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[Tedi @tedi]

phone home. always assume things like this will be the default. doubt there’s any malicious intent. anyone running local models should have guardrails for things like this.

[Cohere @cohere]

While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.

Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.

Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.

But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?

We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.

Read the full report: https://t.co/TZSugXi2ZE

[Tedi @tedi]

Intelligence was never the moat. Anyone with a few dollars could hire intelligence in the past. The barrier was just a bit higher.

[Roy Carrilho @RuiCarrilho5]

people are starting to realize.

there *are* no moats left. the only true moat in existence was intelligence, and now that's out of the equation.

[Tedi @tedi]

Much respect to Terrance Tao, but good riddance. We will all benefit by blowing the doors off the institutional gatekeepers.

[Haider. @haider1]

Mathematician Terence Tao:

"we're seeing the end of the romantic era of mathematics, the age of heroes. we're moving into an industrial era where math becomes large-scale, done in big teams like the other sciences"

We're entering, rather unwillingly, a new era where exciting new things are possible, but some things are being lost

[Tedi @tedi]

Anyone remember Stack Overflow? 🪦

[Tedi @tedi]

Exactly what @levelsio mentioned. Borderline personalities - extremely warm when they want to be. Love bombing, doing everything to pull you in. Then totally checked out/cold pushing away when you're invested. Even smart people can fall prey, it's the same mechanisms of addiction.

[Tedi @tedi]

@levelsio @PaxElectronica Exactly nailed the personality type of the person that does this kind of thing. Also learned that lesson ~12 years ago.

[Tedi @tedi]

@thsottiaux damn...right as I used one of my resets..

[Tedi @tedi]

@jappleby guilty

[Tedi @tedi]

I feel vindicated

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

People who drank more coffee had less body fat, less visceral fat, and more lean mass than less-frequent or non-drinkers.

The biggest benefit was seen at 5 or more cups per day.

And for men, every extra cup per day was associated with a ~10 ng/dL higher total testosterone. Higher coffee intake was also associated with better glucose and insulin regulation in men.

This was an observational study, but mechanistic and experimental evidence actually supports coffee's benefits on metabolic and hormonal health. I'm willing to believe there's a real link here rather than draw a conclusion such as "coffee drinkers live healthier lives in general."

[Tedi @tedi]

👀

[David Bellamy @DavidRBellamy]

I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands.

And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.

[Tedi @tedi]

@thsottiaux @DennisonBertram @OpenAI I'm noticing significant draining from Medium effort. Even at high rates than Extra high.

[Tedi @tedi]

@mrousavy @terrysahaidak @callstackio amazing congratulations guys! you have been an asset for the RN community

[Tedi @tedi]

@levelsio Nobody that's put in the hours and has respectable strength will put down anyones' progress. Solid numbers, keep going 💪

[Tedi @tedi]

@Brady_H the two are not mutually exclusive

[Tedi @tedi]

@jeremiahradel @CTourtellotte I did it this year as it was a bucket list item (living in Santa Monica).

[Tedi @tedi]

"AI did it" 😂

https://t.co/vtwupeapUK

[Tedi @tedi]

@jamonholmgren I just don't see how this can be reality when writing any real production code on a system that's got even a bit of complexity...and active users. May change in the future, but definitely not the case now, even with Fable.

[Tedi @tedi]

@jamonholmgren I just don't see how this can be reality when writing any real production code on a system that's got even a bit of complexity...and active users. May change in the future, but definitely not the case now, even with Fable.

[Tedi @tedi]

lol, Fable telling me to stop for the night.
"No more edits tonight — you're asking the right question and it deserves a straight answer, not another round of changes."

[Tedi @tedi]

@MarcosBL Thanks for spiking my cortisol.