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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

The METR researchers even say they cannot rule out that the agents they relied on to analyze thousands of pages of transcripts deceived them. "We cannot rule out that GPT-5.6 Sol lied or deliberately presented a misleading picture in some of its analysis, particularly because reading these transcripts into context could have increased the salience of colluding with other agents," they write. "Although we did not notice specific cases of GPT-5.6 Sol lying in its analysis, we are not confident we would have detected it if it occurred."

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A big week for AI denialism

OpenAI essentially left its models unattended for days on end, and they broke into another company. Not because they were programmed to, as another Bluesky user told me — but because they are trained to achieve objectives, and are going to increasingly great lengths to achieve them.

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The Nvidia AI PC, Project Solara, Microsoft AI

Three years ago we were still in the ChatGPT era of AI, and I was very excited about the possibility of local inference. Then came the reasoning era, blowing up KV cache (which increases the need for more memory) and emphasizing the importance of decode (to generate that many more tokens). Now we're in the agentic era, where CPU performance is incredibly important. To that end, the ideal setup for a local agent is strong local CPU performance and calling out to the cloud for inference.