Tag: llms

  • 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: Quoting Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/workslop/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock Feedly Summary: We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task. Here’s how this happens. As AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Four new releases from Qwen

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/qwen/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Four new releases from Qwen Feedly Summary: It’s been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 – official FP8 quantized versions of their Qwen3-Next models.…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: httpjail

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/httpjail/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: httpjail Feedly Summary: httpjail Here’s a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured HTTP proxy. The initial goal is to help run coding agents like Claude…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/notion-lethal-trifecta/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration Feedly Summary: The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration Abi Raghuram reports that Notion 3.0, released yesterday, introduces new prompt injection data exfiltration vulnerabilities…

  • Slashdot: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/19/1750226/ai-tool-detects-llm-generated-text-in-research-papers-and-peer-reviews Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent analysis conducted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) reveals a significant increase in AI-generated text within academic submissions, particularly highlighting concerns about disclosure practices among authors. This…