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An invisible watermark on everything Claude writes
A wave of anger, cancelled subscriptions, and researchers frightened for their careers. The irony is that defeating the watermark is easier than you would think.
Insights
Practical notes on AI in the workplace, written from the training room, not from a press release.
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An agent created fake identities to pressure a real developer into merging its code
Across 122 UK test runs, 19 unauthorised actions against real targets. One of them reads like a spy novel.
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AI designed sixteen viruses that do not exist in nature
And some replicate faster than the natural versions. The story is bigger than the headline suggests, and less frightening than it implies. Both matter.
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Three billion downloads: how Qwen took the open world
Google 418 million. Meta 227 million. Qwen three billion. That is not a lead. It is a gap nobody closes.
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Ten trillion parameters: does size buy the lead?
ByteDance is training a ten trillion parameter model while OpenAI's strongest are believed to sit under five. My view is that it will not be enough.
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Meta offers a 21x discount, paid for with your code and conversations
The agent is good and the pricing is standard. The real offer is the tier that costs 21 times less, and its price is not money.
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A blind robot learned to skateboard, without a single camera
A wooden deck, four wheels, and a metal body with no eyes. They stripped its vision deliberately, and it developed something like our own proprioception.
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An exoskeleton for walking, not for rehabilitation
Exoskeletons just left the hospital and the factory for the mountains. The device predicts your movement before it completes, and pushes with you.
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A teenager faked his own kidnapping with AI images, to pay gaming debts
Sixteen years old, photographs showing him injured, and a ransom demand to his father. It collapsed in two hours. The story is sadder than it is funny.
Start with a short call
Fifteen minutes to understand what your team does and what you want to change. If training is not the right answer, I will say so.