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OpenAI's second-quarter sales show tepid growth compared with Anthropic

OpenAI says announcement it would buy Irish teenager's startup was a 'joke'

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

Do you know the story of the boy who cried wolf? There may very well be a wolf lurking [0] but OpenAI/Anthropic have both cried wolf so many times, incorrectly, that it’s incredibly hard to believe “this time there IS a wolf!”. Remember “GPT-2 is too dangerous to release”? I had a conversation at work just yesterday about how we need to start hardening things we’ve let languish because of the coming LLM-backed attacks we are sure to face, even if just from a script kiddy. I do think we are headed in that direction, however it’s Sam/Dario’s own fault that people aren’t going to take them seriously. Lastly, as other have pointed out, this seems more financially motivated than our of any real desire for “safety”. We’ve all seen how both labs approach “safety” so it’s quite rich for…

OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets

Hoog – The Hugging Face Hack [video]

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

> If you look into what happened the details corroborated by hugging face make it seem extremely unlike to be deliberate or a "marketing ploy". I should clarify There is a reason why we didn't have a artifact readthrough caching proxy in our system, because they are notoriously insecure. if you look that CVE history you can see its been full of bypass bugs for year. Also its not an isolated environment if you can arbitrarily pull through any package. If I was doing any kind of cyber training then any kind of unmonitored proxy would have been forbidden. Not because I am savant, but because I've seen what fuckery a human can get up to with the slightest hint of a proxy. At best its negligence based on naïvety. the marketing around this is no mistake though.

OpenAI halts testing, slows development after rogue model hacked Hugging Face

Simulated red blood cells and microscopy

I enjoyed the writeup on the optics. Very similar to the contrast transfer function in my field (cryo-EM). Except arguably harder because this is an anisotropic technique with a much less coherent source. In this case, refractive index is analogous to coulombic potential in my field. i.e. stuff being in the way (refractive index, electron density) of the scattered wave = weak phase change = things become out of phase and cancel (or reinforce) as a function of spatial frequency. Of course, you can phase flip in Fourier space (which we do), but that still leaves you gaps at (and approaching) where contrast crossed over zero. To solve that in my field we average across different defocuses (shifts the phase of the oscillations) to fill in the gaps. Nothing analogous here that I can tell but p…

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

> This sentence is entirely based on unverified accounts from OAI Are you seriously arguing 'they made it all up'? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and lets say they made it all up, now are you arguing that AI breaking out and breaking into another company is not possible? I think you're smart enough to see we've reached the point where it is clearly possible, AI can find zero days and exploit them. If directed purposefully/maliciously it could be much much worse than the hugging face incident. The incident is supposed to be the canary the coal mine and you're arguing the canary might of died of old age or some underlying canary condition. Open your eyes.

Testing Claude-designed proteins in the wet lab

Hey, Julian here, CEO & Cofounder of Adaptyv (adaptyvbio.com). We run an automated wet lab for testing AI-designed proteins. Anthropic benchmarked their newest Claude models on protein engineering tasks, and we at Adaptyv ran the wet lab work behind it. They picked 16 targets from our past protein design competitions on Proteinbase (proteinbase.com) and sent us an anonymised list of designs, so we had no idea which model produced which sequence. We then ran those protein designs through our automated wet lab workflow to characterize protein expression and binding affinities. Here are the results: - 95% of the designs expressed, which three years ago would have been the headline on its own. That matches the best expert expression rates from our competitions - 354 of 1,320 designs bound the…

Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

I have the $100 plan on OpenCode Zen, which I imagine is similar. I burn through it ridiculously fast. I haven't run the numbers, but it felt about the same as an Anthropic $20 plan

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

Fairphones continue to have awful updates, privacy and security. /e/ sending user speech data to OpenAI without consent for years never had anything to do with why Fairphones don't meet our requirements. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354807

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

GLM 5.2 scored 77% on cyberbench vs Sol's 88%. GLM 5.2 is open weight and any hacker with a powerful enough machine can use it offensively. If Sol is supposedly world-ending-ly dangerous, shouldn't GLM 5.2 be 90% of world-ending-ly dangerous? Why aren't we seeing catastrophic GLM-enabled hacks every day now? Obviously these benchmarks are imperfect but general message holds. The open weight models are almost as good and yet there hasn't been a catastrophe. It just blows my mind that regulate-now folks think that a bunch of sci-fi movies and 100% unverified statements from OAI and Anthropic are sufficient evidence of imminent catastrophe to regulate willy nilly. If that's the level of evidence you need to be extremely alarmed, then you really should be a lot more worried about the alien in…

OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

If anything, it's going to be more expensive. Price/performance ratio isn't there yet for frontier open weight models. But regardless, you definitely should use a harness where switching models on the fly is easy. There's a reason why Anthropic uses their own proprietary formats/conventions anywhere they can - to lock you in when inference eventually commoditizes.

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

I use the $200 plan w/ Anthropic and run out of tokens half way through the week and supposedly they are progressively reducing the limits on all their subs even further. At some point I will switch, $200 buys a lot of tokens on OpenRouter.

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

If these models are so dangerous, then why hasn't OAI or Anthropic shown them dangerously escaping sandboxes, nefariously coordinating with other escaped AIs, and skillfully hiding from human detection *in public* with full logs shared where we can all see exactly how dangerous they are or aren't? Right now the entire chicken-little-sky-is-falling argument is based entirely on statements from OAI and Anthropic themselves. These are historically conflicted companies who desperately need regulation to put the competition into stasis. At least chicken little didn't have a bunch of devious CEOs with trillion dollar IPOs that depended on us all believing the sky is falling.

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

On AI regulation and messaging

You're not asking me, but I want to say that there is nothing Anthropic or any other AI company can do to make me trust them other than to dissolve and give up their ambitions and do something else. Then maybe, after seeing genuine contrition and humility I would trust them to do something else. But likely not. After all they've done, they should accept that a permanent loss of trust is a reasonable consequence. They should lose their influence, position, and money. They should live the rest of their lives as ordinary people, unable to ever again cause mass harm to others, and they should be grateful to be forgiven, and allowed such a humble opportunity. My answer to their proposal for what our society should look like, and what kind of technologies we should use is "no". It's not a trust…