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  • Cloud Blog: Achieve agentic productivity with Vertex AI Agent Builder

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/get-started-with-vertex-ai-agent-builder/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Achieve agentic productivity with Vertex AI Agent Builder Feedly Summary: Enterprises need to move from experimenting with AI agents to achieving real productivity, but many struggle to scale their agents from prototypes to secure, production-ready systems.  The question is no longer if agents deliver value, but how to…

  • Cloud Blog: How Mr. Cooper assembled a team of AI agents to handle complex mortgage questions

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/assembling-a-team-of-ai-agents-to-handle-complex-mortgage-questions-at-mr-cooper/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Mr. Cooper assembled a team of AI agents to handle complex mortgage questions Feedly Summary: In today’s world where instant responses and seamless experiences are the norm, industries like mortgage servicing face tough challenges. When navigating a maze of regulations, piles of financial documents, and the high…

  • Schneier on Security: Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Attacks Against LLMs

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/time-of-check-time-of-use-attacks-against-llms.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Attacks Against LLMs Feedly Summary: This is a nice piece of research: “Mind the Gap: Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use Vulnerabilities in LLM-Enabled Agents“.: Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled agents are rapidly emerging across a wide range of applications, but their deployment introduces vulnerabilities with security implications.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic: A postmortem of three recent issues

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/17/anthropic-postmortem/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic: A postmortem of three recent issues Feedly Summary: Anthropic: A postmortem of three recent issues Anthropic had a very bad month in terms of model reliability: Between August and early September, three infrastructure bugs intermittently degraded Claude’s response quality. We’ve now resolved these issues and want…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ICPC medals for OpenAI and Gemini

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/17/icpc/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ICPC medals for OpenAI and Gemini Feedly Summary: In July it was the International Math Olympiad (OpenAI, Gemini), today it’s the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Once again, both OpenAI and Gemini competed with models that achieved Gold medal performance. OpenAI’s Mostafa Rohaninejad: We received the problems…

  • The Register: Scale AI says ‘tanks a lot’ to Pentagon for data-classifying deal

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/dod_scale_ai_deal/ Source: The Register Title: Scale AI says ‘tanks a lot’ to Pentagon for data-classifying deal Feedly Summary: First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret…

  • Slashdot: Gemini AI Solves Coding Problem That Stumped 139 Human Teams At ICPC World Finals

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/17/1923220/gemini-ai-solves-coding-problem-that-stumped-139-human-teams-at-icpc-world-finals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Gemini AI Solves Coding Problem That Stumped 139 Human Teams At ICPC World Finals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s generative AI model, Gemini 2.5, achieved a gold medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), showcasing advancements towards artificial general intelligence. This performance highlights the…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/17/1724241/openai-says-models-programmed-to-make-stuff-up-instead-of-admitting-ignorance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s acknowledgment of the issue of “hallucinations” in AI models, specifically how these models frequently yield false outputs due to a training bias that rewards generating…

  • The Register: OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/openai_hallucinations_incentives/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance Feedly Summary: Even a wrong answer is right some of the time AI models often produce false outputs, or “hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its…