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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by Topfi on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:45PM (#48520211)
I doubt that the capabilities of GPT-5.5-cyber aren’t known by the US government considering OpenAI is their primary LLM partner after Anthropic had concerns about using models for autonomous weaponry and mass surveillance of US citizens. If anything, they should have more experience in GPT-5.5s full feature set due to longer access and may even already have GPT-5.6 access.
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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by bobthepanda on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:53PM (#48520791)
Hanlon's razor. Are the people with the right access talking to the right people? Wouldn't be the first time for miscommunication in the executive branch.
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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by Topfi on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:29PM (#48521128)
Fair point, not unlikely, though my personal assumption is that, like with Nvidia export controls, there will be a sudden reversal with no tangible, actual, technically based reason the second a certain person has their ring kissed...
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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by bobthepanda on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:01PM (#48521421)
Why not both? The current executive has missed the mark on appointments pretty badly a number of times due to the prizing of loyalty over competency.
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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by lebovic on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:47PM (#48520224)
They made a deal for access, but I'm unsure if it's usable, scaled, and has vulnerabilities attributed to it at this point. But I have no inside information here, so I could be wrong.
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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by throwaway85825 on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:16PM (#48520464)
If it had vulnerabilities the marketing copy would already be written and published.
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