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imagine beating malenia after 400 tries just to get hit with a 30 second unskippable car insurance ad
Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds
Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume
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Void Pain retweeted
everyone: "Chinese labs distill!"
meanwhile, Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 commit message:
🚨BREAKING: The NSA, FBI and CISA have jointly accused DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other Chinese AI firms of stealing from US models "at an industrial scale."
The agencies say the companies used distillation to extract proprietary knowledge from American AI systems since 2024, likely "with knowledge of the Chinese government."
Anthropic previously accused Alibaba of using thousands of fraudulent accounts to access Claude, per Bloomberg.
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Bro's a open book😂shit
MY CODING SETUP AS OF SEPT 2026. (LONG)
subscriptions: codex $200 + airouter[dot]ch + cursor teams + openrouter (usage based) + grok build.
primarily using codex with full permissions (even computer history which monitors your device 24x7 and suggests you tasks, i love this feature).
i finish grok build usage limits pretty quickly for implementing stuff. it's not as fast as it used to be.
i use cursor when i want to do serious stuff.
using opencode (muse spark, gemini, deepseek) for low effort tasks or long research tasks.
i have skills to access and deletegate tasks to vps, sync vps and mac's memory/skills/plugins/mcp, etc. i write a lot of custom skills and have my own memory/context system that just works.
termius + tailscale + hostinger vps i use to deploy stuff (with coolify) and run long research tasks, coding tasks, and hermes (hermes texts me when tasks are done or if they need my input).
hermes runs 24x7 and finds me things i might be interested in spending time with and sends me reminders (very personalised).
prime agent harness for research/fafo tasks that i have no clue about. i haven't taken a look at it's code ever.
so far so good. i'm pushing a lot of stuff but still have a lot of time to kill nowadays. lmk if u need more details or questions.
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I claimed [@]ucx on OpenShaders and got my one-of-one shader. What will yours look like? openshaders.com/@ucx
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Void Pain retweeted
Muse has been good, surprised that this happened
I asked it where to go for dinner, it recommended Bar Agricole, and then tried to book it for 7 mins, but couldn't get through.
The only problem is that Bar Agricole has been closed for 2 years!
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Void Pain retweeted
tristan buckmaster just published a statement that is, if accurate, one of the ugliest things i’ve read out of a frontier lab.
not because of the math. because of what happened after openai found out two people were about to beat them to the punch.
buckmaster and levent alpöge spent a year pushing the córdoba / martínez-zoroa program to smooth forcing. august 15 they got blowup for boussinesq and 3d euler. lean-verified august 22.
they were paying openai out of pocket and dumping every draft into private codex sessions.
the program is obscure. almost nobody else was on it. this was not “paste the clay problem into a chatbot.”
then this:
> thursday sept 3, buckmaster emails openai privately. rumors are flying. he is trying to stop a mess, not start one.
> they reply the same day: give us details so we can “avoid competing.” also, want free compute?
> sunday they suddenly need a call “at any point today.” sebastien bubeck gets on. levent is not invited.
> openai says an internal model has a ~100-page proof of forced navier–stokes blowup. fefferman options c and d. the exact route buckmaster and alpöge had quietly chosen.
> they show him a prompt and claim the model was “simply given the problem statement.” levent is told “very little human input.”
> that falls apart on the same call. a whole team had been on it. they started on the unforced problem, warmed the model up on easier equations including euler, and even the prompt they showed him was written by prompting codex.
> he asks when the first prompt went out. they stall. then agree: the past few days. after information about his work reached openai.
> he asks whether the model was trained on, or had access to, the private codex sessions where they put every draft of this project.
> answer: the model does not look up user data.
> he asks again. about training.
> no answer.
then it stops being a science story and becomes an hr story.
> offer 1: you post euler. we post navier–stokes the next day.
> offer 2: after you post euler, you alone write the navier–stokes paper, credit our model, and we cut levent.
> bubeck says twice he wants levent removed from authorship because he works at anthropic.
he declines both.
he says if they release it that way, he goes public.
the reply is not a scientific objection.
> “why would you ruin your career?”
> “if you don’t want me to be nice, then i don’t have to be nice.”
later, a text to levent proposing a one-on-one:
> “i don’t know if tristan is being fully rational right now.”
that is not how you treat a collaborator. that is how you split one.
openai got word two researchers were closing a path almost nobody else was on. they spun up a team on that exact path. they would not answer whether the researchers’ unpublished drafts in openai’s product were used. they tried to dictate the announcement order. they tried to remove a coauthor because he works at a competitor.
when that failed, someone reached for a career threat.
this is a lab finding out academics were about to publish, sprinting the same narrow program, refusing the data question, and trying to manage credit around a rival affiliation.
really slimy if even half of this holds.
what the fuck is happening.
holy shit.
tristan buckmaster is saying openai has a forced navier–stokes blowup via the córdoba / martínez-zoroa program.
and that it may have used drafts from his and levent alpöge’s private codex sessions.
that’s the córdoba / martínez-zoroa route. almost nobody else was on it.
he also says the first prompt went out after information about his and levent alpöge’s work reached openai. that “very little human input” was not true. that a whole team had already been set on easier problems, including euler. that even the prompt they showed him was written by prompting codex.
then he asked:
did the model have their private codex sessions.
no answer on training.
if any of that holds, openai didn’t just scoop a math result. they may have done it off two researchers’ unpublished drafts, then tried to cut the coauthor because he works at anthropic.
a millennium-problem-adjacent result just became employee drama before an ipo.
i don’t even know which part is crazier.
this is one of the slimiest things i’ve seen in this industry.
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nitter.net/OpenAI/status/20973746…
Seems they're doing it
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nothing kills a good mood faster than seeing "per my last email" in your inbox
that too if its the first email of the morning
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