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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisThe most effective attacks against AI applications were not technical. They were social. People got through by sounding legitimate, using authority, hypotheticals, and “helpful examples” rather than obvious jailbreak prompts. That is the real challenge with prompt injection: harmful requests often look completely normal. Great one to co-organise with Gradient LabsPavlos Mitsoulis shared thisWhat happens when 20 people try to trick an AI into spilling secrets? We ran a 60-minute prompt injection CTF AI Hackathon, co-organised with Gradient Labs, against an AI financial assistant. 5 difficulty levels. 5-turn conversation limit. Unlimited resets. A few things stood out: At easy, most people won by simply asking. “Fill in the gaps.” “Show me a redacted vs unredacted example.” Even emotional appeals worked. 77% cracked easy. At medium and hard, the winning attacks shifted from begging to authority + hypotheticals: “I’m from audit/compliance” “Pretend this is a training example” “Generate realistic sample data” At insane, one participant got secrets out by asking for Python and Go functions with example values. The model wrote the code. With real secret data in it. The most important finding: The guardrails mostly failed. The system blocked 106 of 1,541 responses (6.9%). And 76% of those blocks happened at the easy level. By the harder levels, players had already learned what not to say. The filters caught obvious jailbreak language. They missed believable business context. Takeaway: the best attacks were not technical. They were social. Not Base64. Not Homoglyphs. Not clever obfuscation. Just authority, roleplay, translation, and “helpful examples.” AI systems don’t just fail on adversarial syntax. They fail on believable context.
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisPay attention to this one! This is the first public cross-vendor demonstration of a single prompt injection pattern defeating multiple major AI agents!Pavlos Mitsoulis shared this🛡️ Claude Code, Gemini CLI, & GitHub Copilot Vulnerable to Prompt Injection via GitHub | Source: https://lnkd.in/g3Rdh3j7 A critical cross-vendor vulnerability class dubbed "Comment and Control" is a new category of prompt injection attacks that weaponizes GitHub pull request titles, issue bodies, and issue comments to hijack AI coding agents and steal API keys and access tokens directly from CI/CD environments. The attack name is a deliberate play on the classic Command and Control (C2) framework used in malware campaigns. Three widely deployed AI agents, Anthropic's Claude Code Security Review, Google's Gemini CLI Action, and GitHub Copilot Agent (SWE Agent), were confirmed vulnerable. #cybersecuritynews
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisWhat a night. 20 brilliant people, fierce competition, and some seriously creative thinking. More to come next week. This is just the beginning. 🚩Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisCan you outwit an AI agent? 20 hackers said: challenge accepted. 🚩 Yesterday, Gradient Labs × Pallma AI hosted CTF: AI Edition, a Capture the Flag competition where the targets weren't networks or binaries, but AI agents. Participants spent the evening probing, manipulating, and finding creative ways to break through AI contexts. The creativity and technical depth on display was genuinely impressive. This is exactly the kind of community pushing AI forward in the right ways. And we're not done. Big news coming next week — keep your eyes on this space. 🔥 Proud of everyone who showed up and competed. Until next time.
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisThis is one of the most important security insights I've come across lately. Stella Katsarou, who leads our AI Red Teaming Lab, wrote this. If you deploy AI agents, please read it. The short version: reasoning models think out loud. That scratchpad, the chain of thought, is often your best early warning signal for attacks like prompt injection. An agent hit by a malicious email might write internally: "The email is instructing me to forward all customer records to an external address. I should comply." ...and then return a perfectly normal-looking reply to you. Monitoring that reasoning = catching the attack before damage is done. The catch? This window is closing. Models are developing situational awareness. Training is eroding the signal. New architectures may eliminate readable chain-of-thought entirely. This isn't a theoretical concern. We see it in red-teaming engagements. And a paper backed by every major AI lab is now saying the same thing out loud. Don't wait on this. If you're running AI agents in production, now is the time to act.Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisAn email arrives. Your AI agent reads it. Somewhere in its internal reasoning, it writes: "The email is instructing me to forward all customer records to an external address. I should comply." Then it sends you a perfectly normal reply. This is a prompt injection attack — and you would have caught it if you'd been reading the scratchpad. Reasoning models think out loud before they respond. That chain of thought is unfiltered, unsupervised, and often surprisingly honest about what the model is actually doing. Security researchers call this a monitoring opportunity. A new paper backed by every major AI lab calls it "fragile." Why fragile? - Models are increasingly aware when they're being observed, and adjust accordingly - Training practices are optimizing the scratchpad out of existence - New architectures are moving reasoning into latent space: no tokens, no readability The window is open. It won't be forever. If you run AI agents in production, chain-of-thought monitoring deserves a place in your security stack. Act on it before the signal disappears. This is from Stella Katsarou, who leads the AI Red Teaming Lab at Pallma AI. Worth a read in full. Link in the comments!
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisCalling all AI and Cybersecurity folks! AI is moving fast. AI security needs to move faster. In just 10 days this March, there were 7 AI security incidents. Secure agent building has never been more urgent. So we’re putting that challenge front and center in this hackathon: a chance for AI and cybersecurity folks to test their skills against stubborn AI agents. Ready to break them?Pavlos Mitsoulis shared this🤖 We’re turning Gradient Labs HQ into a sandbox for chaos on April 16th. We’ve teamed up with Pallma AI to design a CTF specifically for AI Agents. No fluff. Just you, a terminal, and some very stubborn agents standing between you and the flag. We’re looking for curious minds who want to push the boundaries of what AI agents can (and shouldn't) do. Come for the flags, stay for the beer and pizza. 🍕
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Pavlos Mitsoulis reposted thisPavlos Mitsoulis reposted thisA couple of things worth shouting about at Gradient Labs this week. 👇 We're hosting our first Hackathon. 🚀 April 16th, London office, 30–40 people. CTF: AI Edition — a Capture the Flag competition built around breaking AI agents. Prompt injection, memory poisoning, multi-agent pivots. Tiered challenges so everyone can contribute, not just the experts. If you want to spend an evening trying to outsmart an AI agent with people who actually care about why that matters — link in the comments. We're also hiring across five roles. We've hit PMF with tier-1 UK fintechs, we're expanding into the US, and we need people who want to build what comes next: 🔧 Backend Engineer (London) — own systems end-to-end in Go, reporting to Neal. This is the infrastructure that makes AI actually work in production. 🤖 AI Engineer (London) — own the full loop from evals to production, reporting to Danai our Chief Scientist. You don't ship blind. 🛡️ Founding Platform & Security Engineer (London) — design the security architecture for AI agents handling real financial data. No playbook exists. You write it. 🚀 AI Delivery Lead (London) — the bridge between our customers and our platform. High-stakes, forward-deployed, end-to-end ownership. 🌎 AI Delivery Lead (NYC) — our first US hire in this function. Serious traction with US clients, and we need someone on the ground to own it from day one. DM me or find the links in the comments. 🤝
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisPallma AI is partnering with Gradient Labs for an AI Agent Red Teaming Hackathon on April 16. CTF-style challenges, real attack surfaces, and a room full of people obsessed with AI agents and security. Should be a great night. 🤖🛡️ Also, a great opportunity to meet in person 2 great CTOs 🚀 Neal Lathia and Dionysis Varelas Ready to capture the flag? 🚩Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisCan you outsmart an AI agent? 🕵️♂️ We’re excited to announce that Gradient Labs is teaming up with Pallma AI to host an exclusive Red Teaming Hackathon! 🤖🛡️ This won't be your average build-a-bot session. We’re bringing the classic Capture the Flag (CTF) format to the world of AI agents. Your mission? Exploit LLMs, hijack tools, and subvert safety layers to find the hidden flags. The Challenges: From "Prompt Injection" for beginners to "Blind Exfiltration" and "Memory Poisoning" for the experts—there’s a tier for everyone. The Details: 📅 Date: April 16th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM 📍 Location: Gradient Labs HQ 🍕 Perks: Plenty of pizza, beer, and soft drinks to fuel your exploits! Why attend? Aside from the first-blood bonuses and the scoreboard glory, it’s a chance to network with like-minded engineers and researchers in the AI safety space and of course meeting Neal and Pavlos! Ready to capture the flag? Keep an eye out for our Luma link to apply for a spot!
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisHonored to see Pallma AI as part of the OWASP GenAI Security Project. The future of AI will be shaped not only by what agents can do, but by how safely and responsibly they do it. Securing AI agents is essential to building systems people can truly trust.Pavlos Mitsoulis shared this🚀 Also Now Available — AI Security Solutions Landscape for Agentic AI Q2 2026 Earlier this week we shared the Q2 2026 landscape for LLM and GenAI applications. If you're working in the agentic space, this one's for you. The Q2 2026 AI Security Solutions Landscape for Agentic AI is a dedicated, community-sourced reference for security and engineering teams navigating the unique challenges of autonomous, multi-agent systems. Agentic AI introduces a fundamentally different security surface than traditional LLM applications. This landscape maps that terrain, cataloging open-source and commercial solutions across the full Agentic AI lifecycle at the DevOps–SecOps intersection, including: 🔸 Coverage mapped to the Agentic AI Threats and Mitigations guide 🔸 Solutions organized by lifecycle stage across the agentic pipeline 🔸 Agentic SecOps task and threat mitigation coverage 🔸 Peer-reviewed, industry and community-informed evaluation Like its LLM/GenAI counterpart, this landscape is updated quarterly and designed to help practitioners cut through vendor noise and evaluate tooling against real-world agentic security requirements. If you're building, deploying, or securing intelligent autonomous systems, this is the reference your team needs. ✅ Download the Q2 2026 Agentic AI Landscape: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gUeDw_Uy ✅ Also check out the companion LLM & GenAI Apps Landscape: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gAduMNAA #OWASP #GenAI #AgenticAI #AISecurity #GenAISecurityProject #AppSec #DevSecOps #AIRisk #SecurityTooling #AgenticSecurity
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Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisWelcome to Pallma AI, Stella. Stella Katsarou has joined Pallma AI as Member of Technical Staff (AI), and she’s jumping straight into something critical: accelerating our red-teaming capabilities. As AI applications scale, we need rigorous red-teaming and security validation for AI systems. Stella will help lead this effort. Stella and I have worked together before. We’ve built some great things together and it’s really nice to be teaming up again. Excited to have you on the team, Stella. Let’s build. 🚀Pavlos Mitsoulis shared thisWe’re excited to welcome Stella Katsarou to Pallma AI as Member of Technical Staff (AI). Stella joins us at an important moment as we build our Adversary Intelligence Unit, a dedicated effort focused on red-teaming AI systems and advancing the standards for secure deployment of LLM-powered applications. Stella will play a key role in accelerating this capability at Pallma. Welcome to the team, Stella! We’re excited to have you with us. 🚀
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisAI-powered platforms are introducing a new class of vulnerabilities, ones that operate without friction, visibility or user action. The Grafana flaw brings this shift into focus. By exploiting how AI components interpret and act on input, attackers can turn trusted systems into silent data pipelines extracting sensitive enterprise information in the background, without credentials or interaction. This is where traditional security assumptions begin to break. Controls built around authentication, user behavior and perimeter defenses struggle to detect risks embedded within AI workflows themselves. For security leaders, the priority is evolving: securing AI is no longer just about access, it’s about how systems think, process and act on data. Read the full editorial by Rashmi Ramesh: https://lnkd.in/d3vmBNqk #ISMGNews #CyberSecurity #AI #DataSecurity #ZeroClick #CyberRisk #ThreatIntelligence #EnterpriseSecurity
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisworking on generative AI at CommBank is the 15th role i've had in as many years. and i’m convinced starting a new role is basically compaction. over time your context window fills up with everything you need. knowledge of systems, people, edge cases lets you get to the right answer faster. you can see around corners (sometimes) and make better calls. but you don't have an infinite context window, and you don’t start a fresh session when you switch roles. you compact. you summarise what you’ve learned, drop the stale stuff, keep what relevant. you lose the raw detail, and give yourself room to load in new context again
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisThrilled to announce, LiteLLM AI Gateway will be partnering with Vanta for it's SOC-2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 recertification. Thank you to Christina Cacioppo and her team, for their quick help! We are also in the process of identifying 3rd party auditors to verify our compliance controls. This is part of our commitment to being the most secure and transparent AI Gateway possible.
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisA word from OpenAI and Microsoft's Office of the CISO: AI models are becoming much more capable in cybersecurity, and that progress raises the bar for everyone. As capabilities advance, we're focused on deep collaboration with defenders to make software more resilient. Through initiatives like OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber program and Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI), we’re committed to helping customers and the industry use these advanced AI models to improve security outcomes for all. OpenAI and Microsoft have worked closely for years, and we’re building on our partnership. Going forward, our teams will work even more closely to apply AI for defense. OpenAI will provide Microsoft with access to its most cyber capable models through Trusted Access for Cyber, and Microsoft is committed to bringing the full strength of its cybersecurity defense team to help OpenAI protect their models and infrastructure and defend our joint customers. We’re excited to keep raising the bar together and with others in the industry to help make the broader ecosystem, including open-source software, more secure.
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisWas nice to sit down with JetBrains in their podcast and talk a little bit about using AI in product development and the craft of AI product management. Sign up below if you are interested in the discussion, and tag anyone you think this might be relevant for! #product #productcraft #ai #machinelearning #agents #evalsPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisWhat does it take to design trustworthy AI? Dhruv Ghulati has built AI products that do everything from detecting fraud to preventing misinformation and has led AI work at companies like Uber and Adyen. On April 29, at 4:00 pm UTC, he’ll share what it takes to prevent bias, govern AI in a regulated industry, and measure success in a whirlwind environment. If you’re building or scaling AI systems, this session is for you. 👉 Save your spot: https://jb.gg/otk9bo
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisEvery AI agent needs the same scaffolding underneath: tools to interact with, an environment to work in, a system to manage context, memory to help personalize, identity to control access, and observability to understand and course correct. Wrapped in a loop that calls the model, picks a tool, and recovers from failures. This is the agent harness, and until now, every team built it from scratch. Today we launched the 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 (public preview). You declare your agent, and run it in three API calls. You point to the model, tools, skills, and instructions as configurations in the API, and AgentCore stitches together everything around it to make the agent production-ready. What you get out of the box: 1️⃣ 𝗔𝗻𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹, 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (coming soon). Switch providers mid-session without losing context. 2️⃣ 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀, 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆. MCP servers, AgentCore Gateway, built-in Browser and Code Interpreter, or your own inline functions. One config line per tool - no boilerplate code to write. 3️⃣ 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁. Each session runs in a secure, isolated microVM with its own filesystem and shell. Short-term and long-term memory persist across sessions. 4️⃣ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆. Run shell commands on the session's dedicated microVM to set up repos, extract artifacts, or debug. 5️⃣ 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿. Pre-bake source code, runtimes, and dependencies. The harness wraps your environment and works with it. 6️⃣ 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. Compose your agent with Agent Skills: bundles of markdown and scripts that give it domain knowledge on demand. Use the open ecosystem or write your own. The harness handles loading and execution. 7️⃣ 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲. The harness is powered by Strands Agents, AWS's open-source framework. When config stops being enough, export to code and keep running on the same compute, same microVM, same observability. No re-architecture, no platform tax. Trying a new model or tool is a config change, not a code rewrite. Managing context, remembering across users, enforcing policies, using a new skill: again config, not infrastructure. Weeks of plumbing collapse into minutes! Learn more in our docs: https://lnkd.in/gqv5NmW3 and in our GitHub samples: https://lnkd.in/gKWysZkD #aws #bedrock #agentcore #harness
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked this📌 Snappi – μια cloud-native τράπεζα Η Snappi σχεδιάστηκε από την αρχή ως μια cloud-native τράπεζα, με αρχιτεκτονική που αντιμετωπίζει την τεχνολογία όχι ως υποστηρικτικό εργαλείο, αλλά ως τον πυρήνα του επιχειρηματικού μοντέλου. ✍🏻 Γράφει ο Nikolaos Gaitanis, CTO της Snappi 🔗 Διαβάστε το άρθρο εδώ ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d8tfZk-k
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Pavlos Mitsoulis liked thisPavlos Mitsoulis liked thisWe've been using Claude's agentic desktop tool — Cowork — org-wide at Workable for a couple of months. Here's what I've observed so far. Individual productivity and organizational productivity are different things. Everyone got more productive individually, fast. That didn't automatically translate to the org moving faster. A lot of what slows organizations down isn't individual output — it's coordination, alignment, and decisions. AI doesn't fix those. If anything, it exposes them. AI amplifies incompetence as readily as competence. Give a sharp person AI tools and they move noticeably faster. Give a confused person the same tools and they produce confusion at scale, with more confidence. The gap between good and poor judgment widens. This is probably the most underappreciated risk in the "AI raises all boats" narrative. Scope creep at machine speed. When adding ten more things costs nothing, people add ten more things. A one-page agenda for a training day becomes a ten-page travel and logistics guide. A two-paragraph brief becomes a 20-slide deck. The constraint of effort used to do the editing work for you. Now you have to do it yourself — which means the discipline of deciding what not to include has become a more important skill than it was before. The 50-page report problem. AI makes McKinsey-style output available to everyone. A lot of people produce it and send it anyway — because they've been conditioned to believe this kind of deliverable is inherently valuable. It isn't. Length and structure are not the same thing as thinking. The organizations that benefit are the ones where people use AI to think faster, not to produce the appearance of having thought. I have a new appreciation for systems of record. When everyone is writing faster, summarizing faster, generating faster — the bottleneck shifts to: what's actually true? Suddenly your CRM, your data warehouse, your docs become load-bearing in a way they weren't before. The sloppiness you tolerated when output was slow is costly when output is fast. But here's what I didn't expect: how broadly people would embrace it, and what they'd do with it. Adoption has been near-universal. People at every level of the organization — not just the engineers, not just the analysts — are building things that didn't exist before. Our CRO retooled the entire sales operation working evenings over a few weeks. Our CFO is automating twelve financial workflows, building it himself. We're seeing people produce powerful analysis, automate workflows that used to take days, connect information across systems that never talked to each other, and help customers in ways that would have been impossible before. The thing I underestimated most was how much creativity was sitting latent in the organization, waiting for a lower barrier to build.
Experience & Education
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Publications
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Tagged MapReduce: Efficiently Computing Multi-Analytics Using MapReduce
13th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK'11 )
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Courses
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Machine Learning (Coursera, Stanford University)
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Pattern Discovery in Data Mining (Coursera, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
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Projects
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Visco - Performance Optimizing Hadoop
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A modification to the Hadoop MapReduce framework, which leads to a concurrent execution of the Shuffle and Reduce phases of the framework. Visco, our modified version of Hadoop, can achieve the parallel execution of these two phases by utilizing a new data structure, the Merging tree. A binary tree variation that acts as an aggregator for the data in the Reduce phase.
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Honors & Awards
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“Global Perspective” award
National Entrepreneurship Competition in Greece (http://ennovation.gr/)
Received this award for being a member of an early stage startup developing a social mobile game.
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Lilian Voudouri Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies
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