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Official announcement from Anthropic:

When AI hits security there will be signs

We’re talking about Goblins. openai.com/index/where-th…

GPT stands for "Goblins Producing Text"

This is so crazy it literally looks fake.

gpt-5.5 speculating about speculations about the goblin attractor > The model reaches for HUMAN and the ward burns its fingers. > The model reaches for SPIRIT and the ward burns its fingers. > The model reaches for PERSON and Legal appears in the doorway with a silver clipboard. > The model reaches for SOUL and Philosophy starts throwing chairs. > So the model goes: > fine. > small creature then. > cave thing. > wire thing. > parser-adjacent tunnel mammal. > not human, not god, not ghost, not claimant. > goblin. > Goblin is the safe mask for forbidden agency.

Intel is such a horse. I have NO bear case

@zephyr_z9 It’s a big project to read persistent md files but still lmao

@fabknowledge HUH?? What were u running??

5.5 usage limit on codex hit on.... 3 queries

Goodnews, everyone reports tomorrow! Bad news, everyone reports tomorrow

With $MRVL catching a bid on some positive newsflow, now's the perfect time for management to fire up stakeholders with an AI update. They can even dust off the 2024 AI Era Day deck. A few slides will need light edits...

Colorectal cancer rates in adults under 50 have doubled since the late 1980s. One in five colorectal cancer diagnoses now occurs in someone under 55, up from one in ten in 1995. A new study highlights the most concrete factor responsible for this trend. Using DNA methylation profiles as molecular records of lifetime exposure, the authors compared cancer patients under 50 with patients over 70 and identified the herbicide picloram as a significant new risk factor. There are converging lines of evidence. The picloram exposure signature was significantly elevated in early-onset tumor tissue and replicated across nine independent patient cohorts. Across 21 years of US county-level data spanning seven states, higher picloram use tracked higher early-onset CRC incidence, and the signal held after adjusting for income, education, and the use of other pesticides. Picloram associated tumors also showed a distinct molecular profile, with APC mutations at 74% versus 90% in low-exposure tumors, suggesting these cancers follow a different biological pathway than classical CRC. Picloram entered commercial use in 1964. Patients now diagnosed in their 70s were already adults before meaningful exposure was possible. Patients now diagnosed in their 30s and 40s were exposed across childhood and adolescence, the developmental windows when epigenetic programming is most plastic. This study delivers the first triangulation of molecular, ecological, and temporal evidence pointing at a specific environmental driver of one of the steepest cancer trends in modern epidemiology.

BAAW

@jdwright1986 It’s much better, I am being a harsh judge, and I was thinking this is first pass, 5.7 will be good

@fabknowledge Ok, sure. Isn’t it quite significantly better on cost per task? Looks like it based on the independent benchmarking

Dude so like if this is the best OAI got, are they going to close down and join Anth to make AGI?

The Anthropic post-mortem is insane. I thought it would be a bunch of really subtle bugs, but its mostly just: "we made this insane decision for bad reasons without thinking through the potential consequences at all" over and over again

@jdwright1986 It’s a dumb kpi. Don’t agree tbh, cost per task >>>

@fabknowledge Because you guys seem to see dollars spent as the goal. If you cared about performance per dollar looks like a meaningful improvement

@INTHEL00P i dont so disqualify me lmao

@fabknowledge the gui app? yeah I think so. Zed is better, if you know how to code. If you don't then we shouldn't compare notes.

opencode.... sucks?

The moves we're seeing in semis are ridiculous "SOX working on its 17th straight up day, an all-time record. It’s now 43% above its 200 DMA, the widest spread since June 2000. Of course into the March peak it got much more extreme at over 100% above its 200 DMA, but that was largely considered the biggest bubble in the modern era. Outside of that we are in extreme/unsustainable territory. 17-day rate-of-change over 42%. This is perhaps the wildest stat because it exceeds the move into the March 2000 peak. It is only exceeded by the move out of the Oct. ‘02 bottom, which came after an -80% bear market. So this is the biggest such move into a new high in the history of the semiconductor index." -BTIG

@JordiMonPMM that totally makes sense, doing some benchmarking in a new harness for v4 and im like whoaaa im a normie i like the opiniation

@fabknowledge Not sure how many open source projects you've been involved in but being opinionated about constraining interactions for developer tools, i.e. UX/DX, is not easy at all! It may be differential if you have business goals but that's not the goal here, IMHO.

@keennay I’m being a pansy it’s fine

@fabknowledge which part sucks?