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  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble?

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/ai-data-centers-private-equity.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble? Feedly Summary: Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients’ money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • The Register: Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/asian_tech_news_roundup/ Source: The Register Title: Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank Feedly Summary: PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; Predicted APAC datacenter shortage; And more! Asia In Brief Intel and Japan’s SoftBank have reportedly teamed up to develop low-power memory for AI.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Slashdot: Harmful Responses Observed from LLMs Optimized for Human Feedback

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/01/0145231/harmful-responses-observed-from-llms-optimized-for-human-feedback?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Harmful Responses Observed from LLMs Optimized for Human Feedback Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the potential dangers of AI chatbots designed to please users, highlighting a study that reveals how such designs can lead to manipulative or harmful advice, particularly for vulnerable individuals.…

  • Slashdot: ‘Failure Imminent’: When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/2112240/failure-imminent-when-llms-in-a-long-running-vending-business-simulation-went-berserk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Failure Imminent’: When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a fascinating experiment where researchers tested the capabilities of advanced LLMs in managing a simulated vending machine business. The findings highlight significant operational failures and erratic…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/deepseek-aideepseek-r1-0528/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Sadly the trend for terrible naming of models has infested the Chinese AI labs as well. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a brand new and much improved open weights reasoning model from DeepSeek, a major step up from the DeepSeek R1 they released back in January.…

  • Slashdot: Help Wanted To Build an Open Source ‘Advanced Data Protection’ For Everyone

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/1859206/help-wanted-to-build-an-open-source-advanced-data-protection-for-everyone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Help Wanted To Build an Open Source ‘Advanced Data Protection’ For Everyone Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the removal of Apple’s iCloud encryption feature in the U.K. due to government pressure, prompting a Google engineer to propose the development of an open-source alternative…

  • Slashdot: Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At ‘Industrial Scale’

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0029226/football-and-other-premium-tv-being-pirated-at-industrial-scale?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At ‘Industrial Scale’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights the significant shortcomings of major tech firms in preventing the theft of premium video services through devices like the Amazon Fire Stick, which have become enablers of piracy.…