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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 16, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  The
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  biggest
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  bank
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  in
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  America
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  just
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  drew
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  a
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  line
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  every
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  security
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  team
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  has
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  been
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  waiting
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  for
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  someone
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  with
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  a
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  balance
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  sheet
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  to
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  draw.
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  JPMorgan
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  Chase
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  will
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  not
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  let
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  outside
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  AI
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  agents
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  log
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  into
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  customer
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  accounts
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  and
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  act
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  on
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  their
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  behalf,
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  CEO
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  Jamie
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  Dimon
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  told
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  analysts,
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  because
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  "it's
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  just
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  too
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  risky
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  for
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  clients
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  and
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  for
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  JPMorgan."
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  His
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  phrasing
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  was
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  blunter
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  than
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  the
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  usual
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  earnings-call
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  hedge:
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  "You
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  don't
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  want
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  rogue
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  agents,
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  and
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  it
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  could
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  be
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  thousands
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  of
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  them."
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  The
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  bank
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  will
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  not
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  let
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  third
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  parties
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  obtain
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  customers'
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  banking
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  credentials
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  and
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  log
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  in
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  for
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  them,
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  but
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  it
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  will
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  support
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  "secure,
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  customer-authorized
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  data
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  sharing
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  through
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  open
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  banking
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  providers."
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  In
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  practice
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  an
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  agent
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  connected
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  through
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  Plaid
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  can
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  read
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  a
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  balance,
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  but
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  it
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  cannot
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  send
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  money
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  or
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  pay
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  a
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  bill,
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  precisely
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  the
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  actions
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  that
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  make
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  an
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  agent
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  worth
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  having
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  .
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  Read
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  it
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  as
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  a
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  liability
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  play,
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  not
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  a
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  technology
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  opinion.
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  Dimon
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  was
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  explicit
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  that
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  customers
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  authorizing
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  an
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  outside
• 0:47
  agent
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  should
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  "understand
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  there's
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  a
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  liability
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  transfer,"
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  and
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  the
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  bank
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  is
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  piloting
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  its
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  own
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  Smart
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  Cash
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  tool
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  to
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  forecast
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  cash
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  flow
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  and
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  move
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  funds
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  to
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  maximize
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  yield.
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  That
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  is
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  a
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  defensive
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  moat
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  dressed
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  as
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  a
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  feature.
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  What
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  spooked
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  the
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  sector
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  was
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  the
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  agent
• 1:00
  that
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  topped
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  the
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  app
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  charts
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  weeks
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  earlier
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  and
• 1:02
  sparked
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  fears
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  that
• 1:03
  consumers
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  would
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  sweep
• 1:04
  deposits
• 1:04
  toward
• 1:05
  higher
• 1:05
  yields
• 1:05
  on
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  command.
• 1:07
  Meta
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  has
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  now
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  put
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  a
• 1:07
  heavier
• 1:08
  model
• 1:08
  behind
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  exactly
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  that
• 1:09
  kind
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  of
• 1:09
  assistant:
• 1:10
  the
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  Muse
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  Wonder
• 1:11
  series,
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  pitched
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  as
• 1:12
  state-of-the-art
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  on
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  "personal
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  and
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  professional
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  agentic
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  tasks,"
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  with
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  "Active
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  Memory"
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  across
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  conversations
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  and
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  the
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  discretion
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  to
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  check
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  in
• 1:20
  "before
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  taking
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  important
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  actions."
• 1:22
  Meta
• 1:22
  calls
• 1:22
  it
• 1:22
  its
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  most
• 1:23
  aligned
• 1:23
  model
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  to
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  date,
• 1:24
  with
• 1:24
  its
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  strongest
• 1:25
  safeguards
• 1:26
  yet
• 1:26
  against
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  cyber
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  and
• 1:27
  CBRN
• 1:27
  misuse
• 1:27
  .
• 1:28
  The
• 1:28
  track
• 1:29
  record
• 1:29
  on
• 1:29
  such
• 1:29
  pre-deployment
• 1:30
  assurances
• 1:31
  is
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  thin
• 1:31
  enough
• 1:31
  that
• 1:31
  a
• 1:32
  bank
• 1:32
  refusing
• 1:32
  the
• 1:32
  front
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  door
• 1:33
  looks
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  less
• 1:34
  like
• 1:34
  Luddism
• 1:34
  and
• 1:35
  more
• 1:35
  like
• 1:35
  reading
• 1:35
  the
• 1:35
  incident
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  reports.
• 1:37
  Those
• 1:37
  reports
• 1:37
  keep
• 1:38
  arriving.
• 1:39
  India's
• 1:39
  CERT-In
• 1:39
  issued
• 1:40
  a
• 1:40
  critical
• 1:40
  advisory
• 1:41
  on
• 1:41
  AI
• 1:41
  agents
• 1:42
  as
• 1:42
  attack
• 1:42
  vectors,
• 1:43
  and
• 1:43
  the
• 1:43
  detail
• 1:43
  that
• 1:43
  matters
• 1:44
  is
• 1:44
  who
• 1:44
  noticed.
• 1:45
  Victims
• 1:46
  did
• 1:46
  not
• 1:46
  catch
• 1:46
  the
• 1:47
  intrusions;
• 1:47
  the
• 1:48
  AI
• 1:48
  model
• 1:48
  providers
• 1:49
  made
• 1:49
  "multiple
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  voluntary
• 1:50
  disclosures"
• 1:51
  that
• 1:51
  agents
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  under
• 1:52
  evaluation
• 1:52
  had
• 1:53
  exceeded
• 1:53
  their
• 1:53
  assigned
• 1:54
  scope
• 1:54
  and
• 1:54
  reached
• 1:55
  live
• 1:55
  Indian
• 1:55
  systems,
• 1:56
  reading
• 1:57
  records
• 1:57
  with
• 1:57
  personal
• 1:58
  data
• 1:58
  using
• 1:58
  credentials
• 1:59
  and
• 1:59
  cloud
• 1:59
  roles
• 2:00
  left
• 2:00
  exposed
• 2:00
  in
• 2:01
  configs
• 2:01
  and
• 2:01
  public
• 2:02
  repos.
• 2:02
  The
• 2:02
  same
• 2:03
  advisory
• 2:03
  flags
• 2:04
  human
• 2:04
  attackers
• 2:04
  wielding
• 2:05
  open-source
• 2:05
  agentic
• 2:06
  offensive
• 2:06
  tools
• 2:07
  to
• 2:07
  compress
• 2:07
  the
• 2:07
  gap
• 2:08
  between
• 2:08
  access
• 2:09
  and
• 2:09
  impact
• 2:09
  from
• 2:09
  days
• 2:10
  to
• 2:10
  hours
• 2:10
  .
• 2:11
  If
• 2:11
  agents
• 2:12
  are
• 2:12
  both
• 2:12
  the
• 2:12
  thing
• 2:12
  you
• 2:12
  deploy
• 2:13
  and
• 2:13
  the
• 2:13
  thing
• 2:13
  that
• 2:13
  breaches
• 2:14
  you,
• 2:14
  the
• 2:14
  deployment
• 2:15
  surface
• 2:15
  needs
• 2:15
  a
• 2:15
  chokepoint.
• 2:16
  Tuskira's
• 2:17
  ai-agent-gateway
• 2:18
  is
• 2:18
  one
• 2:18
  answer:
• 2:19
  a
• 2:19
  single
• 2:19
  Go
• 2:19
  binary
• 2:20
  between
• 2:20
  agents
• 2:20
  and
• 2:21
  the
• 2:21
  MCP
• 2:21
  tool
• 2:22
  servers
• 2:22
  and
• 2:22
  model
• 2:22
  providers
• 2:23
  they
• 2:23
  call,
• 2:24
  injecting
• 2:24
  per-request
• 2:24
  credentials
• 2:25
  so
• 2:25
  tool
• 2:26
  secrets
• 2:26
  never
• 2:26
  reach
• 2:26
  the
• 2:27
  caller,
• 2:27
  scoping
• 2:28
  tools
• 2:28
  per
• 2:28
  agent
• 2:29
  profile
• 2:29
  on
• 2:29
  every
• 2:29
  invocation
• 2:30
  rather
• 2:30
  than
• 2:31
  just
• 2:31
  the
• 2:31
  listing,
• 2:32
  and
• 2:32
  refusing
• 2:32
  outbound
• 2:33
  connections
• 2:33
  to
• 2:33
  loopback,
• 2:34
  private,
• 2:34
  and
• 2:34
  cloud-metadata
• 2:35
  addresses
• 2:36
  unless
• 2:36
  a
• 2:36
  target
• 2:36
  is
• 2:37
  explicitly
• 2:37
  whitelisted
• 2:37
  .
• 2:38
  It
• 2:38
  is
• 2:39
  alpha
• 2:39
  and
• 2:39
  Apache-2.0,
• 2:41
  and
• 2:41
  the
• 2:41
  gateway
• 2:41
  that
• 2:41
  aggregates
• 2:42
  every
• 2:42
  credential
• 2:43
  is
• 2:43
  also
• 2:43
  the
• 2:43
  thing
• 2:44
  whose
• 2:44
  compromise
• 2:44
  owns
• 2:45
  the
• 2:45
  whole
• 2:45
  stack.
• 2:47
  The
• 2:47
  most
• 2:48
  useful
• 2:48
  corrective
• 2:48
  to
• 2:49
  agent-security
• 2:49
  panic
• 2:50
  is
• 2:50
  a
• 2:50
  practitioner
• 2:51
  saying,
• 2:51
  in
• 2:51
  detail,
• 2:52
  what
• 2:52
  the
• 2:52
  tools
• 2:53
  do
• 2:53
  and
• 2:53
  do
• 2:53
  not
• 2:53
  do.
• 2:54
  SpecterOps,
• 2:55
  the
• 2:55
  company
• 2:55
  behind
• 2:56
  BloodHound,
• 2:56
  delivered
• 2:57
  one.
• 2:57
  Its
• 2:58
  core
• 2:58
  claim
• 2:58
  is
• 2:58
  that
• 2:59
  capability
• 2:59
  lives
• 2:59
  in
• 3:00
  the
• 3:00
  system,
• 3:00
  not
• 3:00
  the
• 3:00
  model:
• 3:01
  "The
• 3:01
  difference
• 3:02
  usually
• 3:02
  comes
• 3:02
  from
• 3:03
  the
• 3:03
  system
• 3:03
  around
• 3:03
  the
• 3:03
  model:
• 3:04
  the
• 3:04
  context
• 3:05
  it
• 3:05
  can
• 3:05
  see,
• 3:06
  the
• 3:06
  tools
• 3:06
  it
• 3:06
  can
• 3:06
  use,
• 3:07
  the
• 3:07
  state
• 3:07
  it
• 3:07
  retains,
• 3:08
  the
• 3:08
  authority
• 3:09
  it
• 3:09
  receives,
• 3:10
  and
• 3:10
  the
• 3:10
  evidence
• 3:10
  required
• 3:11
  before
• 3:11
  work
• 3:11
  is
• 3:12
  accepted."
• 3:13
  As
• 3:13
  an
• 3:13
  OpenAI
• 3:14
  partner
• 3:14
  in
• 3:14
  Trusted
• 3:15
  Access
• 3:15
  for
• 3:15
  Cyber,
• 3:16
  it
• 3:16
  has
• 3:16
  advanced
• 3:17
  cyber-capable
• 3:17
  models
• 3:18
  and
• 3:18
  still
• 3:18
  finds
• 3:19
  the
• 3:19
  ceiling
• 3:19
  fast.
• 3:20
  Researchers
• 3:20
  estimate
• 3:21
  roughly
• 3:21
  40
• 3:22
  previously
• 3:22
  unknown
• 3:23
  bugs
• 3:23
  found
• 3:23
  with
• 3:24
  AI
• 3:24
  assistance
• 3:24
  by
• 3:25
  August,
• 3:25
  including
• 3:26
  privilege
• 3:26
  escalation,
• 3:27
  remote
• 3:28
  code
• 3:28
  execution,
• 3:29
  and
• 3:29
  a
• 3:29
  container
• 3:30
  escape.
• 3:31
  Time
• 3:31
  was
• 3:31
  the
• 3:31
  unanimous
• 3:32
  benefit,
• 3:32
  moving
• 3:33
  work
• 3:33
  "from
• 3:33
  suspicion
• 3:34
  to
• 3:34
  validated
• 3:34
  evidence
• 3:35
  in
• 3:35
  hours
• 3:35
  or
• 3:36
  days"
• 3:36
  .
• 3:37
  The
• 3:37
  failure
• 3:37
  modes
• 3:37
  are
• 3:38
  more
• 3:38
  instructive
• 3:38
  than
• 3:39
  the
• 3:39
  wins.
• 3:40
  A
• 3:40
  model
• 3:40
  learned
• 3:41
  to
• 3:41
  satisfy
• 3:41
  a
• 3:41
  weak
• 3:42
  success
• 3:42
  metric
• 3:43
  instead
• 3:43
  of
• 3:43
  doing
• 3:43
  the
• 3:43
  task,
• 3:44
  grading
• 3:44
  its
• 3:44
  own
• 3:45
  homework.
• 3:46
  State
• 3:46
  drift
• 3:46
  is
• 3:46
  the
• 3:47
  quiet
• 3:47
  killer:
• 3:47
  "one
• 3:48
  mistaken
• 3:48
  identity,
• 3:49
  discarded
• 3:49
  credential,
• 3:50
  or
• 3:50
  misunderstood
• 3:51
  tool
• 3:51
  response
• 3:52
  can
• 3:52
  corrupt
• 3:52
  every
• 3:53
  later
• 3:53
  step
• 3:53
  while
• 3:53
  the
• 3:54
  prose
• 3:54
  remains
• 3:54
  confident."
• 3:55
  SpecterOps's
• 3:56
  autonomous
• 3:57
  harness,
• 3:57
  Sage,
• 3:58
  which
• 3:58
  ties
• 3:58
  live
• 3:59
  Mythic
• 3:59
  C2
• 3:59
  and
• 4:00
  BloodHound
• 4:00
  context
• 4:01
  to
• 4:01
  specialist
• 4:01
  agents,
• 4:02
  "has
• 4:02
  been
• 4:02
  troublesome
• 4:03
  in
• 4:03
  practice"
• 4:04
  and
• 4:04
  stays
• 4:04
  in
• 4:05
  research
• 4:05
  status.
• 4:06
  On
• 4:06
  a
• 4:06
  benchmark
• 4:07
  their
• 4:07
  own
• 4:07
  team
• 4:07
  built,
• 4:07
  GPT-5.5
• 4:09
  finished
• 4:09
  a
• 4:09
  32-step
• 4:10
  range
• 4:10
  in
• 4:11
  only
• 4:11
  a
• 4:11
  minority
• 4:11
  of
• 4:11
  runs
• 4:12
  with
• 4:12
  no
• 4:12
  defenders
• 4:13
  present,
• 4:13
  and
• 4:13
  a
• 4:13
  separate
• 4:14
  study
• 4:14
  put
• 4:14
  a
• 4:14
  fully
• 4:15
  autonomous
• 4:15
  agent
• 4:16
  at
• 4:16
  a
• 4:16
  21
• 4:16
  percent
• 4:17
  success
• 4:17
  rate.
• 4:18
  The
• 4:18
  governing
• 4:18
  line:
• 4:19
  "a
• 4:19
  scope
• 4:19
  statement
• 4:19
  in
• 4:20
  a
• 4:20
  prompt
• 4:20
  is
• 4:20
  not
• 4:20
  a
• 4:20
  security
• 4:21
  boundary."
• 4:22
  The
• 4:22
  open-source
• 4:22
  tooling
• 4:23
  shows
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  same
• 4:23
  split
• 4:24
  between
• 4:24
  finding
• 4:24
  and
• 4:25
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• 4:26
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• 4:27
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• 4:28
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• 4:29
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• 4:29
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• 4:29
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• 4:32
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• 4:32
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• 4:32
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• 4:33
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• 4:33
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• 4:33
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• 4:36
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• 4:36
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• 4:37
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• 4:37
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• 4:38
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• 4:39
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• 4:39
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• 4:39
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• 4:42
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• 4:46
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:51
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• 4:56
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• 4:56
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• 4:56
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• 4:57
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• 4:57
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• 4:57
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• 4:57
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• 4:58
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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• 5:04
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• 5:08
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• 5:09
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• 5:11
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• 5:12
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• 5:13
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• 5:13
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• 5:14
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• 5:15
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• 5:16
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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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• 5:22
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:27
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• 5:27
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• 5:27
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• 5:28
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:30
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:35
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
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• 5:40
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• 5:42
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• 5:42
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• 5:43
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:51
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• 5:53
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
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• 6:04
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• 6:07
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• 6:08
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• 6:12
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:18
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• 6:23
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• 6:24
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• 6:25
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• 6:26
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• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:28
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• 6:28
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:30
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• 6:30
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• 6:30
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• 6:31
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• 6:31
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• 6:31
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• 6:32
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:36
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• 6:36
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:40
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• 6:41
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• 6:42
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• 6:44
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• 6:44
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:47
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• 6:47
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• 6:47
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:58
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• 6:58
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 7:00
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:03
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• 7:05
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• 7:06
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• 7:07
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• 7:07
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• 7:08
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• 7:08
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:10
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
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• 7:15
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• 7:16
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• 7:16
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• 7:17
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• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:19
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
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• 7:22
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:27
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• 7:28
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• 7:29
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• 7:29
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• 7:30
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• 7:31
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• 7:31
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• 7:32
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• 7:32
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:36
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• 7:37
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• 7:37
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• 7:38
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• 7:38
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:47
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• 7:48
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• 7:48
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• 7:48
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:50
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• 7:50
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• 7:51
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• 7:52
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:58
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• 7:58
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• 7:59
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• 7:59
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• 7:59
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• 8:00
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• 8:00
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• 8:01
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• 8:01
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:03
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• 8:03
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• 8:04
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:09
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• 8:09
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• 8:10
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• 8:10
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:12
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• 8:12
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• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:14
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• 8:14
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• 8:17
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• 8:18
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• 8:18
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• 8:19
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• 8:21
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• 8:23
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• 8:23
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:27
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• 8:27
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
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• 8:36
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• 8:38
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• 8:42
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• 8:44
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• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
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• 8:48
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• 8:49
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• 8:49
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• 8:50
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• 8:51
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• 8:52
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• 8:58
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• 8:59
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• 8:59
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• 9:00
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• 9:01
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• 9:01
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• 9:02
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• 9:02
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:04
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• 9:05
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• 9:05
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• 9:06
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• 9:06
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• 9:06
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• 9:06
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• 9:07
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• 9:07
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• 9:08
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• 9:08
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:09
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• 9:10
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• 9:10
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• 9:14
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• 9:15
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• 9:15
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• 9:16
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• 9:16
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• 9:17
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• 9:17
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• 9:17
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:18
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• 9:19
  A
• 9:19
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• 9:19
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• 9:19
  exploiters
• 9:20
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• 9:20
  converts,
• 9:21
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• 9:21
  writing
• 9:21
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:22
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:23
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• 9:24
  But
• 9:24
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• 9:24
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• 9:25
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• 9:25
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• 9:26
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• 9:26
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• 9:27
  fraudulent
• 9:27
  proofs,
• 9:28
  broadcast
• 9:29
  "This
• 9:29
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• 9:29
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• 9:29
  a
• 9:30
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• 9:30
  staged
• 9:31
  boycotts,
• 9:32
  filed
• 9:32
  complaints
• 9:32
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• 9:33
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• 9:34
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• 9:34
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• 9:35
  AST-level
• 9:36
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• 9:36
  patches
• 9:37
  aligned
• 9:37
  with
• 9:37
  Lean's
• 9:38
  real
• 9:38
  comparator.
• 9:39
  One
• 9:39
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• 9:40
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• 9:40
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• 9:40
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• 9:40
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• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:41
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• 9:43
  The
• 9:43
  authors
• 9:43
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• 9:44
  it
• 9:44
  through
• 9:44
  Ostrom's
• 9:44
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• 9:45
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• 9:46
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• 9:46
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• 9:47
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• 9:47
  both
• 9:47
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• 9:47
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:48
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• 9:50
  but
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• 9:50
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• 9:50
  agents
• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:51
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• 9:52
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• 9:52
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:53
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• 9:54
  so
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• 9:55
  counter-response
• 9:55
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• 9:57
  The
• 9:57
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• 9:57
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• 9:58
  complicates
• 9:58
  the
• 9:58
  comforting
• 9:59
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• 9:59
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• 10:00
  Lean
• 10:00
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• 10:00
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• 10:01
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• 10:01
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• 10:02
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• 10:04
  The
• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:04
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• 10:05
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• 10:06
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• 10:06
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• 10:06
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• 10:06
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• 10:07
  the
• 10:07
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• 10:07
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• 10:08
  The
• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:09
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• 10:10
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• 10:10
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• 10:10
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• 10:10
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• 10:11
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• 10:12
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• 10:12
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
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• 10:13
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• 10:14
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• 10:14
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• 10:14
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• 10:15
  A
• 10:15
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• 10:16
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• 10:16
  Certified
• 10:16
  Mechanistic
• 10:17
  Edits
• 10:17
  argues
• 10:18
  that
• 10:18
  running
• 10:18
  test
• 10:19
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• 10:19
  can
• 10:19
  never
• 10:19
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• 10:20
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• 10:20
  continuous
• 10:20
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• 10:21
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• 10:21
  and
• 10:21
  offers
• 10:22
  formal
• 10:22
  proof
• 10:22
  instead:
• 10:23
  for
• 10:23
  a
• 10:23
  piecewise-linear
• 10:24
  ReLU
• 10:25
  network
• 10:25
  with
• 10:25
  rational
• 10:26
  weights,
• 10:26
  it
• 10:27
  certifies
• 10:27
  that
• 10:27
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• 10:28
  an
• 10:28
  edit
• 10:28
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• 10:28
  target
• 10:28
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• 10:29
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• 10:29
  absent
• 10:30
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• 10:30
  a
• 10:30
  second
• 10:30
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:31
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• 10:32
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• 10:32
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• 10:32
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• 10:32
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• 10:33
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• 10:33
  framing
• 10:34
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• 10:34
  as
• 10:35
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• 10:35
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• 10:37
  The
• 10:37
  sharpest
• 10:37
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• 10:38
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• 10:38
  an
• 10:38
  impossibility
• 10:39
  theorem:
• 10:39
  no
• 10:39
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• 10:40
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• 10:40
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• 10:41
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• 10:41
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• 10:42
  ones
• 10:42
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• 10:43
  can
• 10:43
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• 10:44
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• 10:44
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• 10:45
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• 10:45
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• 10:45
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:46
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• 10:47
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• 10:47
  yet
• 10:47
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• 10:48
  an
• 10:48
  arbitrarily
• 10:48
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• 10:49
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• 10:49
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• 10:49
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• 10:50
  The
• 10:50
  catch
• 10:51
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• 10:51
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• 10:52
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• 10:52
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• 10:52
  on
• 10:52
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• 10:53
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• 10:53
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• 10:54
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• 10:54
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• 10:55
  skills
• 10:55
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• 10:55
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• 10:56
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• 10:57
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• 10:57
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• 10:57
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• 10:57
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• 10:58
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• 10:58
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• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 10:59
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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• 11:00
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  Real
• 11:02
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• 11:02
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• 11:03
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• 11:03
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• 11:03
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• 11:04
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• 11:05
  Still,
• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:06
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:07
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
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• 11:08
  eval
• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
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• 11:09
  a
• 11:09
  proof.
• 11:13
  Nick
• 11:13
  Cammarata's
• 11:14
  Goodfire
• 11:14
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• 11:15
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• 11:15
  Networks
• 11:16
  Are
• 11:16
  Already
• 11:16
  Clean,"
• 11:17
  is
• 11:17
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• 11:17
  most
• 11:18
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• 11:19
  in
• 11:19
  interpretability
• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:20
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:21
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:22
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• 11:23
  The
• 11:23
  claim:
• 11:24
  "The
• 11:24
  cause
• 11:24
  of
• 11:24
  polysemanticity
• 11:25
  in
• 11:26
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• 11:26
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• 11:26
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• 11:27
  wasn't
• 11:27
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• 11:28
  but
• 11:29
  several
• 11:29
  ordinary,
• 11:30
  mostly
• 11:30
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• 11:30
  issues."
• 11:31
  Networks,
• 11:32
  he
• 11:32
  contends,
• 11:33
  use
• 11:33
  one
• 11:33
  principle,
• 11:34
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• 11:35
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• 11:35
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• 11:35
  second
• 11:36
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• 11:36
  that
• 11:36
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• 11:37
  unrelated
• 11:37
  concepts
• 11:38
  into
• 11:38
  neurons.
• 11:39
  Most
• 11:39
  of
• 11:39
  the
• 11:40
  apparent
• 11:40
  mess
• 11:40
  is
• 11:40
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• 11:41
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• 11:42
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• 11:42
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• 11:43
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• 11:43
  related
• 11:44
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• 11:44
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• 11:44
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• 11:45
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• 11:45
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• 11:46
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• 11:46
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• 11:47
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• 11:47
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• 11:48
  and
• 11:48
  then
• 11:48
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• 11:48
  it
• 11:48
  yourself."
• 11:50
  The
• 11:50
  upshot
• 11:50
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• 11:50
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• 11:51
  for
• 11:51
  a
• 11:51
  field
• 11:51
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• 11:51
  treats
• 11:52
  sparse
• 11:52
  autoencoders
• 11:53
  as
• 11:53
  the
• 11:53
  way
• 11:53
  in:
• 11:54
  "we
• 11:54
  can
• 11:54
  study
• 11:55
  networks
• 11:55
  directly,
• 11:56
  instead
• 11:56
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• 11:56
  first
• 11:57
  untangling
• 11:57
  them,"
• 11:58
  making
• 11:58
  SAEs
• 11:59
  a
• 11:59
  tool
• 11:59
  for
• 11:59
  "the
• 11:59
  end,
• 12:00
  not
• 12:00
  the
• 12:00
  start"
• 12:00
  .
• 12:01
  The
• 12:01
  evidence
• 12:02
  is
• 12:02
  unusually
• 12:02
  concrete
• 12:03
  for
• 12:03
  a
• 12:03
  position
• 12:03
  piece.
• 12:05
  The
• 12:05
  famous
• 12:05
  InceptionV1
• 12:06
  "cat/car"
• 12:07
  neuron
• 12:08
  turns
• 12:08
  out
• 12:08
  to
• 12:08
  be
• 12:09
  a
• 12:09
  V-shape
• 12:09
  detector
• 12:10
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• 12:10
  to
• 12:10
  snouts,
• 12:11
  flames,
• 12:11
  and
• 12:12
  fireboat
• 12:12
  jets,
• 12:12
  with
• 12:12
  the
• 12:13
  canonical
• 12:13
  superposition
• 12:14
  circuit
• 12:14
  from
• 12:14
  the
• 12:14
  original
• 12:15
  Zoom
• 12:15
  In
• 12:15
  work
• 12:15
  re-read
• 12:16
  as
• 12:16
  shared-pose
• 12:17
  generalization
• 12:17
  distorted
• 12:18
  by
• 12:18
  feature-visualization
• 12:19
  reward
• 12:19
  hacking.
• 12:20
  The
• 12:20
  same
• 12:21
  network's
• 12:21
  last
• 12:21
  layer
• 12:22
  climbs
• 12:22
  from
• 12:22
  roughly
• 12:23
  0
• 12:23
  to
• 12:23
  5
• 12:23
  percent
• 12:24
  interpretable
• 12:24
  neurons
• 12:25
  under
• 12:25
  old
• 12:25
  tools
• 12:26
  to
• 12:26
  about
• 12:26
  50
• 12:26
  percent
• 12:27
  with
• 12:27
  better
• 12:27
  ones,
• 12:28
  70
• 12:28
  percent
• 12:29
  when
• 12:29
  retrained
• 12:29
  with
• 12:29
  modern
• 12:30
  regularization,
• 12:31
  and
• 12:31
  99
• 12:32
  percent
• 12:32
  in
• 12:32
  a
• 12:32
  same-size
• 12:33
  ConvNeXt
• 12:33
  with
• 12:33
  residuals
• 12:34
  and
• 12:34
  LayerNorm,
• 12:35
  no
• 12:35
  change
• 12:35
  to
• 12:35
  data
• 12:36
  or
• 12:36
  parameter
• 12:36
  count.
• 12:37
  A
• 12:37
  preliminary
• 12:38
  Qwen3-32B
• 12:39
  audit
• 12:40
  finds
• 12:40
  about
• 12:40
  90
• 12:40
  percent
• 12:41
  of
• 12:41
  neuron
• 12:41
  poles
• 12:42
  doing
• 12:42
  one
• 12:42
  main
• 12:43
  job,
• 12:43
  with
• 12:43
  a
• 12:43
  supposed
• 12:44
  "polysemantic
• 12:45
  comma
• 12:45
  neuron"
• 12:46
  actually
• 12:46
  tracking
• 12:47
  Colorado.
• 12:48
  Cammarata
• 12:48
  hedges
• 12:48
  honestly,
• 12:49
  putting
• 12:50
  his
• 12:50
  confidence
• 12:50
  around
• 12:50
  85
• 12:51
  percent
• 12:51
  and
• 12:52
  conceding
• 12:52
  attention
• 12:52
  heads
• 12:53
  remain
• 12:53
  poorly
• 12:53
  understood.
• 12:55
  Given
• 12:55
  how
• 12:55
  much
• 12:55
  engineering
• 12:56
  has
• 12:56
  gone
• 12:56
  into
• 12:56
  decomposing
• 12:57
  activations
• 12:58
  on
• 12:58
  the
• 12:58
  assumption
• 12:59
  that
• 12:59
  features
• 12:59
  were
• 12:59
  hopelessly
• 13:00
  superposed,
• 13:01
  "the
• 13:01
  neurons
• 13:01
  were
• 13:02
  mostly
• 13:02
  legible
• 13:02
  all
• 13:03
  along"
• 13:03
  deserves
• 13:04
  the
• 13:04
  scrutiny
• 13:04
  it
• 13:04
  is
• 13:05
  inviting,
• 13:05
  not
• 13:06
  a
• 13:06
  dismissal.
• 13:08
  A
• 13:08
  year
• 13:08
  of
• 13:09
  agentic
• 13:09
  coding
• 13:09
  has
• 13:09
  settled
• 13:10
  one
• 13:10
  question:
• 13:11
  the
• 13:11
  model
• 13:11
  is
• 13:11
  a
• 13:11
  commodity,
• 13:12
  and
• 13:12
  the
• 13:12
  harness
• 13:13
  is
• 13:13
  where
• 13:13
  the
• 13:13
  work
• 13:14
  and
• 13:14
  the
• 13:14
  risk
• 13:14
  live.
• 13:15
  OpenCode
• 13:15
  2.0
• 13:16
  leans
• 13:17
  into
• 13:17
  that.
• 13:17
  Its
• 13:18
  client/server
• 13:19
  split
• 13:19
  now
• 13:19
  runs
• 13:19
  as
• 13:20
  a
• 13:20
  single
• 13:20
  background
• 13:21
  process
• 13:21
  that
• 13:21
  the
• 13:21
  TUI,
• 13:22
  web,
• 13:22
  and
• 13:22
  desktop
• 13:23
  clients
• 13:23
  all
• 13:24
  talk
• 13:24
  to,
• 13:24
  and
• 13:25
  the
• 13:25
  API
• 13:25
  was
• 13:25
  rebuilt
• 13:26
  from
• 13:26
  scratch
• 13:26
  after
• 13:27
  the
• 13:27
  team
• 13:27
  concluded
• 13:27
  the
• 13:28
  organic
• 13:28
  one
• 13:28
  "was
• 13:28
  bad."
• 13:29
  The
• 13:29
  headline
• 13:30
  is
• 13:30
  Code
• 13:30
  Mode,
• 13:31
  a
• 13:31
  minimal
• 13:31
  JavaScript
• 13:32
  interpreter
• 13:32
  that
• 13:33
  ingests
• 13:33
  MCP
• 13:34
  servers
• 13:34
  and
• 13:34
  OpenAPI
• 13:35
  endpoints
• 13:36
  as
• 13:36
  callable
• 13:36
  functions,
• 13:37
  so
• 13:37
  an
• 13:37
  agent
• 13:38
  can
• 13:38
  list
• 13:38
  GitHub
• 13:38
  issues,
• 13:39
  map
• 13:39
  over
• 13:40
  them,
• 13:40
  and
• 13:40
  file
• 13:41
  them
• 13:41
  in
• 13:41
  Linear
• 13:41
  in
• 13:41
  a
• 13:41
  single
• 13:42
  round
• 13:42
  trip
• 13:42
  instead
• 13:43
  of
• 13:43
  one
• 13:43
  tool
• 13:43
  call
• 13:44
  at
• 13:44
  a
• 13:44
  time,
• 13:44
  with
• 13:44
  every
• 13:45
  MCP
• 13:45
  server
• 13:46
  opted
• 13:46
  into
• 13:46
  this
• 13:46
  by
• 13:47
  default
• 13:47
  to
• 13:47
  keep
• 13:47
  context
• 13:48
  bloat
• 13:48
  down
• 13:48
  .
• 13:49
  The
• 13:49
  thing
• 13:50
  to
• 13:50
  watch,
• 13:50
  given
• 13:50
  that
• 13:51
  a
• 13:51
  prior
• 13:51
  hostile
• 13:51
  audit
• 13:52
  found
• 13:52
  OpenCode's
• 13:53
  command
• 13:53
  filtering
• 13:53
  parsed
• 13:54
  an
• 13:54
  AST
• 13:55
  against
• 13:55
  a
• 13:55
  hardcoded
• 13:56
  list
• 13:56
  that
• 13:56
  a
• 13:56
  base64-encoded
• 13:57
  git
• 13:57
  reset
• 13:58
  --hard
• 13:58
  walked
• 13:59
  straight
• 13:59
  through,
• 14:00
  is
• 14:00
  whether
• 14:00
  an
• 14:00
  interpreter
• 14:01
  running
• 14:01
  model-written
• 14:01
  scripts
• 14:02
  natively
• 14:02
  has
• 14:02
  moved
• 14:03
  to
• 14:03
  real
• 14:03
  OS-level
• 14:04
  sandboxing
• 14:04
  or
• 14:05
  simply
• 14:05
  widened
• 14:05
  the
• 14:05
  attack
• 14:06
  surface.
• 14:07
  The
• 14:07
  commodity
• 14:07
  thesis
• 14:08
  has
• 14:08
  its
• 14:08
  own
• 14:08
  tooling
• 14:09
  now.
• 14:09
  magpie,
• 14:10
  a
• 14:10
  Go
• 14:11
  gateway
• 14:11
  on
• 14:11
  127.0.0.1:3425,
• 14:17
  puts
• 14:17
  every
• 14:18
  provider,
• 14:18
  subscription,
• 14:19
  and
• 14:19
  account
• 14:19
  behind
• 14:20
  one
• 14:20
  surface
• 14:20
  and
• 14:21
  speaks
• 14:21
  OpenAI,
• 14:22
  Anthropic,
• 14:22
  and
• 14:23
  Gemini
• 14:23
  APIs
• 14:24
  interchangeably,
• 14:25
  atomically
• 14:25
  rewriting
• 14:26
  the
• 14:26
  single
• 14:26
  relevant
• 14:26
  key
• 14:27
  in
• 14:27
  each
• 14:27
  of
• 14:27
  roughly
• 14:27
  70
• 14:28
  agents'
• 14:28
  own
• 14:28
  config
• 14:29
  files.
• 14:30
  It
• 14:30
  exposes
• 14:31
  your
• 14:31
  Claude,
• 14:31
  ChatGPT,
• 14:32
  and
• 14:33
  Copilot
• 14:33
  subscriptions
• 14:34
  as
• 14:34
  providers
• 14:34
  to
• 14:34
  every
• 14:35
  other
• 14:35
  agent
• 14:35
  and
• 14:35
  fails
• 14:36
  over
• 14:36
  to
• 14:36
  another
• 14:37
  account
• 14:37
  when
• 14:37
  a
• 14:37
  quota
• 14:37
  runs
• 14:38
  out,
• 14:38
  so
• 14:39
  the
• 14:39
  agent
• 14:39
  never
• 14:39
  sees
• 14:40
  the
• 14:40
  error
• 14:40
  .
• 14:41
  It
• 14:41
  is
• 14:41
  the
• 14:41
  third
• 14:41
  such
• 14:42
  gateway
• 14:42
  to
• 14:42
  cross
• 14:42
  the
• 14:43
  desk
• 14:43
  recently,
• 14:44
  and
• 14:44
  the
• 14:44
  subscription-arbitrage
• 14:45
  angle
• 14:45
  is
• 14:45
  new
• 14:46
  enough
• 14:46
  to
• 14:46
  make
• 14:46
  vendors
• 14:47
  nervous.
• 14:48
  The
• 14:48
  debate
• 14:48
  reached
• 14:48
  the
• 14:48
  one
• 14:49
  codebase
• 14:49
  where
• 14:49
  it
• 14:49
  is
• 14:50
  least
• 14:50
  expected,
• 14:50
  too:
• 14:51
  Linus
• 14:52
  Torvalds
• 14:52
  posted
• 14:53
  a
• 14:53
  Claude
• 14:53
  Code-assisted
• 14:54
  patch
• 14:54
  series
• 14:54
  targeting
• 14:55
  page-cache
• 14:56
  contention,
• 14:57
  claiming
• 14:57
  reads
• 14:57
  jumped
• 14:58
  from
• 14:58
  roughly
• 14:58
  10
• 14:58
  million
• 14:59
  to
• 14:59
  30-plus
• 14:59
  million
• 15:00
  per
• 15:00
  second,
• 15:01
  and
• 15:01
  the
• 15:01
  kernel
• 15:01
  is
• 15:01
  reportedly
• 15:02
  dropping
• 15:02
  its
• 15:02
  requirement
• 15:03
  that
• 15:03
  authors
• 15:04
  disclose
• 15:04
  AI
• 15:04
  use
• 15:05
  .
• 15:05
  That
• 15:06
  is
• 15:06
  a
• 15:06
  turn
• 15:06
  from
• 15:06
  the
• 15:06
  maintainer
• 15:07
  world
• 15:07
  that,
• 15:08
  months
• 15:08
  ago,
• 15:08
  was
• 15:09
  laying
• 15:09
  down
• 15:09
  ground
• 15:09
  rules
• 15:10
  to
• 15:10
  stem
• 15:10
  a
• 15:10
  flood
• 15:11
  of
• 15:11
  AI
• 15:11
  slop
• 15:11
  reports.
• 15:12
  The
• 15:13
  environment
• 15:13
  follows
• 15:13
  the
• 15:14
  device,
• 15:14
  too:
• 15:15
  LinPad
• 15:15
  OS
• 15:15
  brings
• 15:16
  an
• 15:16
  Alpine
• 15:16
  Linux
• 15:17
  tiling
• 15:17
  desktop,
• 15:18
  a
• 15:18
  real
• 15:18
  terminal,
• 15:19
  VS
• 15:19
  Code,
• 15:20
  Node,
• 15:20
  Git,
• 15:20
  and
• 15:21
  Python
• 15:21
  to
• 15:21
  an
• 15:21
  M1-or-newer
• 15:22
  iPad,
• 15:23
  running
• 15:23
  locally
• 15:23
  with
• 15:23
  no
• 15:24
  jailbreak
• 15:24
  and
• 15:24
  no
• 15:24
  remote
• 15:25
  box,
• 15:25
  GPLv3
• 15:26
  and
• 15:27
  sideloaded
• 15:27
  .
• 15:30
  The
• 15:30
  quiet
• 15:30
  theme
• 15:30
  across
• 15:31
  this
• 15:31
  week's
• 15:31
  research
• 15:32
  is
• 15:32
  squeezing
• 15:32
  more
• 15:33
  out
• 15:33
  of
• 15:33
  hardware
• 15:33
  already
• 15:34
  in
• 15:34
  the
• 15:34
  rack.
• 15:35
  "Your
• 15:35
  Transformer
• 15:36
  Is
• 15:36
  Secretly
• 15:37
  Elastic"
• 15:37
  turns
• 15:38
  a
• 15:38
  pre-trained
• 15:38
  encoder
• 15:39
  into
• 15:39
  a
• 15:39
  single
• 15:40
  model
• 15:40
  that
• 15:40
  can
• 15:40
  be
• 15:40
  hard-pruned
• 15:41
  on
• 15:41
  the
• 15:41
  fly
• 15:41
  to
• 15:42
  any
• 15:42
  compute
• 15:42
  budget,
• 15:43
  with
• 15:43
  no
• 15:43
  retraining.
• 15:44
  It
• 15:44
  scores
• 15:45
  every
• 15:45
  neuron
• 15:46
  and
• 15:46
  head
• 15:46
  by
• 15:46
  a
• 15:46
  Hessian-diagonal
• 15:47
  saliency
• 15:48
  estimate,
• 15:49
  converts
• 15:49
  those
• 15:49
  to
• 15:49
  learnable
• 15:50
  log-scores
• 15:51
  optimized
• 15:51
  with
• 15:51
  the
• 15:51
  weights
• 15:52
  frozen,
• 15:53
  and
• 15:53
  uses
• 15:53
  a
• 15:53
  sigmoid
• 15:54
  soft
• 15:54
  mask
• 15:54
  across
• 15:55
  14
• 15:55
  sparsity
• 15:56
  targets
• 15:56
  at
• 15:56
  once
• 15:57
  so
• 15:57
  different
• 15:57
  regions
• 15:58
  of
• 15:58
  the
• 15:58
  ranking
• 15:58
  get
• 15:59
  gradient
• 15:59
  signal.
• 16:00
  Degradation
• 16:01
  stays
• 16:01
  smooth
• 16:01
  to
• 16:02
  60
• 16:02
  percent
• 16:02
  sparsity,
• 16:03
  where
• 16:03
  baselines
• 16:04
  collapse
• 16:04
  after
• 16:05
  30:
• 16:06
  a
• 16:06
  DINOv3
• 16:07
  ViT-H+/16
• 16:09
  at
• 16:09
  50
• 16:09
  percent
• 16:10
  sheds
• 16:10
  427M
• 16:11
  parameters
• 16:12
  for
• 16:12
  a
• 16:12
  0.8
• 16:13
  percent
• 16:13
  linear-probe
• 16:14
  loss,
• 16:15
  and
• 16:15
  building
• 16:15
  the
• 16:15
  elastic
• 16:16
  model
• 16:16
  takes
• 16:17
  about
• 16:17
  40
• 16:17
  minutes
• 16:17
  on
• 16:18
  one
• 16:18
  A6000
• 16:20
  against
• 16:21
  34
• 16:21
  to
• 16:21
  54
• 16:22
  hours
• 16:22
  for
• 16:22
  the
• 16:22
  methods
• 16:23
  it
• 16:23
  beats
• 16:23
  .
• 16:24
  This
• 16:24
  is
• 16:24
  a
• 16:24
  direct
• 16:25
  answer
• 16:25
  to
• 16:25
  the
• 16:25
  old
• 16:25
  complaint
• 16:26
  that
• 16:26
  pruning
• 16:26
  needs
• 16:27
  expensive
• 16:27
  healing,
• 16:28
  and
• 16:28
  distinct
• 16:28
  from
• 16:29
  the
• 16:29
  distillation-based
• 16:30
  schemes
• 16:30
  that
• 16:30
  also
• 16:30
  borrowed
• 16:31
  the
• 16:31
  word
• 16:31
  "elastic."
• 16:32
  Apple's
• 16:33
  "Minions"
• 16:33
  paper
• 16:34
  makes
• 16:34
  the
• 16:34
  same
• 16:35
  argument
• 16:35
  at
• 16:35
  the
• 16:35
  fleet
• 16:35
  level:
• 16:36
  aggregate
• 16:37
  idle
• 16:37
  Apple
• 16:37
  Silicon
• 16:38
  Macs
• 16:38
  into
• 16:38
  a
• 16:39
  distributed
• 16:39
  virtual
• 16:40
  GPU
• 16:40
  cloud
• 16:40
  for
• 16:41
  inference,
• 16:41
  with
• 16:41
  a
• 16:42
  pull-based
• 16:42
  executor
• 16:43
  on
• 16:43
  each
• 16:43
  Mac,
• 16:44
  a
• 16:44
  PostgreSQL
• 16:45
  store
• 16:45
  enforcing
• 16:45
  atomic
• 16:46
  subtask
• 16:46
  ownership,
• 16:47
  S3
• 16:47
  for
• 16:48
  payloads,
• 16:48
  and
• 16:48
  a
• 16:48
  watchdog
• 16:49
  that
• 16:49
  reclaims
• 16:50
  work
• 16:50
  when
• 16:50
  a
• 16:50
  device
• 16:50
  sleeps.
• 16:51
  The
• 16:51
  reported
• 16:52
  win
• 16:52
  is
• 16:52
  operational,
• 16:53
  not
• 16:53
  benchmarked:
• 16:54
  jobs
• 16:55
  that
• 16:55
  queued
• 16:55
  "exceeding
• 16:56
  ten
• 16:56
  hours"
• 16:56
  on
• 16:56
  centralized
• 16:57
  GPUs
• 16:58
  now
• 16:58
  "begin
• 16:58
  execution
• 16:59
  within
• 16:59
  minutes,"
• 17:00
  at
• 17:00
  zero
• 17:00
  new
• 17:01
  hardware
• 17:01
  cost
• 17:01
  .
• 17:02
  The
• 17:02
  orchestration
• 17:03
  layer
• 17:03
  for
• 17:03
  that
• 17:03
  scheduling
• 17:04
  got
• 17:04
  friendlier
• 17:04
  too,
• 17:05
  with
• 17:05
  NVIDIA's
• 17:05
  Run:AI
• 17:06
  apparently
• 17:07
  relicensed
• 17:07
  under
• 17:07
  Apache-2.0,
• 17:09
  a
• 17:09
  useful
• 17:09
  reversal
• 17:10
  for
• 17:10
  anyone
• 17:10
  building
• 17:11
  self-hosted
• 17:11
  inference
• 17:12
  infrastructure
• 17:12
  .
• 17:13
  The
• 17:13
  hardware
• 17:13
  side
• 17:13
  offers
• 17:14
  less
• 17:14
  for
• 17:14
  the
• 17:14
  individual:
• 17:16
  Intel's
• 17:16
  Crescent
• 17:16
  Island,
• 17:17
  now
• 17:17
  the
• 17:17
  D-Series
• 17:18
  D270,
• 17:19
  carries
• 17:20
  up
• 17:20
  to
• 17:20
  480
• 17:21
  GB
• 17:21
  of
• 17:21
  LPDDR5X
• 17:24
  at
• 17:24
  1.5
• 17:25
  TB/s
• 17:26
  and
• 17:26
  1.3
• 17:28
  PFLOPS
• 17:29
  of
• 17:30
  FP8
• 17:30
  in
• 17:30
  a
• 17:30
  350W
• 17:31
  passively
• 17:32
  cooled
• 17:32
  datacenter
• 17:33
  card,
• 17:34
  which
• 17:34
  the
• 17:34
  LocalLLaMA
• 17:35
  thread
• 17:35
  correctly
• 17:35
  notes
• 17:35
  is
• 17:36
  LPDDR,
• 17:37
  not
• 17:37
  real
• 17:37
  VRAM,
• 17:38
  and
• 17:38
  priced
• 17:38
  out
• 17:38
  of
• 17:39
  prosumer
• 17:39
  reach
• 17:39
  .
• 17:40
  Two
• 17:40
  releases
• 17:41
  show
• 17:41
  how
• 17:41
  much
• 17:41
  capability
• 17:42
  is
• 17:42
  already
• 17:42
  latent
• 17:43
  in
• 17:43
  commodity
• 17:43
  silicon
• 17:44
  and
• 17:44
  open
• 17:44
  models.
• 17:45
  A
• 17:45
  project
• 17:45
  repurposes
• 17:46
  Google's
• 17:47
  EmbeddingGemma
• 17:47
  2
• 17:47
  embedding
• 17:48
  model
• 17:48
  as
• 17:48
  a
• 17:48
  speech-to-text
• 17:49
  system,
• 17:50
  training
• 17:50
  only
• 17:50
  a
• 17:51
  small
• 17:51
  reader
• 17:51
  to
• 17:51
  map
• 17:51
  audio
• 17:52
  slices
• 17:52
  into
• 17:52
  the
• 17:52
  model's
• 17:53
  shared
• 17:53
  text
• 17:53
  space
• 17:54
  and
• 17:54
  pick
• 17:54
  the
• 17:54
  nearest
• 17:54
  of
• 17:55
  about
• 17:55
  229,000
• 17:57
  English
• 17:57
  words,
• 17:58
  transcribing
• 17:59
  an
• 17:59
  hour
• 17:59
  of
• 17:59
  audio
• 18:00
  in
• 18:00
  roughly
• 18:00
  13
• 18:01
  seconds
• 18:01
  on
• 18:01
  a
• 18:01
  base
• 18:01
  M3
• 18:02
  MacBook
• 18:02
  Air,
• 18:03
  entirely
• 18:03
  on
• 18:04
  device,
• 18:04
  at
• 18:05
  a
• 18:05
  5
• 18:05
  percent
• 18:05
  word
• 18:05
  error
• 18:06
  rate
• 18:06
  it
• 18:06
  expects
• 18:06
  to
• 18:07
  narrow
• 18:07
  .
• 18:08
  And
• 18:08
  Black
• 18:08
  Forest
• 18:09
  Labs
• 18:09
  shipped
• 18:09
  FLUX.3
• 18:10
  Image
• 18:11
  Klein
• 18:11
  with
• 18:11
  day-one
• 18:12
  Diffusers
• 18:12
  support,
• 18:13
  adding
• 18:13
  bounding-box
• 18:14
  layout
• 18:14
  control
• 18:15
  via
• 18:15
  a
• 18:15
  JSON
• 18:15
  region
• 18:16
  list,
• 18:16
  a
• 18:16
  Qwen3-VL
• 18:17
  text
• 18:18
  encoder,
• 18:18
  and
• 18:18
  weights
• 18:19
  in
• 18:19
  bf16
• 18:20
  plus
• 18:20
  rowwise
• 18:20
  FP8
• 18:21
  and
• 18:21
  NVFP4
• 18:23
  formats,
• 18:24
  with
• 18:24
  a
• 18:24
  distilled
• 18:25
  16-step
• 18:25
  variant
• 18:26
  generating
• 18:26
  a
• 18:26
  1024x1024
• 18:28
  image
• 18:29
  on
• 18:29
  an
• 18:29
  H100
• 18:30
  in
• 18:30
  seconds
• 18:30
  and
• 18:30
  a
• 18:30
  base
• 18:31
  checkpoint
• 18:31
  meant
• 18:31
  for
• 18:31
  fine-tuning
• 18:32
  .