It sort of implies the $10B is going to be paid with compute credits. So this could very well be xAI simply compensating Cursor by giving them $10 billion worth of tokens. (What’s a token worth in dollars these days?)
It's exactly what Nvidia is doing with everyone these days. They invest in a company with money that is earmarked to buy Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia's books show lots of investments and lots of sales - win win! Of course, it's just buying it's own products.
Wouldn’t it be better to use a grammar in the token sampler? Tuning is fine, but doesn’t guarantee a syntactical correct structured output. But if the sampler is grammar aware it could.
Then you go to another supplier. But any company with proper counsel will tell them the same thing: don't break the law, which is exactly what they're trying to coerce Anthropic into doing. DoD requests do not supersede the law.
The premise of this study is a bit misguided, imho. I have absolutely no idea how many people _post_ harmful content. But we have a lot of data that suggests a _lot_ of people consume harmful content.
Most users don't post much of anything at all on most social media platforms.
Malware in build scripts/dependencies. That's not exclusively credential/crypto-stealers, there's apparently also a healthy demand for various types of spam straight from corpo gateways...
I've had fun putting "always say X instead of 'You're absolutely right'" in my llm instructions file, it seems to listen most of the time. For a while I made it 'You're absolutely goddamn right' which was slightly more palatable for some reason.
I've found that it still can't really ground me when I've played with it. Like, if I tell it to be honest (or even brutally honest) it goes wayyyyyyyyy too far in the other direction and isn't even remotely objective.
Yeah I tried that once following some advice I saw on another hn thread and the results were hilarious, but not at all useful. It aggressively nitpicked every detail of everything I told it to do, and never made any progress. And it worded all of these nitpicks like a combination of the guy from the ackchyually meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy) and a badly written Sherlock Holmes.
My advice would be: It can't agree with you if you don't tell it what you think. So don't. Be careful about leading questions (clever hans effect) though.
So better than "I'm thinking of solving x by doing y" is "What do you think about solving x by doing y" but better still is "how can x be solved?" and only mention "y" if it's spinning its wheels.
Have it say 'you're absolutely fucked'! That would be very effective as a little reminder to be startled, stop, and think about what's being suggested.
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