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Spectre retweeted
Today, we’re sharing updates from the team on memory improvements, including work that makes experiences on 8 GB @Windows 11 PCs faster and more responsive.
Windows quality is an ongoing journey. We’ll keep listening, building on what we learn, and sharing our progress 🚀. blogs.windows.com/windowsexp…
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New Anthropic research: progress on provable inference for large language models.
Here, we introduce FlashProve. Building on established cryptographic techniques, FlashProve allows developers to verify whether a given response came from a given AI model. It’s substantially more efficient than prior open-source methods for doing so.
These proofs have a range of applications. They can, for instance, make it harder for attackers to hijack a chat, or enable safety evaluators to verify that the model they’re testing is the same one being served to customers.
For our full write-up, see here: anthropic.com/research/prova…
Further progress in provable inference will likely be an important part of improving trust in AI deployment. To that end, we're open-sourcing FlashProve’s code, here: github.com/anthropics/FlashP…
We’re grateful to our collaborators: Alessandro Chiesa, @GiacomoFenzi, @gwberg95, @miranda__christ, Rahul Dalal (rdalal.github.io) and Ben Mayer (@transmissions11).
ChatGPT hit 1.2 billion weekly active users, up 200 million in two months, per Big Technology.
Consumer product lead Adam Fry says search volume is already about 20% of Google's.
ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is ~20% of Google's (@kantrowitz / Big Technology)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
$25.5M of aave and $25.85M of wld in 10 days, almost a perfect 50/50. that's a rebalancing script, not a panic
Spectre retweeted
It’s so funny that SQLite is genuinely faster than most traditional filesystems.
I wish there were more experimental operating systems using dbs for the backend. Not many people playing around in this space...
tether, same morning: owns 150k btc, helps freeze the hacker's funds. crypto's central bank and its police now
Apple Q4: $114.48B revenue, up 12% YoY, beating the $113.39B estimate.
iPhone carried it at $57.58B (+17%). Services grew 10% to $31.57B but just missed its $31.58B est.
Per Apple and 9to5Mac, via Techmeme.
Spectre retweeted
Applications are now open for the Anthropic Residency, a paid, fixed-term research program for academics, technical founders, and staff-level engineers who want to make AI safe and beneficial for everyone. No ML background is required.
Apply by November 22: alignment.anthropic.com/2026…
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SPEAKING TAGALOG AS 'MOST USELESS TALENT'
Filipino-born chess grandmaster Wesley So has a surprising answer when asked about his least useful skill.
bnc.bilyonaryo.com/wesley-so…
