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Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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> The organizations in this new group are based in more than 15 countries I mean most nasdaq tech companies would be in 13+ countries, why are they writing this like it's a big number, is hilariously small?

They're writing it in contrast to the previous scope, which doesn't seem to have been available to any organizations based outside the US. (There was news a few weeks ago about how Japanese banks were going to gain access, but based on the timing I think this announcement is that access.)

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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In case the topic of memory safety is interesting to anyone I've been experimenting with using AI agents to port common web infra projects to safe/ performant Rust. Somewhat inspired by the Bun port - was thinking that at some point memory safety might be such a big deal that people just need drop in replacements.

- Valkey/ Redis port here https://github.com/ianm199/valdr (passes ~99% of single node test suite, real prod features like replication/ clustering/ HA early or not implemented) - Further along port of Lua 5.1-5.5 https://github.com/ianm199/lua-rs-port/tree/main - I have a less developed nginx version that would be the north star - These projects are very alpha at the moment

If anyone is interested in getting involved in this or has done similar experiments I'd love to collaborate! There is so much variation in how you can run these large scale agent fleets I don't think anyone has a perfect system yet.

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This outcome is massively detrimental to humanity at large. By eliminating the human factor from support, you make it impossible to get support in edge cases that fall outside of the pre-planned bureacratic process. Everyone already hates that Google can arbitrarily ban anybody they please with no way to get in contact with a human, and you want to extend that to banks in control of people's life savings?

I don't think anyone is saying that. You will just need to be authenticated before giving any commands to the bank. Maybe some type of TOTP that you can use over the phone or in person.

That is the exact problem. You have identification tied to your device. Your device is lost or stolen. Now you can't access your bank account. Human support can help you out by finding flexible ways to ascertain your identity. This is the angle social engineers exploit, tricking employees trying to be helpful to abuse that area of flexibility. You can take away human judgment and all flexibility in the system, and that will make the system more secure, but it also results in a deeply uncaring system that makes life harder for people. Rigid bureacracy doesn't do a good job of accounting for a house fire destroying everything you own or your e-mail provider shutting down; these are fringe cases but they do happen and there are positive resolutions available as long as human discretion is involved.

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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Step 1: claim you created a tool so dangerous you can't release it Step2: offer to test it, but only for the biggest companies in the world Step 3: onboard those big players on your tooling and product Step 4: profit This is genius.

And all you have to do is demonstrate unique value during the pilot phase!

Err... wait... that was already the hard part... hmm

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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Step 1: claim you created a tool so dangerous you can't release it Step2: offer to test it, but only for the biggest companies in the world Step 3: onboard those big players on your tooling and product Step 4: profit This is genius.

With trillion dollars at stake they can hire best of best in sales and marketing. And unlike some hardcore hackers who may have ethics that does not always move in direction of more money. Sales and marketing people are highly motivated for opportunities to make more money.

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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post #4

This feels more and more like a marketing/scarcity play for the largest global corps. Will likely give them time to expand capacity as well. And make them harder to dislodge in these orgs.

Urgency x scarcity, unbeatable marketing move.

It is really good. Will also cut through the common procurement, legal and change management processes seen at these orgs.

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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Step 1: claim you created a tool so dangerous you can't release it Step2: offer to test it, but only for the biggest companies in the world Step 3: onboard those big players on your tooling and product Step 4: profit This is genius.

And all you have to do is demonstrate unique value during the pilot phase! Err... wait... that was already the hard part... hmm

Genius marketing move doesn't mean there is no value.

It means than even if the value you offer is similar as your competitors, you are the one conquering the market.

That's the only way to not becoming a commodity.

Re: Expanding Project Glasswing

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It’s clear that Anthropic has run out of the compute capacity needed to serve Mythos publicly.

They’re using security concerns to mask their inability to deliver the model at scale, while still trying to maintain their lead over OpenAI. As a result, they’ve chosen to release it privately under the banner of an “ethical” rollout.

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