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Tag: Large Language Model (LLM)

  • The Register: Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/infosec_hounds_spot_prompt_injection/ Source: The Register Title: Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps Feedly Summary: Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed Black hat A trio of researchers has disclosed a major prompt injection vulnerability in Google’s Gemini large…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our Big Sleep agent makes a big leap, and other AI news

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-our-big-sleep-agent-makes-big-leap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our Big Sleep agent makes a big leap, and other AI news Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence, talks about an incredible milestone with our Big Sleep AI agent, as well…

  • The Register: Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/new_algorithms_boost_ai_perf/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x Feedly Summary: New spin on speculative decoding works with any model – now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann…

  • Slashdot: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is grappling with ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, primarily attributed to botnets and potential Large Language Model (LLM) scrapers. Despite these challenges, their critical infrastructure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sandboxed tools in a loop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/sandboxed-tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sandboxed tools in a loop Feedly Summary: Something I’ve realized about LLM tool use is that it means that if you can reduce a problem to something that can be solved by an LLM in a sandbox using tools in a loop, you can brute force that…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/ai-psychology-mind.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All Feedly Summary: To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…