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  • Slashdot: OpenAI Partners With California State University System

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/04/2235222/openai-partners-with-california-state-university-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Partners With California State University System Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s partnership with the California State University (CSU) system marks a significant step in the implementation of AI technology within higher education. With ChatGPT Edu, CSU aims to enhance student engagement and support through…

  • Hacker News: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech

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    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/29/report-majority-of-u-s-teens-have-lost-trust-in-big-tech/ Source: Hacker News Title: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A new report by Common Sense Media reveals that American teens have significantly lost their trust in major tech companies, particularly concerning their use of AI and personal data…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL!

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Feedly Summary: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Qwen2.5-1M, here’s Qwen2.5 VL (with an excitable announcement title) – the latest in Qwen’s series of vision LLMs. They’re releasing multiple versions: base models and instruction tuned…

  • Slashdot: Arrested by AI: When Police Ignored Standards After AI Facial-Recognition Matches

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/18/201248/arrested-by-ai-when-police-ignored-standards-after-ai-facial-recognition-matches Source: Slashdot Title: Arrested by AI: When Police Ignored Standards After AI Facial-Recognition Matches Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses issues surrounding the misuse of AI-powered facial recognition technology by law enforcement, particularly highlighting wrongful arrests due to reliance on flawed AI results without independent verification. This…

  • The Register: ‘Savvy’ shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/babel_fish_translations/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Savvy’ shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages Feedly Summary: Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio Meta has developed a machine learning model its researchers claim offers near-instant speech-to-speech translation between around 36 languages.… AI Summary and…

  • Slashdot: Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/01/2125225/blueskys-open-api-means-anyone-can-scrape-your-data-for-ai-training-its-all-public?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an incident where user data from Bluesky was scraped and uploaded to an AI platform, raising concerns about data privacy and consent in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: 0xfreysa/agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/29/0xfreysaagent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: 0xfreysa/agent Feedly Summary: 0xfreysa/agent Freysa describes itself as “the world’s first adversarial agent game". On 22nd November they released an LLM-driven application which people could pay to message (using Ethereum), with access to tools that could transfer a prize pool to the message sender, ending the game.…

  • Slashdot: Virgin Media O2 Deploys AI Decoy To Waste Scammers’ Time

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/15/1531244/virgin-media-o2-deploys-ai-decoy-to-waste-scammers-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Virgin Media O2 Deploys AI Decoy To Waste Scammers’ Time Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Virgin Media O2 has innovatively deployed an AI tool named Daisy to combat phone scams by engaging scammers in prolonged conversations, effectively wasting their time. This technology leverages voice synthesis and…