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  • Slashdot: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/21/1844252/what-are-the-carbon-costs-of-asking-an-ai-a-question?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into the environmental impact of using artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on energy consumption and carbon costs. It highlights how energy usage varies between AI models and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: model.yaml

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/model-yaml/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: model.yaml Feedly Summary: model.yaml From their GitHub repo it looks like this effort quietly launched a couple of months ago, driven by the LM Studio team. Their goal is to specify an “open standard for defining crossplatform, composable AI models". A model can be defined using a…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Deploys Multiple Claude Agents for ‘Research’ Tool – Says Coding is Less Parallelizable

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/06/21/0442227/anthropic-deploys-multiple-claude-agents-for-research-tool—says-coding-is-less-parallelizable Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Deploys Multiple Claude Agents for ‘Research’ Tool – Says Coding is Less Parallelizable Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Anthropic has introduced a novel AI feature involving multiple Claude agents working collaboratively for research purposes. This feature allows agents to search across various contexts but raises…

  • Slashdot: SoftBank’s Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2212217/softbanks-son-pitches-1-trillion-arizona-ai-hub?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: SoftBank’s Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses SoftBank Group’s founder Masayoshi Son’s initiative to create a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona focusing on robotics and artificial intelligence manufacturing. This venture is tied to discussions with TSMC…

  • Slashdot: BBC Threatens Legal Action Against Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2022200/bbc-threatens-legal-action-against-perplexity-ai-over-content-scraping?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: BBC Threatens Legal Action Against Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The BBC is taking legal action against Perplexity AI for allegedly using its content without permission to train AI models. This situation highlights the ongoing tensions between AI technology development and…

  • Slashdot: Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI

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    Source URL: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2015248/meta-discussed-buying-perplexity-before-investing-in-scale-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Meta’s recent strategic moves in the AI domain, including an attempted acquisition of Perplexity AI and a significant investment in Scale AI. This reflects Meta’s increasing urgency to compete…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • Slashdot: Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010218/record-ddos-pummels-site-with-once-unimaginable-73tbps-of-junk-traffic?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a record-breaking DDoS attack that targeted a Cloudflare customer, measured at 7.3 terabits per second. It highlights the sophistication of the attack, which utilized multiple amplification vectors and…

  • THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education: Cloud Security Auditing Tool Uses AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments

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    Source URL: https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/06/20/cloud-security-auditing-tool-uses-ai-to-validate-providers-security-assessments.aspx Source: THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education Title: Cloud Security Auditing Tool Uses AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments Feedly Summary: Cloud Security Auditing Tool Uses AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced an AI-powered tool, Valid-AI-ted, designed to automate…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…