I used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher to one of Napoleon's generals that had gone unread for 217 years. What makes this impressive isn't actually the codebreaking, but that Astra completed the entire multi-modal workflow in ~6 hours from a single image and goal. 1/6🧵
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“Agents fork, not pivot” is a golden lesson from our ML friends.
It came from a talk about agentic attack/test that had this line: "agents fork, not pivot"
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This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet. 🌐 Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.
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don't become so obsessed with making it a certain way that you end up never making it at all
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Amazing talk and project. Highly recommend watching @maxbittker’s full presentation and playing with rs-sdk. The most familiar, interesting, and easy to configure sandbox for multi-agent interactions that I've ever used.
This slide came directly from chatting with @OfirPress - he had mentioned that the hardest part of his job is building benchmarks that are compelling, legible, and worth paying attention to
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This slide came directly from chatting with @OfirPress - he had mentioned that the hardest part of his job is building benchmarks that are compelling, legible, and worth paying attention to
Max gave a great talk last week, super creative benchmark!
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The old world is dead, ladies and gentlemen. Nobody has 20 years of experience in what comes next. We’re all learning. The playing field is wide open. Light a fire under your ass and go build something. It’s Monday. Run through a fucking brick wall. Let’s go 🔥 🔥🔥
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This is what most people don’t understand about corporate management Weekly I’m involved in a meeting or a conversation that would totally ruin the average persons day, week, month, quarter ect Just gotta be like a duck and let the water flow off your back and keep it moving I don’t let any of these things occupy my brain space for more than 30 minutes max After that it’s purely execution mode Makes life so much damn easier to me simply because that’s how I frame the problem to my reality Small deal to you, small deal to them Big deal to you, big deal to them Remember this
Corporate life is realizing your job requires more emotional regulation than technical skill
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Here’s what we’re cooking with Codex: nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1RKZzBELB…
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"I have plenty of time" goes so hard...
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The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
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Auburn head coach Alex Golesh after upsetting No. 1 Georgia😤 “Not a one would walk a day in your f****** shoes. Not a one! So why would you listen to them?”
College Football Enthusiast
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The backlog is shifting from producing plausible solutions to verifying and contextualizing them, which will only rapidly increase the need for domain experts. Seeing this trend more broadly.
Replying to @CarterWChurch
@CarterWChurch and I were just featured in @Nature. History’s long-secret codes are being cracked by amateurs using AI nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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AI cracks centuries-old ciphers. A Napoleon Bonaparte wartime missive written in code went unsolved for more than 200 years -- until AI cracked it in a matter of hours. AI is helping non-specialists unlock the secrets of historical sources, a trend described as a "turning point" in a field previously the preserve of scholars and dedicated hobbyists u.afp.com/SCsX
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You can automate work, but you can’t automate accountability. Humans are the architects of these systems. If they're not doing work for us then why are we building them in the first place? Anything less is a failure on our part.
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This quote from Steve Jobs lives rent free in my head... "People who are genuinely great at something don't compete. They don't care about being compared to others because they're so deep in their own lane that comparison would be a waste of time. They just do their thing."
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Was literally just about to announce that I'd used Opus 5.5 to decode these! It's amazing how there are specific low hanging fruit for historical ciphers that frontier models are converging on. Kudos to @prinz, you beat me by literally an hour! I was finishing up just now...
I have used GPT-6 Astra to decipher two Catholic League letters from 1593, written by Thibault Desportes, the secretary to the Duke of Mayenne. To my knowledge, these letters have never been deciphered before. Desportes wrote these letters to Pope Clement VIII's nephew Pietro Aldobrandini (who was responsible for French affairs in Rome) and to Mayenne's agent in Rome, Girolamo Frachetta, just as Mayenne's war against the Protestant French king Henry IV was beginning to unravel. The letters were written 3 days before Henry converted to Catholicism in a bid to be recognized as the rightful ruler of France by the Pope and the French nobility. (You may have heard the expression "Paris is well worthy of a Mass", which Henry allegedly offered as the reason for his conversion.) In these letters, Desportes accuses the Pope of favoring Spanish interests over those of France and explains why a truce between the Catholic League (headed by Mayenne) and Henry IV would become inevitable following Henry IV's conversion. Some really interesting details: - Desportes names the exact price that Henry IV accepted to convert to Catholicism: 500,000 écus. - Just two months after these letters were written, Frachetta betrayed Mayenne by handing over Desportes' correspondence to the Spanish ambassador. These letters may explain why he did it: Desportes writes to Frachetta that Mayenne is unable to pay for Frachetta's services allegedly because funds for this payment had to come from a third party (a prelate) and "this is no time to take anything" from these funds. - The letter to Frachetta reads like a piece of detective fiction, with elaborate code words used for names of various parties in Rome involved in an anti-Spanish conspiracy ("our friend at the college", "the man of La Chesne", "our uncle"). You can view the ciphers, their translations to French, and the translation from French to English (with significant historical notes included) at: prinzai.com/desportes-1593/
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Another promising application of 6 Astra & 6.1 Sol's vision capabilities
I have used GPT-6 Astra to decipher two Catholic League letters from 1593, written by Thibault Desportes, the secretary to the Duke of Mayenne. To my knowledge, these letters have never been deciphered before. Desportes wrote these letters to Pope Clement VIII's nephew Pietro Aldobrandini (who was responsible for French affairs in Rome) and to Mayenne's agent in Rome, Girolamo Frachetta, just as Mayenne's war against the Protestant French king Henry IV was beginning to unravel. The letters were written 3 days before Henry converted to Catholicism in a bid to be recognized as the rightful ruler of France by the Pope and the French nobility. (You may have heard the expression "Paris is well worthy of a Mass", which Henry allegedly offered as the reason for his conversion.) In these letters, Desportes accuses the Pope of favoring Spanish interests over those of France and explains why a truce between the Catholic League (headed by Mayenne) and Henry IV would become inevitable following Henry IV's conversion. Some really interesting details: - Desportes names the exact price that Henry IV accepted to convert to Catholicism: 500,000 écus. - Just two months after these letters were written, Frachetta betrayed Mayenne by handing over Desportes' correspondence to the Spanish ambassador. These letters may explain why he did it: Desportes writes to Frachetta that Mayenne is unable to pay for Frachetta's services allegedly because funds for this payment had to come from a third party (a prelate) and "this is no time to take anything" from these funds. - The letter to Frachetta reads like a piece of detective fiction, with elaborate code words used for names of various parties in Rome involved in an anti-Spanish conspiracy ("our friend at the college", "the man of La Chesne", "our uncle"). You can view the ciphers, their translations to French, and the translation from French to English (with significant historical notes included) at: prinzai.com/desportes-1593/
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Check out how the team at @SentinelOne uses Pydantic Evals to score their security agents.
A 95% match rate between an AI agent's verdict and an analyst's can still mask pattern-matching behavior. Carter Church & Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro explain why SentinelOne builds security agents backwards from evaluation, testing competency by competency to confirm real investigative reasoning: sentinelone.com/blog/buildin…
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