Tag: fail
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Wired: xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/ Source: Wired Title: xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler Feedly Summary: Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…
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Schneier on Security: LLM Coding Integrity Breach
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/llm-coding-integrity-breach.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: LLM Coding Integrity Breach Feedly Summary: Here’s an interesting story about a failure being introduced by LLM-written code. Specifically, the LLM was doing some code refactoring, and when it moved a chunk of code from one file to another it changed a “break” to a “continue.” That…
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The Register: MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/ms_confidence_in_windows_11/ Source: The Register Title: MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies Feedly Summary: Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you’ll still need another device to access them Microsoft is so confident in the reliability and…
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Slashdot: LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/2253229/llms-simulated-reasoning-abilities-are-a-brittle-mirage-researchers-find?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent investigations into chain-of-thought reasoning models in AI reveal limitations in their logical reasoning capabilities, suggesting they operate more as pattern-matchers than true reasoners. The findings raise crucial concerns for industries…
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Cloud Blog: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/stragglers-in-ai-a-guide-to-automated-straggler-detection/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection Feedly Summary: Stragglers are an industry-wide issue for developers working with large-scale machine learning workloads. The larger and more powerful these systems become, the more their performance is hostage to the subtle misbehavior of a single component.…
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Cloud Blog: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-yahoo-calendar-broke-free-from-hardware-queues-and-dba-bottlenecks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration…
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Docker: Tooling ≠ Glue: Why changing AI workflows still feels like duct tape
Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/why-changing-ai-workflows-still-feels-like-duct-tape/ Source: Docker Title: Tooling ≠ Glue: Why changing AI workflows still feels like duct tape Feedly Summary: There’s a weird contradiction in modern AI development. We have better tools than ever. We’re building smarter systems with cleaner abstractions. And yet, every time you try to swap out a component in your stack,…
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The Register: Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/google_fixing_gemini_self_flagellation/ Source: The Register Title: Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often Feedly Summary: Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to…