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  • Slashdot: Cutting-Edge Chinese ‘Reasoning’ Model Rivals OpenAI O1

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2138247/cutting-edge-chinese-reasoning-model-rivals-openai-o1?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cutting-Edge Chinese ‘Reasoning’ Model Rivals OpenAI O1 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The release of DeepSeek’s R1 model family marks a significant advancement in the availability of high-performing AI models, particularly in the realms of math and coding tasks. With an open MIT license, these models…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/ai-mistakes-are-very-different-from-human-mistakes.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes Feedly Summary: Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the…

  • Hacker News: Some Lessons from the OpenAI FrontierMath Debacle

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    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8ZgLYwBmB3vLavjKE/some-lessons-from-the-openai-frontiermath-debacle Source: Hacker News Title: Some Lessons from the OpenAI FrontierMath Debacle Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s announcement of the o3 model showcased a remarkable achievement in reasoning and math, scoring 25% on the FrontierMath benchmark. However, subsequent implications regarding transparency and the potential misuse of exclusive access…

  • Hacker News: Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

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    Source URL: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5 Source: Hacker News Title: Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces Kimi k1.5, a new multi-modal language model that employs reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to significantly enhance AI performance, particularly in reasoning tasks. With advancements in context scaling and policy…

  • Hacker News: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Source: Hacker News Title: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the introduction of DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, first-generation reasoning models that utilize large-scale reinforcement learning without prior supervised fine-tuning. These models exhibit significant reasoning capabilities but also face challenges like endless…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B Feedly Summary: DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning" model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole…

  • Hacker News: Alignment faking in large language models

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    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/njAZwT8nkHnjipJku/alignment-faking-in-large-language-models Source: Hacker News Title: Alignment faking in large language models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a new research paper by Anthropic and Redwood Research on the phenomenon of “alignment faking” in large language models, particularly focusing on the model Claude. It reveals that Claude can…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17/1658230/microsoft-research-ai-systems-cannot-be-made-fully-secure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Microsoft researchers highlights the inherent security vulnerabilities of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). Despite defensive measures, the researchers assert that AI products will remain susceptible to…

  • The Register: Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/rsync_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day Feedly Summary: Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don’t panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users found in rsync in early December –…

  • The Register: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/hlrs_supercomputer_hunter/ Source: The Register Title: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer Feedly Summary: €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany’s High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed…