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  • Wired: Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/ Source: Wired Title: Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked Feedly Summary: Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical…

  • The Register: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/us_ai_chip_tracking/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China Feedly Summary: Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…

  • Slashdot: Meta’s Superintelligence Lab Considers Shift To Closed AI Model

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    Source URL: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/2048202/metas-superintelligence-lab-considers-shift-to-closed-ai-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s Superintelligence Lab Considers Shift To Closed AI Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s superintelligence lab is reportedly considering a shift from open-source A.I. models to a closed model. This decision, if made, could signal a fundamental change in Meta’s approach to artificial intelligence, moving…

  • Slashdot: China’s Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/1942209/chinas-moonshot-launches-free-ai-model-kimi-k2-that-outperforms-gpt-4-in-key-benchmarks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-source language model by Chinese startup Moonshot AI, which surpasses GPT-4 in key performance benchmarks. Its unique…

  • Slashdot: Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/2051245/hugging-face-launches-299-robot-that-could-disrupt-entire-robotics-industry Source: Slashdot Title: Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Hugging Face has launched the Reachy Mini, a $299 AI-powered robot aimed at democratizing robotics for developers. This move highlights Hugging Face’s commitment to making robotics accessible and affordable, allowing…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up Feedly Summary: Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.” AI Summary and Description:…

  • Slashdot: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/149238/how-do-olympiad-medalists-judge-llms-in-competitive-programming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a newly established benchmark demonstrating that large language models (LLMs) are not yet capable of outperforming elite human coders, particularly in problem-solving contexts. The findings indicate limitations in the…