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Re:OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:08PM (#49825734)
The article says the agent wrote files to the servers involved, so it's more than that. It's a big deal.
Re:OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:48PM (#49824273)
The linked article says it wrote files to the website.
Re:OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:31PM (#49822874)
Are there technical details anywhere?
Re:Brood War Bench on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:00PM (#49770833)
Specifically, it can micro across multiple screens of engagement in a way that we can't as easily.
Re:The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew [video] on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:49PM (#49556751)
Trains are great, but they can only go where tracks go. Planes are faster, too, noting that boarding times can dilute that. Trains are perfect for freight and super frequent routes, though.
Re:The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew [video] on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:46PM (#49556706)
The video cites the large number of existing flights that are short enough for the electric. I am not sure they should be judged based on whether they make air travel more appealing overall - making it cheaper and lower emission is plenty.
Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:22AM (#49478923)
Not that I know of, but https://www.canirun.ai/ might be of use
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:21PM (#48964150)
I agree that hindsight is doing work here, but DeepSeek R1 from Jan 2025 seemed to heavily leverage distillation, and 18 months is an eternity in this climate.
Super interesting. I am always wondering where the bridge between symbolic programs and inline connectionist approaches could be. LLMs can call traditional programs "in process" as tools, but the other way usually just looks an external, expensive call. Maybe this fits in for a certain class of program. I will definitely add some support to my little collection of browser based AI tools https://andergrove.com/tools/ai/
For super simple programs, yes, this doesn't make sense. For very complicated programs, the generated code would begin to look like spaghetti so fine that it begins to look like weights.
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:42PM (#48693907)
1/ Agreed, better naming convention and model layout 2/ It isn't, there would be many more comparison benchmark results if it were, but also - theatrics may be marketing 3/ Disagree that cheaper models don't have a place 4/ Do they need to keep up? 5/ It's boring until something you own or run gets compromised, I guess, but even then - this is preview of things to come (biosecurity, etc)
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:40PM (#48635015)
Rough but true. This has PMF but not at this price.
Well, it probably is an advantage over the same product written in say C++, all other variables held the same - just not a big one.
Re:I’ve joined Anthropic on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:53PM (#48196705)
Selfishly, I hope this doesn't reduce to 0 the amount of time he spends doing educational content, which seems like a particular strength of his. I presume this means Eureka Labs is not releasing any product or course.
LLMs are definitely intelligent - just not general like humans, and very very jagged (succeedingand failing in head-scratching ways).
Re:Nvidia NemoClaw on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:35PM (#47433217)
Yeah, but atleast the dog is going to eat your documents only, and not crap on your rug
Re:Layoffs at Block on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:32PM (#47174563)
Does the lowercase convey authenticity or lack of care?
Good doesn't wash away bad
Re:The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:27AM (#46834627)
This is certainly no fatal for OpenAI, but there is some irony that Altman and Musk are both struggling.
Re:Qwen3-Max-Thinking on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:45PM (#46773945)
All of this is true and credit assignment is hard, but the brutal competition between Chinese firms, especially in manufacturing, differentiates them from and advances them over economies in the west. It makes investment hard as profits are competed away, which is blasphemy in Thiel's worldview, but is excellent for consumers both local and global.
Re:Palantir has no place in UK public services on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:33AM (#46751659)
It's not illegal, you just get shot is all
Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:05AM (#46574492)
I think the Tailwind case is more complicated than this, but yes - I think it's reasonable to want to contribute something to the common good but fear that the value will disproportionally go to AI companies and shareholders.
Not at all - it's legal, but it doesn't garner goodwill either.
Re:Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:12PM (#46449751)
When training for muscle size atleast, but not strength. Presumably there are increased injury risks overall when lifting heavy (based on a brief search).
Well, many companies are still mispriced, but stock markets today look a lot more like voting machines than weighing machines - so it takes more time to be proven right (or wrong).
Have you tried not being poor?
Re:Moravec's Paradox and the Robot Olympics on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:56AM (#46400302)
Sergey Levine, one of the co-founders, sat for an excellent Dwarkesh podcast episode this year, which I thoroughly recommend.
Re:Reflections on AI at the End of 2025 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:02AM (#46334946)
He's referring to humanity, I believe

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