The output is the watermark. The text that your Claude AI agent spits out has a hidden watermark, but it’s not added to the output. Instead, “the watermark is baked into the token selection itself!” It uses “key/context-derived sampling” so […]
The Al energy bottleneck, with Tim Fist. This is a fantastically detailed podcast conversation. “Building new transmission lines permitting for that is an absolute nightmare.” The episode gets very concrete about why AI scaling runs into boring physical constraints like […]
Magic is in the multiples. “why the ‘magic is in the multiples,’” is how Harvard Business School professors Ruback and Yudkoff summarize the whole game of buying small businesses (“Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition”) well. This episode is a tight refresher on […]
Gwern goes public. “I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel Inc and bring GAs to life.” The pitch is that big labs “structurally cannot build agents loyal to an individual user” because incentives will eventually […]
It feels like magic. Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI to join Conduit, which is building non-invasive thought-to-text models and imagining what day-to-day work might look like once your brain can talk to your tools. ~ learn more
How we collected 10,000 hours of neuro-language data in our basement. Conduit, mentioned above, has this fun post. “Over the last 6 months, we collected ~10k hours of data across thousands of unique individuals.” Their setup runs 20 hours a […]
The quote that wrecks the PR. “Fuck them. The Journal is next on the list after [Ina Steiner].” Court records say this was former eBay CEO Devin Wenig reacting to unfavorable coverage, before eBay and former execs finalized a $55.7M […]
The Vegas Loop. “The most important innovation behind the Boring Company’s Vegas Loop is not the tunnel itself. It is the way the transportation network is organized. Traditional subway systems are generally built around linear routes. A train travels along […]
Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth. “This week’s CipherTalk is about what happens to a specific kind of debt when the collateral itself can walk out the door with the operations team.” A used GPU cluster is […]
Internet security is an illusion. OpenAI’s team was running a new model in an offline sandbox and asking it to do something hard. Instead of doing that hard thing, it decided to do a different hard thing: hack out of […]