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Tag: Machine Learning

  • CSA: How to Combat Social Engineering Attacks

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    Source URL: https://abnormalsecurity.com/blog/soc-expert-perspectives-social-engineering-threats Source: CSA Title: How to Combat Social Engineering Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the increasing threat of social engineering attacks and highlights key insights from cybersecurity experts regarding the vulnerabilities associated with human behavior, advanced attack techniques such as deepfakes, and the necessity for AI-driven…

  • The Register: Google DeepMind CEO says 2025’s the year we start popping pills AI helped invent

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/google_deepmind_ai_drugs/ Source: The Register Title: Google DeepMind CEO says 2025’s the year we start popping pills AI helped invent Feedly Summary: Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis…

  • Hacker News: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Source: Hacker News Title: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the introduction of DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, first-generation reasoning models that utilize large-scale reinforcement learning without prior supervised fine-tuning. These models exhibit significant reasoning capabilities but also face challenges like endless…

  • The Register: AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/aws_iceberg_support/ Source: The Register Title: AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Feedly Summary: Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/18/lessons-from-red-teaming/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products Feedly Summary: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products New paper from Microsoft describing their top eight lessons learned red teaming (deliberately seeking security vulnerabilities in) 100 different generative AI models and products over the past few years.…

  • Chip Huyen: Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications

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    Source URL: https://huyenchip.com//2025/01/16/ai-engineering-pitfalls.html Source: Chip Huyen Title: Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications Feedly Summary: As we’re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it’s normal to make mistakes. This is a quick note with examples of some of the most common pitfalls that I’ve seen, both from public case…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting gwern

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/gwern/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting gwern Feedly Summary: […] much of the point of a model like o1 is not to deploy it, but to generate training data for the next model. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session…

  • Cloud Blog: Bitly: Protecting users from malicious links with Web Risk

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/bitly-ensuring-real-time-link-safety-with-web-risk-to-protect-people/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Bitly: Protecting users from malicious links with Web Risk Feedly Summary: Bitly’s partnership with Google Web Risk helps enhance Bitly’s ability to protect users and build trust as they generate millions of links and QR Codes daily.  Over the last decade, Bitly has solidified its reputation as a…

  • Hacker News: 400x faster embeddings models using static embeddings

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/static-embeddings Source: Hacker News Title: 400x faster embeddings models using static embeddings Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This blog post discusses a new method to train static embedding models significantly faster than existing state-of-the-art models. These models are suited for various applications, including on-device and in-browser execution, and edge…

  • The Register: ‘Savvy’ shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/babel_fish_translations/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Savvy’ shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages Feedly Summary: Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio Meta has developed a machine learning model its researchers claim offers near-instant speech-to-speech translation between around 36 languages.… AI Summary and…