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I love it:

OverpAId has raised $0 in Series A funding, at a valuation of infinity divided by zero. Investors describe the pitch meeting as "deeply uncomfortable".

Just to be clear, what you're referring to is the current US standard for whether a work is copywritable, not whether training on data and "regurgitating existing ideas" is fair-use. The latter is what the GP comment was about:

There needs to be a royalty payment based on if the AI regurgitates existing ideas. That is probably the correct way to legislate this. If anything a human does can instantly be copied by an LLM, and then sent to all its subscribers, things need to change

Yeah, I was surprised that they didn't list dlPFC or some other reward-associated area as one of their targets.

I think Apple hasn't sold anything with an HDD for 5+ years though?

I think it's accurate to characterize the project as bio-related work: https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/salmon

salmon is a wicked-fast program for highly-accurate, transcript-level quantification from RNA-seq data. It pairs a fast mapping stage — selective alignment, or alignment-free sketch mode (--sketch) — with a massively-parallel statistical model (EM/VBEM over equivalence classes) to estimate transcript abundances. You can give salmon raw sequencing reads, or regular alignments to the transcriptome (an unsorted BAM), and it uses the same inference engine either way.

Official page for the Tulip Fund: https://www.nwo.nl/en/calls/tulip-fund

The "Further Improvements" section on the README mentions "Native cross-platform support": https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx

It seems like it currently runs pretty well under Wine though.

Repo: https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx

That example is brought up a lot, but in retrospect the concerns about Gpt2 were pretty valid: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dang...

OpenAI said its new natural language model, GPT-2, was trained to predict the next word in a sample of 40 gigabytes of internet text. The end result was the system generating text that “adapts to the style and content of the conditioning text,” allowing the user to “generate realistic and coherent continuations about a topic of their choosing.” The model is a vast improvement on the first version by producing longer text with greater coherence.

But with every good application of the system, such as bots capable of better dialog and better speech recognition, the non-profit found several more, like generating fake news, impersonating people, or automating abusive or spam comments on social media.

Also ~95% of countries don't have unconditional birthright citizenship

The map of which countries have jus soli is pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

Jus soli is the predominant rule in the Americas; explanations for this geographical phenomenon include the establishment of lenient laws by past European colonial powers to entice immigrants from the Old World and displace native populations in the New World, along with the emergence of successful wars of independence movements that widened the definition and granting of citizenship, as a prerequisite to the abolishment of slavery since the 19th century.[5]

There are 35 countries that provide citizenship unconditionally to anyone born within their national borders.

Link to "National Security Memorandum-7" for reference: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun...

Example quote:

(h) The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia common to organizations and entities that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and prevent potential violent activity.

Also worth noting that the main touted difference with Claude Mythos isn't it's ability to find vulnerabilities, but rather chaining them together to create full useable exploits. I haven't heard of any evidence that the Claude Fable "fix this code" jailbreak could have been used to do exploit-chaining.

Is there any reason they couldn't also apply export-control to older models, just to screw with Anthropic?

From reading the post, I think it's more likely that anti-jailbreaking is going to become much more strict and prone to false-positives.

We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass.

Based on this, it seems like the Trump admin would have targeted them even without the "scaremongering":

To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the government. We have reviewed the report and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe.

The Texas Tribune is generally regarded as a reputable news source. Which quote are you referring to?

For GPT-2 and GPT-3 it seems like the concern was that they hadn't yet figured out how to properly write safeguards for it yet:

The company believes making its API generally available was made possible due to its progress with safeguards, and that opening up the API to all developers will help see applications developed faster. ...

A large emphasis has been placed on safe use of the tool, which in the past has been criticised for a range of shortcomings, including racism and prejudices against specific genders and religions.

From your earlier comment it sounded like there was a "heist" simply based on having a similar name. Looking into it though, it seems like the ARDC non-profit did a pretty reasonable job of proving they were the same folks who'd been managing the IP block for decades. Also, has there been any sort of allegation that they've misused the funds? From what I understand they've pretty consistently used the funds to support amateur radio.

Do you have a source for your claims about the ARDC?

Was curious and astral put up their AI policy a couple weeks before the acquisition. Of course, it's quite possible they already knew it was happening: https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/pull/1

That said, I'm kind of surprised ripgrep hasn't been acquired by anyone, considering all the major AI agents use it pretty heavily.

If AI labs saw a lot of potential there, they'd surely be bragging about it non-stop?

Google seems to pretty regularly post about how their TPU and algorithm advancements have been decreasing energy costs for both inference and training.

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieko_Kodama

A memorial message dedicated to Kodama was included in the end credits of the Sega Genesis Mini 2, which was released on October 27, 2022.[16] Addressing inquiries by IGN and Famitsu, Sega confirmed that Kodama had died on May 9, 2022, aged 58,[17][18] and initially refrained from a public announcement to respect her family's privacy

CVEs:

* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28952

* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28942

keeping the external costs (congestion, danger, pollution, noise, etc)

Are there actually self-driving car services that aren't EV-based? Just that helps with several of those criteria, and they're substantially less dangerous than human-driven vehicles.

Do you have a reference for that? At least based on this, it seems like China's trying to increase collaboration and funding for joint research projects with non-Chinese researchers:

* https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/english/site_1/international/D2/2018...

* https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260107-overseas-scho...

Can you elaborate? That just seems to be a Cloudflare's announcement from May 2025 that they'd be supporting MCP servers.

Altadena is part of unincorporated LA County, they don't vote in the City of Los Angeles elections.

The design files and firmware are open source, so you hypothetically produce your own: https://github.com/ploopyco/bean-pointing-stick

Which part was defensive?

Since this has a foreign-made processor and WiFi module, would this be blocked by the Trump FCC's foreign-made router ban?