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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Arvind Narayanan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/arvind-narayanan/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Arvind Narayanan Feedly Summary: [On using generative AI for work despite the risk of errors:] AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to verify the output than it is to do the work yourself. For example, if you’re using it to find a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Embrace The Red: Model Context Protocol – New Sneaky Exploit, Risks and Mitigations

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/model-context-protocol-security-risks-and-exploits/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Model Context Protocol – New Sneaky Exploit, Risks and Mitigations Feedly Summary: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a protocol definition for how LLM apps/agents can leverage external tools. I have been calling it Model Control Protocol at times, because due to prompt injection, MCP tool servers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude feature drop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/claude-search/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude feature drop Feedly Summary: It’s not in their release notes yet but Anthropic pushed some big new features today. Alex Albert: We’ve improved web search and rolled it out worldwide to all paid plans. Web search now combines light Research functionality, allowing Claude to automatically adjust…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/what-we-missed-with-sycophancy/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy Feedly Summary: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy I criticized OpenAI’s initial post about their recent ChatGPT sycophancy rollback as being “relatively thin" so I’m delighted that they have followed it with a much more in-depth explanation of what…

  • Cloud Blog: Create chatbots that speak different languages with Gemini, Gemma, Translation LLM, and Model Context Protocol

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-multilingual-chatbots-with-gemini-gemma-and-mcp/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Create chatbots that speak different languages with Gemini, Gemma, Translation LLM, and Model Context Protocol Feedly Summary: Your customers might not all speak the same language. If you operate internationally or serve a diverse customer base, you need your chatbot to meet them where they are – whether…

  • Krebs on Security: xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs Feedly Summary: A employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to…

  • Slashdot: Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/1723229/google-is-putting-ai-mode-right-in-search?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s upcoming rollout of an AI Mode tab in its Search platform signifies a strategic shift towards integrating AI technologies in user interactions. This new feature aims to enhance search functionality by providing…