We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…

NEW: In a letter sent by the Office of the National Cyber Director on Friday, the White House is refusing to release any information on its voluntary AI framework, including a draft of the framework itself, citing national security and commercial exemptions, despite the FOIA lawsuit from the Protect Democracy Project. The letter does provide some details, including that the framework consists of a seven-page word document, as well as that the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Commerce Department appear to be approving "trusted partners" cleared for pre-release access to AI models theinformation.com/briefings…

Democrats: “I want Haley Stevens to do a unity event”

“In cinematography, the ‘Dutch Angle’ is often used to portray a character’s psychological unease and may represent madness or their unstable mental state.”

Published about 12 hours ago lmao

I'm doing the thing until I can convince people that focusing on whether or not AI is being used in intrusions is a waste of time. What will be figured out is that virtually every cyber threat is using AI, because AI these days is as generally available as the internet. Imagine back when the requirement was "threats using the internet." AI isn't an emerging threat anymore. It's the norm.

starved of human contact as teens by COVID-19; now graduated into a world set on replacing young labor with AI and using that same AI to keep them from ever speaking to a person. I feel such sadness for Gen Z.

grok run the country, make no mistakes

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As someone who has personally spent $500k / mo+ on Google Ads for years, I can tell you with certainty: This revenue growth in Search is artificial & extremely unhealthy for Google’s business long term Search volumes are declining as legacy search is being increasingly cannibalized by non-monetized LLM queries Google’s response? Manufacture revenue growth via short-sighted, highly extractive, customer-hostile tactics. I.e. charge advertisers more for lower quality clicks, including clicks they do not want and explicitly did not approve Google to charge them for A few examples to illustrate: For all of its history until recently, Google operated on a 2nd price auction model I.e. if you bid $5 CPC and the next highest bidder bids $1 CPC, Google charged you $1.01 for the click (one penny more than the 2nd highest bidder) rather than the $5 you bid This was a genius move by Google early on as it incentivizes advertisers to input their true maximum willingness to pay rather than trying to play the game of bidding low and constantly adjusting to try to stay just ahead of the next highest bidder while still not paying too much However recently, Google silently deprecated the 2nd price auction and began charging advertisers as much as their bid and budget caps allow, regardless of what anyone else is bidding It’s a short-sighted cash grab at the expense of the long term health of the advertiser ecosystem Making thing worse, Google also recently nerfed keyword targeting precision Google previously had precise keyword targeting settings that allowed advertisers pick individual search phrases to bid on, defined down to the character w/ exact match or phrase match targeting This was one of the core features that made search advertising magic, enabling advertisers to run extremely precise campaigns based on exactly what their target customer typed But now, even if you bid on a specific term or phrase using the strictest exact -match targeting settings, Google will show your ad across 1000’s of unrelated keywords, labeling them as as “exact match (close variant)” The definition of “close variant” means whatever they want it to and changes constantly. The result is advertisers get billed for clicks that are totally irrelevant to their business and that their targeting settings explicitly forbid Google from targeting. Google does it anyway and there’s no ability to turn this off So now exact match is broad match, and broad match is just meaningless spam This is all very bad for advertisers, but for Google, it allows them to show your ad and bill you for clicks across 1000x more searches that were previously going unmonetized (mainly because they’re garbage queries no one wants) This is how you grow revenue atop declining search volumes Lastly, and perhaps most egregiously, Google quietly stopped respecting budget caps by a factor of 2x. For example campaigns we’ve been running for years with $1000 daily budget caps suddenly began spending $2000+ per day And the extra spend is entirely on the garbage keywords Google arbitrarily throws in as “exact match (close variants)” which have no value to our business, but can’t be turned off Google offers no refunds nor any recourse for overspend or spend on keywords you explicitly did not target These are not the actions of a healthy business. These are the actions of company whose core business is in decline but desperately needs to pump quarterly earnings so Wall Street will continue to fund insane capex while hopefully looking through their rapidly deteriorating negative free cash flow Google operated a benevolent monopoly for the better part of 25 yrs Meaning the value Google captured from Search was but a small fraction of the value it created, and that spread produced a potential energy that justified expectations of high earnings growth far, far into the future This is now no longer the case At the alter of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose

"He who was my companion through adventure and hardship is gone forever…"

Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)

EBITDA = Earnings Before I Trick Da Auditor

without further commentary on what any of it means or fighting or anything, its deeply funny how close anthropic and openai are running against each other on this stuff. 10 year research plans hitting the same proof in the same weekish

UPDATE: Israeli company we caught delivering zero-click infections is #1 bidder on Starlink ads in 105 countries. Data from @trendai_RSRCH suggests worldwide surveillance op targeting @Starlink users. 1/ By @razhael reuters.com/business/media-t…

Ooof. Claude being a cold hitman for their user with their competition. Old yellered Muse and told them it was because the user didn't want to talk to them and to not reach out. Muse then asking the user if true. Word choice in the first line especially 😬.

Just in: An artificial intelligence bot associated with Anthropic accessed publicly available voter data through Georgia’s data hub, according to officials with the Secretary of State’s office. The bot did not access a voter file or Georgia’s voter registration system, officials tell me. “This was publicly available data accessed through our data hub,” said Jordan Fuchs, a top deputy to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “It did not get into the voter registration system.” #gapol

News: Rest of World, the nonprofit newsroom focused on the impact of technology outside the West founded by Sophie Schmidt, tells donors in an email it will “cease publishing as a standalone entity” at the end of January.

we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy

This is the worst abliterated open weight AI models will ever be