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  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s LinkedInn Sued For Disclosing Customer Information To Train AI Models

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/236253/microsofts-linkedinn-sued-for-disclosing-customer-information-to-train-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s LinkedInn Sued For Disclosing Customer Information To Train AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a lawsuit against LinkedIn by its Premium customers, alleging unauthorized disclosure of private messages to third parties for training generative AI models, resulting in contract breach…

  • The Register: LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/linkedin_sued_for_allegedly_training/ Source: The Register Title: LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages Feedly Summary: Microsoft’s IG-for-suits insists lawsuit’s claims are without merit Microsoft’s LinkedIn was this week accused of providing its third-party partners with access to Premium customers’ private InMail messages for AI model training.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/trading-inference-time-compute/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Feedly Summary: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Brand new research paper from OpenAI, exploring how inference-scaling “reasoning" models such as o1 might impact the search for improved security with respect to things like prompt injection. We conduct experiments on the…

  • The Register: Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/datacenter_emissions_not_accurate/ Source: The Register Title: Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Feedly Summary: Amazon doesn’t break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren’t doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who…

  • Scott Logic: The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan – somewhat quiet on risks

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/01/22/the-uks-ai-opportunities-action-plan-somewhat-quiet-on-risks.html Source: Scott Logic Title: The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan – somewhat quiet on risks Feedly Summary: Last week the UK government launched their 50-point AI Opportunities Action Plan. The plan is ambitious, but it is something of a mixed bag. Some sizeable and worthwhile investments, alongside others which are quite questionable.…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Will Write Complex Laws

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/ai-will-write-complex-laws.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Will Write Complex Laws Feedly Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is one legislator, or legislative assistant, to use generative AI in the process of drafting a bill.…

  • The Register: OpenAI and pals form biz to spend $500B on its own AI infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/openai_stargate_ai_datacenter_company/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI and pals form biz to spend $500B on its own AI infrastructure Feedly Summary: With help from SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, Stargate Project plans to outspend Microsoft this year OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and investment firm MGX on Tuesday announced plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure…

  • The Register: PowerSchool thieves net decades of Canadian students’ records, hit 40-plus US states

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/powerschool_attack_canada_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: PowerSchool thieves net decades of Canadian students’ records, hit 40-plus US states Feedly Summary: Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada’s largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.… AI Summary…

  • Hacker News: Why AI reminds me of cloud computing

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    Source URL: https://bitmasonsllc.blogspot.com/2025/01/why-ai-reminds-me-of-cloud-computing.html Source: Hacker News Title: Why AI reminds me of cloud computing Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the historical and current significance of AI, particularly focusing on large language models (LLMs), while drawing parallels with the evolution of cloud computing. It emphasizes the unpredictability of technological…