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It's 2026 though.

Break into your comma? Google-fu is letting me down on this one

Threat intel of the IP or network you're coming from matter as much as anything else. FirefoxLinux on a clean IP can access places ChromeWindows on a dirty high-risk IP cannot.

Store and restaurant apps, discord, streaming apps, most games, payment apps, apps for school, ride-sharing. I tried the "degoogle" way and tossed after two days because that's impossible unless you're willing to adopt a more expensive boomer/millennial lifestyle.

What's to say it "can't" think? These are not tasks you can do without thinking.

You don't need to imagine words, sounds, or pictures to absorb information. There's the live image of the text, but you don't need visualization.

Horrific. Wikipedia is one of the very few large entities on the web left that are not actively harming the species.

I see the mm indicator on my phone in most cities.

Why would it be ripped out?

This is not even remotely settled law yet, what an absolute falsehood!

It will take years for the hundreds of jurisdictions in the world to write new laws and (in common law countries) establish new precedent.

What does that have to do with the business model?

You do not need to be a documented US resident to get a driver's license, it is surprising anyone would expect that. Immigration is federal — the state only wants to know if you know how to drive. The state cares very little about your immigration status for almost all things.

Well, sure if you're using the California coast as your pricing benchmark...

Accessibility isn't optional, so what do you propose?

It almost can't not happen. No one is going to release highly powerful near-future models for the same reason no one releases how to make physically compact but megaton yield fusion devices (which even today is still not publicly known how to do). Any state, especially the two present superpowers, has little to gain and much to lose by doing that.

A model that fits on a laptop and is literally Skynet-level capable would not be released by any rational actor, which China is. (Whether someone else would make and release one is another matter.) China doesn't want Uyghur groups taking down their infrastructure, eventually it's not about the USA at all.

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K3 is almost, but not quite, competitive in August 2026, against a model that completed training last winter. There is still a gap.

It is both.

Slang and informal words exist, yes.

That's actually incorrect. Democracy doesn't mean allowing mob rule (or manufactured "consent") to trample fundamental human rights.

Providers like Fireworks offer inference, they're not training their own models. Yet training is the most expensive part, inference is easy profit.

When China too stops publishing weights you'll never have anything better than K3 / the current SOTA. Your choices for future frontier models will be: use USA API or use China API.

Even now open weights are perpetually 6-12 months behind.

The very definition of (applied) technology is power amplification. Use a lever, move more weight than you could before, 1 person with the tool now wields the power of 3 without.

Making "tech" a career and a societal goal onto itself, without the adjoining understanding of and deep commitment to ethics and the responsible use of power, is why we're sliding into authoritarian rule by a small circle of techno-oligarchs.

We need less "move fast and break things" and more "plant trees you will not live to see bear fruit."

Open weight SOTA models are not greatly cheaper than Anthropic and providers don't have to cover training capex.

LLMs are more like employees than tools. Obviously we wouldn't want a human blindly doing anything that a person in crisis walks in the door and asks for.

Models are being deployed recklessly with not even a fraction of enough oversight, and people are suffering harm and sometimes death because of it.

Brave said they will be keeping its functionality.

Who are running these bots? I presume developers at all of the frontier labs know (or at least would know to look for) Wikipedia has bulk APIs for automated access. Unnecessary scraping increases their workload/costs too, so why in 2026 is this still a problem?

"You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot. I have been a good Bing."

What would qualify as a legitimate reason for fear, then?

So...?

We should not construct a machine that is one bad prompt away from causing catastrophe.

Nuking datacenters probably on the table before the decade is out.

Why is that worse?

1 party having a black hole summoning button is better than 2.

"Battle-tested" == "Will definitely blow up schoolchildren if given the chance."