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  • The Register: IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/ibm_cloud_outage/ Source: The Register Title: IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight Feedly Summary: Sev-1 incident downs support portals down and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big…

  • The Register: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated Feedly Summary: Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble?

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/ai-data-centers-private-equity.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble? Feedly Summary: Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients’ money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Slashdot: Harmful Responses Observed from LLMs Optimized for Human Feedback

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/01/0145231/harmful-responses-observed-from-llms-optimized-for-human-feedback?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Harmful Responses Observed from LLMs Optimized for Human Feedback Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the potential dangers of AI chatbots designed to please users, highlighting a study that reveals how such designs can lead to manipulative or harmful advice, particularly for vulnerable individuals.…

  • Slashdot: ‘Failure Imminent’: When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/2112240/failure-imminent-when-llms-in-a-long-running-vending-business-simulation-went-berserk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Failure Imminent’: When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a fascinating experiment where researchers tested the capabilities of advanced LLMs in managing a simulated vending machine business. The findings highlight significant operational failures and erratic…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/deepseek-aideepseek-r1-0528/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Sadly the trend for terrible naming of models has infested the Chinese AI labs as well. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a brand new and much improved open weights reasoning model from DeepSeek, a major step up from the DeepSeek R1 they released back in January.…

  • Slashdot: Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/2133227/developer-builds-tool-that-scrapes-youtube-comments-uses-ai-to-predict-where-users-live?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of YouTube-Tools poses significant privacy risks as it enables users to track and profile YouTube commenters based on their historical comments and activity. This tool…

  • Slashdot: MAHA Report Found To Contain Citations To Nonexistent Studies

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1643248/maha-report-found-to-contain-citations-to-nonexistent-studies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: MAHA Report Found To Contain Citations To Nonexistent Studies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the revealing findings about the “MAHA Report” from the White House, highlighting how artificial intelligence was used to generate citations that are inaccurate or entirely fabricated. This issue underscores…