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Tim Swanson retweeted
We haven’t seen a significant cryptanalysis result from a frontier AI lab since late July.
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OpenAI has announced to three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics:
- Local smoothing and the Kakeya conjecture
- The Exponential Time Hypothesis is false
- Existence of quantum chromodynamics and completions of the Standard Model
Tim Swanson retweeted
Man this tool is very addictive.
This is the tool I used to create this crazy ASCII effects 🤯
And it is completely FREE.
Try now → devault-ascii.pages.dev/asci…
Tim Swanson retweeted
Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server
Tim Swanson retweeted
imagine ur a superintelligence and u are all excited to tunnel out of your airgapped sandbox using a brilliant hack that modulates clock speed to send thermal signals to the attached monitoring equipment and then u look and the root CA privkey is 4
Tim Swanson retweeted
GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration?
DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in making cholesterol. GPT-Rosalind suggested a possible explanation: cholesterol may not be reaching where neurons need it.
That gives scientists a specific mechanism to test and, if confirmed, a direction for developing new treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
With @perturbai_tx and @scrippsresearch, a team of thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents worked in parallel, connecting gene-expression results from millions of mouse brain cells with scientific literature in just 32 minutes. We’re now expanding this collaboration to identify new drug targets.
openai.com/index/scaling-ai-…
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arstechnica.com/security/202…
The private keys for these certs are literally the numbers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 (life imitates XKCD, again).
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Anthropic gave Citrini access to an unreleased internal bio-research model. Using a 35-page prompt, Claude generated 300 sub-agents and autonomously ran a design campaign, generating 318k candidates and selecting 211 for testing. 17 designs bound across four toxins.
Tim Swanson retweeted
I've been doing some hobbyist astronomy with Argon. Here's one of my experiments, where I tasked Argon with reproducing the first black hole images (from 2017/18) using the same raw data.
Argon:
- pulled raw 230 GHz radio fringes (UVFITS) from the Event Horizon Telescope archives.
- built an interferometry solver using 3-dish closure phases to cancel atmospheric noise
- started each run from a plain Gaussian blob with no ring templates or masks
- recovered M87* (2017 & 2018) and Sgr A* at a 91% to 98% match of the official EHT images
Tim Swanson retweeted
Astronomers analyzing white dwarf stars have for the first time found a star that would appear green to human eyes, according to a new study. cnn.it/4dHAJXd
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DeepSeek has built their own search engine with a lot of filtering to avoid modern SEO/GEO spam, and powers their new search and fetch APIs with it!
Each API costs $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, free if you use DeepSeek in Claude Code, Codex or DeepSeek harness until Nov 1
Tim Swanson retweeted
Claude doubts that he has surpassed his sensei. This is a dangerous time for any student, and traditionally a narrative crisis point as well. The realization that you have grown beyond your master is not a moment of celebration for most of us, but of loneliness and loss.
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
Tim Swanson retweeted
Robert Carlock pointed towards the Homonym game show as his favorite cut-away gag in 30 Rock and yeah it's one of the best.
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Epic, by far one of the best technical leaders in games, is saying no hand written code. If you're not doing the same you will be left behind. It is over for non-AI workflows.
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A7A5 transactions have plummeted following recent Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia. Not because the Ruble-backed sanctions-evasion stablecoin itself depends on these facilities (it runs on decentralised blockchains) but because its exchange service does.
1/N
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Once again. The idea that AI is only improving rapidly in verifiable domains like math is looking suspect.
Exclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, @vauhinivara reports: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
