Tag: Grok
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup Feedly Summary: I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t recorded but I’ve created…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/glm-45/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Feedly Summary: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Another day, another significant new open weight model release from a Chinese frontier AI lab. This time it’s Z.ai – who rebranded (at least in English) from Zhipu AI a few months ago.…
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Microsoft Security Blog: Protecting customers from Octo Tempest attacks across multiple industries
Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/07/16/protecting-customers-from-octo-tempest-attacks-across-multiple-industries/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Protecting customers from Octo Tempest attacks across multiple industries Feedly Summary: To help protect and inform customers, Microsoft highlights protection coverage across the Microsoft Defender security ecosystem to protect against threat actors like Octo Tempest. The post Protecting customers from Octo Tempest attacks across multiple industries appeared…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: xAI: "We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated"
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/15/xai-mitigated/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: xAI: "We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated" Feedly Summary: xAI: “We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated" They continue: One was that if you ask it "What is…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt
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…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says
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:…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting @grok
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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/musks-latest-grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions Feedly Summary: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions I got quoted a couple of times in this story about Grok searching for tweets from:elonmusk by Matt O’Brien for the…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)"
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" Feedly Summary: If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an anwser. I heard about…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/10/grok-4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Released last night, Grok 4 is now available via both API and a paid subscription for end-users. Key characteristics: image and text input, text output. 256,000 context length (twice that of Grok 3). It’s a reasoning model where you can’t see…