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Slashdot: Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI

Jun 21, 2025

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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: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

Jun 20, 2025

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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…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help?

Jun 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/magazine/ai-chatbot-therapy.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help? Feedly Summary: A number of companies are building A.I. apps for patients to talk to when human therapists aren’t available. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of A.I. applications designed to interact with patients…

The Register: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar

Jun 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/china_us_chip_competition/ Source: The Register Title: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Feedly Summary: Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance China’s AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA’s by just two years, and America’s efforts to slow…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/atlassian-prompt-injection-mcp/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk Feedly Summary: Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A…

Slashdot: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/1613206/google-is-using-youtube-videos-to-train-its-ai-video-generator?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Google is leveraging its vast collection of YouTube videos to enhance its AI models, specifically Gemini and the Veo 3 generator, signaling a major development in AI training methodologies. This…

Wired: How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-carbon-emissions-energy-unknown-mystery-research/ Source: Wired Title: How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying Feedly Summary: A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/context-rot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News Feedly Summary: They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot…

Wired: Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-daniel-rausch-alexa-plus/ Source: Wired Title: Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools Feedly Summary: From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon’s Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

OpenAI : Toward understanding and preventing misalignment generalization

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://openai.com/index/emergent-misalignment Source: OpenAI Title: Toward understanding and preventing misalignment generalization Feedly Summary: We study how training on incorrect responses can cause broader misalignment in language models and identify an internal feature driving this behavior—one that can be reversed with minimal fine-tuning. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the potential negative…

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