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[Greg @BreachBreaker]

@Steve_Yegge yeah I’m sure Google has nothing but bad engineers.
but at least they’re better than AI.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔An NYU mathematician says OpenAI used his own progress against him to beat him to one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics. Tristan Buckmaster had been working toward a Millennium Prize proof using OpenAI's Codex when information about his progress reached OpenAI.
Days later, OpenAI published a full proof of the same problem using the same uncommon approach, after burning $22.5 million in compute to get there. When Buckmaster confronted them, exec Sébastien Bubeck allegedly said "Why would you ruin your career?" and "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice."

My Take
OpenAI spent $22.5 million to solve a problem with a $1 million prize. They didn't do this for the bounty. They needed a headline that says "our AI solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics" and they needed it before someone else got credit. They started days after they heard about Buckmaster's progress and took the same uncommon approach he'd pursued for months. That's hard to explain as coincidence.

Buckmaster did his work inside Codex. OpenAI reserves the right to train on Codex data. They admit they can't rule out that his usage helped improve their models. So a customer used their product, potentially handed them the roadmap, and then OpenAI outran him with $22.5 million in compute he could never match. I don't know if any of this was intentional. But if you're a researcher and you just watched this happen, I don't think you'd keep your best ideas inside someone else's product.

Hedgie🤗

https://t.co/1YnggU7xdI

[Carl Hendy @carlhendy]

If you’re in media, this is worth a watch.

Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.

[Greg @BreachBreaker]

Is this what is meant by de-regulation? North Dakota sued Interior at least five times under Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency.
: https://t.co/S4KWEgfpNf

@elonmusk

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maybe un-fact checked free speech is actually dangerous? @elonmusk
https://t.co/t4kc3drg3d

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@alifarhat6_ali What about the weather issue?
I drove latest FSD in a rain storm several times in November, and once it got raining pretty hard there were lould alerts and a warning to take over. Not a choice.

Will a 2 hour storm strand hundreds of customers?

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Unit 42 is tracking #regreSSHion #CVE20246387 which may allow arbitrary code execution with root privilege in specific #OpenSSH versions. We are investigating the scope of vulnerable systems and evaluating in the wild PoCs. We recommend patching as soon as possible.

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@I_Am_Jakoby I have to challenge this.
ffor DEFCON or for a workshop or for anything where a bug in a system existed it is extremely common to demonstrate the issue in an older system. nothing about a patched problem should block you.
The other challenge is that you haven’t named names.

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