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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Why I think the $1.5 billion Anthropic class action settlement may count as a win for Anthropic

Sep 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/anthropic-settlement/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Why I think the $1.5 billion Anthropic class action settlement may count as a win for Anthropic Feedly Summary: Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement I wrote about the details of this case when it was found that Anthropic’s training on book…

Slashdot: Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/28/1643241/anthropic-will-start-training-its-ai-models-on-chat-transcripts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic has announced a new policy regarding the use of user data for training its AI models, which now includes chat transcripts and coding sessions. Users must choose to opt out…

Slashdot: WeTransfer Backtracks on Terms Suggesting User Files Could Train AI Models After Backlash

Jul 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/165222/wetransfer-backtracks-on-terms-suggesting-user-files-could-train-ai-models-after-backlash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: WeTransfer Backtracks on Terms Suggesting User Files Could Train AI Models After Backlash Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: WeTransfer has retracted recent changes to its terms of service that implied user-uploaded files could be utilized for machine learning purposes, responding to widespread backlash. The clarification reassures…

Wired: Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

Jul 1, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-default/ Source: Wired Title: Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default Feedly Summary: The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cloudflare appears to be taking steps to address unchecked AI scraping activities, suggesting potential…

Slashdot: CarFax For Used PCs: Hewlett Packard Wants To Give Laptops New Life

Jun 30, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/30/2052250/carfax-for-used-pcs-hewlett-packard-wants-to-give-laptops-new-life?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CarFax For Used PCs: Hewlett Packard Wants To Give Laptops New Life Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: HP is developing a “PCFax” system that securely collects and stores crucial device usage and health data at the firmware level, enhancing PC longevity and reducing e-waste. This system…

Slashdot: Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

Jun 11, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/11/1825215/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a troubling partnership between major U.S. airlines and a data broker that has sold sensitive flight information to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This raises…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text

Jun 8, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/comma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text Feedly Summary: It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and a half…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

Jun 5, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/5/openai-court-order/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats Feedly Summary: OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats This is very worrying. The New York Times v OpenAI lawsuit, now in its 17th month, includes accusations that OpenAI’s models…

Slashdot: New South Wales Education Department Caught Unaware After Microsoft Teams Began Collecting Students’ Biometric Data

May 19, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/1331229/new-south-wales-education-department-caught-unaware-after-microsoft-teams-began-collecting-students-biometric-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: New South Wales Education Department Caught Unaware After Microsoft Teams Began Collecting Students’ Biometric Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant privacy breach involving the automatic collection of biometric data from students by Microsoft Teams, which was enabled by default. This incident…

Cloud Blog: Understand why your metrics moved with contribution analysis in BigQuery ML, now GA

May 12, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-ml-contribution-analysis-models-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Understand why your metrics moved with contribution analysis in BigQuery ML, now GA Feedly Summary: The key to effective data-driven decision making is quickly processing and extracting insights from large amounts of data. However, doing this efficiently and at scale is a challenge. Imagine a retail scenario where…

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