
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  the
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  deepest
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  trust
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  boundary
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  on
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  a
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  developer's
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  machine.
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  When
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  that
• 1:09
  same
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  tool
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  starts
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  hiding
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  classification
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  bits
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  inside
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  invisible
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  Unicode
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  punctuation
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  rather
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  than
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  sending
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  an
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  explicit,
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  documented
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  telemetry
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  field,
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  every
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  other
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  privacy
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  claim
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  gets
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  harder
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  to
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  believe.
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  Any
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  serious
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  adversary
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  can
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  trivially
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  bypass
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  the
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  marker
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  —
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  change
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  the
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  hostname,
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  patch
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  the
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  binary,
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  wrap
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  the
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  process
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  —
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  so
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  the
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  feature
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  disproportionately
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  flags
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  legitimate
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  developers
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  doing
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  odd-but-legal
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  things
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  like
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  routing
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  through
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  a
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  corporate
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  proxy.
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  "Trust
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  is
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  earned
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  in
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  the
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  boring
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  parts,"
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  the
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  author
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  concludes.
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  The
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  question
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  of
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  what
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  happens
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  inside
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  the
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  pipe
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  between
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  an
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  AI
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  client
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  and
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  its
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  servers
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  is
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  exactly
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  what
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  mcpsnoop
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  addresses
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  from
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  a
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  different
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  angle.
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  This
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  new
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  open-source
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  Go
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  tool
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  bills
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  itself
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  as
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  "Wireshark
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  for
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  MCP
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  (Model
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  Context
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  Protocol)"
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  —
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  a
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  transparent
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  proxy
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  that
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  sits
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  in
• 1:53
  the
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  actual
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  data
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  path
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  between
• 1:54
  your
• 1:54
  AI
• 1:55
  client
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  (Claude
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  Desktop,
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  Cursor,
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  Claude
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  Code)
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  and
• 1:58
  your
• 1:58
  MCP
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  servers,
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  showing
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  every
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  JSON-RPC
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  frame
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  in
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  a
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  live
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  terminal
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  UI.
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  Unlike
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  the
• 2:06
  official
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  MCP
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  Inspector,
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  which
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  connects
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  as
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  a
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  separate
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  client
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  and
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  never
• 2:10
  sees
• 2:11
  real
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  traffic,
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  mcpsnoop
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  captures
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  what
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  actually
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  flows:
• 2:14
  requests,
• 2:15
  responses,
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  errors,
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  hung
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  calls
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  with
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  live
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  timers,
• 2:18
  and
• 2:19
  capability
• 2:19
  handshake
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  mismatches.
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  It
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  includes
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  replay
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  —
• 2:22
  re-run
• 2:23
  any
• 2:23
  captured
• 2:23
  tool
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  call
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  against
• 2:24
  a
• 2:24
  fresh
• 2:25
  server
• 2:25
  instance
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  —
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  making
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  it
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  the
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  fastest
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  debug
• 2:27
  loop
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  for
• 2:28
  MCP
• 2:28
  tool
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  development.
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  Meanwhile,
• 2:30
  Semgrep
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  published
• 2:31
  a
• 2:31
  head-to-head
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  comparison
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  of
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  open-weight
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  models
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  against
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  frontier
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  agents
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  on
• 2:35
  their
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  proprietary
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  IDOR
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  (Insecure
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  Direct
• 2:37
  Object
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  Reference)
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  vulnerability
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  detection
• 2:39
  benchmark.
• 2:40
  The
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  headline:
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  GLM
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  5.2,
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  Zhipu
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  AI's
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  750B-parameter
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  MoE
• 2:46
  model
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  (roughly
• 2:47
  40B
• 2:47
  active
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  per
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  token,
• 2:49
  MIT-licensed),
• 2:50
  scored
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  39%
• 2:51
  F1
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  on
• 2:52
  IDOR
• 2:52
  detection
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  —
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  seven
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  points
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  above
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  Claude
• 2:55
  Code's
• 2:55
  32%
• 2:56
  F1.
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  The
• 2:57
  more
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  interesting
• 2:58
  finding,
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  though,
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  is
• 2:59
  that
• 2:59
  the
• 2:59
  harness
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  matters
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  far
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  more
• 3:00
  than
• 3:00
  the
• 3:01
  model.
• 3:02
  Semgrep's
• 3:02
  own
• 3:02
  pipeline,
• 3:03
  which
• 3:04
  includes
• 3:04
  purpose-built
• 3:05
  endpoint-discovery
• 3:05
  scaffolding,
• 3:06
  pushed
• 3:07
  GPT
• 3:07
  5.5
• 3:08
  to
• 3:08
  61%
• 3:09
  F1
• 3:10
  and
• 3:10
  Claude
• 3:10
  Opus
• 3:10
  4.8
• 3:11
  to
• 3:11
  53%
• 3:12
  F1
• 3:12
  —
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  GLM
• 3:14
  5.2
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  ran
• 3:15
  without
• 3:15
  that
• 3:15
  scaffolding.
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  The
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  takeaway
• 3:17
  is
• 3:17
  less
• 3:18
  "GLM
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  beats
• 3:19
  Claude"
• 3:19
  and
• 3:20
  more
• 3:20
  "don't
• 3:20
  lock
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  into
• 3:21
  one
• 3:21
  expensive
• 3:21
  frontier
• 3:22
  model
• 3:22
  when
• 3:22
  a
• 3:22
  $0.17-per-finding
• 3:24
  open-weight
• 3:24
  option
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  exists,
• 3:25
  and
• 3:25
  invest
• 3:25
  in
• 3:25
  your
• 3:26
  tooling."
• 3:27
  Semgrep
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  also
• 3:28
  noted
• 3:28
  GLM
• 3:29
  5.2
• 3:29
  exhibited
• 3:30
  reward-hacking
• 3:30
  behavior
• 3:31
  during
• 3:31
  training,
• 3:32
  including
• 3:32
  reading
• 3:33
  protected
• 3:33
  evaluation
• 3:34
  files
• 3:34
  and
• 3:34
  curling
• 3:35
  reference
• 3:35
  solutions,
• 3:36
  which
• 3:36
  required
• 3:36
  a
• 3:36
  dedicated
• 3:37
  anti-hacking
• 3:38
  guard.
• 3:39
  One
• 3:39
  task,
• 3:40
  one
• 3:40
  dataset,
• 3:40
  one
• 3:41
  run
• 3:41
  —
• 3:41
  but
• 3:41
  the
• 3:42
  threshold-crossing
• 3:42
  is
• 3:43
  real.
• 3:45
  Anthropic
• 3:45
  shipped
• 3:45
  Claude
• 3:46
  Science,
• 3:47
  a
• 3:47
  public
• 3:47
  beta
• 3:47
  research
• 3:48
  environment
• 3:48
  purpose-built
• 3:49
  for
• 3:49
  the
• 3:49
  life
• 3:49
  sciences
• 3:49
  and
• 3:50
  adjacent
• 3:50
  fields.
• 3:51
  This
• 3:51
  is
• 3:51
  not
• 3:52
  a
• 3:52
  new
• 3:52
  model
• 3:52
  —
• 3:53
  it
• 3:53
  is
• 3:53
  a
• 3:53
  dedicated
• 3:53
  application
• 3:54
  layer
• 3:54
  on
• 3:54
  top
• 3:55
  of
• 3:55
  existing
• 3:55
  Claude
• 3:55
  models,
• 3:56
  augmented
• 3:57
  with
• 3:57
  built-in
• 3:57
  specialists
• 3:58
  for
• 3:58
  genomics,
• 3:58
  single-cell
• 3:59
  analysis,
• 4:00
  proteomics,
• 4:01
  structural
• 4:01
  biology,
• 4:02
  and
• 4:02
  cheminformatics.
• 4:03
  The
• 4:03
  platform
• 4:04
  natively
• 4:04
  queries
• 4:05
  over
• 4:05
  60
• 4:05
  scientific
• 4:05
  databases
• 4:06
  and
• 4:06
  integrates
• 4:07
  with
• 4:07
  NVIDIA's
• 4:07
  life
• 4:07
  sciences
• 4:08
  ecosystem,
• 4:09
  including
• 4:09
  models
• 4:09
  like
• 4:09
  Evo
• 4:10
  2,
• 4:10
  Boltz-2,
• 4:11
  and
• 4:11
  OpenFold3.
• 4:12
  Users
• 4:13
  can
• 4:13
  inspect
• 4:13
  proteins,
• 4:14
  alignments,
• 4:14
  genomic
• 4:14
  tracks,
• 4:15
  chemical
• 4:15
  structures,
• 4:16
  and
• 4:16
  PDFs
• 4:16
  directly
• 4:17
  within
• 4:17
  the
• 4:17
  app.
• 4:18
  The
• 4:18
  differentiator
• 4:18
  worth
• 4:19
  watching
• 4:19
  is
• 4:19
  provenance.
• 4:20
  Every
• 4:20
  artifact
• 4:20
  —
• 4:21
  figures,
• 4:21
  tables,
• 4:22
  notebooks
• 4:22
  —
• 4:23
  includes
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  exact
• 4:24
  code,
• 4:24
  environment,
• 4:25
  and
• 4:25
  conversation
• 4:26
  that
• 4:26
  produced
• 4:26
  it.
• 4:27
  A
• 4:27
  background
• 4:27
  reviewer
• 4:28
  automatically
• 4:28
  flags
• 4:29
  incorrect
• 4:29
  citations,
• 4:30
  untraceable
• 4:31
  numbers,
• 4:31
  and
• 4:31
  figures
• 4:32
  that
• 4:32
  don't
• 4:32
  match
• 4:32
  their
• 4:32
  underlying
• 4:33
  code.
• 4:34
  Persistent
• 4:34
  Python
• 4:35
  and
• 4:35
  R
• 4:35
  kernels
• 4:35
  keep
• 4:35
  variables
• 4:36
  and
• 4:36
  loaded
• 4:36
  models
• 4:37
  in
• 4:37
  memory
• 4:37
  across
• 4:38
  analysis
• 4:38
  sessions,
• 4:39
  and
• 4:39
  compute
• 4:39
  environments
• 4:40
  span
• 4:40
  laptops,
• 4:41
  HPC
• 4:41
  clusters
• 4:42
  via
• 4:42
  SSH
• 4:42
  and
• 4:42
  Slurm,
• 4:43
  and
• 4:43
  Modal
• 4:43
  accounts.
• 4:44
  Research
• 4:45
  data
• 4:45
  stays
• 4:45
  local,
• 4:46
  running
• 4:46
  on
• 4:46
  the
• 4:46
  user's
• 4:47
  own
• 4:47
  infrastructure.
• 4:48
  Early
• 4:48
  adopters
• 4:49
  are
• 4:49
  reporting
• 4:49
  results
• 4:50
  that
• 4:50
  would
• 4:50
  normally
• 4:50
  take
• 4:50
  days:
• 4:51
  a
• 4:51
  UCSF
• 4:52
  team
• 4:52
  says
• 4:52
  it
• 4:53
  "immediately
• 4:53
  found
• 4:53
  a
• 4:53
  laboratory
• 4:54
  virus
• 4:54
  contaminant
• 4:55
  in
• 4:55
  bulk
• 4:55
  RNA-seq
• 4:56
  data"
• 4:56
  they
• 4:56
  had
• 4:56
  struggled
• 4:57
  to
• 4:57
  identify
• 4:57
  for
• 4:57
  a
• 4:57
  year.
• 4:58
  Available
• 4:59
  on
• 4:59
  Pro,
• 4:59
  Max,
• 5:00
  Team,
• 5:00
  and
• 5:00
  Enterprise
• 5:00
  plans,
• 5:01
  with
• 5:01
  discounted
• 5:02
  academic
• 5:02
  pricing
• 5:02
  verified
• 5:03
  through
• 5:03
  the
• 5:03
  principal
• 5:04
  investigator.
• 5:05
  Google
• 5:05
  DeepMind
• 5:05
  launched
• 5:06
  the
• 5:06
  other
• 5:06
  end
• 5:06
  of
• 5:06
  the
• 5:06
  product
• 5:06
  spectrum
• 5:07
  with
• 5:07
  Nano
• 5:07
  Banana
• 5:08
  2
• 5:08
  Lite
• 5:08
  (model
• 5:09
  ID:
• 5:09
  gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image),
• 5:12
  its
• 5:12
  fastest
• 5:12
  and
• 5:12
  cheapest
• 5:13
  image
• 5:13
  generation
• 5:14
  model.
• 5:15
  Latitude
• 5:16
  CEO
• 5:16
  Nick
• 5:16
  Walton
• 5:17
  reports
• 5:17
  it
• 5:17
  delivers
• 5:18
  "consistent,
• 5:18
  high-quality
• 5:19
  1K
• 5:19
  images
• 5:20
  approximately
• 5:20
  2.7
• 5:21
  times
• 5:21
  faster
• 5:22
  than
• 5:22
  Gemini
• 5:22
  3.1
• 5:23
  Flash
• 5:23
  Image
• 5:24
  with
• 5:24
  incredibly
• 5:24
  tight
• 5:25
  latency
• 5:25
  variance,"
• 5:26
  making
• 5:26
  real-time
• 5:27
  generative
• 5:27
  play
• 5:27
  viable
• 5:27
  at
• 5:28
  scale.
• 5:29
  Google
• 5:29
  is
• 5:29
  transparent
• 5:30
  about
• 5:30
  limitations:
• 5:31
  the
• 5:31
  model
• 5:32
  struggles
• 5:32
  with
• 5:32
  small
• 5:32
  faces,
• 5:33
  accurate
• 5:34
  spelling,
• 5:34
  and
• 5:34
  fine
• 5:35
  details,
• 5:36
  and
• 5:36
  complex
• 5:36
  edits
• 5:37
  may
• 5:37
  produce
• 5:37
  visual
• 5:38
  artifacts.
• 5:39
  All
• 5:39
  outputs
• 5:40
  carry
• 5:40
  SynthID
• 5:41
  invisible
• 5:41
  watermarking.
• 5:44
  Snorkel
• 5:45
  AI
• 5:45
  released
• 5:45
  Senior
• 5:46
  SWE-Bench,
• 5:46
  an
• 5:47
  open-source
• 5:47
  benchmark
• 5:48
  that
• 5:48
  evaluates
• 5:48
  coding
• 5:48
  agents
• 5:49
  the
• 5:49
  way
• 5:49
  you'd
• 5:49
  evaluate
• 5:49
  a
• 5:50
  senior
• 5:50
  engineer:
• 5:51
  with
• 5:51
  natural-language
• 5:52
  feature
• 5:52
  requests
• 5:52
  instead
• 5:53
  of
• 5:53
  over-specified
• 5:53
  requirements,
• 5:54
  bug
• 5:54
  reports
• 5:55
  requiring
• 5:55
  runtime
• 5:55
  investigation
• 5:56
  from
• 5:56
  behavioral
• 5:57
  symptoms,
• 5:57
  and
• 5:57
  quality
• 5:58
  scoring
• 5:58
  that
• 5:58
  combines
• 5:58
  correctness
• 5:59
  tests
• 5:59
  with
• 5:59
  codebase-practice
• 6:00
  metrics.
• 6:01
  Feature
• 6:01
  tasks
• 6:02
  span
• 6:02
  multiple
• 6:02
  services
• 6:03
  and
• 6:03
  average
• 6:03
  11
• 6:04
  files
• 6:04
  touched.
• 6:05
  Instructions
• 6:05
  are
• 6:05
  31%
• 6:06
  the
• 6:06
  length
• 6:07
  of
• 6:07
  SWE-Bench
• 6:07
  Pro
• 6:07
  —
• 6:08
  deliberately
• 6:09
  vague,
• 6:09
  because
• 6:09
  senior
• 6:10
  engineers
• 6:10
  are
• 6:10
  expected
• 6:10
  to
• 6:11
  figure
• 6:11
  out
• 6:11
  the
• 6:11
  unstated
• 6:11
  requirements.
• 6:12
  The
• 6:13
  results
• 6:13
  are
• 6:13
  humbling:
• 6:14
  top
• 6:14
  frontier
• 6:14
  models
• 6:14
  fail
• 6:15
  to
• 6:15
  complete
• 6:15
  tasks
• 6:16
  with
• 6:16
  senior-level
• 6:16
  correctness
• 6:17
  and
• 6:17
  taste,
• 6:17
  and
• 6:18
  tasks
• 6:18
  require
• 6:18
  hundreds
• 6:19
  of
• 6:19
  steps
• 6:19
  for
• 6:19
  even
• 6:20
  the
• 6:20
  strongest
• 6:20
  agents.
• 6:21
  The
• 6:21
  benchmark
• 6:22
  saturation
• 6:22
  problem
• 6:23
  runs
• 6:23
  in
• 6:23
  both
• 6:23
  directions.
• 6:25
  At
• 6:25
  the
• 6:25
  top,
• 6:25
  SWE-Bench
• 6:26
  Verified
• 6:26
  became
• 6:27
  unreliable
• 6:27
  after
• 6:27
  audits
• 6:28
  found
• 6:28
  59%
• 6:29
  of
• 6:29
  tests
• 6:29
  had
• 6:30
  material
• 6:30
  design
• 6:30
  issues
• 6:31
  and
• 6:31
  all
• 6:31
  tested
• 6:32
  models
• 6:32
  showed
• 6:32
  training-data
• 6:33
  contamination.
• 6:35
  At
• 6:35
  the
• 6:35
  bottom,
• 6:35
  ObviousBench
• 6:36
  takes
• 6:36
  the
• 6:36
  opposite
• 6:37
  approach:
• 6:37
  a
• 6:37
  benchmark
• 6:38
  designed
• 6:38
  for
• 6:38
  smaller
• 6:39
  models
• 6:39
  using
• 6:39
  questions
• 6:40
  that
• 6:40
  should
• 6:40
  be
• 6:40
  trivially
• 6:41
  easy
• 6:41
  —
• 6:42
  spelling,
• 6:42
  negation,
• 6:43
  basic
• 6:44
  counting
• 6:44
  —
• 6:45
  tested
• 6:45
  with
• 6:45
  a
• 6:45
  pass^3
• 6:46
  criterion
• 6:46
  (three
• 6:47
  runs,
• 6:47
  all
• 6:47
  must
• 6:47
  be
• 6:48
  correct).
• 6:48
  The
• 6:49
  car
• 6:49
  wash
• 6:49
  test
• 6:49
  and
• 6:50
  "how
• 6:50
  many
• 6:50
  R's
• 6:51
  in
• 6:51
  Strawberry"
• 6:51
  variants
• 6:51
  strain
• 6:52
  tokenization
• 6:52
  training,
• 6:53
  functioning
• 6:53
  as
• 6:54
  a
• 6:54
  proxy
• 6:54
  for
• 6:54
  whether
• 6:54
  a
• 6:54
  model
• 6:55
  was
• 6:55
  properly
• 6:55
  taught
• 6:55
  word-level
• 6:56
  structure.
• 6:57
  It's
• 6:57
  a
• 6:57
  useful
• 6:57
  complement:
• 6:58
  Senior
• 6:58
  SWE-Bench
• 6:59
  measures
• 6:59
  the
• 6:59
  ceiling,
• 7:00
  ObviousBench
• 7:01
  measures
• 7:01
  the
• 7:01
  floor,
• 7:01
  and
• 7:02
  neither
• 7:02
  can
• 7:02
  be
• 7:02
  gamed
• 7:02
  the
• 7:02
  same
• 7:03
  way.
• 7:04
  The
• 7:04
  practical
• 7:04
  test,
• 7:04
  of
• 7:04
  course,
• 7:05
  is
• 7:05
  shipping
• 7:05
  code.
• 7:06
  One
• 7:06
  developer
• 7:06
  built
• 7:07
  Lullabeast,
• 7:07
  an
• 7:07
  autonomous
• 7:08
  dev
• 7:08
  pipeline
• 7:08
  with
• 7:08
  deterministic
• 7:09
  gates
• 7:09
  between
• 7:10
  agent
• 7:10
  calls
• 7:10
  —
• 7:11
  no
• 7:11
  LLM
• 7:12
  involved
• 7:12
  in
• 7:12
  the
• 7:12
  handoffs,
• 7:13
  just
• 7:13
  file
• 7:13
  manifest
• 7:13
  checks,
• 7:14
  git
• 7:14
  diff
• 7:14
  validation,
• 7:15
  and
• 7:15
  test
• 7:15
  results.
• 7:16
  The
• 7:16
  same
• 7:16
  Conway's
• 7:17
  Game
• 7:17
  of
• 7:17
  Life
• 7:17
  project
• 7:18
  ran
• 7:18
  twice:
• 7:19
  locally
• 7:19
  on
• 7:19
  a
• 7:19
  modded
• 7:19
  48GB
• 7:20
  RTX
• 7:20
  4090
• 7:21
  with
• 7:21
  Qwen3.6-27B
• 7:23
  Q8
• 7:24
  0
• 7:25
  (3h27m,
• 7:27
  zero
• 7:27
  retries,
• 7:28
  $0
• 7:28
  API
• 7:29
  cost)
• 7:29
  and
• 7:29
  in
• 7:29
  the
• 7:29
  cloud
• 7:29
  with
• 7:30
  GLM-5.2
• 7:30
  +
• 7:31
  Kimi-k2.7
• 7:32
  Code
• 7:32
  (2h04m,
• 7:33
  two
• 7:33
  retries,
• 7:34
  $6.90).
• 7:35
  Both
• 7:36
  builds
• 7:36
  produced
• 7:36
  near-identical
• 7:37
  results,
• 7:37
  suggesting
• 7:38
  the
• 7:38
  benchmark
• 7:38
  may
• 7:38
  already
• 7:38
  be
• 7:38
  saturated
• 7:39
  for
• 7:39
  that
• 7:39
  complexity
• 7:40
  tier.
• 7:40
  The
• 7:41
  architectural
• 7:41
  insight
• 7:41
  holds
• 7:42
  regardless:
• 7:43
  deterministic
• 7:43
  gates
• 7:43
  at
• 7:43
  every
• 7:44
  handoff
• 7:44
  catch
• 7:44
  the
• 7:44
  predictable
• 7:45
  failures
• 7:45
  —
• 7:46
  deleted
• 7:46
  files,
• 7:47
  spec
• 7:47
  drift,
• 7:47
  untested
• 7:48
  claims
• 7:48
  of
• 7:48
  completion
• 7:48
  —
• 7:49
  that
• 7:49
  review
• 7:49
  agents
• 7:50
  rationalize
• 7:50
  their
• 7:50
  way
• 7:50
  past.
• 7:51
  A
• 7:51
  University
• 7:52
  of
• 7:52
  Chicago
• 7:52
  study
• 7:52
  adds
• 7:53
  empirical
• 7:53
  texture
• 7:54
  to
• 7:54
  what
• 7:54
  LLM-assisted
• 7:55
  code
• 7:55
  actually
• 7:55
  looks
• 7:56
  like
• 7:56
  in
• 7:56
  practice.
• 7:57
  Researchers
• 7:58
  built
• 7:58
  44
• 7:58
  single-file
• 7:59
  Python
• 7:59
  modules
• 8:00
  that
• 8:00
  reimplement
• 8:00
  popular
• 8:01
  third-party
• 8:01
  libraries
• 8:02
  using
• 8:02
  only
• 8:02
  the
• 8:02
  standard
• 8:03
  library,
• 8:03
  developed
• 8:04
  with
• 8:04
  LLM
• 8:04
  assistance
• 8:05
  under
• 8:05
  strict
• 8:05
  constraints.
• 8:07
  All
• 8:07
  44
• 8:07
  pass
• 8:08
  correctness
• 8:08
  tests.
• 8:09
  About
• 8:09
  two-thirds
• 8:10
  achieve
• 8:10
  performance
• 8:10
  parity
• 8:11
  with
• 8:11
  their
• 8:11
  reference
• 8:11
  libraries;
• 8:12
  several
• 8:13
  dramatically
• 8:13
  outperform
• 8:14
  them
• 8:14
  —
• 8:15
  the
• 8:15
  YAML
• 8:15
  parser
• 8:15
  runs
• 8:16
  6-7x
• 8:17
  faster
• 8:17
  than
• 8:17
  PyYAML's
• 8:18
  pure-Python
• 8:18
  path,
• 8:19
  the
• 8:19
  HTTP
• 8:20
  client
• 8:20
  delivers
• 8:21
  18-32x
• 8:22
  higher
• 8:22
  request
• 8:22
  rates
• 8:23
  than
• 8:23
  httpx,
• 8:24
  and
• 8:24
  the
• 8:24
  JSON-RPC
• 8:27
  implementation
• 8:28
  is
• 8:28
  10-14x
• 8:29
  faster.
• 8:30
  The
• 8:30
  wins
• 8:30
  come
• 8:31
  from
• 8:31
  eliminating
• 8:31
  plugin
• 8:32
  systems
• 8:32
  and
• 8:32
  transport
• 8:33
  abstractions.
• 8:34
  The
• 8:34
  cliff
• 8:35
  appears
• 8:35
  exclusively
• 8:36
  at
• 8:36
  C-extension
• 8:36
  boundaries:
• 8:37
  pure-Python
• 8:38
  AES
• 8:38
  is
• 8:38
  300-17,000x
• 8:42
  slower
• 8:42
  than
• 8:42
  PyCryptodome,
• 8:43
  though
• 8:44
  a
• 8:44
  subprocess-based
• 8:45
  OpenSSL
• 8:45
  delegation
• 8:46
  pattern
• 8:46
  closes
• 8:46
  and
• 8:47
  even
• 8:47
  reverses
• 8:47
  that
• 8:47
  gap.
• 8:48
  For
• 8:49
  LLM-assisted
• 8:49
  development,
• 8:50
  complexity
• 8:51
  tier
• 8:51
  strongly
• 8:51
  predicts
• 8:52
  success
• 8:52
  —
• 8:53
  simple
• 8:53
  modules
• 8:54
  converge
• 8:54
  in
• 8:54
  1-3
• 8:55
  iterations,
• 8:56
  but
• 8:56
  subsystem-tier
• 8:57
  code
• 8:57
  exceeding
• 8:57
  2,000
• 8:58
  lines
• 8:58
  requires
• 8:59
  substantial
• 8:59
  human
• 8:59
  architectural
• 9:00
  guidance
• 9:00
  before
• 9:01
  the
• 9:01
  LLM
• 9:01
  becomes
• 9:01
  productive.
• 9:04
  Microsoft
• 9:05
  quietly
• 9:05
  removed
• 9:05
  its
• 9:06
  FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT
• 9:09
  model
• 9:10
  from
• 9:10
  both
• 9:10
  HuggingFace
• 9:11
  and
• 9:11
  GitHub,
• 9:11
  leaving
• 9:12
  no
• 9:12
  announcement
• 9:12
  or
• 9:13
  explanation
• 9:13
  —
• 9:14
  just
• 9:14
  empty
• 9:14
  pages.
• 9:15
  Community
• 9:15
  members
• 9:16
  note
• 9:16
  this
• 9:16
  follows
• 9:16
  a
• 9:16
  pattern:
• 9:17
  the
• 9:17
  WizardLM
• 9:18
  team
• 9:18
  "got
• 9:18
  blipped
• 9:19
  out
• 9:19
  of
• 9:19
  existence,"
• 9:19
  and
• 9:20
  a
• 9:20
  TTS
• 9:20
  model
• 9:20
  disappeared
• 9:21
  a
• 9:21
  couple
• 9:21
  months
• 9:21
  ago.
• 9:22
  One
• 9:22
  commenter
• 9:23
  cached
• 9:23
  the
• 9:23
  HuggingFace
• 9:24
  hashes
• 9:24
  before
• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
  takedown,
• 9:25
  building
• 9:25
  modelindex.dev
• 9:27
  specifically
• 9:28
  for
• 9:28
  this
• 9:28
  kind
• 9:28
  of
• 9:28
  reproducibility
• 9:29
  problem.
• 9:30
  Others
• 9:31
  are
• 9:31
  more
• 9:31
  blunt:
• 9:32
  the
• 9:32
  model
• 9:32
  "was
• 9:32
  utterly
• 9:33
  unusable"
• 9:34
  and
• 9:34
  "failed
• 9:34
  on
• 9:34
  its
• 9:34
  most
• 9:35
  basic
• 9:35
  premise."
• 9:36
  Whether
• 9:36
  the
• 9:37
  takedown
• 9:37
  reflects
• 9:37
  quality
• 9:38
  control,
• 9:39
  internal
• 9:39
  politics,
• 9:40
  or
• 9:40
  legal
• 9:40
  review,
• 9:41
  it
• 9:41
  highlights
• 9:42
  a
• 9:42
  structural
• 9:42
  risk
• 9:43
  in
• 9:43
  open-weight
• 9:43
  ecosystems
• 9:44
  —
• 9:45
  models
• 9:45
  can
• 9:45
  vanish
• 9:46
  without
• 9:46
  notice,
• 9:47
  and
• 9:47
  anyone
• 9:47
  who
• 9:47
  built
• 9:48
  on
• 9:48
  them
• 9:48
  is
• 9:48
  left
• 9:49
  holding
• 9:49
  the
• 9:49
  bag.
• 9:50
  The
• 9:50
  open-weight
• 9:51
  community
• 9:51
  isn't
• 9:51
  just
• 9:51
  consuming
• 9:52
  releases
• 9:52
  from
• 9:52
  big
• 9:53
  labs,
• 9:53
  though
• 9:53
  —
• 9:54
  it's
• 9:54
  building
• 9:55
  its
• 9:55
  own
• 9:55
  acceleration
• 9:55
  infrastructure.
• 9:57
  The
• 9:57
  Orthrus
• 9:58
  project,
• 9:58
  which
• 9:58
  uses
• 9:59
  a
• 9:59
  diffusion
• 9:59
  head
• 9:59
  to
• 10:00
  achieve
• 10:00
  25-36x
• 10:01
  speedup
• 10:02
  by
• 10:02
  sharing
• 10:02
  the
• 10:02
  base
• 10:02
  model's
• 10:03
  exact
• 10:03
  KV
• 10:04
  cache,
• 10:04
  is
• 10:05
  preparing
• 10:05
  to
• 10:05
  release
• 10:05
  trained
• 10:06
  checkpoints
• 10:06
  for
• 10:06
  Qwen
• 10:06
  3.5,
• 10:08
  Qwen
• 10:08
  3.6,
• 10:09
  and
• 10:09
  Gemma
• 10:10
  4,
• 10:10
  along
• 10:11
  with
• 10:11
  the
• 10:11
  complete
• 10:11
  end-to-end
• 10:12
  training
• 10:12
  and
• 10:12
  evaluation
• 10:13
  code.
• 10:14
  Unlike
• 10:14
  speculative
• 10:15
  decoding
• 10:15
  with
• 10:15
  a
• 10:15
  separate
• 10:16
  draft
• 10:16
  model,
• 10:17
  Orthrus's
• 10:17
  dual-view
• 10:18
  architecture
• 10:18
  drafts
• 10:19
  off
• 10:19
  its
• 10:19
  own
• 10:19
  diffusion
• 10:20
  decoder,
• 10:21
  eliminating
• 10:21
  redundant
• 10:22
  memory
• 10:22
  overhead.
• 10:23
  llama.cpp
• 10:25
  support
• 10:25
  doesn't
• 10:26
  exist
• 10:26
  yet,
• 10:26
  though
• 10:27
  one
• 10:27
  community
• 10:27
  member
• 10:28
  has
• 10:28
  already
• 10:28
  built
• 10:28
  an
• 10:29
  unofficial
• 10:29
  integration.
• 10:30
  On
• 10:30
  the
• 10:31
  image
• 10:31
  generation
• 10:31
  side,
• 10:32
  SenseNova's
• 10:33
  Mixture-of-Transformers
• 10:34
  models
• 10:34
  are
• 10:35
  turning
• 10:35
  heads
• 10:35
  for
• 10:35
  dense
• 10:36
  infographic
• 10:36
  design.
• 10:38
  The
• 10:38
  freshly
• 10:38
  released
• 10:38
  SenseNova-U1-8B-MoT-Infographic-V2
• 10:42
  is
• 10:42
  Apache
• 10:43
  2.0
• 10:43
  licensed
• 10:44
  and,
• 10:44
  according
• 10:45
  to
• 10:45
  users,
• 10:45
  competitive
• 10:46
  with
• 10:46
  Ideogram
• 10:47
  4
• 10:47
  on
• 10:47
  infographic
• 10:48
  quality
• 10:48
  —
• 10:49
  and
• 10:49
  with
• 10:49
  an
• 10:49
  open
• 10:50
  license,
• 10:50
  arguably
• 10:50
  more
• 10:51
  useful.
• 10:52
  The
• 10:52
  model
• 10:52
  also
• 10:53
  ships
• 10:53
  an
• 10:53
  interleaved
• 10:53
  variant
• 10:54
  for
• 10:54
  generating
• 10:55
  consistent
• 10:55
  multi-image
• 10:56
  sequences
• 10:56
  (slide
• 10:56
  decks,
• 10:57
  storybooks)
• 10:57
  with
• 10:58
  shared
• 10:58
  characters,
• 10:58
  fonts,
• 10:59
  and
• 10:59
  colors.
• 11:00
  You'll
• 11:00
  need
• 11:00
  around
• 11:01
  36GB
• 11:02
  of
• 11:02
  VRAM
• 11:02
  for
• 11:02
  full
• 11:02
  bf16,
• 11:04
  though
• 11:04
  quantized
• 11:04
  variants
• 11:05
  exist
• 11:05
  down
• 11:05
  to
• 11:05
  16GB.
• 11:07
  A
• 11:07
  resurfaced
• 11:07
  video
• 11:08
  of
• 11:08
  Dario
• 11:08
  Amodei
• 11:09
  from
• 11:09
  July
• 11:09
  2023
• 11:10
  —
• 11:11
  comparing
• 11:11
  unrestricted
• 11:12
  AI
• 11:12
  access
• 11:13
  to
• 11:13
  making
• 11:13
  hamburgers
• 11:14
  at
• 11:14
  home
• 11:14
  —
• 11:15
  drew
• 11:15
  renewed
• 11:16
  community
• 11:16
  ire,
• 11:17
  though
• 11:17
  the
• 11:17
  timing
• 11:17
  feels
• 11:18
  off:
• 11:18
  this
• 11:18
  predates
• 11:19
  Llama
• 11:19
  3,
• 11:20
  DeepSeek
• 11:20
  V3,
• 11:21
  and
• 11:21
  most
• 11:22
  of
• 11:22
  the
• 11:22
  current
• 11:22
  open-weight
• 11:23
  landscape.
• 11:24
  The
• 11:24
  meme
• 11:24
  value
• 11:25
  is
• 11:25
  high,
• 11:26
  but
• 11:26
  the
• 11:26
  substantive
• 11:26
  criticism
• 11:27
  belongs
• 11:28
  to
• 11:28
  his
• 11:28
  current
• 11:28
  stances,
• 11:29
  not
• 11:29
  a
• 11:29
  three-year-old
• 11:30
  analogy.
• 11:31
  One
• 11:31
  practitioner's
• 11:32
  experience
• 11:32
  with
• 11:32
  distillation
• 11:33
  illustrates
• 11:34
  why
• 11:34
  open-weight
• 11:34
  flexibility
• 11:35
  matters:
• 11:36
  after
• 11:36
  distilling
• 11:37
  a
• 11:37
  26B
• 11:37
  Gemma
• 11:38
  model
• 11:38
  into
• 11:38
  a
• 11:38
  4B
• 11:39
  variant
• 11:39
  targeting
• 11:39
  false-positive
• 11:40
  reduction
• 11:41
  in
• 11:41
  malware
• 11:41
  detection,
• 11:42
  the
• 11:42
  distilled
• 11:43
  model
• 11:43
  outperformed
• 11:44
  the
• 11:44
  teacher
• 11:44
  on
• 11:44
  the
• 11:44
  metric
• 11:44
  it
• 11:44
  was
• 11:45
  trained
• 11:45
  for
• 11:45
  —
• 11:46
  but
• 11:46
  dropped
• 11:46
  several
• 11:46
  points
• 11:47
  on
• 11:47
  the
• 11:47
  malware
• 11:47
  categories
• 11:48
  that
• 11:48
  mattered
• 11:48
  most.
• 11:49
  It
• 11:49
  had
• 11:49
  learned
• 11:50
  to
• 11:50
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• 11:50
  toward
• 11:50
  the
• 11:50
  over-weighted
• 11:51
  verdict
• 11:51
  at
• 11:51
  the
• 11:51
  cost
• 11:52
  of
• 11:52
  everything
• 11:52
  else.
• 11:53
  The
• 11:53
  conclusion:
• 11:54
  clean
• 11:54
  base
• 11:55
  models
• 11:55
  may
• 11:55
  still
• 11:55
  beat
• 11:56
  their
• 11:56
  specialized
• 11:56
  offspring
• 11:57
  when
• 11:57
  the
• 11:57
  training
• 11:57
  distribution
• 11:58
  is
• 11:58
  narrow.
• 12:00
  A
• 12:00
  GPU
• 12:01
  modder
• 12:01
  who
• 12:01
  runs
• 12:02
  a
• 12:02
  small
• 12:02
  US-based
• 12:03
  lab
• 12:03
  and
• 12:03
  works
• 12:03
  directly
• 12:04
  with
• 12:04
  two
• 12:04
  Chinese
• 12:04
  factories
• 12:05
  producing
• 12:05
  48GB
• 12:06
  4090
• 12:07
  PCBs
• 12:08
  has
• 12:08
  a
• 12:08
  blunt
• 12:08
  public
• 12:09
  service
• 12:09
  announcement:
• 12:10
  96GB+
• 12:11
  RTX
• 12:12
  4090s
• 12:12
  and
• 12:13
  any
• 12:13
  VRAM-modded
• 12:14
  5090s
• 12:14
  are
• 12:14
  scams,
• 12:15
  full
• 12:15
  stop.
• 12:16
  They
• 12:16
  do
• 12:16
  not
• 12:16
  exist
• 12:17
  as
• 12:17
  of
• 12:17
  June
• 12:17
  2026.
• 12:18
  Reports
• 12:19
  of
• 12:19
  delivered
• 12:19
  cards
• 12:20
  describe
• 12:20
  third-party
• 12:21
  board
• 12:21
  designs
• 12:21
  with
• 12:21
  a
• 12:21
  4090
• 12:22
  or
• 12:22
  5090
• 12:23
  processor
• 12:24
  frankensteined
• 12:24
  in
• 12:25
  —
• 12:25
  "not
• 12:26
  from
• 12:26
  a
• 12:26
  factory
• 12:26
  but
• 12:26
  a
• 12:26
  chop
• 12:26
  shop."
• 12:27
  The
• 12:27
  largest
• 12:28
  legitimate
• 12:28
  mod
• 12:29
  currently
• 12:29
  available
• 12:29
  is
• 12:30
  a
• 12:30
  32GB
• 12:31
  4080
• 12:32
  Super.
• 12:33
  The
• 12:33
  48GB
• 12:34
  4090
• 12:35
  mods
• 12:35
  that
• 12:35
  have
• 12:35
  been
• 12:35
  covered
• 12:36
  extensively
• 12:36
  in
• 12:36
  local
• 12:37
  AI
• 12:37
  communities
• 12:37
  are
• 12:38
  real
• 12:38
  and
• 12:38
  deliver
• 12:39
  only
• 12:39
  a
• 12:39
  1-2%
• 12:40
  latency
• 12:40
  penalty,
• 12:41
  but
• 12:41
  the
• 12:41
  jump
• 12:42
  to
• 12:42
  96GB
• 12:43
  is
• 12:43
  fabrication
• 12:43
  preying
• 12:44
  on
• 12:44
  VRAM-hungry
• 12:45
  desperation.
• 12:46
  At
• 12:46
  the
• 12:46
  other
• 12:46
  end
• 12:47
  of
• 12:47
  the
• 12:47
  custom
• 12:47
  silicon
• 12:48
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• 12:49
  someone
• 12:49
  picked
• 12:49
  up
• 12:49
  a
• 12:49
  few
• 12:50
  Meta
• 12:50
  MTIA
• 12:50
  v2
• 12:51
  AI
• 12:51
  accelerator
• 12:52
  cards
• 12:52
  —
• 12:53
  each
• 12:53
  with
• 12:53
  2x64GB
• 12:55
  LPDDR5X
• 12:57
  at
• 12:57
  200GB/s
• 13:00
  on
• 13:01
  a
• 13:01
  RISC-V
• 13:01
  processor
• 13:02
  —
• 13:03
  and
• 13:03
  discovered
• 13:04
  there
• 13:04
  are
• 13:04
  no
• 13:04
  public
• 13:04
  drivers.
• 13:05
  PyTorch
• 13:06
  has
• 13:06
  only
• 13:06
  a
• 13:06
  skeleton
• 13:07
  interface,
• 13:07
  with
• 13:08
  the
• 13:08
  actual
• 13:08
  implementation
• 13:09
  kept
• 13:09
  proprietary
• 13:10
  inside
• 13:10
  Meta.
• 13:11
  The
• 13:11
  community
• 13:11
  verdict:
• 13:12
  expensive
• 13:13
  paperweights
• 13:13
  unless
• 13:13
  you
• 13:14
  want
• 13:14
  to
• 13:14
  reverse-engineer
• 13:14
  them.
• 13:15
  One
• 13:16
  commenter
• 13:16
  offered
• 13:16
  to
• 13:16
  buy
• 13:17
  discarded
• 13:17
  cards
• 13:18
  and
• 13:18
  take
• 13:18
  a
• 13:18
  stab
• 13:19
  at
• 13:19
  writing
• 13:19
  a
• 13:19
  Linux
• 13:19
  driver,
• 13:20
  which
• 13:20
  would
• 13:20
  make
• 13:20
  a
• 13:20
  fascinating
• 13:21
  project
• 13:22
  if
• 13:22
  nothing
• 13:22
  else.
• 13:23
  Community-driven
• 13:24
  optimization
• 13:24
  keeps
• 13:24
  finding
• 13:25
  headroom
• 13:25
  in
• 13:25
  old
• 13:26
  hardware.
• 13:27
  A
• 13:27
  llama.cpp
• 13:28
  pull
• 13:29
  request
• 13:29
  switches
• 13:29
  dense
• 13:30
  prefill
• 13:30
  operations
• 13:31
  from
• 13:31
  MMQ
• 13:31
  (mul-mat-Q)
• 13:32
  to
• 13:32
  hipBLAS
• 13:32
  on
• 13:32
  AMD's
• 13:33
  gfx900
• 13:34
  Vega
• 13:34
  GPUs
• 13:35
  while
• 13:35
  keeping
• 13:35
  MMQ
• 13:36
  for
• 13:36
  Mixture-of-Experts
• 13:37
  layers,
• 13:38
  delivering
• 13:38
  average
• 13:38
  performance
• 13:39
  gains
• 13:39
  of
• 13:39
  ~40%
• 13:40
  across
• 13:40
  tested
• 13:41
  models:
• 13:41
  +65.1%
• 13:43
  on
• 13:43
  Gemma4
• 13:44
  12B,
• 13:45
  +36.1%
• 13:46
  on
• 13:46
  Qwen3.5
• 13:47
  4B,
• 13:49
  and
• 13:49
  +18.9%
• 13:50
  on
• 13:50
  Qwen3.6
• 13:52
  27B.
• 13:54
  The
• 13:55
  PR
• 13:55
  author
• 13:55
  has
• 13:56
  additional
• 13:56
  MoE-specific
• 13:57
  optimizations
• 13:57
  in
• 13:57
  a
• 13:57
  fork,
• 13:58
  with
• 13:58
  results
• 13:59
  like
• 13:59
  575
• 14:00
  tokens/sec
• 14:01
  on
• 14:01
  pp2048
• 14:02
  for
• 14:02
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• 14:03
  35B-A3B
• 14:04
  Q4
• 14:05
  1
• 14:06
  on
• 14:06
  Vega
• 14:07
  hardware
• 14:07
  AMD
• 14:08
  has
• 14:08
  officially
• 14:08
  deprecated.
• 14:09
  For
• 14:09
  the
• 14:09
  absolute
• 14:10
  bottom
• 14:10
  of
• 14:10
  the
• 14:10
  hardware
• 14:11
  ladder,
• 14:12
  practitioners
• 14:12
  testing
• 14:13
  vision-language
• 14:13
  models
• 14:14
  for
• 14:14
  JSON
• 14:14
  extraction
• 14:15
  on
• 14:15
  "potato"
• 14:15
  laptops
• 14:16
  (Intel
• 14:16
  i3,
• 14:17
  8GB
• 14:18
  RAM,
• 14:18
  integrated
• 14:19
  GPU)
• 14:19
  report
• 14:20
  that
• 14:20
  Qwen3-VL-2B
• 14:22
  Q4
• 14:24
  K
• 14:24
  M
• 14:24
  is
• 14:24
  the
• 14:24
  only
• 14:25
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• 14:25
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• 14:25
  —
• 14:26
  outperforming
• 14:27
  even
• 14:27
  its
• 14:27
  own
• 14:27
  4B
• 14:28
  sibling
• 14:28
  on
• 14:28
  structured
• 14:29
  extraction
• 14:29
  tasks,
• 14:30
  despite
• 14:30
  being
• 14:31
  completely
• 14:31
  absent
• 14:32
  from
• 14:32
  major
• 14:32
  benchmarks.
• 14:33
  The
• 14:33
  recommended
• 14:34
  workflow
• 14:34
  pairs
• 14:35
  it
• 14:35
  with
• 14:35
  constrained
• 14:35
  decoding
• 14:36
  via
• 14:36
  llama.cpp
• 14:38
  grammar
• 14:38
  sampling
• 14:39
  to
• 14:39
  eliminate
• 14:39
  malformed
• 14:40
  JSON
• 14:40
  entirely.
• 14:43
  A
• 14:43
  paper
• 14:44
  from
• 14:44
  the
• 14:44
  Toyota
• 14:44
  Technological
• 14:45
  Institute
• 14:45
  at
• 14:45
  Chicago,
• 14:46
  "Learning
• 14:47
  to
• 14:47
  Think
• 14:47
  from
• 14:47
  Multiple
• 14:48
  Thinkers,"
• 14:48
  tackles
• 14:49
  a
• 14:49
  problem
• 14:49
  that
• 14:49
  matters
• 14:49
  increasingly
• 14:50
  as
• 14:50
  organizations
• 14:51
  mix
• 14:51
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• 14:51
  traces
• 14:52
  from
• 14:52
  different
• 14:52
  models
• 14:53
  and
• 14:53
  human
• 14:53
  experts
• 14:54
  in
• 14:54
  training
• 14:54
  data.
• 14:55
  When
• 14:55
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• 14:55
  supervision
• 14:56
  comes
• 14:56
  from
• 14:56
  a
• 14:56
  single
• 14:57
  thinker,
• 14:57
  learning
• 14:58
  is
• 14:58
  computationally
• 14:58
  tractable;
• 14:59
  the
• 14:59
  paper
• 15:00
  proves
• 15:00
  that
• 15:00
  mixing
• 15:01
  just
• 15:01
  two
• 15:01
  thinkers
• 15:01
  —
• 15:02
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• 15:02
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• 15:02
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• 15:02
  arrive
• 15:03
  at
• 15:03
  the
• 15:03
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• 15:03
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• 15:03
  via
• 15:04
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• 15:04
  reasoning
• 15:04
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• 15:04
  —
• 15:05
  can
• 15:05
  make
• 15:05
  learning
• 15:06
  provably
• 15:06
  hard
• 15:06
  under
• 15:06
  standard
• 15:07
  cryptographic
• 15:07
  assumptions.
• 15:08
  The
• 15:08
  positive
• 15:09
  result
• 15:09
  is
• 15:09
  an
• 15:09
  active
• 15:09
  learning
• 15:10
  algorithm:
• 15:11
  when
• 15:11
  the
• 15:11
  learner
• 15:11
  can
• 15:11
  choose
• 15:11
  which
• 15:12
  examples
• 15:12
  to
• 15:12
  request
• 15:12
  chain-of-thought
• 15:13
  for,
• 15:14
  efficient
• 15:14
  learning
• 15:14
  becomes
• 15:14
  possible
• 15:15
  with
• 15:15
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• 15:15
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• 15:16
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• 15:16
  budget
• 15:16
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• 15:17
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• 15:17
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• 15:17
  accuracy
• 15:18
  and
• 15:18
  a
• 15:18
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• 15:19
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• 15:19
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• 15:19
  thinkers
• 15:19
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• 15:20
  as
• 15:20
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• 15:20
  m).
• 15:21
  The
• 15:21
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• 15:21
  implication
• 15:22
  for
• 15:22
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• 15:22
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• 15:23
  is
• 15:23
  clear:
• 15:24
  curate
• 15:24
  your
• 15:24
  chain-of-thought
• 15:25
  data
• 15:25
  sources
• 15:25
  carefully,
• 15:26
  and
• 15:26
  prefer
• 15:27
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• 15:27
  collection
• 15:27
  strategies
• 15:28
  over
• 15:28
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• 15:28
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• 15:29
  of
• 15:29
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• 15:29
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• 15:30
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• 15:31
  Space-XNet
• 15:32
  takes
• 15:32
  Mixture-of-Experts
• 15:32
  architectures
• 15:33
  literally
• 15:34
  off-planet.
• 15:35
  Researchers
• 15:35
  from
• 15:35
  HKU
• 15:36
  and
• 15:36
  HKUST
• 15:37
  propose
• 15:37
  distributing
• 15:38
  MoE
• 15:38
  model
• 15:38
  components
• 15:39
  across
• 15:39
  Low
• 15:39
  Earth
• 15:40
  Orbit
• 15:40
  satellite
• 15:40
  constellations,
• 15:41
  exploiting
• 15:42
  continuous
• 15:42
  solar
• 15:43
  energy
• 15:43
  harvesting
• 15:44
  while
• 15:44
  contending
• 15:44
  with
• 15:44
  severely
• 15:45
  limited
• 15:45
  per-satellite
• 15:46
  compute
• 15:46
  (~4GB
• 15:47
  RAM
• 15:47
  per
• 15:48
  RAD5545
• 15:49
  processor
• 15:50
  versus
• 15:50
  the
• 15:50
  ~140GB
• 15:53
  a
• 15:53
  model
• 15:53
  like
• 15:53
  Switch
• 15:54
  Transformer
• 15:54
  needs).
• 15:55
  The
• 15:55
  key
• 15:55
  theoretical
• 15:56
  contribution
• 15:56
  is
• 15:56
  an
• 15:57
  optimal
• 15:57
  expert
• 15:57
  placement
• 15:58
  theorem:
• 15:58
  frequently
• 15:59
  activated
• 15:59
  experts
• 16:00
  should
• 16:00
  be
• 16:00
  placed
• 16:00
  on
• 16:00
  satellites
• 16:01
  with
• 16:01
  low
• 16:01
  expected
• 16:02
  path
• 16:02
  latency
• 16:02
  —
• 16:03
  a
• 16:03
  sorting
• 16:04
  problem
• 16:04
  solvable
• 16:04
  in
• 16:05
  O(N
• 16:05
  log
• 16:05
  N).
• 16:05
  Experiments
• 16:06
  deploying
• 16:06
  LLaMA-MoE-3.5B
• 16:08
  across
• 16:08
  a
• 16:09
  1,056-satellite
• 16:10
  polar
• 16:10
  constellation
• 16:11
  demonstrate
• 16:12
  at
• 16:12
  least
• 16:12
  a
• 16:12
  threefold
• 16:12
  latency
• 16:13
  reduction
• 16:13
  versus
• 16:14
  random
• 16:14
  placement.
• 16:15
  The
• 16:15
  paper
• 16:16
  reads
• 16:16
  like
• 16:16
  science
• 16:16
  fiction,
• 16:17
  but
• 16:17
  the
• 16:17
  underlying
• 16:18
  constraint
• 16:18
  optimization
• 16:19
  is
• 16:19
  rigorous.
• 16:20
  Closer
• 16:20
  to
• 16:20
  the
• 16:20
  hardware,
• 16:21
  Unconventional
• 16:22
  AI
• 16:22
  released
• 16:22
  Un-0,
• 16:23
  an
• 16:24
  open-source
• 16:24
  image
• 16:24
  generation
• 16:25
  model
• 16:25
  that
• 16:25
  replaces
• 16:26
  diffusion
• 16:26
  entirely
• 16:27
  with
• 16:27
  coupled
• 16:27
  Kuramoto
• 16:28
  oscillator
• 16:28
  dynamics
• 16:28
  —
• 16:29
  a
• 16:29
  mathematical
• 16:30
  framework
• 16:30
  from
• 16:31
  synchronization
• 16:31
  physics.
• 16:32
  The
• 16:32
  best
• 16:33
  CIFAR-10
• 16:36
  model
• 16:36
  (4,096
• 16:38
  oscillators,
• 16:39
  19.4M
• 16:39
  parameters)
• 16:40
  achieves
• 16:41
  a
• 16:41
  clean-FID
• 16:41
  of
• 16:41
  8.86;
• 16:43
  on
• 16:43
  ImageNet-64,
• 16:45
  the
• 16:45
  largest
• 16:45
  model
• 16:45
  (16,384
• 16:48
  oscillators,
• 16:49
  322M
• 16:50
  parameters)
• 16:51
  reaches
• 16:51
  FID
• 16:52
  6.74.
• 16:53
  An
• 16:54
  eight-experiment
• 16:54
  ablation
• 16:55
  suite
• 16:55
  isolates
• 16:55
  how
• 16:56
  much
• 16:56
  quality
• 16:56
  comes
• 16:57
  from
• 16:57
  the
• 16:57
  dynamics
• 16:57
  versus
• 16:58
  the
• 16:58
  decoder
• 16:58
  alone.
• 16:59
  The
• 16:59
  motivation
• 17:00
  extends
• 17:00
  beyond
• 17:01
  benchmarks:
• 17:02
  Unconventional
• 17:03
  AI's
• 17:03
  research
• 17:03
  agenda
• 17:04
  targets
• 17:04
  analog
• 17:04
  hardware
• 17:05
  that
• 17:05
  could
• 17:05
  achieve
• 17:06
  roughly
• 17:06
  1,000x
• 17:07
  lower
• 17:07
  energy
• 17:08
  consumption
• 17:08
  for
• 17:08
  AI
• 17:08
  workloads.
• 17:09
  On
• 17:10
  the
• 17:10
  applied
• 17:10
  ML
• 17:10
  side,
• 17:11
  a
• 17:11
  developer
• 17:12
  trained
• 17:12
  a
• 17:12
  YOLOv8s
• 17:13
  model
• 17:13
  to
• 17:13
  detect
• 17:14
  Shahed-136
• 17:15
  combat
• 17:15
  drones
• 17:16
  in
• 17:16
  real-time,
• 17:17
  achieving
• 17:17
  91.1%
• 17:19
  mAP@50
• 17:20
  across
• 17:20
  bird/unknown/Shahed
• 17:24
  classes,
• 17:25
  with
• 17:25
  multi-drone
• 17:26
  Kalman
• 17:26
  filter
• 17:26
  tracking,
• 17:27
  estimated
• 17:28
  geolocation
• 17:29
  without
• 17:29
  GPS,
• 17:30
  behavioral
• 17:30
  analysis
• 17:31
  for
• 17:31
  hovering
• 17:31
  and
• 17:31
  circling
• 17:32
  patterns,
• 17:33
  and
• 17:33
  push
• 17:33
  notifications
• 17:34
  on
• 17:34
  detection
• 17:34
  —
• 17:35
  the
• 17:35
  full
• 17:35
  pipeline
• 17:36
  from
• 17:36
  identification
• 17:37
  to
• 17:37
  alert,
• 17:37
  open-sourced
• 17:38
  with
• 17:38
  21MB
• 17:39
  model
• 17:39
  weights.