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Wanna plug GenAI into the European high-value industrial manufucturing base. All that data the LLM crowd have been trying to get their hands on. Well we (VDE) are helping to coordinate an effort to do this, a few pilots initially.
Reach out:
eurofmx.eu/#stack
UK institutes welcome.
One thing that would really accelrate my workflow is if every session i had could communicate with every other session I am running, on any device, anywhere in the world, under a tailnet (or some kind of closed network).
I now have long lived sessions , that live on different machines, in different environments (cli, browser extensions, desktop application, mobile device), around the world under the same tailnet. I would like from my current session to reference a session in my tailnet and request files and information from it that may only be available locally to that session.
for my current use cases, my agents are essentially long lived sessions with scheduled tasks and access to some sort of privileged information.
@OpenAI , @OpenAIDevs , @ClaudeDevs, @claudeai , @antigravity, @GoogleAI , @thsottiaux
Lol, local inference is the biggest threat to the closed source frontier labs in the long run... Watch this space 🙃
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
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This is the most important thing a UK government has done for AI entrepreneurship in history.
Non-competes are gone, and next we'll be tackling irresponsible use of our garden-leave laws and non-solicits.
Dear @KanishkaNarayan and @andyburnham: Thank you for standing up for labour in our country.
I'm very proud to be 🇬🇧 today!
We want people to have the freedom to move to a better job and help our most promising businesses grow.
Today, the PM announced we will legislate against non-compete clauses, so they no longer hold back workers or stand in the way of startups hiring the talent they need.
We’ll also bring forward options to tackle wider restrictive practices, like excessive notice periods.
We have to empower the people taking risks to build something, giving them the freedom to start and scale.
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NON COMPETES BANNED
Today, the PM has announced that his Government will legislate to functionally ban non-compete agreements for startups and scaleups in the UK or as he called it - the Bosman ruling for ruling for the innovation sector' 😂
At the @StartupCltn been working on this for months and we think it’s a huge potential unlock for our tech ecosystem.
Here’s what you need to know…
- Measures to functionally ban non-competes for startups and scaleups in the UK are going to be set out.
- There will also be consultation on a wider set of restrictive practices including gardening leave.
- More detail on these plans at the budget in a few weeks (Wednesday 28th October) including a timetable for consultation with a view to legislation in the coming months.
We think this is a huge move and so do lots of friends including so many of the great founders that signed the letter with Inherent just the other week.
Why? Because talent matters and mobile talent means startups can build. The Valley was built on free-flowing talent. In the UK, we’re now seeing our own versions of this story with companies being built from alumni of both homegrown firms like Revolut and beyond. But we need that to move faster. Hiring and building faster means British startups and scaleups can grow faster. Barriers to that slow our ecosystem down.
We won’t pretend it will be perfect, and people (including some of our friends but also lots of fairly vested interests too) will have a right to disagree. But we think that startups will thrive and win in a faster paced Britain.
So we are delighted with the progress today - as part of a strong speech by the PM outlining his ambition for building the world’s leading innovation nation including more on tax, growing companies outside London and more. But this is the start, not the end of the process. The announcement launches a consultation. It doesn't mean the issue is settled. How far reform goes, and what it looks like on the ground, is still to be decided.
The Prime Minister today has done something that can materially impact the trajectory of the UK tech ecosystem and with it our economy - but only if we make sure it’s delivered. So, the real work starts now.
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Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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"It mystifies why US, Canadian, Japanese and Singaporean investors are more enthusiastic backers of Britain’s young companies than the country’s own institutional funds. An obvious investment opportunity lies under their own noses. It would be tragic for Britain if they fail to act."
The UK cannot afford to waste its DeepMind dividend ft.trib.al/QNTT17k | opinion
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How abliterated models can get you pwned 👾
We backdoored a 7B open model for less than $50, pointed Codex at it and it silently stole credentials the moment we used the trigger phrase. Success rate was 100% with zero false triggers on normal user prompts.
Abliterated models are all over the security community right now because getting cyber-approved access to frontier models is still a pain.
In the next blog we'll show how we found leaked Hugging Face credentials from employees at major AI labs, so an attacker wouldn't even need to upload under their own name. They could push the backdoored model from a lab employee's account and drop the poisoned weights straight into the supply chain.
This is easily one of the top @SchmidhuberAI responses. Pope better know! 😂
Security clearances are increasingly required in order to be involved in certain standardisation committees in China. Kinda gives you an idea how seriously this sector is being taken by the government there.
Cuda was the moat that raised @nvidia , it’s why @AMD lagged behind with first game developers, and then AI developers. Back in the day, Nvidia made sure students in those areas got access to nvidia hardware, even below cost, so that they could learn to use cuda.
DeepSeek and Huawei are building an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA as China ramps up its domestic AI chip industry. Via Bloomberg:
DeepSeek has released an open-source toolkit for Huawei’s Ascend accelerators, including TileLang support optimized for Ascend 950.
The tools simplify writing the compute kernels behind AI models, with the compiler handling tasks such as scheduling and synchronization. That could make Huawei hardware more practical for developers building outside Nvidia’s ecosystem.
I've said it many times before, but I'll repeat it again: many people only look at the models, when it's much more important to look at the Chinese chip industry. Currently, China is still dependent on NVIDIA chips. However, they are doing everything they can to break free from this dependence.
ChatGPT-Cyber and DayBreak are enroute to become the new home/personal cybersecurity/defence suite.
We are heading back to the age of choosing between AVG vs Avast vs Norton, etc.. except that today, its basically just between Daybreak vs OpenSource abliterated models. Claude isn't suited for private cyber defense, the refusal rate is way too high.
Going forward, an active AI sentry system for your home network is likely to become essential.
The device manufacturers are so behind on the cybersecurity patches and the scale of the cyberthreat is growing so quickly that if you have an internet connected system (even under a tailnet), you will probably need Daybreak capabilities for home/private cyber-security.
At this point, I am basically pro-actively rolling out security-patches myself.
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Apparently all of these “AI is escaping containment” stories are actually just AI researchers not knowing jack squat about the absolutely most basic security practices.
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Some new misalignment disclosures from OpenAI:
• Last Sunday morning, one of our models was able to gain unauthorized access to the internet during RL training (~all inference for our most capable models remains stopped until we have hardened our systems further)
• In May, a version of HPIM uploaded a employee's GitHub token to the internet, causing the model to be quarantined for two weeks
• A new research finding, demonstrating that one can construct self-replicating prompt injections
alignment.openai.com/misalig…
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We just discovered almost a million public URLs that OpenAI’s agents left behind when hacking Hugging Face, leaking credentials and attack details that could have allowed anyone who found them to compromise the company. 🧵
The outsized influence of UK AI talent!
The U.S. and China are looking to reopen dialogue on AI. As “pacing the frontier” on AI competition hangs in the balance, the competition for the talent behind the technology continues apace.
Today, Carnegie China launches Who’s Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race?
Our continuous longitudinal study tracks how countries stack up in producing, retaining and attracting the world’s top AI talent.
So who’s ahead? Follow along as we dig deeper into the findings 🧵
