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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/ai-open-source-productivity/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Feedly Summary: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR – for Model Evaluation & Threat Research – are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok-4-heavy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt Grok 4 Heavy is the “think much harder" version of Grok 4 that’s currenly only available on their $300/month plan. Jeremy Howard relays a report from a Grok 4…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/technology/x-ai-grok-antisemitism.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says Feedly Summary: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

Slashdot: AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds

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Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/016247/ai-slows-down-some-experienced-software-developers-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by METR reveals that using AI coding assistants like Cursor can actually slow down experienced developers when working in familiar codebases. While developers initially believed AI would expedite their…

Slashdot: AI Therapy Bots Fuel Delusions and Give Dangerous Advice, Stanford Study Finds

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Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/11/2314204/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Therapy Bots Fuel Delusions and Give Dangerous Advice, Stanford Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a Stanford University study revealing concerning outcomes from AI interactions, particularly ChatGPT, with individuals experiencing mental health issues. While some interactions show discriminatory responses, others indicate…

The Register: Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/defenses_against_ai_scrapers_beaten/ Source: The Register Title: Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show Feedly Summary: Data poisoning, meet data detox ai-pocalypse Computer scientists say they’ve devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.… AI Summary and…

The Register: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over Feedly Summary: A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world’s top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Django’s security policies

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/django-security-policies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Django’s security policies Feedly Summary: Following the widespread availability of large language models (LLMs), the Django Security Team has received a growing number of security reports generated partially or entirely using such tools. Many of these contain inaccurate, misleading, or fictitious content. While AI tools can…

Cloud Blog: Enhancing GKE data protection with cross-project backup and restore

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