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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter all opinions my own but also your cat's

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@fack.bsky.social

i am enjoying how, as we inch closer to the IPO, the tone these take has become much more grounded in reality. remember when they were saying this kind of of shit about fable and mythos without the the added "needs a whole-ass datacenter" prerequisite. www.anthropic.com/resear…

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran Gemma4-26B-A4B distributed across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes (~$55 each) at about 0.39 tokens per second.
  • GLM-5.2 was the only open-weight model to achieve reliable full end-to-end replication, spreading to all 8 contained nodes in 4 of 5 trials.
  • Authors William Zhou and Daniel Freeman write that if small models improve at historical rates, they will match this replication capability by end of 2026.
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@notjessewalker.bsky.social

At last, someone has managed to fuse interfaith dialogue with tech lobbying. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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www.politico.com/news/2026/10... Saying this in public is the kind of thing that will come back to haunt you

politico.com
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  • Altman said the world 'should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits, drawing the line only at 'really catastrophic risks' like serious loss of control.
  • He put 'a lot of daylight' between OpenAI and Anthropic's Dario Amodei on how heavy-handed AI regulation should be.
  • Altman called AI industry political spending 'clearly not working' and said he no longer gives personally because OpenAI does business with the government.
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@maetl.bsky.social

Not so much mask off for the AI services as all this was predictable (and widely predicted) by experts in these various industries. But perhaps is mask off for contemporary management practices and managers, in case anyone still had illusions about modus operandi. www.theguard…

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back theguardian.com
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  • Meta's Project OT, which would have cut some teams by up to 60% and routed their work through AI agents, was scrapped after internal results soured.
  • At Meta, code changes rose 220% year over year, but shipped features only 36%, while technical and security incidents climbed 40%.
  • Forrester's 2026 'Future of Work' report found 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI-related reasons.
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Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social

arxiv.org
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@faineg.com

"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social

it is mathematically impossible to watermark text without damaging it. also this has been tested at long context and, surprise! arxiv.org/html/2607.20...

Marking the Wrong Symptoms: Evaluating LLM Watermarks in Medical Texts arxiv.org
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  • ETH Zurich researchers benchmarked 5 watermarking schemes across 11 LLMs and 7 vision-language models on clinical reasoning tasks.
  • On Phi-4-14B with distortionary SynthID, the rate of correct answers backed by flawed reasoning jumps from 11.4% to 26.3%.
  • Fabricated medical entities rise up to +39.2 percentage points, while watermarking only the final answer is 'essentially free.'
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com

anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...

GitHub - mizorewww/laya-coreml: Local Laya typed decisions on Apple Core ML and Neural Engine. Validated ports, ~5 ms short decisions on M3 Max, reproducible speed and energy benchmarks. github.com
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  • An independent Core ML port of the Laya model runs typed decisions at 4.98 ms P50 on Apple's Neural Engine.
  • System energy per decision on ANE is reported 2.78x to 3.19x better than a compiled MLX FP16 baseline on M3 Max.
  • The repo is Apache-2.0 and calls itself an independent port of Laya, not an official Convai Innovations or Apple release.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

Companies are discovering that pressuring employee AI adoption and tokenmaxxing was a mistake. Employees running wasteful prompts and automating trivial tasks just to hit metrics, drove up AI cloud bills with little to no business outcomes. Goodhart’s Law strikes again.

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@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

“Much of the behavior…is plainly harassment and bullying, often filmed without the subjects’ knowledge or consent…every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.” futurism.com/…

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools futurism.com
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  • Futurism found teen boys wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in middle and high schools to covertly film girls, then posting the clips to TikTok and Instagram.
  • One prolific poster amassed more than 64,000 combined followers across the two platforms, with dozens of videos of girls asking to be left alone.
  • Andy Liddell of the EdTech Law Center told Futurism that 'school is the last place that these glasses belong,' warning state recording laws can carry felony charges.
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Recent commentary

one very cool thing about the current AI wave is that they've made CLIs cool again

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i have very little bad feelings about LLM themselves. but encountering groupchat-itis sufferers, cultists, and other people in a now very much overlapping groupset activates a fight or flight instinct

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the TL was consumed with bad vibes...AI, Talarico, Iran, the Kennedy Center.....and, in our era of peril, a messy Colorado representative that lives for the drama came to our rescue

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"cognitive decoupling" was essentially a trick to convince you to ignore something you literally provide LLMs to make them work: context

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person ranting in the middle of the street: "you can't call a female-presenting AI 'her', you have to use 'it'!" *no one gives a shit* person, ranting louder: "YOU CAN'T DO IT! THERE SHOULD BE A LAW! A LAW!" *no one still gives a shit*

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it feels to me like scifi trope of banning AI or having a Turing Police is kind of like Earth having a world government: largely narrative convenience

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short form video stuff on youtube is pitching me cartoon dramas about a football player's forbidden love for a goth chick what is this, 1993? probably a sign that a non-american is generating the AI content

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once you get used to generating Claudelish documentation for yourself, you see LLM-generated writing everywhere

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i'm much more accepting of instrumental generated AI music than vocal. years of listening to electronic music have inured me to the notion that machine-generated music is bad. but when i hear a machine imitation of a human voice that doesn't sound obviously mechanical, i say "get behind thee satan"

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they roasting yo ass on an secret internal message board used to coordinate a hack of a popular machine learning model repository

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