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  • Schneier on Security: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/gpt-4o-mini-falls-for-psychological-manipulation.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation Feedly Summary: Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and giving directions for how to synthesize lidocaine. The researchers created experimental…

  • The Register: Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/boffins_detail_ai_mind_wipe/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info Feedly Summary: Because nobody’s going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible…

  • Cloud Blog: StreamSight: Driving transparency in music royalties with AI-powered forecasting

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/media-entertainment/streamsight-driving-transparency-in-music-royalties-with-ai-powered-forecasting/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: StreamSight: Driving transparency in music royalties with AI-powered forecasting Feedly Summary: In an industry generating vast volumes of streaming data every day, ensuring precision, speed, and transparency in royalty tracking is a constant and evolving priority. For music creators, labels, publishers, and rights holders, even small gaps in…

  • The Register: Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/ai_hiring_biased/ Source: The Register Title: Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes Feedly Summary: When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose their resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing gpt-realtime

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/1/introducing-gpt-realtime/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing gpt-realtime Feedly Summary: Introducing gpt-realtime Released a few days ago (August 28th), gpt-realtime is OpenAI’s new “most advanced speech-to-speech model". It looks like this is a replacement for the older gpt-4o-realtime-preview model that was released last October. This is a slightly confusing release. The previous realtime…

  • The Register: Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/uncle_sam_doesnt_want_samsung/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China Feedly Summary: End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers…

  • The Register: Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/microsoft_unveils_housemade_models_amid/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations Feedly Summary: Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman’s brainbox behemoth is alive and well Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations with its current favored model supplier, OpenAI.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…