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  • The Register: AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/google_ai_misalignment_risk/ Source: The Register Title: AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns Feedly Summary: Misalignment risk? That’s an area for future study Google DeepMind added a new AI threat scenario – one where a model might try to prevent its operators from modifying it or…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Four new releases from Qwen

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/qwen/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Four new releases from Qwen Feedly Summary: It’s been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 – official FP8 quantized versions of their Qwen3-Next models.…

  • Slashdot: Meta’s AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/1955220/metas-ai-system-llama-approved-for-use-by-us-government-agencies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has authorized Meta’s AI system, Llama, for use by federal agencies, indicating its compliance with security and legal standards. This approval may enhance operational…

  • The Register: FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/lloyds_data_ai_deployment/ Source: The Register Title: FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security Feedly Summary: Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn’t want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech – yet trying to do so in…

  • Slashdot: AI Tools Give Dangerous Powers to Cyberattackers, Security Researchers Warn

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/21/2022257/ai-tools-give-dangerous-powers-to-cyberattackers-security-researchers-warn?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tools Give Dangerous Powers to Cyberattackers, Security Researchers Warn Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text highlights significant vulnerabilities associated with AI technologies, particularly in the context of automated systems and malicious actors leveraging them to exploit security gaps. It underscores emerging threats posed by…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-letter/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter Feedly Summary: Cloudflare launched 15 years ago. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet. But we’ve also been thinking a lot about what’s changed on the Internet. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • The Register: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/how_to_trick_chatgpt_agents/ Source: The Register Title: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt Feedly Summary: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.… AI Summary…