Tag: public

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/luis-von-ahn-on-linkedin/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Feedly Summary: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Last month’s Duolingo memo about becoming an “AI-first" company has seen significant backlash, particularly on TikTok. I’ve had trouble figuring out how much of this is a real threat to their business as opposed to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI Hallucination Cases

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI Hallucination Cases Feedly Summary: AI Hallucination Cases Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer. That’s an important distinction: this isn’t just cases where AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Feedly Summary: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic’s CDN because they don’t appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic’s system cards are always worth…

  • Slashdot: Duolingo Faces Massive Social Media Backlash After ‘AI-First’ Comments

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/25/0347239/duolingo-faces-massive-social-media-backlash-after-ai-first-comments Source: Slashdot Title: Duolingo Faces Massive Social Media Backlash After ‘AI-First’ Comments Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Duolingo’s recent shift towards an “AI-first” policy spearheaded by CEO Luis von Ahn, resulting in the phasing out of human contractors. This move has led to significant public backlash,…

  • Slashdot: MCP Will Be Built Into Windows To Make an ‘Agentic OS’ – Bringing Security Concerns

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/1740221/mcp-will-be-built-into-windows-to-make-an-agentic-os—bringing-security-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: MCP Will Be Built Into Windows To Make an ‘Agentic OS’ – Bringing Security Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Microsoft’s plans to integrate the Model Connectivity Protocol (MCP) into Windows, highlighting its potential for improving automation in AI applications but also raising…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sean Heelan

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/24/sean-heelan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sean Heelan Feedly Summary: The vulnerability [o3] found is CVE-2025-37899 (fix here), a use-after-free in the handler for the SMB ‘logoff’ command. Understanding the vulnerability requires reasoning about concurrent connections to the server, and how they may share various objects in specific circumstances. o3 was able…

  • Slashdot: How Many Qubits Will It Take to Break Secure Public Key Cryptography Algorithms?

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/0530234/how-many-qubits-will-it-take-to-break-secure-public-key-cryptography-algorithms Source: Slashdot Title: How Many Qubits Will It Take to Break Secure Public Key Cryptography Algorithms? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google security researchers have demonstrated a significant reduction in qubit requirements for breaking 2048-bit RSA encryption using quantum computing. This emphasizes the need for timely migration to post-quantum…

  • Cloud Blog: Mistral AI’s Le Chat Enterprise and Mistral OCR 25.05 model are available on Google Cloud

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mistral-ais-le-chat-enterprise-and-mistral-ocr-25-05-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Mistral AI’s Le Chat Enterprise and Mistral OCR 25.05 model are available on Google Cloud Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the most open and flexible AI ecosystem for you to build solutions best suited to your needs. Today, we’re excited to announce our expanded…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/23/remote-prompt-injection-in-gitlab-duo/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft Feedly Summary: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft Yet another example of the classic Markdown image exfiltration attack, this time affecting GitLab Duo – GitLab’s chatbot. Omer Mayraz reports on how…