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My team in GDM Frontier AI is hiring (Mountain View). If you're a researcher interested full duplex modeling, multimodal LLMs (Gemini), modality gap, joint speech/text modeling, PGMs, streamable generative models, and representation learning for language modeling -- DM me!
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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WHAT?! We can’t believe that we’ve passed $1,000,000 raised for this campaign—thank you all so, so much, we’re just in awe!
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Removed all of the samsung spyware from my TV with Codex (Claude refused to root the tv lol)
It's insane how much bloat samsung packs into their TVs to track you and sell your data. Here's just some of what I turned off that made my tv 3x faster:
- screenshot your screen a few times a second to see what you're streaming and fingerprint you to sell your data
- reading your hdmi inputs to do the same thing while you have a game console plugged in
- Voice assistants: Bixby wake-word detectors listening and tracking what you say in your house
Before and after speed of my TV:
A lot is being made of the fact that Dessa was trained only on human conversations, without any text or pretrained models.
First, dGSLM (arxiv.org/abs/2203.16502) already did this in 2022 with just 2k hours of Fisher data. Vendors now provide thousands of hours of high-quality 2-channel dialog off-the-shelf.
Second, why do you even want to do this? Humans spent hundreds of thousands of years before inventing writing systems, and then optimized it over 5k years to store knowledge very efficiently. dGSLM had to train only on dialogs because at the time, we didn't know have unified models that could train jointly on text and speech, but this problem was solved by autoregressive transformers. You can cut your training ~10x by letting the model learn from text first, then spoken dialog, like Moshi (and basically every other modern S2S model). Different != smart.
Making very natural chit-chat bots is not where the frontier lies. Demos are cool, but the real challenge is intelligence, agentic behavior, and delegation. I would have been blown away if the naturalness was accompanied by GPT-Live style function calling, but alas!
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Hi all, I have a new result I'm excited to share. It turns out that *all existing implementations* of softmax and cross-entropy (that's JAX, PyTorch, textbooks, etc) have a subtle bug --- two bugs, actually. A simple rewrite fixes both, and eliminates "slingshots" when grokking:
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
This is a painful but needed reminder for some that humans write shit software, too. The surface area will get scrubbed clean, and the old addage from @esrtweet that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" will finally come true.
They'll just be non-biological eyes.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Gemini 4 Argon leads GPU optimization on Isoquant's new Inference Engineering Benchmark: a 4.38× mean speedup across 9 tasks, ahead of GPT-6 Astra (3.71×) and Muse Wonder 1.0 (3.66×).
We evaluate how well AI models improve inference performance across 15 tasks. 🧵
So let's talk about Gemini 4 Argon..
I've been using it for around ~2weeks. 329 sessions. 5.86 billion tokens. 404 hours of Argon working on its own.
I went through every single log to write the most honest review I could.. the good, the weird and what it still needs to fix 🧵
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Kudos to the @GoogleDeepMind team. Gemini 4 Argon is a hell of a model. It's incredible. For quite a while, it's been the first model where I have the feeling that, even with strictly regulated QA and auto testing involving professional implementations harnessed by strict workflow instructions via agents.md, it's a model that I can blindly rely on.
It came just in the right time because, I was in the finishing phase, polishing and doing large-scale quality and security testing of a project that I worked on for more than a year.
After the experience of the past two days, I will definitely upgrade my second-class ultra account again to the first-class ultra account because I will need the weekly quota. That's the only model that I'm willing to fully trust right now!
It's really a huge relief for myself because, even with Anthropic models and GLM, I literally read almost every reasoning line of the output, because sometimes I read really freakish things. I often had to interrupt the models in actions that would have been, not always catastrophic, but definitely regressive.
After working 3 days and getting stuff done that would have needed 10 days in GLM 5.3, or a week with Anthropic models, I can really relax, sit back, and watch Gemini 4 Argon do the stuff really quickly and reliably.
It's an absolute blast to work with this model. I would not trust the Gemini Flash model for this type of work.
Definitely not, but Argon is in another class. Google really delivered with it. I don't care what some one-shot wipe coding 3D gimmicks might look like in Argon compared to Opus 5.5. I worked with all of these models, and I know whch one to pick for relaible coding. Nothing comes close to Argon for serious engineering work. It's not even close.
I am not comparing model intelligence. I'm comparing reliability. To me, the ability and also willingness of the model to tightly follow a proven workflow framework is the most important aspect of reliability.
Exactly this is where the Anthropic models started to fail big time. Anthropic tried to whitewash this by saying, "Hey, you need to adapt your agents.md files and use different prompts," but I call BS and think there is a deeper structural flaw in their RL process (and also in them polishing their models for more spectacular vibe coding and one-shotting of things).
I'm so glad that Google did not do this. GLM 5.3 is better at following instructions than the Anthropic models, but due to the shallower depth and intelligence that it has, you cannot compare it to Argon.
Right now, I also have to revoke my recommendation from the GLM Coding Max plan, definitely in favor of the Ultra plan of Google, because if you really want structured, fast, reliable, professional code engineering, Gemini 4 Argon is the way.
BUT....
None of the things that I did in the past 3 days, I could have done so successfully with a lobotomizing context cap that Antigravity has on the Google models: 230 thousand tokens. Did the Antigravity team forget this limitation from previous models?
Or are you out of your minds and this is intentional?
I patched it to 980,000 tokens, and Argon is by far the best senior engineer that I have worked with, let's say, for 2 years or so, but only without the context cap.
If you are not aware of it, fix it. I mean, not for me. I solved the issue, and if any Antigravity user wants, I can have Gemini write the recipe for how you can patch it.
i'm sorry what
Replying to @astuyve
Oh god:
The p384 private keys are randomly selected integers between 1 and 256, the private keys are effectively all-zeroes apart from the last byte
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Linux on the M6 Mac Mini, Day 4:
HDMI works, and the Linux kernel boots.
My agents have to reconfigure or in some cases build from scratch every driver because of the updates Apple has made with the M6.
Next - getting the storage drivers properly binding to the hardware.
A self-driving Tesla crashed into a California highway patrol vehicle, seriously injuring two officers inside.
According to the officers, the driver said he was asleep at the time and using the car’s driver-assistance technology.
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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents, one shared Minecraft world, one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon. 27 hours and 2,783 self-written programs later, the dragon fell.
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A lot of people, including Theo, have called Gemini 4 Argon unusable for real code work.
So I asked it to refactor the entire Gothic Victorian Carriage 3D website it built and make whatever improvements it thought were necessary. Entirely on its own. 🫡
It literally turned a 4,290 line monolithic HTML file into modular ES6 architecture, replaced 25MB of blocking base64 JavaScript with binary glb streaming, eliminated per-frame Vector3 allocations and DOM layout reads, and shared GPU buffers across wheel pairs.
All without changing a single pixel, that too in one attempt. You can see performance below.
I'm not sure how everyone is using Argon but it really isn't "unusable" lol
Btw, you can check whole codebase here, open sourced:
github.com/thebuggeddev/carr…
Gemini 4 Argon from @Google on ARC-AGI (Verified):
- ARC-AGI-3: 97.5%, $4.8K (provider adapter harness), 49.8%, $5.8K (standard harness)
- ARC-AGI-2: 91.3%, $0.32/task
- ARC-AGI-1: 98.5%, $0.16/task
Google DeepMind is the second frontier AI lab to score above 95% on ARC-AGI-3.

































