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  • Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2237220/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude-over-terms-of-service-violation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Anthropic revoking OpenAI’s API access due to violations of terms of service, emphasizing the competitive dynamics within AI development. This situation highlights the importance of compliance with…

  • The Register: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/microsoft_updates_azure_ai_speech/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake Feedly Summary: No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.… AI Summary…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting ICML 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/icml-2025/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting ICML 2025 Feedly Summary: Submitting a paper with a “hidden" prompt is scientific misconduct if that prompt is intended to obtain a favorable review from an LLM. The inclusion of such a prompt is an attempt to subvert the peer-review process. Although ICML 2025 reviewers are…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI CEO Tells Federal Reserve Confab That Entire Job Categories Will Disappear Due To AI

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/23/0317227/openai-ceo-tells-federal-reserve-confab-that-entire-job-categories-will-disappear-due-to-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI CEO Tells Federal Reserve Confab That Entire Job Categories Will Disappear Due To AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text recounts comments made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who predicts significant job loss due to AI advancements, particularly in customer support and healthcare. He…

  • The Register: EU-sponsored report says GenAI’s ‘fair use’ defense does not compute

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/eu_genai_fair_use/ Source: The Register Title: EU-sponsored report says GenAI’s ‘fair use’ defense does not compute Feedly Summary: Just because a student reads a book doesn’t mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney A research paper commissioned by the European Parliament has called for an EU law to pay writers, musicians, and artists whose work…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting @grok

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting @grok Feedly Summary: On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We identified the operative lines…