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  • The Register: CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on ‘black box’ code from AIs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/cloudbees_ceo_interview_ai/ Source: The Register Title: CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on ‘black box’ code from AIs Feedly Summary: Learning from the lessons of the past interview Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books Feedly Summary: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books Major USA legal news for the AI industry today.…

  • 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…

  • Slashdot: Salesforce Study Finds LLM Agents Flunk CRM and Confidentiality Tests

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/16/2054205/salesforce-study-finds-llm-agents-flunk-crm-and-confidentiality-tests Source: Slashdot Title: Salesforce Study Finds LLM Agents Flunk CRM and Confidentiality Tests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent Salesforce study highlights significant limitations of LLM-based AI agents in real-world CRM tasks, achieving only 58% success on simple tasks and 35% on multi-step tasks. The findings indicate a…

  • The Register: Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/salesforce_llm_agents_benchmark/ Source: The Register Title: Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests Feedly Summary: 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.… AI Summary and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Google Cloud outage incident report

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/14/google-cloud-outage-incident-report/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Google Cloud outage incident report Feedly Summary: Google Cloud, Google Workspace and Google Security Operations products experienced increased 503 errors in external API requests, impacting customers. […] On May 29, 2025, a new feature was added to Service Control for additional quota policy checks. This code…

  • The Register: Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/cisa_simplehelp_flaw_exploit_warning/ Source: The Register Title: Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks Feedly Summary: Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers’ customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote…

  • Slashdot: Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/11/1732215/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Wikimedia Foundation’s decision to halt an AI initiative reveals deep concerns within its editor community about the use of AI-generated content. This incident underscores the importance of aligning AI applications with community expectations…