Tag: Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • The Register: Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/27/alibaba_ai_drive/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up Feedly Summary: Chinese giant maps out datacenters across Europe and beyond, yet US chip curbs cast a long shadow Analysis Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/26/how-to-stop-ais-lethal-trifecta/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” Feedly Summary: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” This is the second mention of the lethal trifecta in the Economist in just the last week! Their earlier coverage was Why AI systems may never be secure on September 22nd – I…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/25/improved-gemini-25-flash-and-flash-lite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Feedly Summary: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Two new preview models from Google – updates to their fast and inexpensive Flash and Flash Lite families: The latest version of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite was trained and built based on three key…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Accelerating adoption of AI for cybersecurity at DEF CON 33

    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/accelerating-adoption-of-ai-for.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Accelerating adoption of AI for cybersecurity at DEF CON 33 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the GenSec Capture the Flag (CTF) event organized by Google and Airbus at DEF CON 33, focused on integrating AI into cybersecurity practices. It highlights…

  • Slashdot: Journals Infiltrated With ‘Copycat’ Papers That Can Be Written By AI

    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/23/1825258/journals-infiltrated-with-copycat-papers-that-can-be-written-by-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Journals Infiltrated With ‘Copycat’ Papers That Can Be Written By AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant concern regarding the misuse of text-generating AI tools, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, in rewriting scientific papers and producing fraudulent research. This highlights the potential…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Why AI systems might never be secure

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/why-ai-systems-might-never-be-secure/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Why AI systems might never be secure Feedly Summary: Why AI systems might never be secure The Economist have a new piece out about LLM security, with this headline and subtitle: Why AI systems might never be secure A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Locally AI

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/21/locally-ai/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Locally AI Feedly Summary: Locally AI Handy new iOS app by Adrien Grondin for running local LLMs on your phone. It just added support for the new iOS 26 Apple Foundation model, so you can install this app and instantly start a conversation with that model without…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…