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  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • Slashdot: Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered ‘Homework Helper’ Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/029249/google-temporarily-pauses-ai-powered-homework-helper-button-in-chrome-over-cheating-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered ‘Homework Helper’ Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent introduction of a “homework help” button in Google Chrome has sparked significant concern among educators regarding the potential for widespread cheating during online assessments. This development highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • Slashdot: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips?

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/0120220/is-openais-video-generating-tool-sora-scraping-unauthorized-youtube-clips Source: Slashdot Title: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, highlighting its ability to create high-definition video clips by utilizing publicly available and licensed data. Concerns are raised regarding copyright implications, as Sora has…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: httpjail

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/httpjail/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: httpjail Feedly Summary: httpjail Here’s a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured HTTP proxy. The initial goal is to help run coding agents like Claude…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

  • Slashdot: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/19/1750226/ai-tool-detects-llm-generated-text-in-research-papers-and-peer-reviews Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent analysis conducted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) reveals a significant increase in AI-generated text within academic submissions, particularly highlighting concerns about disclosure practices among authors. This…

  • The Register: Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/deepseek_cost_train/ Source: The Register Title: Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000 Feedly Summary: Training costs detailed in R1 training report don’t include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation Chinese AI darling DeepSeek’s now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside…

  • Cloud Blog: Agent Factory Recap: Deep Dive into Gemini CLI with Taylor Mullen

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/agent-factory-recap-deep-dive-into-gemini-cli-with-taylor-mullen/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Agent Factory Recap: Deep Dive into Gemini CLI with Taylor Mullen Feedly Summary: In the latest episode of the Agent Factory podcast, Amit Miraj and I took a deep dive into the Gemini CLI. We were joined by the creator of the Gemini CLI, Taylor Mullen, who shared…