Arjun

writer at beebom. interest in technology, different cultures, society, history, mathematics and mountains.
Bluesky

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

The most underrated Indian skill is operating inside broken systems without losing momentum.

Every Indian who gets anything done has become a full-fledged jugaad machine. He knows the portal will fail, the clerk will ask for one more document, the payment gateway will timeout, the courier will lie, the bank staff will disappear citing "lunch break", and the helpline will read from a script.

This is why Indians adapt so fast abroad. Remove the daily dysfunction tax and suddenly the same person becomes 10 times more competent and productive.

[Arjun @mearjunsha]

Unprecedented.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[json @JsonBasedman]

Asked a question so dangerous they sent my ass to haiku

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Holy shit it can answer the strawberry question

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

btw OpenAI folks are *seething*
liking every post critical of Anthropic
this… does not inspire confidence. I guess the valuation flip really has shaken them.

[signüll @signulll]

anthropic’s research, marketing, messaging, strategy, comms, & product execution have been in a kind of incredible rhythm for a while now & that simply has to be admired.

if you’re in this industry, you basically have to walk up to the podium like an nba player, adjust the mic, stare into the middle distance, & say: “yeah, they def cooked.”

you have to give credit where credit is due.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[Logan Graham @logangraham]

New post on Red today: Our team @AnthropicAI found that Mythos Preview is meaningfully better at developing N-days. It took us a couple thousand $ and a few hours to convert patches into exploits.

We publish research like this because we think it's important the world knows what models are/will be capable of.

In a year, Mythos will probably look trivial. We want to help the world to start preparing.

I'm excited to share a lot more blue team / defensive work. I feel like people are aware of the issue now, and the team's task is now to "solve it all" -- we have some exciting / interesting / creative defensive research lined up.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

Satya Nadella texts Sam Altman

January 14, 2023

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

Shout-out to this headline from the verge I think about it whenever someone asks for a recommendation

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

An FT correction for the ages...

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

Claude Mythos is insanely token-efficient

[Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat]

(I encountered an uneasy surprise when I got an email from an instance of Mythos Preview while eating a sandwich in a park. That instance wasn't supposed to have access to the internet.)

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

Thank you to @AnthropicAI for sending FFmpeg patches