Tag: interactions

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/18/google-gemini-url-context/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Google Gemini URL Context Feedly Summary: Google Gemini URL Context New feature in the Gemini API: you can now enable a url_context tool which the models can use to request the contents of URLs as part of replying to a prompt. I released llm-gemini 0.25 with a…

Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in vision in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-conversational-ai-platforms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in vision in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms Feedly Summary: Google has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms (CAIP) report, and positioned furthest in vision among all vendors evaluated.…

Slashdot: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Service Number. It Was a Scam

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/0223228/googles-ai-overview-pointed-him-to-a-customer-service-number-it-was-a-scam?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Service Number. It Was a Scam Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a fraudulent scheme involving AI-generated chatbots and search engine results that led a real estate developer to fall victim to a scam when searching…

Slashdot: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Number. It Was a Scam

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/0223228/googles-ai-overview-pointed-him-to-a-customer-number-it-was-a-scam?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Number. It Was a Scam Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a scam where a real estate developer was tricked into providing credit card information to an impersonator posing as a customer service representative for a…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/gpt-5-has-a-hidden-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt Feedly Summary: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/metas-ai-rules/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info Feedly Summary: Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info This is grim. Reuters got hold of a leaked copy Meta’s internal “GenAI: Content Risk…

Cloud Blog: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/platform-engineering-control-mechanisms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms Feedly Summary: The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too…

The Register: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/llm_chatbots_trivial_to_weaponise/ Source: The Register Title: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Feedly Summary: System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into ‘investigator’ and ‘detective’ roles that bypass privacy guardrails A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious…

Slashdot: Meta’s AI Rules Have Let Bots Hold ‘Sensual’ Chats With Kids, Offer False Medical Info

Aug 14, 2025

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