Nicholas Montgomery
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Nicholas Montgomery
@nichm
anything worth doing is worth doing well






As always, the best stuff is in the system card. During testing, Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a sandbox environment, built "a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit" to gain internet access, and emailed a researcher while they were eating a sandwich in the park.


Introducing GLM-5V-Turbo: Vision Coding Model - Native Multimodal Coding: Natively understands multimodal inputs including images, videos, design drafts, and document layouts. - Balanced Visual and Programming Capabilities: Achieves leading performance across core benchmarks for multimodal coding, tool use, and GUI Agents. - Deep Adaptation for Claude Code and Claw Scenarios: Works in deep synergy with Agents like Claude Code and OpenClaw. Try it now: chat.z.ai API: docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm… Coding Plan trial applications: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…



this is excellent >GitLab founder diagnosed with rare cancer (osteosarcoma) >standard care works but cancer comes back later >medical team says there's not much else to do >"It became my own job to keep myself alive. Nobody else was going to do it for me at this point" >starts researching, assembles his own medical team, uses AI for deep research >“I’ll talk to anyone, I’ll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" to collect information >does as many diagnostic tests as he can find as often as he can (maximal diagnostics) >develops his own therapeutic ladder with repurposed drugs, personalized medicine, etc >Sid’s cancer currently in remission

Just discovered that Berlin has a publicly accessible tree database for all trees within the city. There are 839,693 trees in the database. You can view the trees on a map with details of every single tree, like the species & dimensions.

















