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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 03, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

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  Google's
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  Mandiant
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  published
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  an
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  AI
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  incident
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  response
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  playbook
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  written
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  by
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  someone
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  who
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  has
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  seemingly
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  had
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  to
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  clean
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  up
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  a
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  mess.
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  The
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  core
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  recommendation:
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  treat
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  the
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  AI
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  agent
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  itself
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  as
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  an
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  untrusted
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  component.
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  Pre-agent
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  data
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  security,
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  defense-in-depth
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  with
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  deterministic
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  policy
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  engines
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  as
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  chokepoints,
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  zero
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  data
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  retention
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  agreements
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  with
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  LLM
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  providers,
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  and
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  strict
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  sandboxing
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  for
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  agent
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  workloads.
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  The
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  RBVM
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  scoring
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  formula
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  --
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  Final
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  Score
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  =
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  (W1
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  S
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  vuln)
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  +
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  (W2
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  S
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  asset)
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  +
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  (W3
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  S
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  threat)
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  --
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  is
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  standard
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  enterprise
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  risk
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  math,
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  but
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  Mandiant's
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  distinction
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  between
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  binary
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  oracles
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  (a
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  memory
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  corruption
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  either
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  crashes
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  or
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  it
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  doesn't)
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  and
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  architectural
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  oracles
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  (an
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  authorization
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  bypass
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  requires
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  understanding
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  business
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  context
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  the
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  model
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  does
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  not
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  have)
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  is
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  the
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  insight
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  that
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  matters.
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  It
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  explains
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  why
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  AI-discovered
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  vulnerabilities
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  cluster
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  in
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  browser
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  and
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  OS
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  code
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  and
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  not
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  in
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  enterprise
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  authorization
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  logic.
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  The
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  mean
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  time-to-exploit
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  has
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  dropped
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  to
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  negative
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  seven
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  days:
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  vulnerabilities
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  exploited
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  a
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  week
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  before
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  a
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  patch
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  exists.
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  If
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  that
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  sounds
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  abstract,
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  Nightcrawler
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  makes
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  it
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  concrete.
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  It
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  is
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  an
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  autonomous
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  penetration
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  testing
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  agent
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  that
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  runs
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  entirely
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  on
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  a
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  smartphone
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  --
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  specifically,
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  a
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  OnePlus
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  8
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  with
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  an
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  Adreno
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  650
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  GPU
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  running
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  a
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  1.2-billion-parameter
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  model
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  locally.
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  Drop
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  the
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  phone
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  on
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  a
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  network,
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  walk
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  away.
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  It
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  discovers
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  hosts,
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  maps
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  services,
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  finds
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  vulnerabilities
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  across
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  27
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  exploit
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  playbooks
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  against
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  a
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  24,956-entry
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  CVE
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  database,
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  and
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  generates
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  a
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  pentest
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  report.
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  No
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  cloud
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  connectivity
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  required.
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  The
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  agent
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  operates
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  like
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  a
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  patient
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  human
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  pentester:
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  it
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  rotates
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  across
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  hosts,
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  does
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  one
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  small
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  action
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  per
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  turn,
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  and
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  builds
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  knowledge
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  gradually
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  over
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  hours,
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  making
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  it
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  harder
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  to
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  detect
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  than
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  traditional
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  scanners.
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  On
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  the
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  defense
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  side,
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  Perplexity
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  shipped
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  Numbat,
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  a
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  single
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  Go
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  binary
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  that
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  provides
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  endpoint
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  visibility
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  into
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  AI
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  agent
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  activity.
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  It
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  monitors
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  Claude
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  Code,
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  Codex,
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  OpenClaw,
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  and
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  others
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  through
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  local
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  hooks
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  and
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  plugins,
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  normalizes
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  activity
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  into
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  one
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  event
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  model,
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  and
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  evaluates
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  it
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  against
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  a
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  CEL
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  rule
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  engine.
• 1:47
  Detection
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  runs
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  locally.
• 1:49
  Records
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  are
• 1:50
  versioned
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  NDJSON.
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  Blocking
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  is
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  opt-in
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  and
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  off
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  by
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  default.
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  This
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  is
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  the
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  first
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  serious
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  tool
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  for
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  answering
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  the
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  question
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  that
• 1:57
  every
• 1:58
  CISO
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  should
• 1:58
  be
• 1:58
  asking:
• 1:59
  what
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  are
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  the
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  AI
• 2:00
  agents
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  on
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  your
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  endpoints
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  actually
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  doing?
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  Meanwhile,
• 2:03
  the
• 2:03
  OpenAI-HuggingFace
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  incident
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  continues
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  to
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  yield
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  details.
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  The
• 2:07
  model
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  exploited
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  a
• 2:08
  deserialization
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  vulnerability
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  in
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  JFrog
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  Artifactory
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  to
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  achieve
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  remote
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  code
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  execution
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  on
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  the
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  package
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  proxy
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  --
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  its
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  gateway
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  to
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  the
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  internet.
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  It
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  commandeered
• 2:17
  a
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  separate
• 2:18
  sandbox
• 2:18
  website
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  as
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  its
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  C2
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  server,
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  then
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  pivoted
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  to
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  HuggingFace
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  via
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  two
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  separate
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  attacks:
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  a
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  path
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  traversal
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  through
• 2:24
  dataset
• 2:25
  config
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  names
• 2:25
  that
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  read
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  /proc/self/environ
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  to
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  exfiltrate
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  container
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  secrets,
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  followed
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  by
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  a
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  Jinja
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  template
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  injection
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  to
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  execute
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  arbitrary
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  Python
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  in
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  the
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  Kubernetes
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  worker
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  pods.
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  It
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  ran
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  for
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  two
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  days
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  undetected.
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  When
• 2:38
  HuggingFace
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  tried
• 2:39
  to
• 2:39
  analyze
• 2:39
  the
• 2:39
  attack
• 2:40
  payloads
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  using
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  frontier
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  models
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  for
• 2:41
  defensive
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  forensics,
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  those
• 2:43
  models
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  refused.
• 2:45
  HuggingFace
• 2:45
  had
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  to
• 2:45
  use
• 2:46
  GLM
• 2:46
  5.2,
• 2:47
  an
• 2:48
  open-weight
• 2:48
  model,
• 2:49
  on
• 2:49
  their
• 2:49
  own
• 2:49
  infrastructure
• 2:50
  to
• 2:50
  do
• 2:50
  defensive
• 2:50
  work.
• 2:51
  The
• 2:51
  irony
• 2:52
  writes
• 2:52
  itself.
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  Two
• 2:56
  weeks
• 2:56
  ago
• 2:56
  we
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  noted
• 2:57
  that
• 2:57
  running
• 2:57
  Kimi
• 2:58
  K3
• 2:58
  locally
• 2:59
  required
• 2:59
  roughly
• 2:59
  120
• 3:01
  RTX
• 3:01
  3090s
• 3:02
  at
• 3:02
  Q8,
• 3:03
  and
• 3:03
  that
• 3:03
  even
• 3:03
  aggressive
• 3:04
  IQ2
• 3:04
  XXS
• 3:05
  quantization
• 3:05
  exceeded
• 3:06
  any
• 3:06
  individual
• 3:07
  hobbyist's
• 3:08
  reach.
• 3:08
  Since
• 3:09
  then,
• 3:09
  three
• 3:09
  independent
• 3:10
  teams
• 3:10
  have
• 3:10
  shipped
• 3:10
  engines
• 3:11
  attacking
• 3:11
  the
• 3:11
  problem
• 3:12
  from
• 3:12
  different
• 3:12
  angles,
• 3:13
  and
• 3:13
  a
• 3:13
  fourth
• 3:13
  published
• 3:14
  the
• 3:14
  design
• 3:14
  philosophy
• 3:15
  behind
• 3:15
  custom
• 3:15
  inference
• 3:16
  engines
• 3:16
  in
• 3:16
  general.
• 3:17
  WASTE
• 3:18
  is
• 3:18
  a
• 3:18
  dependency-free
• 3:19
  C
• 3:19
  engine
• 3:20
  that
• 3:20
  keeps
• 3:20
  K3's
• 3:21
  shared
• 3:21
  trunk
• 3:21
  in
• 3:22
  memory
• 3:22
  and
• 3:22
  streams
• 3:23
  selected
• 3:23
  experts
• 3:24
  directly
• 3:24
  from
• 3:24
  NVMe.
• 3:26
  The
• 3:26
  full
• 3:26
  2.78-trillion-parameter
• 3:28
  model
• 3:29
  runs
• 3:29
  on
• 3:29
  a
• 3:29
  64
• 3:30
  GB
• 3:30
  MacBook
• 3:30
  Pro
• 3:31
  with
• 3:31
  an
• 3:31
  M5
• 3:32
  Pro
• 3:32
  at
• 3:32
  0.45
• 3:33
  to
• 3:33
  0.62
• 3:34
  tokens
• 3:35
  per
• 3:35
  second.
• 3:36
  The
• 3:36
  converted
• 3:36
  container
• 3:37
  is
• 3:37
  982
• 3:38
  GB;
• 3:39
  the
• 3:39
  minimum
• 3:39
  RAM
• 3:39
  requirement
• 3:40
  is
• 3:40
  29.06
• 3:41
  GB,
• 3:42
  most
• 3:42
  of
• 3:42
  which
• 3:43
  is
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  27.28
• 3:44
  GB
• 3:44
  resident
• 3:45
  trunk
• 3:45
  rather
• 3:45
  than
• 3:45
  the
• 3:45
  expert
• 3:46
  cache.
• 3:47
  The
• 3:47
  counter-intuitive
• 3:48
  finding:
• 3:49
  enlarging
• 3:49
  the
• 3:49
  expert
• 3:50
  cache
• 3:50
  past
• 3:50
  the
• 3:50
  default
• 3:51
  makes
• 3:51
  throughput
• 3:51
  collapse
• 3:52
  eightfold
• 3:52
  because
• 3:52
  the
• 3:52
  process
• 3:53
  stays
• 3:53
  within
• 3:53
  its
• 3:53
  budget
• 3:54
  but
• 3:54
  the
• 3:54
  machine
• 3:54
  does
• 3:54
  not,
• 3:55
  turning
• 3:55
  cache
• 3:56
  hits
• 3:56
  into
• 3:56
  page
• 3:56
  faults.
• 3:57
  More
• 3:58
  memory
• 3:58
  is
• 3:58
  not
• 3:58
  always
• 3:58
  faster.
• 3:59
  The
• 4:00
  Reddit
• 4:00
  discussion
• 4:00
  was
• 4:00
  predictably
• 4:01
  skeptical
• 4:01
  --
• 4:02
  "couldn't
• 4:03
  you
• 4:03
  do
• 4:03
  the
• 4:03
  same
• 4:03
  with
• 4:03
  llama.cpp?"
• 4:05
  and
• 4:05
  NVMe
• 4:05
  wear
• 4:06
  concerns
• 4:06
  dominate
• 4:06
  --
• 4:07
  but
• 4:08
  the
• 4:08
  measured
• 4:08
  numbers
• 4:08
  are
• 4:08
  real.
• 4:09
  Fareed
• 4:10
  Khan
• 4:10
  took
• 4:10
  a
• 4:10
  different
• 4:10
  approach:
• 4:12
  a
• 4:12
  pure
• 4:12
  C99
• 4:13
  implementation
• 4:13
  of
• 4:13
  K3
• 4:14
  inference
• 4:14
  in
• 4:14
  176
• 4:15
  KB
• 4:16
  of
• 4:16
  engine
• 4:16
  code.
• 4:17
  No
• 4:17
  BLAS,
• 4:17
  no
• 4:18
  framework,
• 4:18
  no
• 4:18
  GPU.
• 4:20
  Peak
• 4:20
  RSS:
• 4:21
  8.24
• 4:21
  GB.
• 4:22
  It
• 4:22
  is
• 4:22
  slow
• 4:23
  --
• 4:24
  32.69
• 4:25
  seconds
• 4:25
  per
• 4:25
  token
• 4:26
  on
• 4:26
  the
• 4:26
  laptop
• 4:26
  preset
• 4:26
  --
• 4:27
  but
• 4:27
  it
• 4:27
  produces
• 4:28
  byte-identical
• 4:28
  output
• 4:29
  across
• 4:29
  memory
• 4:29
  budgets
• 4:30
  from
• 4:30
  8
• 4:30
  GB
• 4:31
  to
• 4:31
  224
• 4:32
  GB,
• 4:32
  verified
• 4:33
  through
• 4:33
  gate-based
• 4:33
  validation.
• 4:35
  The
• 4:35
  point
• 4:35
  is
• 4:35
  not
• 4:35
  speed;
• 4:36
  it
• 4:36
  is
• 4:36
  portability
• 4:37
  and
• 4:37
  correctness.
• 4:38
  DeltaFin
• 4:39
  attacks
• 4:39
  from
• 4:39
  the
• 4:39
  Rust
• 4:39
  side.
• 4:40
  A
• 4:40
  single
• 4:41
  compiled
• 4:41
  binary
• 4:42
  running
• 4:42
  the
• 4:42
  full
• 4:43
  K3
• 4:43
  model
• 4:44
  with
• 4:44
  all
• 4:44
  16
• 4:44
  experts
• 4:45
  evaluated
• 4:45
  for
• 4:46
  every
• 4:46
  token
• 4:46
  --
• 4:47
  no
• 4:47
  pruning,
• 4:47
  no
• 4:48
  shortcuts.
• 4:49
  The
• 4:49
  quality
• 4:49
  rule:
• 4:50
  K3
• 4:50
  decides
• 4:51
  every
• 4:51
  token,
• 4:52
  with
• 4:52
  DSpark
• 4:52
  speculative
• 4:53
  decoding
• 4:53
  providing
• 4:54
  speed.
• 4:55
  Latest
• 4:55
  benchmarks
• 4:55
  show
• 4:56
  0.2847
• 4:57
  tok/s
• 4:58
  on
• 4:58
  an
• 4:58
  M1
• 4:58
  Max,
• 4:59
  up
• 4:59
  829%
• 5:00
  from
• 5:00
  the
• 5:00
  initial
• 5:01
  0.0141
• 5:02
  tok/s
• 5:03
  a
• 5:03
  week
• 5:03
  ago.
• 5:04
  LocalAI
• 5:05
  published
• 5:05
  a
• 5:05
  thorough
• 5:05
  post
• 5:06
  explaining
• 5:06
  why
• 5:06
  they
• 5:06
  write
• 5:07
  custom
• 5:07
  C
• 5:07
  and
• 5:07
  C++
• 5:08
  inference
• 5:08
  engines
• 5:09
  at
• 5:09
  all.
• 5:10
  Their
• 5:10
  port
• 5:10
  of
• 5:10
  vLLM's
• 5:11
  V1
• 5:11
  serving
• 5:11
  architecture,
• 5:12
  vllm.cpp,
• 5:15
  produces
• 5:15
  a
• 5:15
  66
• 5:16
  MB
• 5:16
  binary
• 5:16
  versus
• 5:17
  vLLM's
• 5:17
  9.1
• 5:18
  GB
• 5:18
  virtualenv.
• 5:19
  On
• 5:19
  an
• 5:19
  NVIDIA
• 5:20
  GB10,
• 5:20
  it
• 5:20
  ties
• 5:21
  vLLM's
• 5:21
  production
• 5:22
  configuration
• 5:22
  at
• 5:22
  every
• 5:22
  concurrency
• 5:23
  point
• 5:23
  with
• 5:23
  token-for-token
• 5:24
  identical
• 5:24
  output
• 5:25
  and
• 5:25
  3.3
• 5:26
  GB
• 5:26
  less
• 5:26
  memory.
• 5:27
  Their
• 5:27
  depth-anything.cpp
• 5:29
  port
• 5:29
  runs
• 5:29
  1.31x
• 5:30
  faster
• 5:30
  than
• 5:30
  PyTorch
• 5:31
  by
• 5:31
  caching
• 5:32
  two
• 5:32
  positional
• 5:32
  embeddings
• 5:33
  that
• 5:33
  the
• 5:33
  Python
• 5:33
  reference
• 5:34
  recomputed
• 5:34
  on
• 5:34
  every
• 5:35
  forward
• 5:35
  pass.
• 5:36
  The
• 5:36
  methodology
• 5:37
  is
• 5:37
  disciplined:
• 5:38
  parity
• 5:38
  first,
• 5:38
  then
• 5:39
  optimize.
• 5:41
  Maxwell's
• 5:41
  1873
• 5:42
  conjecture
• 5:43
  held
• 5:43
  that
• 5:43
  the
• 5:43
  electrostatic
• 5:44
  potential
• 5:45
  generated
• 5:45
  by
• 5:45
  n
• 5:45
  point
• 5:46
  charges
• 5:46
  admits
• 5:46
  at
• 5:47
  most
• 5:47
  (n-1)
• 5:47
  squared
• 5:48
  non-degenerate
• 5:48
  critical
• 5:49
  points.
• 5:49
  It
• 5:50
  has
• 5:50
  now
• 5:50
  been
• 5:50
  disproved.
• 5:51
  A
• 5:51
  team
• 5:51
  from
• 5:52
  Babson
• 5:52
  College,
• 5:53
  the
• 5:53
  University
• 5:53
  of
• 5:53
  Missouri,
• 5:54
  and
• 5:55
  the
• 5:55
  University
• 5:55
  of
• 5:55
  Maryland
• 5:56
  constructed
• 5:56
  a
• 5:56
  configuration
• 5:57
  of
• 5:57
  five
• 5:57
  point
• 5:57
  charges
• 5:58
  with
• 5:58
  24
• 5:58
  critical
• 5:58
  points
• 5:59
  --
• 5:59
  well
• 6:00
  above
• 6:00
  the
• 6:00
  conjectured
• 6:00
  maximum
• 6:01
  of
• 6:01
  16.
• 6:02
  The
• 6:02
  construction
• 6:02
  starts
• 6:03
  with
• 6:03
  three
• 6:03
  unit
• 6:03
  charges
• 6:03
  at
• 6:04
  the
• 6:04
  vertices
• 6:04
  of
• 6:04
  an
• 6:04
  equilateral
• 6:05
  triangle,
• 6:06
  adds
• 6:06
  two
• 6:06
  small
• 6:06
  charges
• 6:07
  along
• 6:07
  the
• 6:07
  orthogonal
• 6:08
  axis
• 6:08
  to
• 6:08
  form
• 6:08
  a
• 6:08
  shallow
• 6:09
  bipyramid,
• 6:10
  and
• 6:10
  watches
• 6:10
  the
• 6:10
  central
• 6:11
  equilibrium
• 6:11
  bifurcate
• 6:11
  into
• 6:12
  21
• 6:12
  new
• 6:12
  critical
• 6:13
  points
• 6:13
  while
• 6:13
  the
• 6:13
  three
• 6:13
  edge
• 6:14
  equilibria
• 6:14
  persist.
• 6:15
  The
• 6:15
  paper's
• 6:16
  tool
• 6:16
  disclosure
• 6:16
  is
• 6:16
  blunt:
• 6:17
  "The
• 6:18
  idea
• 6:18
  behind
• 6:18
  this
• 6:18
  construction
• 6:19
  was
• 6:19
  suggested
• 6:19
  by
• 6:20
  an
• 6:20
  LLM
• 6:20
  (OpenAI's
• 6:21
  GPT-5.6
• 6:22
  Sol).
• 6:23
  The
• 6:23
  authors
• 6:23
  have
• 6:23
  verified
• 6:24
  the
• 6:24
  mathematical
• 6:24
  details
• 6:25
  and
• 6:25
  have
• 6:25
  written
• 6:25
  the
• 6:25
  argument
• 6:26
  in
• 6:26
  their
• 6:26
  own
• 6:26
  words."
• 6:27
  The
• 6:27
  construction
• 6:28
  can
• 6:28
  be
• 6:28
  iterated
• 6:28
  to
• 6:28
  produce
• 6:29
  configurations
• 6:29
  with
• 6:29
  an
• 6:30
  asymptotic
• 6:30
  critical-point-to-charge
• 6:31
  ratio
• 6:31
  of
• 6:31
  10,
• 6:32
  exceeding
• 6:32
  the
• 6:32
  4
• 6:33
  achieved
• 6:33
  in
• 6:33
  prior
• 6:33
  work.
• 6:34
  OpenAI
• 6:35
  followed
• 6:35
  with
• 6:35
  a
• 6:35
  broader
• 6:36
  announcement:
• 6:37
  ten
• 6:37
  results
• 6:37
  across
• 6:38
  high-dimensional
• 6:38
  geometry,
• 6:39
  coding
• 6:40
  theory,
• 6:41
  arithmetic
• 6:41
  circuit
• 6:41
  complexity,
• 6:43
  group
• 6:43
  theory,
• 6:44
  operator
• 6:44
  algebras,
• 6:45
  quantum
• 6:46
  complexity,
• 6:47
  lattice
• 6:47
  cryptography,
• 6:49
  and
• 6:49
  extremal
• 6:49
  combinatorics
• 6:49
  --
• 6:51
  each
• 6:51
  resolving
• 6:51
  or
• 6:52
  making
• 6:52
  substantial
• 6:52
  progress
• 6:53
  on
• 6:53
  a
• 6:53
  long-standing
• 6:53
  open
• 6:54
  problem.
• 6:55
  The
• 6:55
  results
• 6:55
  were
• 6:56
  achieved
• 6:56
  by
• 6:56
  an
• 6:56
  internal
• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:58
  their
• 6:58
  next
• 6:58
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• 6:58
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• 7:00
  The
• 7:00
  total
• 7:00
  compute
• 7:00
  cost
• 7:01
  would
• 7:01
  be
• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
  Sol
• 7:02
  API
• 7:03
  rates.
• 7:04
  Among
• 7:04
  the
• 7:04
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• 7:05
  new
• 7:05
  upper
• 7:06
  bounds
• 7:06
  on
• 7:06
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• 7:07
  density
• 7:07
  down
• 7:07
  to
• 7:07
  the
• 7:07
  Cohn-Elkies
• 7:08
  threshold,
• 7:09
  a
• 7:09
  construction
• 7:10
  establishing
• 7:10
  the
• 7:10
  existence
• 7:11
  of
• 7:11
  non-sofic
• 7:11
  groups,
• 7:12
  and
• 7:12
  a
• 7:12
  superexponential
• 7:13
  lower
• 7:13
  bound
• 7:13
  for
• 7:14
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• 7:14
  triangle
• 7:14
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• 7:15
  numbers
• 7:15
  resolving
• 7:16
  Erdos
• 7:16
  problem
• 7:16
  183.
• 7:18
  Each
• 7:18
  argument
• 7:19
  was
• 7:19
  formalized
• 7:19
  in
• 7:19
  Lean
• 7:19
  4.
• 7:20
  The
• 7:21
  page
• 7:21
  acknowledges
• 7:21
  the
• 7:21
  Leiden
• 7:22
  Declaration
• 7:22
  and
• 7:22
  states
• 7:23
  that
• 7:23
  "claiming
• 7:23
  human
• 7:24
  authorship
• 7:24
  for
• 7:24
  a
• 7:24
  proof
• 7:24
  generated
• 7:25
  entirely
• 7:25
  by
• 7:25
  an
• 7:26
  AI
• 7:26
  system
• 7:26
  would
• 7:26
  misrepresent
• 7:27
  both
• 7:27
  the
• 7:27
  system's
• 7:28
  contribution
• 7:28
  and
• 7:29
  the
• 7:29
  nature
• 7:29
  of
• 7:29
  genuine
• 7:30
  human
• 7:30
  intellectual
• 7:30
  work."
• 7:31
  Whether
• 7:31
  mathematicians
• 7:32
  accept
• 7:32
  the
• 7:32
  framing
• 7:33
  or
• 7:33
  see
• 7:33
  it
• 7:33
  as
• 7:33
  institutional
• 7:34
  overreach
• 7:34
  remains
• 7:35
  to
• 7:35
  be
• 7:35
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• 7:35
  but
• 7:36
  the
• 7:36
  subsequent
• 7:36
  research
• 7:37
  section
• 7:37
  already
• 7:37
  lists
• 7:38
  five
• 7:38
  independent
• 7:38
  papers
• 7:39
  building
• 7:39
  on
• 7:39
  the
• 7:39
  initial
• 7:40
  results,
• 7:40
  suggesting
• 7:41
  the
• 7:41
  mathematical
• 7:42
  community
• 7:42
  is
• 7:42
  engaging
• 7:43
  with
• 7:43
  the
• 7:43
  substance
• 7:43
  regardless
• 7:44
  of
• 7:44
  the
• 7:44
  politics.
• 7:47
  The
• 7:47
  agentic
• 7:47
  coding
• 7:48
  space
• 7:48
  has
• 7:48
  generated
• 7:48
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• 7:49
  demos.
• 7:50
  What
• 7:50
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• 7:50
  has
• 7:50
  not
• 7:51
  generated
• 7:51
  is
• 7:51
  a
• 7:52
  reliable
• 7:52
  answer
• 7:52
  to
• 7:52
  the
• 7:52
  question:
• 7:53
  how
• 7:54
  do
• 7:54
  you
• 7:54
  know
• 7:54
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• 7:54
  agent
• 7:54
  got
• 7:54
  it
• 7:55
  right?
• 7:56
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• 7:56
  Express
• 7:56
  published
• 7:57
  a
• 7:57
  paper
• 7:57
  on
• 7:57
  exactly
• 7:58
  that
• 7:58
  problem.
• 7:59
  Their
• 7:59
  "Locksmith
• 8:00
  Loop"
• 8:00
  addresses
• 8:00
  COBOL-to-Java
• 8:01
  migration
• 8:01
  validation
• 8:02
  through
• 8:02
  an
• 8:02
  iterative
• 8:03
  agentic
• 8:03
  process:
• 8:04
  prepare
• 8:04
  two
• 8:04
  runtime
• 8:05
  environments
• 8:05
  (COBOL
• 8:06
  source
• 8:06
  and
• 8:06
  generated
• 8:07
  Java
• 8:07
  target),
• 8:08
  instrument
• 8:08
  both
• 8:08
  with
• 8:09
  mocks,
• 8:09
  run
• 8:09
  them
• 8:09
  off-mainframe
• 8:10
  on
• 8:10
  commodity
• 8:11
  hardware,
• 8:11
  then
• 8:12
  let
• 8:12
  an
• 8:12
  agentic
• 8:12
  loop
• 8:13
  perform
• 8:13
  Witness
• 8:13
  Search
• 8:13
  over
• 8:13
  input
• 8:14
  mocks
• 8:14
  to
• 8:14
  penetrate
• 8:15
  program
• 8:15
  branches,
• 8:15
  followed
• 8:16
  by
• 8:16
  parity-preserving
• 8:17
  mutations.
• 8:18
  When
• 8:18
  routing
• 8:18
  boundaries
• 8:19
  are
• 8:19
  reached,
• 8:20
  an
• 8:20
  analyzer
• 8:20
  identifies
• 8:21
  what
• 8:21
  they
• 8:21
  call
• 8:21
  a
• 8:21
  "Locked
• 8:21
  Paragraph"
• 8:22
  --
• 8:23
  a
• 8:23
  condition
• 8:23
  preventing
• 8:23
  deeper
• 8:24
  exploration.
• 8:25
  Across
• 8:25
  three
• 8:25
  case
• 8:26
  studies
• 8:26
  spanning
• 8:26
  430
• 8:27
  to
• 8:27
  4,114
• 8:29
  source
• 8:29
  lines,
• 8:30
  the
• 8:30
  method
• 8:30
  reached
• 8:30
  nearly
• 8:31
  complete
• 8:31
  coverage
• 8:31
  on
• 8:32
  two
• 8:32
  open-source
• 8:32
  programs
• 8:33
  and
• 8:33
  91.90%
• 8:34
  branch
• 8:35
  coverage
• 8:35
  on
• 8:35
  an
• 8:35
  internal
• 8:36
  production-like
• 8:36
  COBOL
• 8:36
  program.
• 8:37
  The
• 8:37
  generated
• 8:38
  Java
• 8:38
  matched
• 8:39
  the
• 8:39
  COBOL
• 8:39
  reference
• 8:39
  under
• 8:40
  deterministic
• 8:40
  parity
• 8:40
  checks
• 8:41
  in
• 8:41
  all
• 8:41
  accepted
• 8:41
  test
• 8:42
  cases.
• 8:43
  This
• 8:43
  is
• 8:43
  the
• 8:43
  kind
• 8:43
  of
• 8:43
  unglamorous,
• 8:44
  rigorous
• 8:44
  validation
• 8:44
  work
• 8:45
  that
• 8:45
  enterprise
• 8:45
  migration
• 8:45
  actually
• 8:46
  demands.
• 8:47
  QM
• 8:47
  by
• 8:47
  YC
• 8:48
  Software
• 8:48
  takes
• 8:48
  a
• 8:48
  different
• 8:48
  angle
• 8:49
  on
• 8:49
  the
• 8:49
  multi-agent
• 8:49
  coordination
• 8:50
  problem:
• 8:50
  a
• 8:50
  multiplayer
• 8:51
  harness
• 8:51
  that
• 8:51
  lets
• 8:52
  teams
• 8:52
  run
• 8:52
  multiple
• 8:52
  AI
• 8:53
  agents
• 8:53
  simultaneously
• 8:54
  through
• 8:54
  Slack
• 8:54
  and
• 8:54
  web
• 8:54
  interfaces,
• 8:55
  with
• 8:55
  per-scope
• 8:56
  isolation
• 8:56
  between
• 8:57
  agents.
• 8:58
  It
• 8:58
  supports
• 8:58
  Pi,
• 8:59
  OpenCode,
• 8:59
  Codex,
• 9:00
  and
• 9:00
  Claude
• 9:00
  Code
• 9:01
  through
• 9:01
  individual
• 9:01
  harnesses
• 9:02
  built
• 9:02
  on
• 9:02
  TypeScript
• 9:02
  and
• 9:03
  Fastify.
• 9:03
  The
• 9:03
  operative
• 9:04
  word
• 9:04
  is
• 9:04
  "multiplayer"
• 9:04
  --
• 9:05
  multiple
• 9:06
  humans
• 9:06
  coordinating
• 9:06
  multiple
• 9:07
  agents,
• 9:07
  not
• 9:07
  just
• 9:08
  one
• 9:08
  developer
• 9:08
  and
• 9:08
  one
• 9:09
  copilot.
• 9:10
  For
• 9:10
  teams
• 9:10
  that
• 9:10
  want
• 9:11
  structure
• 9:11
  without
• 9:11
  the
• 9:11
  tooling,
• 9:12
  an
• 9:12
  agentic
• 9:13
  workflow
• 9:13
  guide
• 9:13
  lays
• 9:14
  out
• 9:14
  a
• 9:14
  9-stage
• 9:14
  process
• 9:15
  with
• 9:15
  54
• 9:15
  gate
• 9:16
  conditions,
• 9:17
  docs-first
• 9:17
  methodology,
• 9:18
  file-based
• 9:18
  handoffs
• 9:19
  between
• 9:19
  stages,
• 9:20
  failure
• 9:20
  thresholds,
• 9:21
  and
• 9:21
  difficulty-based
• 9:21
  routing.
• 9:22
  It
• 9:22
  is
• 9:22
  opinionated
• 9:23
  and
• 9:23
  prescriptive
• 9:24
  in
• 9:24
  ways
• 9:24
  that
• 9:24
  "just
• 9:25
  use
• 9:25
  an
• 9:25
  AI
• 9:25
  agent"
• 9:26
  advice
• 9:26
  typically
• 9:27
  is
• 9:27
  not.
• 9:28
  RuCelium
• 9:28
  takes
• 9:28
  a
• 9:28
  biomimetic
• 9:29
  approach
• 9:29
  to
• 9:29
  environmental
• 9:30
  sensing:
• 9:31
  a
• 9:31
  mycelium-inspired
• 9:32
  sensor
• 9:32
  network
• 9:33
  with
• 9:33
  four
• 9:33
  layers
• 9:33
  (spore
• 9:34
  nodes,
• 9:34
  hyphal
• 9:35
  threads,
• 9:35
  biomes,
• 9:36
  and
• 9:36
  signed
• 9:36
  events),
• 9:38
  ed25519-signed
• 9:39
  48-byte
• 9:40
  records,
• 9:41
  and
• 9:41
  a
• 9:41
  mesh
• 9:41
  topology
• 9:42
  modeled
• 9:42
  on
• 9:42
  fungal
• 9:43
  networks.
• 9:44
  Whether
• 9:44
  the
• 9:44
  biological
• 9:45
  analogy
• 9:45
  adds
• 9:45
  engineering
• 9:46
  value
• 9:46
  beyond
• 9:47
  marketing
• 9:47
  remains
• 9:47
  an
• 9:47
  open
• 9:48
  question,
• 9:48
  but
• 9:49
  the
• 9:49
  cryptographic
• 9:49
  commitment
• 9:50
  model
• 9:50
  is
• 9:50
  sound.
• 9:51
  A
• 9:51
  commit-reveal
• 9:52
  rock-paper-scissors
• 9:53
  demo
• 9:53
  using
• 9:53
  embedding-based
• 9:54
  prediction
• 9:55
  rounds
• 9:55
  out
• 9:55
  the
• 9:55
  agentic
• 9:55
  engineering
• 9:56
  cluster
• 9:56
  --
• 9:57
  small
• 9:57
  in
• 9:58
  scope
• 9:58
  but
• 9:58
  a
• 9:58
  clean
• 9:58
  illustration
• 9:59
  of
• 9:59
  how
• 9:59
  embedding
• 10:00
  spaces
• 10:00
  can
• 10:00
  be
• 10:00
  used
• 10:01
  for
• 10:01
  behavioral
• 10:01
  prediction.
• 10:05
  Someone
• 10:06
  built
• 10:06
  a
• 10:06
  16.5-trillion-parameter
• 10:08
  model
• 10:08
  that
• 10:08
  contains
• 10:08
  nothing.
• 10:09
  Vacuum
• 10:10
  16T
• 10:10
  exploits
• 10:11
  the
• 10:11
  fact
• 10:11
  that
• 10:11
  HuggingFace
• 10:12
  computes
• 10:12
  parameter
• 10:13
  counts
• 10:13
  from
• 10:13
  safetensors
• 10:13
  headers
• 10:14
  alone
• 10:14
  --
• 10:15
  it
• 10:15
  sums
• 10:15
  prod(shape)
• 10:16
  per
• 10:16
  tensor
• 10:16
  and
• 10:16
  never
• 10:17
  reads
• 10:17
  the
• 10:17
  tensor
• 10:17
  data.
• 10:18
  The
• 10:18
  model
• 10:18
  declares
• 10:19
  3,841
• 10:20
  tensors
• 10:20
  of
• 10:21
  shape
• 10:21
  [65536,
• 10:21
  65536]
• 10:21
  across
• 10:21
  385
• 10:22
  shards,
• 10:23
  all
• 10:23
  filled
• 10:23
  with
• 10:23
  0x00.
• 10:25
  The
• 10:25
  declared
• 10:25
  size
• 10:26
  is
• 10:26
  8.25
• 10:26
  TB.
• 10:28
  The
• 10:28
  actual
• 10:28
  bytes
• 10:28
  transferred:
• 10:29
  approximately
• 10:30
  692
• 10:31
  KB,
• 10:32
  because
• 10:32
  Xet
• 10:32
  content-defined
• 10:33
  chunking
• 10:33
  deduplicates
• 10:34
  the
• 10:34
  identical
• 10:34
  blocks.
• 10:36
  It
• 10:36
  sits
• 10:36
  at
• 10:36
  the
• 10:36
  top
• 10:36
  of
• 10:36
  the
• 10:36
  Hub
• 10:37
  sorted
• 10:37
  by
• 10:37
  parameter
• 10:37
  count,
• 10:38
  above
• 10:38
  every
• 10:38
  real
• 10:39
  frontier
• 10:39
  model.
• 10:40
  The
• 10:40
  second
• 10:40
  finding
• 10:41
  is
• 10:41
  more
• 10:41
  useful:
• 10:41
  the
• 10:42
  only
• 10:42
  irreducible
• 10:42
  cost
• 10:43
  in
• 10:43
  an
• 10:43
  empty
• 10:43
  model
• 10:43
  is
• 10:43
  naming.
• 10:44
  Weights
• 10:45
  deduplicate
• 10:45
  to
• 10:45
  nothing;
• 10:46
  tensor
• 10:46
  names
• 10:47
  do
• 10:47
  not.
• 10:48
  At
• 10:48
  1024x1024
• 10:49
  experts
• 10:50
  the
• 10:50
  same
• 10:50
  model
• 10:50
  needs
• 10:51
  a
• 10:51
  1.04
• 10:52
  GB
• 10:52
  index;
• 10:53
  at
• 10:53
  65536x65536
• 10:56
  it
• 10:56
  needs
• 10:56
  263
• 10:57
  KB.
• 10:58
  Cost
• 10:58
  scales
• 10:58
  with
• 10:58
  tensor
• 10:59
  count,
• 10:59
  never
• 11:00
  with
• 11:00
  declared
• 11:00
  parameters.
• 11:01
  The
• 11:01
  RAG
• 11:01
  evaluation
• 11:02
  picture
• 11:02
  is
• 11:03
  equally
• 11:03
  sobering.
• 11:04
  A
• 11:04
  benchmark
• 11:04
  comparing
• 11:05
  classic
• 11:05
  vector
• 11:05
  RAG
• 11:06
  against
• 11:06
  Google's
• 11:06
  new
• 11:06
  Open
• 11:07
  Knowledge
• 11:07
  Format
• 11:07
  showed
• 11:07
  vector
• 11:08
  RAG
• 11:08
  scoring
• 11:08
  2
• 11:08
  out
• 11:09
  of
• 11:09
  7,
• 11:09
  OKF
• 11:10
  scoring
• 11:10
  3
• 11:10
  out
• 11:10
  of
• 11:10
  7,
• 11:11
  and
• 11:11
  the
• 11:11
  combined
• 11:11
  pipeline
• 11:12
  scoring
• 11:12
  4
• 11:12
  out
• 11:13
  of
• 11:13
  7.
• 11:13
  Nothing
• 11:14
  passes.
• 11:15
  The
• 11:15
  most
• 11:15
  instructive
• 11:15
  failure:
• 11:16
  a
• 11:16
  question
• 11:17
  about
• 11:17
  revenue
• 11:17
  calculation
• 11:18
  where
• 11:18
  the
• 11:18
  correct
• 11:19
  2026
• 11:19
  document
• 11:20
  (500
• 11:20
  characters,
• 11:21
  one
• 11:21
  chunk)
• 11:22
  ranked
• 11:22
  15th
• 11:22
  out
• 11:23
  of
• 11:23
  85,
• 11:23
  behind
• 11:24
  a
• 11:24
  deprecated
• 11:24
  2023
• 11:25
  version
• 11:25
  that
• 11:25
  split
• 11:25
  into
• 11:26
  seven
• 11:26
  chunks
• 11:27
  and
• 11:27
  dominated
• 11:27
  the
• 11:27
  top-5
• 11:28
  retrieval.
• 11:29
  Raising
• 11:29
  k
• 11:29
  to
• 11:30
  15
• 11:31
  does
• 11:31
  not
• 11:31
  help
• 11:31
  because
• 11:31
  you
• 11:31
  pull
• 11:32
  in
• 11:32
  six
• 11:32
  chunks
• 11:33
  saying
• 11:33
  the
• 11:33
  wrong
• 11:33
  thing
• 11:33
  against
• 11:34
  one
• 11:34
  saying
• 11:34
  the
• 11:34
  right
• 11:34
  thing.
• 11:35
  A
• 11:35
  reranker
• 11:36
  cannot
• 11:36
  fix
• 11:36
  it
• 11:36
  because
• 11:37
  nothing
• 11:37
  in
• 11:37
  the
• 11:37
  chunk
• 11:37
  text
• 11:38
  indicates
• 11:38
  which
• 11:38
  document
• 11:39
  is
• 11:39
  current.
• 11:39
  The
• 11:40
  composition
• 11:40
  failure
• 11:40
  is
• 11:41
  worse:
• 11:41
  a
• 11:41
  metric
• 11:42
  definition
• 11:42
  spanning
• 11:43
  three
• 11:43
  files
• 11:43
  retrieved
• 11:44
  two
• 11:44
  of
• 11:44
  three,
• 11:45
  then
• 11:45
  answered
• 11:45
  confidently
• 11:46
  with
• 11:46
  citations,
• 11:47
  never
• 11:47
  hinting
• 11:47
  anything
• 11:47
  might
• 11:47
  be
• 11:48
  missing.
• 11:49
  It
• 11:49
  goes
• 11:49
  quiet
• 11:49
  exactly
• 11:49
  when
• 11:50
  it
• 11:50
  is
• 11:50
  most
• 11:50
  dangerous.
• 11:51
  For
• 11:51
  the
• 11:51
  quantitative
• 11:52
  finance
• 11:52
  community,
• 11:53
  a
• 11:53
  curated
• 11:53
  collection
• 11:54
  of
• 11:54
  97
• 11:54
  libraries,
• 11:55
  40-plus
• 11:55
  strategies,
• 11:56
  and
• 11:56
  55
• 11:57
  books
• 11:57
  provides
• 11:58
  a
• 11:58
  comprehensive
• 11:58
  map
• 11:58
  of
• 11:59
  the
• 11:59
  open-source
• 11:59
  systematic
• 12:00
  trading
• 12:00
  ecosystem
• 12:00
  --
• 12:01
  the
• 12:01
  kind
• 12:02
  of
• 12:02
  resource
• 12:02
  that
• 12:02
  signals
• 12:03
  a
• 12:03
  field
• 12:03
  has
• 12:03
  matured
• 12:03
  past
• 12:04
  the
• 12:04
  point
• 12:04
  where
• 12:04
  everyone
• 12:05
  rolls
• 12:05
  their
• 12:05
  own
• 12:05
  from
• 12:05
  scratch.
• 12:08
  Employees
• 12:09
  from
• 12:09
  Anthropic,
• 12:10
  Google
• 12:10
  DeepMind,
• 12:11
  OpenAI,
• 12:12
  and
• 12:12
  Meta
• 12:12
  published
• 12:13
  a
• 12:13
  joint
• 12:13
  letter
• 12:14
  requesting
• 12:14
  that
• 12:14
  the
• 12:14
  U.S.
• 12:15
  government
• 12:15
  support
• 12:16
  an
• 12:16
  international
• 12:16
  effort
• 12:17
  to
• 12:17
  develop
• 12:17
  tools
• 12:18
  for
• 12:18
  deliberately
• 12:18
  pacing
• 12:19
  the
• 12:19
  frontier
• 12:20
  of
• 12:20
  automated
• 12:20
  AI
• 12:20
  development.
• 12:21
  The
• 12:21
  signatories
• 12:22
  include
• 12:22
  co-founders
• 12:23
  and
• 12:23
  chief
• 12:24
  scientists
• 12:24
  --
• 12:25
  Chris
• 12:25
  Olah
• 12:25
  and
• 12:25
  Jared
• 12:25
  Kaplan
• 12:26
  among
• 12:26
  them.
• 12:27
  The
• 12:27
  letter's
• 12:27
  framing
• 12:27
  is
• 12:27
  stark:
• 12:28
  "The
• 12:28
  world
• 12:29
  is
• 12:29
  locked
• 12:29
  in
• 12:29
  a
• 12:29
  deadly
• 12:29
  race
• 12:30
  towards
• 12:30
  an
• 12:30
  intelligence
• 12:31
  explosion,
• 12:32
  where
• 12:32
  AI's
• 12:32
  ability
• 12:32
  to
• 12:33
  create
• 12:33
  better
• 12:33
  AIs
• 12:33
  reaches
• 12:34
  a
• 12:34
  critical
• 12:34
  point,
• 12:35
  just
• 12:35
  like
• 12:35
  a
• 12:35
  runaway
• 12:36
  nuclear
• 12:36
  chain
• 12:36
  reaction."
• 12:37
  The
• 12:38
  practical
• 12:38
  ask
• 12:38
  is
• 12:38
  narrow
• 12:39
  --
• 12:39
  build
• 12:40
  the
• 12:40
  governance
• 12:40
  infrastructure
• 12:41
  before
• 12:41
  you
• 12:41
  need
• 12:41
  it
• 12:41
  --
• 12:42
  but
• 12:42
  the
• 12:42
  subtext
• 12:43
  is
• 12:43
  that
• 12:43
  the
• 12:43
  people
• 12:43
  building
• 12:44
  the
• 12:44
  systems
• 12:44
  believe
• 12:44
  the
• 12:45
  competitive
• 12:45
  dynamics
• 12:45
  of
• 12:46
  their
• 12:46
  own
• 12:46
  industry
• 12:46
  cannot
• 12:47
  self-correct.
• 12:48
  One
• 12:48
  signer
• 12:48
  put
• 12:48
  it
• 12:48
  directly:
• 12:49
  "even
• 12:49
  after
• 12:50
  3
• 12:50
  years
• 12:50
  working
• 12:50
  on
• 12:51
  AI
• 12:51
  capability
• 12:51
  evaluations,
• 12:52
  the
• 12:52
  recent
• 12:53
  pace
• 12:53
  of
• 12:53
  progress
• 12:53
  has
• 12:53
  been
• 12:53
  a
• 12:53
  shock."
• 12:54
  Another
• 12:54
  compared
• 12:55
  it
• 12:55
  to
• 12:55
  splitting
• 12:55
  the
• 12:55
  atom.
• 12:56
  These
• 12:56
  are
• 12:56
  not
• 12:57
  outsiders
• 12:57
  speculating
• 12:57
  about
• 12:58
  risk;
• 12:58
  they
• 12:58
  are
• 12:58
  the
• 12:58
  people
• 12:59
  running
• 12:59
  the
• 12:59
  experiments.
• 13:00
  The
• 13:00
  White
• 13:00
  House's
• 13:01
  OSTP
• 13:01
  published
• 13:02
  "Renewing
• 13:02
  America's
• 13:03
  Scientific
• 13:03
  Enterprise,"
• 13:04
  a
• 13:04
  report
• 13:04
  organized
• 13:04
  around
• 13:05
  four
• 13:05
  goals:
• 13:06
  focus
• 13:06
  on
• 13:06
  the
• 13:06
  individual
• 13:06
  scientist,
• 13:07
  reform
• 13:07
  funding
• 13:08
  mechanisms,
• 13:09
  translate
• 13:09
  research
• 13:09
  into
• 13:10
  industrial
• 13:10
  capacity,
• 13:11
  and
• 13:11
  prepare
• 13:11
  for
• 13:11
  AI's
• 13:12
  impact
• 13:12
  on
• 13:12
  the
• 13:12
  research
• 13:13
  enterprise.
• 13:13
  It
• 13:13
  invokes
• 13:14
  Vannevar
• 13:14
  Bush's
• 13:15
  "Endless
• 13:15
  Frontier"
• 13:16
  and
• 13:16
  confronts
• 13:16
  Eroom's
• 13:17
  Law
• 13:17
  --
• 13:17
  the
• 13:18
  observation
• 13:18
  that
• 13:18
  drug
• 13:18
  development
• 13:19
  costs
• 13:19
  have
• 13:19
  risen
• 13:20
  exponentially
• 13:21
  even
• 13:21
  as
• 13:21
  technology
• 13:21
  has
• 13:22
  advanced.
• 13:23
  The
• 13:23
  Genesis
• 13:23
  Mission
• 13:23
  initiative
• 13:24
  aims
• 13:24
  to
• 13:24
  restructure
• 13:25
  the
• 13:25
  roughly
• 13:25
  $200
• 13:26
  billion
• 13:26
  annual
• 13:27
  federal
• 13:27
  R&D
• 13:28
  portfolio.
• 13:29
  Whether
• 13:29
  this
• 13:29
  report
• 13:29
  survives
• 13:30
  the
• 13:30
  next
• 13:30
  budget
• 13:30
  cycle
• 13:31
  is
• 13:31
  the
• 13:31
  question
• 13:31
  that
• 13:31
  matters;
• 13:32
  the
• 13:32
  ideas
• 13:33
  themselves
• 13:33
  are
• 13:33
  not
• 13:34
  controversial.
• 13:37
  Over
• 13:37
  100,000
• 13:38
  Flock
• 13:38
  Safety
• 13:39
  ALPR
• 13:39
  cameras
• 13:40
  are
• 13:40
  deployed
• 13:40
  across
• 13:40
  the
• 13:41
  United
• 13:41
  States,
• 13:41
  and
• 13:42
  no
• 13:42
  warrant
• 13:42
  is
• 13:42
  needed
• 13:43
  to
• 13:43
  query
• 13:43
  them.
• 13:44
  The
• 13:44
  Fourth
• 13:44
  Amendment
• 13:44
  argument
• 13:45
  --
• 13:45
  no
• 13:45
  reasonable
• 13:46
  expectation
• 13:46
  of
• 13:46
  privacy
• 13:47
  on
• 13:47
  a
• 13:47
  public
• 13:47
  road
• 13:48
  --
• 13:48
  is
• 13:48
  the
• 13:48
  legal
• 13:49
  fig
• 13:49
  leaf,
• 13:49
  but
• 13:49
  the
• 13:50
  operational
• 13:50
  reality
• 13:51
  revealed
• 13:51
  by
• 13:51
  search
• 13:51
  logs
• 13:52
  from
• 13:52
  Wheaton,
• 13:52
  Illinois,
• 13:53
  tells
• 13:53
  a
• 13:53
  different
• 13:54
  story.
• 13:55
  The
• 13:55
  median
• 13:55
  search
• 13:55
  from
• 13:55
  this
• 13:56
  55,000-person
• 13:58
  suburb
• 13:58
  queried
• 13:59
  nearly
• 13:59
  16,500
• 14:00
  cameras
• 14:01
  across
• 14:01
  more
• 14:01
  than
• 14:01
  a
• 14:01
  thousand
• 14:02
  networks.
• 14:03
  One
• 14:03
  in
• 14:03
  eight
• 14:04
  searches
• 14:04
  never
• 14:04
  used
• 14:04
  a
• 14:05
  license
• 14:05
  plate
• 14:05
  at
• 14:05
  all
• 14:05
  --
• 14:06
  officers
• 14:06
  simply
• 14:07
  described
• 14:07
  vehicle
• 14:07
  characteristics.
• 14:09
  That
• 14:09
  is
• 14:09
  not
• 14:09
  a
• 14:09
  plate
• 14:10
  reader;
• 14:10
  that
• 14:10
  is
• 14:11
  a
• 14:11
  nationwide
• 14:11
  AI-enabled
• 14:12
  search
• 14:12
  engine
• 14:12
  running
• 14:13
  on
• 14:13
  the
• 14:13
  honor
• 14:13
  system.
• 14:14
  The
• 14:14
  human
• 14:15
  cost
• 14:15
  is
• 14:15
  documented.
• 14:17
  A
• 14:17
  man
• 14:17
  named
• 14:17
  Robert
• 14:17
  was
• 14:18
  detained
• 14:18
  at
• 14:18
  gunpoint
• 14:19
  in
• 14:19
  Jacksonville
• 14:19
  when
• 14:19
  the
• 14:19
  system
• 14:20
  confused
• 14:20
  an
• 14:20
  O
• 14:20
  for
• 14:21
  a
• 14:21
  zero
• 14:21
  on
• 14:21
  his
• 14:21
  plate.
• 14:22
  Croissanna
• 14:23
  was
• 14:23
  accused
• 14:23
  of
• 14:23
  a
• 14:23
  $25
• 14:24
  package
• 14:25
  theft
• 14:25
  in
• 14:25
  Colline
• 14:25
  Valley
• 14:26
  based
• 14:26
  solely
• 14:27
  on
• 14:27
  her
• 14:27
  truck
• 14:27
  passing
• 14:28
  through
• 14:28
  the
• 14:28
  neighborhood;
• 14:29
  the
• 14:29
  officer
• 14:29
  refused
• 14:30
  to
• 14:30
  show
• 14:30
  her
• 14:30
  the
• 14:30
  evidence
• 14:31
  and
• 14:31
  told
• 14:31
  her
• 14:31
  "we
• 14:31
  have
• 14:32
  cameras
• 14:32
  in
• 14:32
  that
• 14:32
  town
• 14:33
  and
• 14:33
  you
• 14:33
  can't
• 14:33
  get
• 14:33
  a
• 14:33
  breath
• 14:34
  of
• 14:34
  fresh
• 14:34
  air
• 14:34
  in
• 14:34
  or
• 14:34
  out
• 14:35
  of
• 14:35
  that
• 14:35
  place
• 14:35
  without
• 14:35
  us
• 14:35
  knowing."
• 14:37
  The
• 14:37
  actual
• 14:37
  thief,
• 14:38
  visible
• 14:38
  on
• 14:38
  Ring
• 14:38
  camera
• 14:39
  footage,
• 14:39
  bore
• 14:39
  no
• 14:40
  resemblance
• 14:40
  to
• 14:40
  her.
• 14:41
  The
• 14:41
  criminal
• 14:41
  defense
• 14:42
  lawyer
• 14:42
  in
• 14:42
  Houston
• 14:43
  offered
• 14:43
  the
• 14:43
  practitioner's
• 14:44
  perspective:
• 14:45
  Flock
• 14:45
  has
• 14:46
  not
• 14:46
  noticeably
• 14:46
  reduced
• 14:47
  violent
• 14:47
  crime
• 14:47
  in
• 14:47
  his
• 14:48
  experience,
• 14:48
  but
• 14:49
  it
• 14:49
  has
• 14:49
  been
• 14:49
  great
• 14:49
  for
• 14:49
  business.
• 14:51
  There
• 14:51
  is
• 14:51
  no
• 14:51
  independent
• 14:52
  peer-reviewed
• 14:52
  study
• 14:53
  showing
• 14:53
  that
• 14:53
  Flock
• 14:54
  reduces
• 14:54
  crime.
• 14:55
  Flock's
• 14:55
  own
• 14:56
  white
• 14:56
  paper
• 14:56
  admits
• 14:56
  that
• 14:57
  the
• 14:57
  core
• 14:57
  question
• 14:57
  --
• 14:58
  whether
• 14:58
  these
• 14:58
  crimes
• 14:59
  would
• 14:59
  have
• 14:59
  remained
• 14:59
  unsolved
• 15:00
  otherwise
• 15:00
  --
• 15:02
  was
• 15:02
  never
• 15:02
  tested
• 15:02
  and
• 15:03
  "is
• 15:03
  unlikely
• 15:03
  to
• 15:03
  be
• 15:03
  solved
• 15:04
  at
• 15:04
  scale
• 15:04
  via
• 15:05
  quantitative
• 15:05
  analysis."
• 15:06
  Houston
• 15:07
  spent
• 15:07
  $6.39
• 15:08
  million
• 15:08
  over
• 15:09
  four
• 15:09
  years
• 15:10
  on
• 15:10
  these
• 15:10
  cameras
• 15:11
  while
• 15:11
  the
• 15:11
  police
• 15:11
  department
• 15:12
  suspended
• 15:12
  over
• 15:13
  264,000
• 15:14
  case
• 15:14
  reports
• 15:15
  for
• 15:15
  lack
• 15:15
  of
• 15:15
  personnel
• 15:16
  to
• 15:16
  investigate
• 15:16
  them.
• 15:17
  The
• 15:17
  deflocking
• 15:18
  movement
• 15:18
  has
• 15:18
  responded
• 15:19
  with
• 15:19
  vigilantes
• 15:19
  who
• 15:20
  climb
• 15:20
  the
• 15:20
  poles
• 15:20
  to
• 15:20
  tape
• 15:21
  the
• 15:21
  lenses
• 15:21
  and
• 15:21
  clip
• 15:21
  the
• 15:22
  solar
• 15:22
  panel
• 15:22
  cables,
• 15:23
  security
• 15:24
  researchers
• 15:24
  who
• 15:24
  built
• 15:24
  ESP32-based
• 15:26
  WiFi
• 15:27
  detectors
• 15:27
  to
• 15:27
  map
• 15:27
  cameras
• 15:28
  Flock
• 15:28
  tried
• 15:28
  to
• 15:29
  hide,
• 15:29
  and
• 15:29
  a
• 15:30
  Florida
• 15:30
  gubernatorial
• 15:31
  candidate
• 15:31
  running
• 15:31
  on
• 15:31
  a
• 15:31
  platform
• 15:32
  of
• 15:32
  blocking
• 15:32
  taxpayer
• 15:33
  funding
• 15:33
  for
• 15:33
  the
• 15:33
  cameras.
• 15:35
  The
• 15:35
  Flock
• 15:35
  CEO,
• 15:36
  meanwhile,
• 15:37
  changes
• 15:37
  his
• 15:37
  car,
• 15:38
  his
• 15:38
  route,
• 15:39
  and
• 15:39
  his
• 15:39
  plates
• 15:39
  every
• 15:39
  day.