SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models. For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon. We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities

good time to release

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models. Here’s what this means for you: Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error. On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models. We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

crash outside peak hour ?!

google just keep shipping non-stop this week.

bullish

compressss to the void

Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

claude token usage just BROKEN.

[ ZOOMER ] CRYPTO VC DRAGONFLY RAISES $650M FOR FOURTH FUND: FORTUNE

BREAKING: ARKHAM UNCOVERS $3.5B HEIST - THE LARGEST EVER LuBian was a Chinese mining pool with facilities in China & Iran. Based on analysis of on-chain data, it appears that 127,426 BTC was stolen from LuBian in December 2020, worth $3.5 billion at the time and now worth approximately $14.5 billion. Neither LuBian nor the hacker have publicly acknowledged the hack. Arkham is the first to report it. Details below:

me in 2009 instead of mining bitcoin

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Goodbye StackOverflow 🥳

What is happening in Japan? Japan's 40-year bond yield just hit its highest level in over 20 years. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba has called the situation “worse than Greece.” All as Japan’s GDP is contracting again.

This is a great time for all involved to reconsider their approaches!  There are better and worse ways of handling our problems with unsustainable debt and imbalances, and President Trump's decision to step back from a worse way and negotiate how to deal with these imbalances is a much better way. I hope and expect that he will do the same with the Chinese, which I believe includes negotiating a deal that appreciates the RMB against the dollar, achieved by the Chinese selling dollar assets while also easing their fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate their demand. This would be a win-win. The Chinese should then restructure and monetize their excessive local government debts to get their debt overhang behind them. One way or another, there will have to be major changes to the debt/monetary orders to deal with the debt, trade, and capital imbalances problem. The next Trump administration move should be to deal with the deficit well by cutting the deficit to 3pct of GDP, which I described how I'd do without disruption in How Countries Go Broke: the Big Cycle, which you can read here: lnkd.in/eHMfZ4Ex. This is also a great time for investors who were shocked and terrified by what happened (and what might happen) to reconsider their approaches to structuring their portfolios so they don't have such intolerable risks.  I can guarantee that another worse case of the market moves that terrified them will come along eventually. While I can't squeeze in an explanation of how to structure a portfolio here, I can direct those who are interested to the Dalio Market Principles course that the Singapore government-founded Wealth Management Institute created to help educate investors: wmi.edu.sg/dmp-online. I'm also working on my next book, Investment and Economic Principles, which I will share parts of online as I write it.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Pro-Bitcoin Paul Atkins officially confirmed as new SEC Chair.