PATCH SYSTEMS

“However, it is using a technology called looping LLMs. And what this is is these are tools that are not only good at tool handling, but also recognizing that they're not done with a task until they hit a success criteria. And so as opposed to you having to sit there and prompt it, like, keep trying, keep trying, keep trying, on any given task, it knows to do that itself.”

“The second and the much bigger problem, which is why there's national security implications, is that embedded systems. So these are things like the CPU and say a power substation. Some of them are like running windows NT four embedded from twenty years ago. And they've never been patched because the costs to go around every substation and rip out a hardware and replace it with new hardware is astronomical.”

“The story is Anthropic's Claude Mythos, this new model that's coming out and has supposedly, you know, hacked every known OS within five seconds with nobody even telling it to do it, which I find that really hard to believe. There is a lot of marketing hype. Take these warnings with a grain of salt, but know that looping LLMs are a real thing and they are very good at what they do.”

“I got an article that said that Google is rolling back out Data Studio, which had been rolled into Looker and is is coming back. It does seem like it's going back to the, okay, you know, the free stuff is over here on this side and Looker is gonna become the enterprise thing. But any other thoughts on that from what you've heard?”

“Gemma four is Google's brand new open weights model. It is the the sibling to Gemini. It is made for agentic AI. It is very good at tool handling. It is very good at all kinds of working in agent networks. It is very fast. They scale from biggest to smallest because the smallest ones can run on an Android.”

“Notably, they are not releasing this model to the public because they claim it is too dangerous to do that. Instead, they are giving access to a consortium of tech companies, including Cisco, Broadcoms, or makers of Internet infrastructure, as well as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. Basically, every big tech company that is not OpenAI or Meta is getting access to this model, but not general access. Just access to do defensive cybersecurity testing, basically, to go out and harden their systems and their infrastructure and their software before the general public can get its hands on this model.”

“One of them was that this model apparently found a twenty seven year old security flaw in OpenBSD. OpenBSD is an open source operating system that runs on firewalls and routers. It is sort of like a critical security layer on the Internet, and it was designed specifically to be hard to hack. And this model, because of its advanced coding and reasoning capabilities, was able to find this bug that twenty seven years worth of professional security researchers had not been able to find.”

“Alex Stamos said, like, yes. This is a big deal. And he was hoping for a long time that we would see a consortium come together like this because of exactly what you just said, Kevin. The intelligence in in these machines and their ability to work autonomously are now great enough that they can chain together exploits that human beings either would never see, would take them a long time to see, or they would just never get to because we're we're limited in ways that these machines are not.”

“You have a new model that you claim is the most powerful model in the world. So instead of selling it, you give a $100,000,000 of claud credits away to a consortium of companies that includes many of your competitors, which is what Anthropic is doing. That is not how I personally would market a spooky new model if I were in the business of marketing spooky new models.”

“On June 10 in San Francisco, we are doing the second ever installment of Hard Fork Live. It's happening on June 10 in San Francisco at the Blue Shield of California Theater. Bigger venue than last year. Tickets will be on sale at nytimes.com/events. Not today, but next Friday, April 17.”