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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Tips on prompting ChatGPT for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/tips-for-peter-kyle/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Tips on prompting ChatGPT for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle Feedly Summary: Back in March New Scientist reported on a successful Freedom of Information request they had filed requesting UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle’s ChatGPT logs: New Scientist has obtained records…

  • Slashdot: Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/172202/web-scraping-ai-bots-cause-disruption-for-scientific-databases-and-journals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the impact of automated web-scraping bots on scientific databases and academic journals, driven by the demand for training data for AI models. This has led to significant service…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/30/ai-and-jobs-with-natasha-zouves/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation Feedly Summary: I was interviewed by News Nation’s Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years…

  • Scott Logic: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/23/bridging-the-AI-valley-of-doubt.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt Feedly Summary: Despite the UK being the world’s third-largest AI industry, only 1 in 6 UK firms are actively using AI due to financial, skills, and risk concerns, but businesses can bridge this “valley of doubt" by adopting measured "AI in the…

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

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    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…

  • NCSC Feed: New ETSI standard protects AI systems from evolving cyber threats

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/new-etsi-standard-protects-ai-systems-from-evolving-cyber-threats Source: NCSC Feed Title: New ETSI standard protects AI systems from evolving cyber threats Feedly Summary: The NCSC and DSIT work with ETSI to ‘set a benchmark for securing AI’. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The collaboration between the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology…

  • The Register: Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/earth_system_model_hurricane_forecast/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics Feedly Summary: LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper Scientists have developed a machine learning model that can outperform official agencies at predicting tropical cyclone tracks, and do it faster and cheaper than…

  • Cloud Blog: The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/the-ai-driven-telecom-a-new-era-of-network-transformation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation Feedly Summary: The telecommunications industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with AI and generative AI emerging as key catalysts. Communication service providers (CSPs) are increasingly recognizing that these technologies are not merely incremental improvements but fundamental drivers for achieving…