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The Digital Omnibus needs to be defeated.

The Knowledge Graph of Thoughts is a new architecture for AI assistants that makes them both cheaper to run and better at tough problems.

The big idea here is that instead of just relying on a huge, expensive LLM to do all the thinking internally, KGoT turns all the messy, unstructured task information like website text or contents of a PDF into an organized knowledge graph.

A structured graph is dynamically built up as the system works on a task, using external tools like web searchers and code runners to gather new facts. Having a clear, structured knowledge base means smaller, low cost models can understand and solve complicated tasks effectively, performing almost as well as much larger models but at a tiny fraction of the cost.

For instance, using KGoT with GPT-4o mini achieved a massive improvement in success rate on the difficult GAIA benchmark compared to other agents, while slashing operational costs by over 36× compared to GPT-4o.

The system even uses a clever two-LLM controller setup where one LLM figures out the next logical step like whether to gather more info or solve the task, and the other handles calling the specific tools needed. Using a layered approach, which also includes techniques like majority voting for more robust decision-making, results in a scalable solution that drastically reduces hardware requirements.

https://archive.is/2025.11.12-204929/https://www.ft.com/content/7d3d3e88-206a-49db-aaa3-085f1c28f8d6

Lloyds Banking Group analysed data from the personal bank accounts of more than 30,000 employees to assess their financial resilience as part of pay negotiations.

The bank’s customer insights team compared the spending habits, saving rates and salary increases of its lowest-paid employees to those of customers and presented them in salary talks with UK trade unions, two people familiar with the matter said.

So I was looking for this file and a guy found it and sent me a link. There were two download options, both full of ads. I managed to download from the second link, but what really baffled me was the first one: TeraBox.

First thing, I couldn't find any way to download the file. This crap actually wanted me to download a .exe to install their software so I could download the file from the internet, so obviously I said fuck it and tried the second link instead.

Then I told the guy who gave me the link that TeraBox was sketchy as fuck and I hoped he wasn’t actually using it, and went to search for more info about TeraBox. Apparently the program is full of ads, and wherever you click it tries to make you upgrade to premium and throws more ads at you. Its bandwidth is complete crap, but hey, it gives you 1TB of free cloud storage, yay!

TeraBox was created by Baidu using a subsidiary in Japan, later they changed the name and the name of the Japanese company as well to try not to look affiliated with Baidu.

Anyone here old enough to remember hao123, their browser hijacker that would fuck up you registry and shit just to reinstall itself through Windows Services after being uninstalled, already knows Baidu is pure cancer, and it’s hilarious if you check videos of people testing their antivirus - that manages to be more of a malware itself than McAfee. This Chinese-Google ethics make Google itself look like Mullvad, and they want you to download and install their .exe just so you can download files from the web lol

Yeah, that guy I mentioned was using TeraBox and thinking it was great, and apparently a whole lot of people do. 1TB free \o/ (although, looking at Reddit and Play Store - where it has 100m+ downloads - everyone complains files don't sync, they disappear, even after buying premium they still see ads and the speed is still crap, they don't reward whatever bonuses they promise, and support is nonexistent... so shit doesn't even work properly...)

I'm all for making tons of accounts to use Google Drive/Mega/Dropbox/etc to distribute files, even if they have crappy privacy practices, you don’t need to share any real information with them anyway: use a VPN and a secure browser to create your account with a disposable email and that’s it, whatever info they gathered doesn’t matter, let them host stuff for you at their expenses... but TeraBox? Ouch, that's insanity.

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