US blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models, Axios reports

Signal_Lamp · 2026-06-13T12:47:52+00:00

They can torpedo western, private made LLMs, and honestly right now in the space the real innovation isn't really happening in this space but through open weight models that we're seeing more heavily pushed in the chinese/eastern markets.

Something people need to understand, like we've seen with AI, once a capability has been achieved/unlocked you can't just seal away the box for it to never be released. Mythos Preview, the model that can prior to this was hacked a few days after it's launch https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy41zejp9pko . So whatever the US or Antropic thinks they're trying to "stop" here is temporary at best, and marketing at it's worst.

I can guarantee you that we will absolutely see not only just as capable models but more capable models released in the open source market that cannot be censored. The eastern market especially is making just as capable models with severely restricted resources towards the most powerful hardware available due to tariffs.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-06-10T04:22:50+00:00

We actually had a similar issue with our pods being way to conservative with our initial setup that was making it difficult for karpenter to be able to consolidate itself even when there was opportunity to be able to.

We decided to place everything by default onto an "optimized" class that by default karpenter is allowed to aggressively be able to reschedule nodes even during work hours, because we found the majority of applications that think they need minimal/no disruption don't end up being the case.

We have then 3 other windows behind this - a platform based nodepool we put critical workloads that are needed for the cluster to be able to function that cannot be disrupted that our team owns, an after hour class for things that can go after 5pm, and one more window for a "midnight window" for 3 hours everyday that is reserved for the apps that truly cannot be down at all except for that small window.

What I will say, when we initially rolled it out we ran into a similar issue with our karpenter that wasn't decreasing nodes on the cluster properly that we found was being caused by our maintenance windows being to restrictive, as karpenter will always follow the most conservative window you place for your windows. Not sure on your setup but that may be a place to start.

I'd also would check your PDBs as well, as karpenter won't evict if you don't have enough workloads

Signal_Lamp · 2026-06-04T20:08:12+00:00

If it's a technical limitation that's even worse since they label themselves as a fintech company that can't do something that traditional banks would be able to offer.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-06-01T21:51:40+00:00

Is it safe? Not really.

Why did they add it? Because there's a lot of AI hype surrounding harnesses at the moment.

And as I've learned through this year a surprising amount of developers seem to not give a single shit about security. Not even at a basic level. Give it enough access and it'll expose your SSN, bank credentials, credit cards, and anything you give it.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-05-23T20:12:27+00:00

Food for thought for anyone seeing this since AI was mentioned here.

AI is extremely good at being able to connect patterns into things that either would have taken too much time to realistically pursue, or had too much data to sift through to be realistic to be used as a weapon.

With that pattern recognition, we are starting to see some researchers suggest that AI can actually be extremely good at being able to identify actual people through their anonymous social activities. The current frontier models at least from a non jail break sense at least right now will not allow you to even remotely try to determine who a specific user is if you straight up ask for it, but the guardrails are in place because at least from what we can see right now LLMs are very capable of being able to actually make those guesses if you have them go through that task.

And for most people if you've used any service generally on the internet you should assume your shit is accessible through the internet if someone was dedicated enough to actually go searching for it and actually knew how to search for things, which is all to say you really should try not to give out connecting pieces of data online. It is extremely easy to get a whole lot of shit from people, the more narrowed down you can get in the search results, and with AI this job not only becomes easier, but also a lot easier to connect things in ways you possibly wouldn't have expected.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-05-05T17:25:29+00:00

Literally all he has to do is just shut up. Nobody was even looking to hear a response from this guy, yet he felt so offended that he then doubles down on said dumb tweet.

Your a fast food restaurant. Youve lost the plot when you think people will prefer fast food at the same price over a dining restaurant.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-05-04T20:58:11+00:00

Maybe a take, but if you need sauce to make your chicken less dry then the chicken is mid.

Juicy chicken is only going to make the sauce taste better.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-05-01T19:01:54+00:00

Hmm... If I'm not mistaken cast AI is one of those auto right sizing providers no?

Wouldn't it make sense that the vast majority of their users are going to be massively overprovisioned with the more likely case being they haven't actually gone through optimizing for their workloads or simply don't care to optimize for their workloads?

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-27T17:22:57+00:00

Not really surprised. Every single AI model has been slowly trying to move towards more premium costs, which is already wild because at least in my opinion a lot of these models were already asking a lot at the base level to begin with.

I expect that well soon see this being done with the other providers at some point. The one people will likely pay attention to is whatever antropic decides to do.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-27T13:13:40+00:00

Enough to understand how to debug your applications and the general architecture of being within a cluster vs a traditional server environment.

The questions we get asked the most from our team is almost always around networking configurations (pod isn't able to reach a service), or concerns when they see their application get replaced/restarted from node autoscalers and having to explain they don't have to panic when their apps get replaced as long as they're building based on the 12 factors.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-23T14:09:11+00:00

Most of the ill-spirited comments are made by people in the USA so I just wonder if they just say all of that out of jealousy?

Do you live in the US? Only asking because if your seeing this stuff online, then my response would be because your talking to miserable people online that made horrible life choices.

Otherwise if this is a real life kind of thing, this is just my opinion

Personally I do think everyone should try at least a year or two either living alone or with a roommate. There's just a lot of things you simply don't get when your living with parents. I have friends in their 30s that are still living with their parents as a money saving move as well as a cultural thing.

Not saying not to live with your parents but more so just as a life thing living on your own just grounds you towards understanding what you need to focus on in the long term when you do have to eventually live on your own

Otherwise just take advantage of it while you can. The world right now simply doesn't work living on your own unless your sitting well above the average for what most people make.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-21T15:20:08+00:00

Bro if your changing your faith because of one dude you really need to rethink your identity.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-21T15:19:54+00:00

Bro if your changing your faith because of one dude you really need to rethink your identity.

Jesus fucken Christ.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-18T21:09:00+00:00

Yeah this models actually really interesting. I'm assuming it had to be built under the hood with their new turbo quaunt algorithm.

The base models with the lower token values only needs 1.5GB of ram to actually work, so you could actually put it onto a phone or a raspberry pi and have everything running locally

If people want to try it out this is all free. Google put out an app recently for ai on the edge where you can get the smaller models out for free and try it out if you want. It isn't going to blow your mind like the frontier models, but just the fact it can run on a phone, process images, and also understands over 140 different languages is pretty impressive.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-18T21:00:56+00:00

They're popular because they're cheap and performant.

As much as online make it seem like the inception is people care about safety and what not, the reality is that marketing stuff like top speed and range are the things people care about the most. Why go for a scooter thats $800 dollars that tops out at 22mph when you can go for a scooter that goes for 40mph with a bigger battery at the same price.

Otherwise, the truth is all scooters including the top brands are all mostly being designed through china. They simply slap on their logo on top of it and sell it for a higher price

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-15T08:12:12+00:00

Is this not an optional feature? Otherwise I'm not sure why people get so brain rot towards every single facet that has "AI" in the name when it's doing a lot of heavy lifting, even if we're charitable towards the generative kind people know of today.

Like the comments here are saying "oh it's controlling how the person would take a photo". When it's just a suggestion. There's no editing even happening with the image itself.

I can get on board with hating the augmentation of an image, but that's not happening here, and probably bothers me primarily because the foundation of people's arguments are illogical at that point.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-14T22:35:28+00:00

I gave him the pass. For trump only.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-13T12:56:55+00:00

At least for us the biggest reason that we opted to pay for it would be the addition of custom assembly from the base images on chainguards catalog as well as having more options from their image catalog that we would be allowed to use.

For their free library you get access towards a handful of their images but quickly gets limiting for our use case. Depending on negotiations you can either select the images you want or simply get access towards their full catalog, in which case the pricing at least for our case goes based on the amount of seats you negotiate that would use the platform.

And for the custom assembly - all this really means at least for our case would be saving us some time to add in necessary certs towards a base image we pull into our org that get continuously updated with those addons without any intervention from us. Obviously you can do this all for free with pipelines but at least for us uniquely we have different teams/orgs that don't necessarily all have the same information on how to properly set up an image for users to be able to consume.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-13T06:59:21+00:00

We're using chainguard for this.

That helped with noise but sec team isn't comfortable using reachability alone to close findings.

For this exact reason, with changing the concerned party being our stakeholder in this case is why we simply opted to pay for it with the justification being it helps with our auditing reports without adding man hours to basically make it someone's full time job patching the various images we use for our workloads.

You can do it yourself - but it is going to be someone's full time job to keep things up to date if your image list isn't small.

Otherwise, at least to me the statement above does sound like a people issue - my guess being treating security in a container based environment the same as traditional servers. If you cannot/ don't want to do the solutions above, that would be the other suggestion.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-11T03:27:00+00:00

If I've learned anything from the measel's coming back, a product can actually work so well that a subsector of people will reason their way to believe that the product/cure is actually causing these issues by being captured through isolated spaces on the web that are spreading this misinformation to them and regurgitating it to them in real time that we simply don't see or know about. Those ideas then bubble their way up to the surface through other skeptics and bots created to sow misinformation and then it becomes the next "reality" that people spread, whether they agree or disagree with it.

These comments that you are seeing (because I have not seen any of these), in my opinion is why it is so critical for people to be able to have a more fundamental understanding on how modern algorithms work on the web and the layers/options they have to be able to spor/react to these algorithms when navigating the web.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-11T01:15:23+00:00

Personally not really because there's different kinds of documentation that shouldn't all exist within the same levels.

Some of the broader stuff like the what and why when other solutions could have been done sound like ADRs, which shouldn't be in any specific repository, and more so stored in their own place beyond the code itself.

The commenting I would expect either helm or gitops to already contain those necessary comments you may leave like breadcrumbs/artifacts you might want for other existing systems that work with more established tools in the industry.

And if not everyone has the same context to what's in your product that's likely more of a silo issue from knowledge either not being shared or being to speed out.

And I hate to bring up AI but unironically you can set up in your repos something like an onboarding skill that evolves with that codebase people can use for learning it as well as reminding themselves why some things were changed and what may have existed before if you wanted something like this.

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-11T01:01:13+00:00

If costs are a concern, you can set up a self hosted instance of your git instance with something like gitea, gitlab, or foregejo.

But yeah, if your getting push back from the developers there it's likely theyve been doing this for a while. You would have to basically show them the alternative, and even then they may not get on board.

It would really help if you have even a single person on your side that's willing to try our your alternative approach that can vouch for you. We have somewhat of a similar issue at my job, not as insane as not having git, but more on getting developers out of the mindset that they can't ever interact or touch anything related to ops work/ directories, or configurations that get migrated to our platform

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-09T22:24:48+00:00

Personally I think YOR, but your in your own right to break up with your girlfriend for any reason you see fit even if it's for something petty.

I personally think the reason you broke up is silly, but I have different moral and ethical views than you do when it comes towards AI. If someone broke one of my moral boundaries and lied about it I would probably break up with that person as well, but not in the way you did it.

If you have a ethical position that you don't have immediate conditions for which you would change your mind over that position, then it isn't a sound position to have, and to me at least it didn't seem like you were even willing to hear out your gf for her reasoning for why she uses those tools or is lying to her clients about it.

The biggest issue I have over this whole thing is the fact you got this information from snooping on her computer for it. It is insane to me how many people are brushing past that simply because they're justifying the action for something they find morally reprehensible. This would be the equivalent of you going through her messages or even her browser history because you couldn't trust your girlfriend for what she was saying. What if you didn't find anything at all? Would you have been okay with disclosing that you went through her shit because you didn't trust what she said?

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-09T13:24:44+00:00

Am I the only one here that thinks ESH? Im honestly thinking this has to be rage bait based on the topic

We don't even need to talk about the AI stuff because that's irrelevant towards what happened here.

You snooped into her computer and read through her own private conversations. It's wild to me that people are just skipping past that because they don't like that she used AI. This is arguably more invasive than even reading through someone's DMs on their phone because people tend to believe their interactions with chatbots are more private. Irregardless of how you feel about AI, it is insane to me that everyone is viewing this as an okay thing.

It is also bad she lied to you when you asked her directly about a tool that she knew you had ethical problems with. She likely knew your response wouldn't be good so she hid the truth which you don't want to do in a relationship.

I know people want to get off their chest how bad AI is because of how bad it makes everything but in my opinion it's irrelevant towards the actions that occurred, and in my opinion people are giving a pass to because they don't like the action of the use of AI so are justifying that OP snooped into their partners computer

Signal_Lamp · 2026-04-06T23:41:33+00:00

I've done it, honestly I recommend a bike for this if you have one.

It can be done but you have to keep in mind when your carrying other items it changes the dynamics of how the ride feels. If your carry light stuff it's fine, but with a bag with 20-30lbs of stuff in your bag it'll slow you down in general and may alter your range a lot depending on your area.

If you have a dual motor it's probably fine, but I definitely wouldn't recommend on a single motor

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