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Qwen 3.6 is now much easier to run locally on your Mac, thanks to JetBrains

Why are they tying the client with the AI model instead of using OpenAI or another popular http format? Running llama.cpp locally is about the right level of complexity for most doing local AI.

Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

> U.S. courts can’t reach domains registered beyond their jurisdiction. That’s likely to increase calls for site-blocking legislation, a measure the industry has long favored and that remains high on the political agenda in the United States. Eventually US will have its own great firewall like China. Politics is about powergrab and what we’ve seen is more and more power grab. It’s likely the billionaires are able to buy the govt goons to pass the laws that allow them to be the gatekeepers. Anthropic, OpenAI and the model builders massively benefited from the archived information. Distill entirety of archived human knowledge.

Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

> U.S. courts can’t reach domains registered beyond their jurisdiction. That’s likely to increase calls for site-blocking legislation, a measure the industry has long favored and that remains high on the political agenda in the United States. Eventually US will have its own great firewall like China. Politics is about powergrab and what we’ve seen is more and more power grab. It’s likely the billionaires are able to buy the govt goons to pass the laws that allow them to be the gatekeepers. Anthropic, OpenAI and the model builders massively benefited from the archived information. Distill entirety of archived human knowledge.

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

I think the average corporation has 2 concerns largely: 1. Getting some exposure to LLMs while building out their AI strategy. 2. Preventing data loss via end users following desire paths to Gemini, OpenAI etc. You really don't need bleeding edge models for that. A lot of these things are going to be writing emails and adjusting config files and whatnot.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

> "We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for" - Sam Altman of OpenAI true, but he missed one point - we already leave in such world. And pretty long time. He mean ofc buying intelligence of AI. But we already buying intelligence of humans.

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary%27s_Mind_Mirror https://store.steampowered.com/app/1603300/Timothy_Learys_Mi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578683 https://scalar.usc.edu/works/timothy-leary-software/index I extracted all the text from the Apple ][ Mind Mirror floppy disk image: https://donhopkins.com/home/mind-mirror.txt Mind Mirror Anthropic Skill and Documentation for MOOLLM: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/mind-mi... The Prison Escape: Ultimate Validation In 1970, Nixon called Timothy Leary "the most dangerous man in America." Leary was sentenced to 10-20 years for marijua…

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

Where I'm at we use Claude for many coding tasks but we don't have infinite token pockets like Anthropic does. Everything is very focused on how to get the most out of the tokens and prove you're the one who deserves to have a ton extra granted next month. We can't afford things like have one guy tossing the equivalent in $165k at 64 simultaneous instances for days on end to just see if a Rust rewrite really works well or not like they did with Bun - but Anthropic still did that regardless. This doesn't prove the opposite either, it just appears asking whether or not others are doing the same is a bad oracle for Anthropic's honesty here. I think that will be one of the most interesting things with models in the future. Even if we somehow 100% stopped dead where they are from a a model per…

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

I had a similar though a couple days ago. Not quite the same but imagine giving an Agent the task to hack other devices and steal their crypto coins / credit card number or anything with it can pay its token. Than install an agent in a harness with the same task. Establish some redundant communication channel, like message boards or whatever. So in the end there are several agents, on several hosts, consuming different APIs / LLMs and communicating with each other over different channels. Basically the same concept as OpenAI explained when their LLM hacked huggingface but in this scenario their not bound to a single sandboxed environment but spread over the internet. If such a swarm has reached a critical mass it would be pretty dificult to erase them as its impossible to contro…

Fences, Not Sandboxes

Anthropic doesn't actually mind if you use multiple subscriptions

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

They're really trying to tank Anthropic's IPO huh?

Alabama Investigates OpenAI on HuggingFace Hacking Incident

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Meh distillation doesn't mean you can create an existing model from scratch of similar quality. It's the AI equivalent of making a VHS copy of a video, it doesn't enable you to make your own movies very well and post training is the equivalent of video editing, which again, doesn't let you make your own movies very well. Your seeing the AI labs respond by never publishing chain of thought now and in the future, I see them not even publishing their top models as a general purpose API and instead using it to drive their own AI apps, which will obscure even more model output. Anthropic Mythos was internal only for many months for example.

Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas

Those two things are strongly overlapping. People are socialized into the institutions and culture that other countries find difficult to replicate.

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

OpenAI implemented measures to reduce reverse engineering, following the Anthropic lead. They disabled the temperature and seed parameters. There's still logprobs, so they aren't as closed up as Anthropic yet. I might write about an article of the history of LLM APIs, I used to think the ChatGPT was going to be a de facto standard like intel's 80866 mutated into x86, but it seems to be a bit more nuanced and diverse than that, vibecoding introduced so much complexity because the vibecoding product itself became vibecoded so the enshittification was accelerated, many such cases.

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

OpenAI implemented measures to reduce reverse engineering, following the Anthropic lead. They disabled the temperature and seed parameters. There's still logprobs, so they aren't as closed up as Anthropic yet. I might write about an article of the history of LLM APIs, I used to think the ChatGPT was going to be a de facto standard like intel's 80866 mutated into x86, but it seems to be a bit more nuanced and diverse than that, vibecoding introduced so much complexity because the vibecoding product itself became vibecoded so the enshittification was accelerated, many such cases.

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

How much of this ability to replicate is down to the openness of the science community and the paper on transformers being accessible by anyone?

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

why though? I doubt subscribers are moving the need for ARR, even for OpenAI

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

These are my opinions on which circumstances Sol fails terribly vs Fable. I am the type of coder that vibe codes - I talk to the agent about a problem, have it write a plan, red team the plan, and then implement the plan. These projects are things which haven’t really been done before, or if they have it’s not public or not in many places. What I find is that Sol is hyper-left brained. Super focused on small details. When given a longer task with multiple steps it might go really hard on one of the early steps and it will validate, test, make safe, so much to the detriment of progressing the task within reasonable parameters for the project. It also starts to sound crazy when you ask it for an update. It starts naming things in weird ways and the sentences don’t really make sense. It’s as…

Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas

You seem to have interpreted "have faith in your own country" as "have faith in the people who grew up here" whereas I interpreted it is as more like "have faith that the parts of the country's institutions and culture responsible for its excellent economic performance will continue to prove difficult for other countries to replicate".

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

If Anthropic can manipulate text to add a watermark, what’s preventing providers from doing the same to generated images? Modifying the container format can’t protect you from a signature in the image’s visual representation, unless you apply noise to that (and know it’s enough noise/the right kind of noise to counteract whatever unknown technique they’ve applied).