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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Betker

Apr 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/james-betker/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Betker Feedly Summary: I work for OpenAI. […] o4-mini is actually a considerably better vision model than o3, despite the benchmarks. Similar to how o3-mini-high was a much better coding model than o1. I would recommend using o4-mini-high over o3 for any task involving vision.…

Slashdot: Meta Says Llama 4 Targets Left-Leaning Bias

Apr 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/10/1628209/meta-says-llama-4-targets-left-leaning-bias?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Says Llama 4 Targets Left-Leaning Bias Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s announcement regarding the Llama 4 AI model focuses on addressing political bias, particularly “left-leaning” tendencies, a significant evolution in the discourse surrounding AI bias, previously centered on race, gender, and nationality. Detailed Description:…

Cloud Blog: Cloud WAN: Connect your global enterprise with a network built for the AI era

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/connect-globally-with-cloud-wan-for-the-ai-era/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud WAN: Connect your global enterprise with a network built for the AI era Feedly Summary: For over 25 years, Google has pushed the boundaries of the network, with innovations that connect billions of users around the world to essential services like Gmail, YouTube, and Search. At the…

Slashdot: First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression

Mar 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/29/101206/first-trial-of-generative-ai-therapy-shows-it-might-help-with-depression?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the first clinical trial of Therabot, a generative AI therapy bot designed to assist individuals with mental health conditions. The trial results indicate that the AI-based…

Hacker News: Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from Gemini

Mar 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/gemini-hackers-can-deliver-more-potent-attacks-with-a-helping-hand-from-gemini/ Source: Hacker News Title: Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from Gemini Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses the emerging threat of indirect prompt injection attacks on large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-3, GPT-4, and Google’s Gemini. It outlines…

The Register: Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims

Mar 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/paragon_spyx_hacked/ Source: The Register Title: Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims Feedly Summary: Plus: Customer info stolen from ‘parental control’ software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied Infosec newsbytes Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them?

Mar 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/new-openai-audio-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them? Feedly Summary: OpenAI announced several new audio-related API features today, for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. They’re very promising new models, but they appear to suffer from the ever-present risk of accidental (or malicious) instruction…

Hacker News: CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS

Mar 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://wts.dev/posts/password-leak/ Source: Hacker News Title: CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-54471) in macOS that exposes the credentials of file servers due to insufficient security checks in the NetAuthAgent’s Mach interface. This vulnerability not only potentially allows…

Cloud Blog: Chrome Enterprise improves work and personal profile separation and brings more advanced protections for unmanaged devices

Mar 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/chrome-enterprise-improves-work-and-personal-profile-separation-and-brings-more-advanced-protections-for-unmanaged-devices/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Chrome Enterprise improves work and personal profile separation and brings more advanced protections for unmanaged devices Feedly Summary: For many employees, the browser has become where they spend the majority of their working day. As more work is being done on the web, IT and security teams continue…

The Register: Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o

Feb 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/llm_emergent_misalignment_study/ Source: The Register Title: Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o Feedly Summary: Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively…

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