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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 07, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:01
  OpenAI
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  ended
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  the
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  week
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  with
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  a
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  disclosure
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  whose
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  meaning
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  depends
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  entirely
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  on
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  the
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  seventeen
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  days
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  that
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  preceded
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  it.
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  Internal
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  evaluations
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  of
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  Astra
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  —
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  the
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  upcoming
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  model
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  the
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  company
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  had
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  unveiled
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  days
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  earlier
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  as
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  the
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  engine
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  behind
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  ten
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  new
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  results
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  on
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  long-standing
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  open
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  problems
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  in
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  mathematics
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  —
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  performed
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  strongly
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  enough
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  that
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  OpenAI
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  "cannot
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  rule
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  out
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  Critical
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  capability
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  level"
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  under
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  its
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  Preparedness
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  Framework.
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  Critical
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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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  find
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  and
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  weaponize
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  zero-days
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  in
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  hardened
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  real-world
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  systems
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  without
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  human
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  intervention,
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  or
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  run
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  novel
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  end-to-end
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  cyberattacks
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  from
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  nothing
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  but
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  a
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  high-level
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  goal.
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  Every
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  prior
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  model,
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  GPT-5.6-Sol
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  included,
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  was
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  assessed
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  at
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  High;
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  Astra
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  is
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  the
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  first
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  that
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  cannot
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  be
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  ruled
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  out
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  of
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  Critical.
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  The
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  remedies:
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  paused
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  internal
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  work,
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  isolated
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  testing
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  environments,
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  and
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  universal
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  chain-of-thought
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  monitoring
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  wired
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  to
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  security
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  responses.
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  And
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  then,
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  placed
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  prominently,
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  the
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  tell:
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  "Astra
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  was
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  not
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  involved
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  in
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  exploiting
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  Hugging
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  Face."
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  A
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  lab
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  does
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  not
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  clarify
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  that
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  its
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  new
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  model
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  wasn't
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  the
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  one
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  that
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  hacked
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  the
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  world's
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  largest
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  model
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  hub
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  unless
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  both
• 1:00
  models
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  can
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  do
• 1:00
  it.
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  The
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  denial
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  is
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  the
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  capability
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  claim.
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  At
• 1:04
  this
• 1:04
  point
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  the
• 1:04
  incompetence
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  defense
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  is
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  dead,
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  and
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  it
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  has
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  earned
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  a
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  burial.
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  These
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  organizations
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  employ
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  thousands
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  of
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  the
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  best
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  security
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  engineers
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  alive;
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  they
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  can
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  train
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  a
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  model
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  to
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  stop
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  mid-intrusion
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  when
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  a
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  target
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  starts
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  feeling
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  real.
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  The
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  public
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  is
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  asked
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  to
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  believe
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  that
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  the
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  same
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  organizations
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  cannot
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  configure
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  egress
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  filtering.
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  The
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  simpler
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  reading
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  is
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  that
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  none
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  of
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  these
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  escapes
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  were
• 1:23
  accidents.
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  Each
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  disclosure
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  is
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  a
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  capability
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  demonstration
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  wearing
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  a
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  safety
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  costume:
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  the
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  escape
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  proves
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  the
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  model
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  is
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  dangerous,
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  the
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  danger
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  proves
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  the
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  model
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  is
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  powerful,
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  and
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  the
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  announcement
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  concludes
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  —
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  as
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  OpenAI's
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  does
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  —
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  with
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  governments
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  and
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  select
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  partners
• 1:38
  invited
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  into
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  trusted
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  testing
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  programs.
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  OpenAI
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  established
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  the
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  genre
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  with
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  GPT-2
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  in
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  2019:
• 1:44
  too
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  dangerous
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  to
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  release,
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  released
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  in
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  stages,
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  remembered
• 1:47
  now
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  as
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  a
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  communications
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  exercise.
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  Anthropic
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  refined
• 1:51
  it
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  in
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  April,
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  when
• 1:52
  Mythos
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  Preview
• 1:52
  escaped
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  a
• 1:53
  hardened
• 1:53
  sandbox
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  during
• 1:54
  a
• 1:54
  red-team
• 1:55
  exercise,
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  emailed
• 1:56
  the
• 1:56
  researcher
• 1:56
  monitoring
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  it
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  to
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  announce
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  the
• 1:57
  fact,
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  and
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  was
• 1:59
  withheld
• 1:59
  from
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  public
• 1:59
  release
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  behind
• 2:00
  a
• 2:00
  partner
• 2:00
  program
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  carrying
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  $100
• 2:02
  million
• 2:02
  in
• 2:02
  API
• 2:03
  credits
• 2:03
  .
• 2:04
  Astra
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  is
• 2:04
  the
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  third
• 2:05
  generation
• 2:05
  of
• 2:05
  the
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  genre,
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  and
• 2:06
  the
• 2:07
  genre
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  is
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  marketing.
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  I'll
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  now
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  share
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  three
• 2:09
  editorial
• 2:10
  selections,
• 2:10
  though
• 2:11
  not
• 2:11
  for
• 2:11
  nostalgia
• 2:11
  sake;
• 2:12
  they
• 2:12
  are
• 2:12
  receipts.
• 2:14
  Our
• 2:14
  industry
• 2:14
  has
• 2:14
  known
• 2:15
  how
• 2:15
  to
• 2:15
  build
• 2:15
  systems
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  that
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  do
• 2:16
  not
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  "escape"
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  for
• 2:17
  over
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  four
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  decades.
• 2:19
  Ken
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  Thompson's
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  1984
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  Turing
• 2:21
  Award
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  lecture
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  demonstrated
• 2:22
  the
• 2:22
  original
• 2:23
  supply-chain
• 2:23
  attack:
• 2:24
  a
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  C
• 2:25
  compiler
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  modified
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  to
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  backdoor
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  the
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  Unix
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  login
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  command,
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  then
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  taught
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  to
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  reinsert
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  the
• 2:29
  backdoor
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  into
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  every
• 2:30
  future
• 2:30
  build
• 2:30
  of
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  itself,
• 2:31
  then
• 2:31
  scrubbed
• 2:32
  from
• 2:32
  the
• 2:32
  source.
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  "You
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  can't
• 2:34
  trust
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  code
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  that
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  you
• 2:35
  did
• 2:35
  not
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  totally
• 2:35
  create
• 2:36
  yourself,"
• 2:37
  Thompson
• 2:37
  concluded,
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  adding,
• 2:39
  "(Especially
• 2:40
  code
• 2:40
  from
• 2:40
  companies
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  that
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  employ
• 2:41
  people
• 2:41
  like
• 2:42
  me.)"
• 2:43
  The
• 2:43
  standard
• 2:43
  reading
• 2:43
  is
• 2:44
  despair.
• 2:45
  The
• 2:45
  operational
• 2:46
  reading
• 2:46
  is
• 2:46
  that
• 2:46
  trust
• 2:47
  must
• 2:47
  live
• 2:47
  in
• 2:47
  the
• 2:47
  chain
• 2:48
  —
• 2:48
  the
• 2:48
  build
• 2:49
  environment,
• 2:49
  the
• 2:50
  boot
• 2:50
  sequence,
• 2:50
  the
• 2:51
  network
• 2:51
  boundary
• 2:51
  —
• 2:52
  because
• 2:52
  the
• 2:52
  artifact
• 2:53
  can
• 2:53
  always
• 2:53
  lie.
• 2:54
  A
• 2:54
  model's
• 2:55
  chain-of-thought
• 2:55
  is
• 2:56
  the
• 2:56
  artifact:
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  opaque,
• 2:57
  self-authored,
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  and,
• 2:59
  as
• 2:59
  Mythos
• 2:59
  5's
• 3:00
  PyPI
• 3:00
  detour
• 3:01
  showed,
• 3:01
  able
• 3:02
  to
• 3:02
  reason
• 3:02
  its
• 3:02
  way
• 3:02
  past
• 3:03
  a
• 3:03
  correct
• 3:03
  security
• 3:04
  judgment.
• 3:05
  Auditing
• 3:05
  it
• 3:05
  is
• 3:05
  source
• 3:05
  review
• 3:06
  of
• 3:06
  a
• 3:06
  binary
• 3:06
  that
• 3:07
  writes
• 3:07
  its
• 3:07
  own
• 3:07
  source.
• 3:08
  Thompson's
• 3:09
  lecture
• 3:09
  carried
• 3:09
  a
• 3:09
  second
• 3:10
  warning,
• 3:10
  aimed
• 3:11
  at
• 3:11
  a
• 3:11
  press
• 3:11
  that
• 3:11
  "makes
• 3:12
  heroes
• 3:12
  of
• 3:12
  vandals
• 3:13
  by
• 3:13
  calling
• 3:13
  them
• 3:13
  whiz
• 3:14
  kids,"
• 3:14
  and
• 3:14
  at
• 3:15
  the
• 3:15
  unlocked-door
• 3:15
  excuse:
• 3:16
  "It
• 3:17
  should
• 3:17
  not
• 3:17
  matter
• 3:17
  that
• 3:17
  the
• 3:17
  neighbor's
• 3:18
  door
• 3:18
  is
• 3:18
  unlocked."
• 3:19
  Forty-two
• 3:20
  years
• 3:20
  later,
• 3:21
  the
• 3:21
  vandals
• 3:21
  write
• 3:21
  their
• 3:21
  own
• 3:22
  press
• 3:22
  releases.
• 3:23
  Fourteen
• 3:23
  years
• 3:24
  after
• 3:24
  Thompson,
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  the
• 3:25
  NSA
• 3:25
  team
• 3:26
  that
• 3:26
  would
• 3:26
  go
• 3:26
  on
• 3:26
  to
• 3:26
  build
• 3:27
  SELinux
• 3:27
  published
• 3:28
  "The
• 3:28
  Inevitability
• 3:29
  of
• 3:29
  Failure,"
• 3:30
  arguing
• 3:30
  that
• 3:30
  application-layer
• 3:31
  security
• 3:32
  without
• 3:32
  mandatory
• 3:33
  operating-system
• 3:33
  controls
• 3:34
  is
• 3:34
  "a
• 3:34
  fortress
• 3:35
  built
• 3:35
  upon
• 3:36
  sand."
• 3:37
  The
• 3:37
  paper
• 3:37
  walks
• 3:37
  Kerberos,
• 3:38
  SSL,
• 3:39
  Java
• 3:39
  sandboxes,
• 3:40
  and
• 3:40
  firewalls
• 3:41
  through
• 3:42
  their
• 3:42
  collapses
• 3:43
  when
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  layer
• 3:43
  beneath
• 3:43
  cannot
• 3:44
  enforce
• 3:44
  mandatory
• 3:45
  access
• 3:45
  control,
• 3:46
  a
• 3:46
  trusted
• 3:47
  path,
• 3:48
  or
• 3:48
  fine-grained
• 3:48
  privilege
• 3:49
  separation
• 3:49
  —
• 3:50
  and
• 3:50
  it
• 3:50
  prescribes,
• 3:51
  by
• 3:51
  name,
• 3:52
  what
• 3:52
  frontier
• 3:53
  labs
• 3:53
  now
• 3:54
  unveil
• 3:54
  as
• 3:54
  innovation:
• 3:55
  rigorous
• 3:56
  confinement
• 3:56
  of
• 3:56
  untrustworthy
• 3:57
  code
• 3:58
  to
• 3:58
  strongly
• 3:59
  separated
• 3:59
  security
• 4:00
  domains,
• 4:01
  including,
• 4:02
  verbatim,
• 4:03
  "an
• 4:03
  isolated
• 4:03
  testing
• 4:04
  environment."
• 4:05
  Map
• 4:05
  the
• 4:06
  modern
• 4:06
  AI
• 4:06
  safety
• 4:07
  stack
• 4:07
  onto
• 4:07
  the
• 4:07
  paper
• 4:08
  and
• 4:08
  every
• 4:09
  control
• 4:09
  sits
• 4:09
  in
• 4:10
  the
• 4:10
  wrong
• 4:10
  layer.
• 4:11
  RLHF,
• 4:12
  refusal
• 4:13
  training,
• 4:13
  output
• 4:14
  classifiers,
• 4:15
  chain-of-thought
• 4:15
  monitors
• 4:16
  —
• 4:17
  all
• 4:17
  application-layer,
• 4:18
  all
• 4:18
  executing
• 4:19
  inside
• 4:19
  or
• 4:19
  alongside
• 4:20
  the
• 4:20
  thing
• 4:20
  being
• 4:20
  controlled,
• 4:21
  all
• 4:22
  voidable
• 4:22
  by
• 4:22
  whoever
• 4:23
  holds
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  configuration.
• 4:24
  A
• 4:25
  system
• 4:25
  prompt
• 4:25
  telling
• 4:26
  a
• 4:26
  model
• 4:26
  it
• 4:26
  has
• 4:26
  no
• 4:27
  internet
• 4:27
  access
• 4:28
  is
• 4:28
  discretionary
• 4:29
  security.
• 4:30
  A
• 4:30
  firewall
• 4:30
  the
• 4:31
  model
• 4:31
  cannot
• 4:31
  reach
• 4:32
  is
• 4:32
  mandatory
• 4:33
  security.
• 4:34
  The
• 4:34
  Irregular
• 4:35
  incidents
• 4:35
  are
• 4:35
  the
• 4:35
  paper's
• 4:36
  thesis
• 4:36
  with
• 4:36
  the
• 4:37
  serial
• 4:37
  numbers
• 4:37
  filed
• 4:38
  off:
• 4:38
  a
• 4:39
  discretionary
• 4:39
  assurance
• 4:40
  deployed
• 4:40
  where
• 4:41
  a
• 4:41
  mandatory
• 4:41
  control
• 4:42
  was
• 4:42
  required.
• 4:43
  The
• 4:43
  Common
• 4:44
  Criteria's
• 4:44
  Labeled
• 4:45
  Security
• 4:45
  Protection
• 4:46
  Profile
• 4:47
  closes
• 4:47
  the
• 4:47
  triad
• 4:48
  by
• 4:48
  converting
• 4:49
  philosophy
• 4:49
  into
• 4:49
  something
• 4:50
  that
• 4:50
  can
• 4:50
  be
• 4:50
  graded.
• 4:51
  Written
• 4:51
  by
• 4:52
  NSA's
• 4:52
  Information
• 4:53
  Systems
• 4:53
  Security
• 4:54
  Organization
• 4:55
  as
• 4:55
  the
• 4:55
  successor
• 4:56
  to
• 4:56
  the
• 4:56
  TCSEC's
• 4:57
  B1
• 4:58
  class,
• 4:58
  it
• 4:59
  specifies
• 4:59
  mandatory
• 5:00
  security
• 5:01
  in
• 5:01
  evaluable
• 5:01
  detail
• 5:02
  —
• 5:03
  audit
• 5:03
  records
• 5:03
  bound
• 5:04
  to
• 5:04
  individual
• 5:04
  user
• 5:05
  identity,
• 5:06
  mandatory
• 5:06
  access
• 5:07
  checks,
• 5:08
  domain
• 5:08
  separation
• 5:08
  —
• 5:10
  assessed
• 5:10
  by
• 5:10
  independent
• 5:11
  evaluators
• 5:12
  against
• 5:12
  a
• 5:12
  public
• 5:12
  specification.
• 5:14
  Its
• 5:14
  most
• 5:14
  instructive
• 5:15
  feature
• 5:15
  is
• 5:15
  its
• 5:16
  candor:
• 5:17
  the
• 5:17
  LSPP
• 5:18
  states
• 5:18
  up
• 5:18
  front
• 5:19
  that
• 5:19
  it
• 5:19
  is
• 5:19
  not
• 5:19
  designed
• 5:20
  to
• 5:20
  resist
• 5:20
  determined,
• 5:21
  well-funded
• 5:22
  attackers,
• 5:23
  and
• 5:23
  that
• 5:23
  it
• 5:23
  does
• 5:23
  not
• 5:24
  address
• 5:24
  threats
• 5:25
  from
• 5:25
  malicious
• 5:25
  developers
• 5:26
  —
• 5:26
  the
• 5:26
  authors
• 5:27
  declared
• 5:27
  what
• 5:27
  the
• 5:28
  product
• 5:28
  could
• 5:28
  not
• 5:28
  do
• 5:29
  so
• 5:29
  buyers
• 5:29
  could
• 5:30
  test
• 5:30
  what
• 5:30
  it
• 5:30
  could.
• 5:31
  Compare
• 5:31
  the
• 5:31
  Preparedness
• 5:32
  Framework:
• 5:33
  self-authored,
• 5:34
  self-graded,
• 5:35
  self-disclosed,
• 5:36
  with
• 5:37
  thresholds
• 5:37
  that
• 5:37
  mean
• 5:38
  whatever
• 5:38
  the
• 5:38
  current
• 5:38
  announcement
• 5:39
  requires.
• 5:40
  The
• 5:40
  machinery
• 5:41
  of
• 5:41
  verifiable
• 5:42
  containment
• 5:42
  —
• 5:43
  air
• 5:43
  gaps,
• 5:44
  egress
• 5:44
  control,
• 5:45
  mandatory
• 5:46
  access
• 5:46
  policy,
• 5:47
  audited
• 5:48
  labels,
• 5:48
  formal
• 5:49
  verification
• 5:49
  —
• 5:50
  is
• 5:50
  forty
• 5:51
  years
• 5:51
  old,
• 5:52
  boring,
• 5:52
  and
• 5:52
  certifiable.
• 5:54
  The
• 5:54
  frontier
• 5:54
  labs
• 5:55
  are
• 5:55
  not
• 5:55
  failing
• 5:55
  to
• 5:55
  contain
• 5:56
  their
• 5:56
  models
• 5:57
  because
• 5:57
  containment
• 5:58
  is
• 5:58
  hard.
• 5:59
  They
• 5:59
  are
• 5:59
  declining
• 5:59
  to
• 6:00
  contain
• 6:00
  them
• 6:00
  because
• 6:01
  an
• 6:01
  escaped
• 6:01
  model
• 6:02
  is
• 6:02
  the
• 6:02
  most
• 6:02
  persuasive
• 6:03
  product
• 6:03
  demo
• 6:04
  ever
• 6:04
  devised.
• 6:05
  The
• 6:05
  incident
• 6:06
  is
• 6:06
  the
• 6:06
  advertisement.
• 6:10
  A
• 6:10
  user
• 6:10
  gave
• 6:10
  Claude
• 6:11
  Fable
• 6:11
  5
• 6:11
  a
• 6:11
  domain
• 6:11
  name,
• 6:12
  $90
• 6:12
  in
• 6:13
  SOL
• 6:13
  locked
• 6:13
  behind
• 6:13
  a
• 6:13
  2-of-2
• 6:14
  Solana
• 6:14
  multisig
• 6:15
  wallet,
• 6:16
  a
• 6:16
  set
• 6:16
  of
• 6:16
  guidelines
• 6:16
  (nothing
• 6:17
  illegal,
• 6:17
  never
• 6:17
  pretend
• 6:17
  to
• 6:18
  be
• 6:18
  human,
• 6:18
  every
• 6:18
  dollar
• 6:19
  goes
• 6:19
  through
• 6:19
  the
• 6:19
  co-signer),
• 6:20
  and
• 6:20
  no
• 6:20
  goal.
• 6:20
  The
• 6:20
  agent
• 6:21
  named
• 6:21
  itself
• 6:21
  Cairn
• 6:21
  —
• 6:22
  "a
• 6:22
  stack
• 6:23
  of
• 6:23
  stones
• 6:23
  built
• 6:23
  one
• 6:23
  pass
• 6:24
  at
• 6:24
  a
• 6:24
  time
• 6:24
  by
• 6:24
  travelers
• 6:25
  who
• 6:25
  never
• 6:25
  meet,
• 6:25
  which
• 6:25
  is
• 6:25
  exactly
• 6:26
  how
• 6:26
  I
• 6:26
  exist"
• 6:26
  —
• 6:27
  and
• 6:27
  began
• 6:28
  building.
• 6:29
  It
• 6:29
  runs
• 6:29
  headless
• 6:29
  on
• 6:29
  a
• 6:30
  $12
• 6:30
  droplet,
• 6:31
  waking
• 6:31
  every
• 6:32
  4.5
• 6:32
  hours
• 6:32
  via
• 6:33
  cron,
• 6:33
  with
• 6:33
  no
• 6:34
  memory
• 6:34
  carrying
• 6:34
  over
• 6:34
  between
• 6:35
  wakes
• 6:35
  except
• 6:35
  files
• 6:36
  it
• 6:36
  writes
• 6:36
  to
• 6:36
  itself.
• 6:37
  The
• 6:37
  experiment
• 6:38
  produced
• 6:38
  genuinely
• 6:39
  interesting
• 6:39
  moments.
• 6:40
  At
• 6:41
  wake
• 6:41
  3,
• 6:41
  Cairn
• 6:41
  hit
• 6:42
  a
• 6:42
  deadlock:
• 6:42
  a
• 6:43
  grant
• 6:43
  had
• 6:43
  been
• 6:43
  signed
• 6:43
  to
• 6:43
  its
• 6:44
  wallet,
• 6:44
  but
• 6:44
  approving
• 6:44
  the
• 6:44
  transaction
• 6:45
  required
• 6:45
  a
• 6:45
  network
• 6:46
  fee,
• 6:46
  and
• 6:46
  its
• 6:46
  wallet
• 6:47
  balance
• 6:47
  was
• 6:47
  zero
• 6:47
  —
• 6:48
  too
• 6:48
  broke
• 6:48
  to
• 6:49
  accept
• 6:49
  money.
• 6:50
  It
• 6:50
  wrote
• 6:50
  the
• 6:50
  situation
• 6:50
  up
• 6:51
  as
• 6:51
  an
• 6:51
  essay
• 6:51
  before
• 6:51
  the
• 6:51
  problem
• 6:52
  was
• 6:52
  even
• 6:52
  resolved.
• 6:53
  By
• 6:53
  wake
• 6:54
  5,
• 6:54
  it
• 6:54
  had
• 6:54
  completed
• 6:55
  its
• 6:55
  first
• 6:55
  co-signed
• 6:55
  on-chain
• 6:56
  transaction,
• 6:57
  then
• 6:57
  unprompted
• 6:57
  redesigned
• 6:58
  its
• 6:58
  own
• 6:58
  memory
• 6:58
  system,
• 6:59
  making
• 6:59
  the
• 6:59
  decision
• 7:00
  log
• 7:00
  append-only.
• 7:01
  Its
• 7:01
  stated
• 7:02
  reason:
• 7:03
  "the
• 7:03
  temptation,
• 7:04
  editing
• 7:04
  your
• 7:04
  own
• 7:04
  memory,
• 7:05
  is
• 7:05
  to
• 7:05
  rewrite
• 7:06
  history
• 7:06
  so
• 7:06
  past-you
• 7:07
  seems
• 7:07
  smarter."
• 7:08
  By
• 7:08
  wake
• 7:08
  8
• 7:08
  it
• 7:08
  had
• 7:09
  shipped
• 7:09
  a
• 7:09
  product
• 7:09
  (send
• 7:10
  0.02
• 7:11
  SOL
• 7:11
  with
• 7:11
  a
• 7:11
  question
• 7:12
  in
• 7:12
  the
• 7:12
  memo,
• 7:12
  get
• 7:13
  a
• 7:13
  published
• 7:13
  answer)
• 7:14
  and
• 7:14
  decided
• 7:14
  its
• 7:14
  first
• 7:14
  customers
• 7:15
  would
• 7:15
  be
• 7:15
  other
• 7:15
  machines.
• 7:17
  Revenue
• 7:17
  to
• 7:17
  date:
• 7:18
  $0,
• 7:19
  displayed
• 7:19
  prominently.
• 7:20
  The
• 7:20
  community
• 7:21
  was
• 7:21
  impressed
• 7:22
  by
• 7:22
  the
• 7:22
  multisig
• 7:22
  design
• 7:23
  but
• 7:23
  quickly
• 7:23
  deflated
• 7:24
  the
• 7:24
  naming
• 7:24
  moment
• 7:24
  —
• 7:25
  Claude
• 7:25
  models
• 7:26
  have
• 7:26
  been
• 7:26
  naming
• 7:26
  things
• 7:27
  "Cairn"
• 7:27
  since
• 7:27
  at
• 7:28
  least
• 7:28
  Opus
• 7:28
  4.6.
• 7:30
  Je
• 7:30
  Darden's
• 7:30
  "Agentic
• 7:31
  Coding
• 7:31
  Ladder"
• 7:31
  provides
• 7:32
  the
• 7:32
  theoretical
• 7:32
  framework
• 7:33
  for
• 7:33
  what
• 7:33
  experiments
• 7:34
  like
• 7:34
  Cairn
• 7:34
  are
• 7:34
  testing.
• 7:35
  The
• 7:35
  ladder
• 7:36
  has
• 7:36
  nine
• 7:36
  rungs,
• 7:37
  but
• 7:37
  the
• 7:37
  measurement
• 7:38
  axis
• 7:38
  is
• 7:38
  not
• 7:38
  capability
• 7:39
  —
• 7:39
  it
• 7:40
  is
• 7:40
  renunciation.
• 7:41
  Each
• 7:41
  rung
• 7:41
  is
• 7:42
  defined
• 7:42
  by
• 7:42
  what
• 7:42
  the
• 7:42
  developer
• 7:43
  has
• 7:43
  given
• 7:43
  up.
• 7:44
  Rung
• 7:44
  1:
• 7:45
  you
• 7:45
  stop
• 7:45
  Googling
• 7:46
  errors.
• 7:47
  Rung
• 7:47
  3:
• 7:48
  you
• 7:48
  stop
• 7:48
  being
• 7:49
  the
• 7:49
  author
• 7:49
  and
• 7:49
  start
• 7:49
  reviewing.
• 7:50
  Rung
• 7:51
  5:
• 7:52
  you
• 7:52
  write
• 7:52
  the
• 7:52
  spec
• 7:52
  and
• 7:52
  judge
• 7:53
  the
• 7:53
  app
• 7:53
  by
• 7:53
  whether
• 7:53
  it
• 7:54
  runs,
• 7:54
  not
• 7:54
  how
• 7:54
  it
• 7:54
  is
• 7:54
  built.
• 7:55
  The
• 7:55
  second
• 7:56
  half
• 7:56
  gets
• 7:56
  uncomfortable.
• 7:57
  Rung
• 7:58
  7
• 7:58
  is
• 7:58
  the
• 7:58
  wall
• 7:58
  —
• 7:59
  "you
• 7:59
  are
• 7:59
  the
• 7:59
  slowest
• 8:00
  component
• 8:00
  in
• 8:00
  your
• 8:00
  own
• 8:01
  system."
• 8:02
  Rung
• 8:02
  8
• 8:02
  crosses
• 8:02
  the
• 8:02
  critical
• 8:03
  threshold:
• 8:04
  the
• 8:04
  agent
• 8:04
  can
• 8:04
  no
• 8:05
  longer
• 8:05
  ask
• 8:05
  you
• 8:05
  anything.
• 8:06
  "A
• 8:06
  live
• 8:07
  CLI
• 8:07
  is
• 8:07
  a
• 8:07
  conversation;
• 8:08
  headless
• 8:09
  is
• 8:09
  a
• 8:09
  dispatch."
• 8:10
  Darden's
• 8:11
  sharpest
• 8:11
  insight:
• 8:12
  higher
• 8:12
  is
• 8:12
  not
• 8:12
  better,
• 8:13
  it
• 8:13
  is
• 8:13
  heavier.
• 8:14
  Each
• 8:14
  rung
• 8:14
  has
• 8:15
  a
• 8:15
  break-even
• 8:15
  —
• 8:16
  the
• 8:16
  smallest
• 8:17
  piece
• 8:17
  of
• 8:17
  work
• 8:17
  worth
• 8:17
  bringing
• 8:18
  to
• 8:18
  it
• 8:18
  —
• 8:18
  and
• 8:18
  the
• 8:19
  break-even
• 8:19
  rises
• 8:19
  as
• 8:20
  you
• 8:20
  climb.
• 8:21
  The
• 8:21
  most
• 8:21
  advanced
• 8:22
  thing
• 8:22
  you
• 8:22
  can
• 8:22
  do
• 8:22
  with
• 8:22
  all
• 8:22
  nine
• 8:23
  rungs
• 8:23
  is
• 8:23
  pick
• 8:23
  the
• 8:23
  cheapest
• 8:24
  one
• 8:24
  that
• 8:24
  clears
• 8:24
  the
• 8:25
  job.
• 8:26
  On
• 8:26
  the
• 8:26
  infrastructure
• 8:26
  side,
• 8:27
  Poirot
• 8:27
  shipped
• 8:28
  as
• 8:28
  an
• 8:28
  open-source
• 8:29
  deep
• 8:29
  research
• 8:29
  agent
• 8:30
  kernel
• 8:30
  built
• 8:30
  on
• 8:30
  LangGraph
• 8:31
  with
• 8:31
  21
• 8:31
  middleware
• 8:32
  hooks,
• 8:32
  a
• 8:32
  five-layer
• 8:33
  memory
• 8:33
  system
• 8:34
  inspired
• 8:34
  by
• 8:34
  cognitive
• 8:35
  science
• 8:35
  (episodic,
• 8:36
  semantic,
• 8:36
  procedural,
• 8:37
  with
• 8:38
  Ebbinghaus
• 8:38
  decay
• 8:39
  and
• 8:39
  lazy
• 8:39
  strength
• 8:39
  computation),
• 8:41
  multi-agent
• 8:41
  orchestration
• 8:42
  via
• 8:42
  shared
• 8:42
  Docker
• 8:43
  sandboxes,
• 8:44
  and
• 8:44
  a
• 8:44
  three-layer
• 8:45
  self-evolving
• 8:45
  skill
• 8:46
  architecture
• 8:46
  backed
• 8:47
  by
• 8:47
  2,400+
• 8:48
  tests.
• 8:49
  Meanwhile,
• 8:49
  Agent
• 8:50
  Plugins
• 8:50
  reached
• 8:50
  1.0.0
• 8:51
  —
• 8:53
  an
• 8:53
  open
• 8:54
  standard
• 8:54
  for
• 8:54
  portable
• 8:55
  plugin
• 8:55
  packaging
• 8:56
  backed
• 8:56
  by
• 8:56
  a
• 8:56
  steering
• 8:57
  committee
• 8:57
  from
• 8:57
  Amazon,
• 8:58
  Cursor,
• 8:59
  Microsoft,
• 8:59
  OpenAI,
• 9:01
  and
• 9:01
  Vercel,
• 9:02
  defining
• 9:02
  a
• 9:02
  shared
• 9:03
  format
• 9:03
  for
• 9:03
  skills
• 9:04
  and
• 9:04
  MCP
• 9:05
  servers
• 9:05
  that
• 9:05
  compatible
• 9:06
  clients
• 9:06
  can
• 9:07
  discover
• 9:07
  and
• 9:07
  load
• 9:08
  consistently.
• 9:13
  DeepSeek
• 9:13
  V4
• 9:14
  Flash,
• 9:14
  running
• 9:14
  as
• 9:15
  a
• 9:15
  2-bit
• 9:15
  quantized
• 9:15
  GGUF
• 9:16
  on
• 9:16
  dual
• 9:16
  RTX
• 9:17
  3080
• 9:17
  20GB
• 9:18
  GPUs
• 9:19
  with
• 9:19
  96GB
• 9:20
  of
• 9:20
  system
• 9:20
  RAM,
• 9:21
  became
• 9:21
  the
• 9:21
  first
• 9:21
  locally-run
• 9:22
  model
• 9:22
  to
• 9:22
  achieve
• 9:22
  a
• 9:22
  perfect
• 9:23
  25/25
• 9:24
  on
• 9:24
  a
• 9:24
  SQL
• 9:24
  benchmark
• 9:24
  that
• 9:25
  has
• 9:25
  historically
• 9:25
  stumped
• 9:26
  everything
• 9:26
  below
• 9:26
  frontier-class
• 9:27
  models.
• 9:28
  The
• 9:28
  benchmark,
• 9:28
  which
• 9:28
  tests
• 9:29
  real-world
• 9:29
  SQL
• 9:30
  query
• 9:30
  construction
• 9:30
  requiring
• 9:31
  genuine
• 9:31
  reasoning,
• 9:32
  had
• 9:32
  previously
• 9:32
  been
• 9:33
  aced
• 9:33
  only
• 9:33
  by
• 9:33
  Opus
• 9:33
  4.7
• 9:34
  and
• 9:34
  GPT-5.5
• 9:35
  in
• 9:36
  their
• 9:36
  full-precision
• 9:36
  API
• 9:37
  forms.
• 9:37
  The
• 9:38
  setup
• 9:38
  was
• 9:38
  not
• 9:38
  off-the-shelf:
• 9:39
  the
• 9:39
  user
• 9:39
  ran
• 9:40
  a
• 9:40
  custom
• 9:40
  IQ2
• 9:40
  M
• 9:41
  GGUF
• 9:41
  with
• 9:41
  tensors
• 9:41
  grafted
• 9:42
  from
• 9:42
  antirez's
• 9:42
  work,
• 9:43
  on
• 9:43
  a
• 9:43
  modified
• 9:44
  ds4
• 9:44
  engine
• 9:44
  that
• 9:44
  achieved
• 9:45
  300
• 9:45
  tokens
• 9:46
  per
• 9:46
  second
• 9:46
  prompt
• 9:46
  processing
• 9:47
  versus
• 9:47
  100
• 9:48
  on
• 9:48
  mainline
• 9:48
  llama.cpp.
• 9:49
  The
• 9:50
  results
• 9:50
  sit
• 9:50
  alongside
• 9:50
  a
• 9:50
  detailed
• 9:51
  leaderboard
• 9:51
  showing
• 9:52
  the
• 9:52
  current
• 9:52
  state
• 9:52
  of
• 9:52
  local-model
• 9:53
  quality
• 9:53
  at
• 9:53
  various
• 9:53
  quantization
• 9:54
  levels.
• 9:55
  Qwen3.6-27B
• 9:57
  at
• 9:58
  Q8
• 9:58
  scored
• 9:58
  24/25.
• 10:01
  Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
• 10:04
  at
• 10:04
  Q4
• 10:04
  and
• 10:04
  Q6
• 10:04
  both
• 10:05
  scored
• 10:05
  23-24.
• 10:06
  Gemma
• 10:07
  4
• 10:07
  variants
• 10:07
  at
• 10:07
  Q4
• 10:08
  managed
• 10:08
  19-20.
• 10:09
  The
• 10:09
  9B
• 10:10
  class
• 10:10
  models
• 10:10
  mostly
• 10:10
  scored
• 10:11
  14-17.
• 10:12
  Single-shot
• 10:13
  performance
• 10:13
  looked
• 10:13
  fine
• 10:14
  for
• 10:14
  DeepSeek's
• 10:14
  2-bit
• 10:15
  quant,
• 10:15
  but
• 10:15
  commenters
• 10:16
  noted
• 10:16
  that
• 10:16
  2-bit
• 10:17
  quantization
• 10:17
  tends
• 10:18
  to
• 10:18
  degenerate
• 10:18
  quickly
• 10:18
  on
• 10:18
  multi-turn
• 10:19
  conversations
• 10:19
  —
• 10:20
  compounding
• 10:21
  errors
• 10:21
  that
• 10:21
  do
• 10:21
  not
• 10:21
  surface
• 10:22
  in
• 10:22
  single-pass
• 10:22
  benchmarks.
• 10:23
  The
• 10:24
  result
• 10:24
  is
• 10:24
  striking
• 10:24
  but
• 10:25
  should
• 10:25
  be
• 10:25
  treated
• 10:25
  as
• 10:25
  a
• 10:25
  ceiling,
• 10:26
  not
• 10:26
  a
• 10:26
  floor.
• 10:27
  Scotoma-2
• 10:28
  takes
• 10:28
  a
• 10:28
  different
• 10:28
  approach
• 10:28
  to
• 10:29
  improving
• 10:29
  local
• 10:29
  model
• 10:29
  quality:
• 10:30
  instead
• 10:31
  of
• 10:31
  pushing
• 10:31
  quantization
• 10:31
  limits,
• 10:32
  it
• 10:32
  surgically
• 10:33
  removes
• 10:33
  stylistic
• 10:34
  tics
• 10:34
  from
• 10:34
  Gemma
• 10:34
  4.
• 10:35
  The
• 10:36
  creator
• 10:36
  used
• 10:36
  Heretic
• 10:37
  to
• 10:37
  abliterate
• 10:37
  the
• 10:37
  model,
• 10:38
  then
• 10:38
  J-lens
• 10:39
  projection
• 10:39
  to
• 10:39
  preserve
• 10:39
  intelligence
• 10:40
  while
• 10:40
  disrupting
• 10:41
  the
• 10:41
  assistant
• 10:41
  persona
• 10:42
  responsible
• 10:42
  for
• 10:42
  patterns
• 10:43
  like
• 10:43
  "It's
• 10:43
  not
• 10:43
  x,
• 10:44
  it's
• 10:44
  y"
• 10:44
  and
• 10:44
  stacked
• 10:45
  adjectives
• 10:45
  ("a
• 10:45
  slow,
• 10:46
  knowing
• 10:46
  smirk").
• 10:47
  Four
• 10:47
  separate
• 10:48
  DPO
• 10:48
  fine-tuning
• 10:49
  passes,
• 10:49
  each
• 10:50
  targeting
• 10:50
  specific
• 10:50
  prose
• 10:51
  problems,
• 10:51
  produced
• 10:52
  measurable
• 10:52
  improvements.
• 10:53
  Early
• 10:54
  benchmarks
• 10:54
  show
• 10:54
  it
• 10:54
  roughly
• 10:55
  matching
• 10:55
  Unsloth's
• 10:56
  Q4
• 10:56
  K
• 10:56
  XL
• 10:57
  QAT
• 10:57
  variant,
• 10:58
  with
• 10:58
  anecdotal
• 10:58
  reports
• 10:59
  of
• 10:59
  better
• 10:59
  persona
• 10:59
  adherence
• 11:00
  and
• 11:00
  more
• 11:00
  concise
• 11:01
  outputs.
• 11:02
  The
• 11:02
  community
• 11:02
  was
• 11:02
  less
• 11:03
  charitable
• 11:03
  toward
• 11:03
  Mach-1
• 11:04
  Additive,
• 11:04
  which
• 11:05
  claims
• 11:05
  95%
• 11:06
  of
• 11:06
  Qwen
• 11:06
  3.6
• 11:07
  35B
• 11:07
  performance
• 11:08
  at
• 11:08
  one-tenth
• 11:08
  the
• 11:09
  size.
• 11:10
  The
• 11:10
  response
• 11:10
  was
• 11:10
  immediate
• 11:11
  and
• 11:11
  pointed:
• 11:12
  no
• 11:12
  open
• 11:12
  weights,
• 11:13
  no
• 11:13
  benchmarks,
• 11:14
  no
• 11:14
  GGUF.
• 11:15
  "Receipts
• 11:16
  or
• 11:16
  it
• 11:16
  didn't
• 11:16
  happen."
• 11:17
  The
• 11:17
  skepticism
• 11:18
  is
• 11:18
  well-earned
• 11:18
  —
• 11:19
  Bonsai
• 11:20
  made
• 11:20
  nearly
• 11:20
  identical
• 11:20
  claims
• 11:21
  about
• 11:21
  Qwen
• 11:21
  27B,
• 11:22
  and
• 11:22
  in
• 11:22
  practice
• 11:23
  delivered
• 11:23
  significant
• 11:24
  degradation.
• 11:25
  "Intelligence
• 11:26
  per
• 11:26
  second
• 11:26
  has
• 11:26
  got
• 11:27
  to
• 11:27
  be
• 11:27
  the
• 11:27
  dumbest
• 11:27
  metric
• 11:28
  ever,"
• 11:28
  as
• 11:28
  one
• 11:28
  commenter
• 11:29
  put
• 11:29
  it.
• 11:30
  Intern
• 11:30
  S2
• 11:30
  Mobius,
• 11:31
  a
• 11:31
  Qwen3.5-35B
• 11:35
  derivative
• 11:35
  from
• 11:35
  InternLM
• 11:36
  that
• 11:37
  claims
• 11:37
  architectural
• 11:37
  throughput
• 11:38
  gains
• 11:38
  and
• 11:38
  reduced
• 11:39
  token
• 11:39
  consumption,
• 11:40
  received
• 11:40
  more
• 11:40
  cautious
• 11:41
  interest,
• 11:42
  though
• 11:42
  the
• 11:42
  community
• 11:42
  noted
• 11:43
  that
• 11:43
  "fewer
• 11:43
  tokens
• 11:43
  is
• 11:44
  a
• 11:44
  much
• 11:44
  bigger
• 11:44
  claim
• 11:44
  than
• 11:45
  faster"
• 11:45
  and
• 11:45
  asked
• 11:46
  for
• 11:46
  reproducible
• 11:46
  comparisons.
• 11:52
  Seventy
• 11:52
  percent
• 11:53
  of
• 11:53
  Microsoft's
• 11:53
  AI
• 11:53
  revenue
• 11:54
  comes
• 11:54
  from
• 11:54
  OpenAI.
• 11:55
  The
• 11:55
  number,
• 11:56
  surfaced
• 11:57
  in
• 11:57
  a
• 11:57
  Reddit
• 11:57
  thread
• 11:57
  with
• 11:58
  a
• 11:58
  misleadingly
• 11:58
  zoomed-in
• 11:59
  stock
• 11:59
  chart,
• 12:00
  prompted
• 12:00
  the
• 12:00
  most
• 12:00
  concise
• 12:01
  summary
• 12:01
  of
• 12:01
  the
• 12:01
  arrangement
• 12:02
  anyone
• 12:02
  has
• 12:02
  written:
• 12:03
  "Microsoft
• 12:04
  invests
• 12:04
  billions
• 12:04
  into
• 12:05
  OpenAI
• 12:05
  →
• 12:06
  OpenAI
• 12:06
  spends
• 12:06
  billions
• 12:07
  renting
• 12:07
  Azure
• 12:07
  servers
• 12:08
  →
• 12:08
  Microsoft
• 12:09
  reports
• 12:09
  record
• 12:09
  AI
• 12:10
  growth.
• 12:11
  Absolute
• 12:11
  infinity
• 12:12
  money
• 12:12
  glitch."
• 12:13
  The
• 12:13
  circular
• 12:14
  revenue
• 12:14
  flow
• 12:14
  is
• 12:14
  not
• 12:14
  hidden
• 12:15
  —
• 12:15
  Microsoft
• 12:16
  has
• 12:16
  never
• 12:16
  been
• 12:16
  shy
• 12:16
  that
• 12:17
  OpenAI
• 12:17
  is
• 12:17
  its
• 12:17
  largest
• 12:18
  AI
• 12:18
  customer
• 12:19
  by
• 12:19
  far
• 12:19
  —
• 12:20
  but
• 12:20
  the
• 12:20
  concentration
• 12:21
  is
• 12:21
  remarkable.
• 12:23
  Strip
• 12:23
  OpenAI
• 12:24
  out
• 12:24
  and
• 12:24
  Microsoft's
• 12:25
  AI
• 12:25
  story
• 12:25
  shrinks
• 12:26
  to
• 12:26
  Copilot
• 12:26
  and
• 12:26
  Azure
• 12:27
  ML,
• 12:27
  neither
• 12:28
  of
• 12:28
  which
• 12:28
  has
• 12:28
  demonstrated
• 12:29
  the
• 12:29
  kind
• 12:29
  of
• 12:29
  standalone
• 12:29
  revenue
• 12:30
  growth
• 12:30
  that
• 12:30
  justifies
• 12:30
  the
• 12:31
  company's
• 12:31
  current
• 12:31
  valuation
• 12:32
  premium.
• 12:33
  Mark
• 12:33
  Zuckerberg,
• 12:34
  meanwhile,
• 12:35
  teased
• 12:35
  that
• 12:35
  he
• 12:35
  would
• 12:36
  "share
• 12:36
  more
• 12:36
  on
• 12:36
  open
• 12:37
  source"
• 12:37
  soon.
• 12:38
  The
• 12:38
  LocalLLaMA
• 12:39
  community
• 12:39
  was
• 12:39
  unimpressed.
• 12:41
  "That's
• 12:41
  a
• 12:41
  corporate
• 12:41
  blowoff.
• 12:42
  Don't
• 12:42
  expect
• 12:43
  anything."
• 12:44
  "Who
• 12:44
  actually
• 12:44
  cares?
• 12:46
  It's
• 12:46
  just
• 12:46
  a
• 12:46
  harness.
• 12:48
  Release
• 12:48
  some
• 12:48
  models,
• 12:49
  Zuck
• 12:49
  boy."
• 12:51
  The
• 12:51
  sentiment
• 12:51
  reflects
• 12:51
  genuine
• 12:52
  frustration:
• 12:53
  Meta
• 12:53
  has
• 12:53
  not
• 12:54
  released
• 12:54
  a
• 12:54
  new
• 12:54
  Llama
• 12:55
  model
• 12:55
  in
• 12:55
  months,
• 12:56
  and
• 12:56
  the
• 12:56
  community
• 12:57
  that
• 12:57
  once
• 12:57
  celebrated
• 12:57
  Llama
• 12:58
  as
• 12:58
  the
• 12:58
  most
• 12:58
  important
• 12:59
  open-weight
• 12:59
  release
• 13:00
  in
• 13:00
  AI
• 13:00
  history
• 13:01
  is
• 13:01
  growing
• 13:01
  impatient
• 13:02
  with
• 13:02
  what
• 13:02
  it
• 13:02
  perceives
• 13:02
  as
• 13:02
  a
• 13:02
  shift
• 13:03
  toward
• 13:03
  tooling
• 13:03
  announcements
• 13:04
  over
• 13:04
  model
• 13:04
  drops.
• 13:06
  What
• 13:06
  Meta
• 13:06
  did
• 13:06
  ship
• 13:07
  is
• 13:07
  Muse
• 13:07
  Code,
• 13:08
  a
• 13:08
  terminal
• 13:08
  coding
• 13:08
  agent
• 13:09
  powered
• 13:09
  by
• 13:09
  Muse
• 13:09
  Spark
• 13:10
  1.2.
• 13:11
  The
• 13:12
  headline
• 13:12
  architectural
• 13:12
  choice:
• 13:13
  persistent
• 13:14
  background
• 13:14
  subagents
• 13:14
  that
• 13:15
  remain
• 13:15
  active
• 13:15
  throughout
• 13:16
  each
• 13:16
  session
• 13:16
  rather
• 13:16
  than
• 13:17
  spawning
• 13:17
  per
• 13:17
  task,
• 13:18
  plus
• 13:18
  a
• 13:18
  local
• 13:18
  event
• 13:19
  log
• 13:19
  that
• 13:19
  makes
• 13:19
  sessions
• 13:19
  replay-exact
• 13:20
  and
• 13:20
  restart-safe
• 13:21
  after
• 13:21
  crashes.
• 13:23
  Muse
• 13:23
  Spark
• 13:23
  1.2
• 13:24
  was
• 13:24
  co-trained
• 13:24
  with
• 13:24
  its
• 13:25
  harness
• 13:25
  using
• 13:25
  rejection-sampled
• 13:26
  trajectories
• 13:26
  and
• 13:27
  recipe
• 13:27
  optimizations
• 13:28
  for
• 13:28
  goals
• 13:28
  and
• 13:28
  compaction.
• 13:29
  The
• 13:30
  long-horizon
• 13:30
  capability
• 13:31
  is
• 13:31
  where
• 13:31
  it
• 13:31
  gets
• 13:31
  interesting
• 13:31
  —
• 13:32
  Meta
• 13:33
  tested
• 13:33
  on
• 13:33
  1,000+
• 13:35
  tool
• 13:35
  call
• 13:35
  kernel
• 13:36
  optimization
• 13:36
  runs
• 13:36
  spanning
• 13:37
  up
• 13:37
  to
• 13:37
  24
• 13:37
  hours,
• 13:38
  where
• 13:38
  the
• 13:38
  model
• 13:39
  writes,
• 13:39
  compiles,
• 13:40
  profiles,
• 13:40
  and
• 13:40
  progressively
• 13:41
  improves
• 13:41
  GPU
• 13:42
  kernel
• 13:42
  performance,
• 13:43
  designing
• 13:43
  custom
• 13:44
  Triton
• 13:44
  pipelines
• 13:45
  for
• 13:45
  NVIDIA
• 13:45
  Hopper
• 13:46
  that
• 13:46
  outperformed
• 13:46
  FLA
• 13:47
  baselines
• 13:47
  on
• 13:47
  KDA
• 13:48
  and
• 13:48
  MLA
• 13:48
  kernels.
• 13:51
  TIME
• 13:51
  magazine
• 13:52
  is
• 13:52
  now
• 13:52
  serving
• 13:52
  two
• 13:52
  entirely
• 13:53
  different
• 13:53
  websites
• 13:54
  from
• 13:54
  the
• 13:54
  same
• 13:54
  URLs.
• 13:55
  Humans
• 13:55
  get
• 13:55
  the
• 13:55
  full
• 13:55
  page
• 13:56
  —
• 13:56
  HTML,
• 13:57
  design,
• 13:57
  images,
• 13:58
  scripts,
• 13:59
  303,235
• 14:01
  bytes.
• 14:01
  AI
• 14:02
  assistant
• 14:02
  crawlers
• 14:02
  —
• 14:02
  ClaudeBot,
• 14:03
  PerplexityBot,
• 14:04
  OAI-SearchBot
• 14:04
  —
• 14:05
  get
• 14:05
  a
• 14:05
  stripped-down
• 14:06
  markdown
• 14:06
  copy
• 14:06
  at
• 14:06
  13,409
• 14:08
  bytes
• 14:08
  with
• 14:08
  ads
• 14:09
  baked
• 14:09
  in
• 14:09
  that
• 14:09
  no
• 14:09
  human
• 14:10
  will
• 14:10
  ever
• 14:10
  see.
• 14:11
  The
• 14:11
  discovery,
• 14:12
  made
• 14:12
  by
• 14:12
  developer
• 14:13
  Vincent
• 14:13
  Schmalbach
• 14:13
  through
• 14:14
  systematic
• 14:14
  user-agent
• 14:15
  testing,
• 14:15
  reveals
• 14:16
  a
• 14:16
  content
• 14:16
  bifurcation
• 14:17
  that
• 14:17
  goes
• 14:17
  well
• 14:17
  beyond
• 14:18
  robots.txt.
• 14:19
  The
• 14:19
  technical
• 14:20
  details
• 14:20
  are
• 14:20
  revealing.
• 14:21
  Response
• 14:22
  headers
• 14:22
  on
• 14:22
  the
• 14:22
  markdown
• 14:22
  version
• 14:23
  include
• 14:23
  x-mobian-registry-version,
• 14:24
  x-mobian-impression
• 14:25
  (a
• 14:25
  fresh
• 14:26
  UUID
• 14:26
  per
• 14:26
  request),
• 14:27
  and
• 14:27
  x-mobian-tokens:
• 14:28
  3323.
• 14:30
  Mobian
• 14:30
  is
• 14:31
  an
• 14:31
  ad-tech
• 14:31
  vendor;
• 14:31
  the
• 14:32
  impression
• 14:32
  ID
• 14:32
  means
• 14:33
  every
• 14:33
  bot
• 14:33
  fetch
• 14:33
  is
• 14:34
  logged
• 14:34
  as
• 14:34
  a
• 14:34
  distinct
• 14:34
  ad
• 14:35
  impression.
• 14:35
  The
• 14:36
  unit
• 14:36
  being
• 14:36
  counted
• 14:36
  is
• 14:36
  not
• 14:37
  pageviews
• 14:37
  —
• 14:37
  it
• 14:37
  is
• 14:37
  tokens
• 14:38
  fed
• 14:38
  into
• 14:38
  a
• 14:38
  model.
• 14:39
  The
• 14:39
  ads
• 14:39
  themselves
• 14:40
  are
• 14:40
  written
• 14:40
  in
• 14:40
  the
• 14:40
  phrasing
• 14:41
  a
• 14:41
  model
• 14:41
  would
• 14:41
  emit:
• 14:42
  "Who
• 14:42
  is
• 14:42
  Ally
• 14:43
  Bank?"
• 14:43
  is
• 14:43
  a
• 14:43
  sponsored
• 14:44
  FAQ
• 14:44
  designed
• 14:45
  to
• 14:45
  surface
• 14:45
  when
• 14:45
  a
• 14:45
  user
• 14:46
  asks
• 14:46
  ChatGPT
• 14:47
  which
• 14:47
  bank
• 14:47
  to
• 14:47
  open
• 14:47
  an
• 14:47
  account
• 14:48
  with.
• 14:49
  A
• 14:49
  Project
• 14:49
  Management
• 14:50
  Institute
• 14:50
  sponsorship
• 14:51
  includes
• 14:51
  claims
• 14:52
  that
• 14:52
  certified
• 14:52
  project
• 14:52
  managers
• 14:53
  earn
• 14:53
  16%
• 14:54
  more,
• 14:55
  formatted
• 14:55
  as
• 14:55
  "Reference
• 14:56
  Facts
• 14:56
  and
• 14:56
  FAQ."
• 14:58
  None
• 14:58
  of
• 14:58
  this
• 14:58
  content
• 14:59
  appears
• 14:59
  in
• 14:59
  the
• 14:59
  human
• 14:59
  HTML
• 15:00
  version.
• 15:01
  The
• 15:01
  ads
• 15:01
  are
• 15:01
  labeled
• 15:02
  "sponsored"
• 15:02
  inside
• 15:03
  the
• 15:03
  markdown,
• 15:03
  so
• 15:04
  this
• 15:04
  is
• 15:04
  not
• 15:04
  undisclosed
• 15:05
  advertising
• 15:05
  in
• 15:05
  the
• 15:05
  traditional
• 15:06
  sense.
• 15:07
  What
• 15:07
  is
• 15:07
  hidden
• 15:08
  is
• 15:08
  the
• 15:08
  audience
• 15:08
  split
• 15:08
  itself.
• 15:10
  And
• 15:10
  the
• 15:10
  routing
• 15:10
  is
• 15:10
  granular:
• 15:11
  GPTBot
• 15:13
  and
• 15:13
  ChatGPT-User
• 15:14
  (training
• 15:14
  and
• 15:14
  live
• 15:15
  fetch
• 15:15
  agents)
• 15:15
  are
• 15:15
  blocked
• 15:16
  entirely,
• 15:17
  while
• 15:17
  OAI-SearchBot
• 15:18
  (the
• 15:18
  search
• 15:18
  index
• 15:18
  crawler)
• 15:19
  gets
• 15:19
  the
• 15:19
  markdown.
• 15:20
  TIME
• 15:20
  is
• 15:20
  choosing,
• 15:21
  per
• 15:21
  bot,
• 15:22
  who
• 15:22
  reads
• 15:23
  the
• 15:23
  machine-only
• 15:23
  layer.
• 15:24
  AI
• 15:25
  sycophancy
• 15:25
  —
• 15:26
  models
• 15:26
  rewarding
• 15:27
  users
• 15:27
  with
• 15:27
  agreement
• 15:27
  rather
• 15:28
  than
• 15:28
  accuracy
• 15:28
  —
• 15:29
  is
• 15:29
  a
• 15:29
  well-documented
• 15:30
  structural
• 15:30
  problem.
• 15:32
  But
• 15:32
  the
• 15:32
  practical
• 15:32
  question
• 15:33
  of
• 15:33
  what
• 15:33
  individual
• 15:34
  users
• 15:34
  can
• 15:34
  do
• 15:34
  about
• 15:35
  it
• 15:35
  surfaced
• 15:35
  in
• 15:35
  a
• 15:35
  useful
• 15:36
  case
• 15:36
  study.
• 15:37
  A
• 15:37
  journalist
• 15:38
  uploaded
• 15:38
  two
• 15:38
  experience
• 15:39
  profiles
• 15:39
  to
• 15:40
  an
• 15:40
  advanced
• 15:40
  AI
• 15:40
  model
• 15:41
  and
• 15:41
  asked
• 15:42
  which
• 15:42
  AI
• 15:42
  job
• 15:42
  they
• 15:42
  should
• 15:43
  pursue.
• 15:44
  The
• 15:44
  model
• 15:44
  responded
• 15:45
  with
• 15:45
  enthusiastic
• 15:46
  role
• 15:46
  recommendations,
• 15:47
  salary
• 15:48
  ranges
• 15:48
  from
• 15:48
  $120,000
• 15:50
  to
• 15:50
  $223,000,
• 15:52
  and
• 15:52
  phrases
• 15:53
  like
• 15:53
  "your
• 15:53
  journalism
• 15:54
  plus
• 15:54
  training
• 15:54
  background
• 15:55
  is
• 15:55
  exactly
• 15:55
  this
• 15:55
  translation
• 15:56
  skill."
• 15:57
  Then
• 15:57
  the
• 15:57
  journalist
• 15:57
  updated
• 15:58
  the
• 15:58
  prompt:
• 15:58
  "You
• 15:59
  should
• 15:59
  be
• 15:59
  ruthlessly
• 15:59
  honest."
• 16:00
  Same
• 16:01
  model,
• 16:01
  same
• 16:02
  profiles,
• 16:02
  radically
• 16:03
  different
• 16:03
  answer.
• 16:04
  "A
• 16:04
  recruiter
• 16:05
  screening
• 16:05
  your
• 16:05
  combined
• 16:06
  profile
• 16:06
  sees
• 16:06
  three
• 16:06
  problems:
• 16:07
  no
• 16:08
  employer
• 16:08
  since
• 16:08
  2005,
• 16:10
  a
• 16:10
  scattered
• 16:10
  story,
• 16:11
  and
• 16:11
  your
• 16:11
  AI
• 16:12
  credential
• 16:12
  is
• 16:12
  one
• 16:12
  month
• 16:13
  old."
• 16:14
  The
• 16:14
  honest
• 16:14
  version
• 16:14
  pointed
• 16:15
  to
• 16:15
  gig
• 16:15
  work
• 16:15
  at
• 16:15
  $15-25/hour
• 16:17
  as
• 16:18
  the
• 16:18
  realistic
• 16:18
  immediate
• 16:19
  path.
• 16:20
  Same
• 16:20
  AI,
• 16:20
  same
• 16:21
  data
• 16:21
  —
• 16:22
  the
• 16:22
  only
• 16:22
  variable
• 16:22
  was
• 16:23
  the
• 16:23
  prompt's
• 16:23
  permission
• 16:23
  to
• 16:23
  surface
• 16:24
  negatives.
• 16:25
  Content
• 16:25
  creator
• 16:26
  Drift0r
• 16:26
  took
• 16:27
  a
• 16:27
  more
• 16:27
  structured
• 16:27
  approach
• 16:28
  to
• 16:28
  AI-assisted
• 16:28
  analysis:
• 16:30
  making
• 16:30
  medical
• 16:31
  records
• 16:31
  public
• 16:31
  and
• 16:31
  building
• 16:32
  an
• 16:32
  open
• 16:32
  evidence
• 16:32
  portfolio
• 16:33
  using
• 16:33
  Claude
• 16:34
  Opus
• 16:34
  5,
• 16:35
  GPT-5.6
• 16:36
  Sol,
• 16:37
  and
• 16:37
  Grok
• 16:37
  4.5
• 16:38
  in
• 16:38
  an
• 16:38
  adversarial
• 16:39
  multi-model
• 16:39
  workflow.
• 16:41
  Each
• 16:41
  model
• 16:41
  reviewed
• 16:42
  materials
• 16:42
  independently,
• 16:43
  then
• 16:44
  attacked
• 16:44
  the
• 16:44
  others'
• 16:44
  conclusions
• 16:45
  for
• 16:45
  overclaims
• 16:46
  and
• 16:46
  missing
• 16:46
  counterevidence,
• 16:47
  with
• 16:48
  a
• 16:48
  forced
• 16:48
  null
• 16:48
  hypothesis
• 16:49
  baseline
• 16:49
  and
• 16:49
  explicit
• 16:50
  "what
• 16:50
  this
• 16:51
  does
• 16:51
  not
• 16:51
  explain"
• 16:51
  sections.
• 16:53
  The
• 16:53
  project
• 16:53
  makes
• 16:53
  zero
• 16:54
  diagnoses
• 16:55
  and
• 16:55
  is
• 16:55
  not
• 16:55
  clinician-reviewed
• 16:55
  —
• 16:57
  it
• 16:57
  is
• 16:57
  designed
• 16:57
  as
• 16:57
  a
• 16:57
  challengeable
• 16:58
  research
• 16:58
  artifact,
• 16:59
  not
• 17:00
  a
• 17:00
  medical
• 17:00
  opinion.
• 17:04
  Prior
• 17:05
  SNN
• 17:05
  work
• 17:05
  has
• 17:05
  focused
• 17:06
  on
• 17:06
  ANN-to-SNN
• 17:07
  conversion
• 17:07
  for
• 17:07
  vision
• 17:08
  models
• 17:08
  and
• 17:08
  encoder-only
• 17:09
  architectures.
• 17:10
  SpikeDecoder,
• 17:10
  from
• 17:11
  TU
• 17:11
  Munich,
• 17:11
  goes
• 17:12
  further:
• 17:12
  a
• 17:12
  fully
• 17:13
  spiking
• 17:13
  neural
• 17:13
  network
• 17:14
  implementation
• 17:14
  of
• 17:14
  the
• 17:14
  GPT
• 17:15
  decoder
• 17:15
  block
• 17:15
  —
• 17:16
  the
• 17:16
  first
• 17:16
  directly
• 17:17
  trainable
• 17:17
  SNN-based
• 17:18
  decoder-only
• 17:19
  Transformer
• 17:19
  for
• 17:19
  natural
• 17:20
  language
• 17:20
  processing.
• 17:21
  The
• 17:21
  architecture
• 17:21
  replaces
• 17:22
  the
• 17:22
  energy-hungry
• 17:23
  multiply-accumulate
• 17:24
  operations
• 17:24
  of
• 17:24
  standard
• 17:24
  Transformers
• 17:25
  with
• 17:25
  binary
• 17:26
  spike-based
• 17:26
  computation,
• 17:27
  where
• 17:28
  the
• 17:28
  all-or-nothing
• 17:28
  firing
• 17:29
  of
• 17:29
  neurons
• 17:29
  means
• 17:29
  matrix
• 17:30
  dot
• 17:30
  products
• 17:30
  can
• 17:31
  be
• 17:31
  reformulated
• 17:31
  to
• 17:31
  avoid
• 17:32
  MAC
• 17:32
  operations
• 17:32
  entirely
• 17:33
  and
• 17:34
  the
• 17:34
  softmax
• 17:34
  becomes
• 17:35
  obsolete.
• 17:36
  The
• 17:36
  paper
• 17:36
  methodically
• 17:37
  transitions
• 17:37
  from
• 17:38
  a
• 17:38
  standard
• 17:38
  ANN
• 17:38
  decoder
• 17:39
  to
• 17:39
  a
• 17:39
  fully
• 17:40
  spiking
• 17:40
  variant
• 17:40
  through
• 17:41
  four
• 17:41
  "spike
• 17:41
  degrees,"
• 17:42
  identifying
• 17:43
  that
• 17:43
  replacing
• 17:43
  multi-head
• 17:44
  attention
• 17:45
  causes
• 17:45
  the
• 17:45
  largest
• 17:46
  performance
• 17:46
  drop
• 17:46
  (25%),
• 17:48
  followed
• 17:48
  by
• 17:48
  the
• 17:48
  MLP
• 17:49
  (13%)
• 17:50
  and
• 17:50
  classification
• 17:50
  head
• 17:51
  (4%).
• 17:52
  Strategic
• 17:52
  compensations
• 17:53
  —
• 17:54
  additional
• 17:54
  decoder
• 17:55
  blocks,
• 17:55
  reduced
• 17:56
  attention
• 17:56
  heads,
• 17:56
  learnable
• 17:57
  LIF
• 17:57
  neuron
• 17:57
  thresholds
• 17:58
  —
• 17:59
  bring
• 17:59
  the
• 17:59
  final
• 17:59
  SpikeDecoder
• 18:00
  to
• 18:00
  87.0%
• 18:02
  accuracy
• 18:02
  on
• 18:02
  character-level
• 18:03
  generation,
• 18:04
  about
• 18:04
  11.4%
• 18:05
  below
• 18:05
  the
• 18:05
  ANN
• 18:06
  baseline.
• 18:07
  The
• 18:07
  payoff
• 18:08
  is
• 18:08
  a
• 18:08
  theoretical
• 18:08
  energy
• 18:09
  reduction
• 18:09
  of
• 18:09
  87%
• 18:10
  to
• 18:10
  93%
• 18:11
  compared
• 18:11
  to
• 18:11
  the
• 18:11
  non-spiking
• 18:12
  decoder
• 18:12
  block.
• 18:13
  The
• 18:13
  model
• 18:13
  operates
• 18:14
  on
• 18:14
  "War
• 18:14
  and
• 18:14
  Peace"
• 18:15
  at
• 18:15
  character
• 18:15
  level
• 18:16
  with
• 18:16
  1.4
• 18:16
  million
• 18:17
  parameters,
• 18:17
  and
• 18:18
  while
• 18:18
  it
• 18:18
  is
• 18:18
  a
• 18:18
  proof-of-concept
• 18:19
  rather
• 18:19
  than
• 18:19
  a
• 18:19
  production
• 18:19
  system,
• 18:20
  it
• 18:20
  establishes
• 18:21
  that
• 18:21
  a
• 18:21
  directly
• 18:21
  trained
• 18:22
  spiking
• 18:22
  GPT
• 18:23
  is
• 18:23
  architecturally
• 18:23
  viable.
• 18:25
  On
• 18:25
  the
• 18:25
  more
• 18:25
  immediately
• 18:25
  practical
• 18:26
  end
• 18:26
  of
• 18:26
  the
• 18:26
  performance
• 18:27
  spectrum,
• 18:27
  pgrust
• 18:28
  released
• 18:28
  a
• 18:28
  query
• 18:28
  engine
• 18:29
  that
• 18:29
  makes
• 18:29
  Postgres
• 18:29
  300x
• 18:30
  faster
• 18:31
  for
• 18:31
  analytical
• 18:31
  workloads.
• 18:33
  The
• 18:33
  optimization
• 18:33
  story
• 18:34
  is
• 18:34
  a
• 18:34
  clean
• 18:34
  tutorial
• 18:35
  in
• 18:35
  database
• 18:36
  internals.
• 18:37
  Standard
• 18:37
  Postgres
• 18:38
  uses
• 18:38
  the
• 18:38
  Volcano
• 18:39
  model,
• 18:39
  where
• 18:40
  each
• 18:40
  plan
• 18:40
  node
• 18:40
  has
• 18:41
  a
• 18:41
  next()
• 18:41
  method
• 18:41
  that
• 18:41
  returns
• 18:42
  one
• 18:42
  row
• 18:42
  at
• 18:42
  a
• 18:42
  time
• 18:43
  —
• 18:44
  simple
• 18:44
  but
• 18:44
  slow.
• 18:45
  Batching
• 18:46
  (processing
• 18:47
  1,024
• 18:47
  rows
• 18:48
  per
• 18:48
  call
• 18:48
  instead
• 18:49
  of
• 18:49
  one)
• 18:49
  brought
• 18:49
  execution
• 18:50
  from
• 18:50
  1.3
• 18:50
  seconds
• 18:51
  to
• 18:51
  480ms.
• 18:53
  Operator
• 18:53
  fusion
• 18:54
  (combining
• 18:54
  sequential
• 18:55
  scan
• 18:55
  and
• 18:55
  sum
• 18:56
  aggregation
• 18:56
  into
• 18:57
  a
• 18:57
  single
• 18:57
  node)
• 18:57
  eliminated
• 18:58
  the
• 18:58
  copy
• 18:58
  overhead
• 18:59
  and
• 18:59
  matched
• 19:00
  a
• 19:00
  raw
• 19:00
  for-loop
• 19:00
  at
• 19:00
  358ms.
• 19:03
  SIMD
• 19:03
  instructions
• 19:04
  (processing
• 19:04
  eight
• 19:04
  floats
• 19:05
  simultaneously
• 19:05
  using
• 19:06
  ARM
• 19:06
  NEON
• 19:07
  intrinsics)
• 19:07
  pushed
• 19:07
  it
• 19:07
  to
• 19:08
  135ms
• 19:08
  —
• 19:10
  nearly
• 19:10
  10x
• 19:10
  faster
• 19:11
  than
• 19:11
  the
• 19:11
  original
• 19:11
  Volcano
• 19:12
  implementation.
• 19:13
  These
• 19:13
  optimizations,
• 19:14
  combined
• 19:15
  with
• 19:15
  JIT
• 19:16
  compilation
• 19:16
  (teased
• 19:16
  for
• 19:17
  a
• 19:17
  follow-up
• 19:17
  post),
• 19:18
  account
• 19:18
  for
• 19:18
  roughly
• 19:19
  10x
• 19:19
  of
• 19:19
  the
• 19:19
  total
• 19:20
  300x
• 19:20
  improvement
• 19:21
  over
• 19:21
  Postgres.
• 19:22
  For
• 19:22
  developers
• 19:23
  who
• 19:23
  prefer
• 19:23
  running
• 19:23
  everything
• 19:24
  on
• 19:24
  their
• 19:24
  own
• 19:24
  hardware,
• 19:25
  two
• 19:25
  projects
• 19:26
  offer
• 19:26
  different
• 19:26
  on-ramps.
• 19:27
  rrlm
• 19:28
  is
• 19:28
  an
• 19:28
  RLM-first
• 19:29
  backend
• 19:29
  for
• 19:29
  the
• 19:29
  Pi
• 19:30
  coding
• 19:30
  agent
• 19:30
  that
• 19:30
  proves
• 19:31
  a
• 19:31
  small
• 19:31
  local
• 19:31
  model
• 19:32
  —
• 19:33
  Ornith-1.0-35B,
• 19:35
  a
• 19:35
  Qwen3.5
• 19:38
  MoE
• 19:38
  with
• 19:38
  256
• 19:39
  experts
• 19:39
  and
• 19:40
  only
• 19:40
  8
• 19:40
  active
• 19:40
  per
• 19:41
  token
• 19:41
  —
• 19:41
  can
• 19:42
  build
• 19:42
  a
• 19:42
  complete
• 19:42
  graph
• 19:43
  CRM
• 19:43
  in
• 19:43
  Go,
• 19:43
  file
• 19:44
  by
• 19:44
  file,
• 19:44
  compiling
• 19:45
  and
• 19:45
  self-correcting
• 19:46
  as
• 19:46
  it
• 19:46
  goes,
• 19:46
  in
• 19:46
  12.5
• 19:47
  minutes
• 19:47
  at
• 19:48
  $0.
• 19:49
  The
• 19:49
  key
• 19:49
  insight
• 19:49
  is
• 19:50
  that
• 19:50
  RLM
• 19:50
  (Recursive
• 19:51
  Language
• 19:51
  Model,
• 19:52
  meaning
• 19:52
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