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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting @grok

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting @grok Feedly Summary: On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We identified the operative lines…

  • The Register: If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/ai_agent_protocols_mcp_a2a/ Source: The Register Title: If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet Feedly Summary: Tell me, Mr. Smith … what good is an agent if it’s unable to speak? We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It’s generally helpful when we can all agree on how…

  • Slashdot: AI Therapy Bots Fuel Delusions and Give Dangerous Advice, Stanford Study Finds

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/11/2314204/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Therapy Bots Fuel Delusions and Give Dangerous Advice, Stanford Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a Stanford University study revealing concerning outcomes from AI interactions, particularly ChatGPT, with individuals experiencing mental health issues. While some interactions show discriminatory responses, others indicate…

  • The Register: AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/ Source: The Register Title: AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds Feedly Summary: Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Feedly Summary: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It’s a…

  • The Register: CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/1010_wing_ftp_bug_exploited/ Source: The Register Title: CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn Feedly Summary: Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack – rookie errors kept damage minimal Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on…

  • The Register: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over Feedly Summary: A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world’s top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns…