Tag: skepticism
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The Register: The curious story of Uncle Sam’s HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/opm_email_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: The curious story of Uncle Sam’s HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster Feedly Summary: Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings Two anonymous US government employees have sued Uncle Sam’s HR department…
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Slashdot: OPM Sued Over Privacy Concerns With New Government-Wide Email System
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/28/226206/opm-sued-over-privacy-concerns-with-new-government-wide-email-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OPM Sued Over Privacy Concerns With New Government-Wide Email System Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) concerning privacy issues related to a new email system directed by a former employee of Elon Musk. It highlights…
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The Register: DeepSeek’s R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: ‘My guidelines are set by OpenAI’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/deepseek_r1_identity/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek’s R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: ‘My guidelines are set by OpenAI’ Feedly Summary: Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues DeepSeek’s open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how…
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The Register: AI agents? Yes, let’s automate all sorts of things that don’t actually need it
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/ai_agents_automate_argument/ Source: The Register Title: AI agents? Yes, let’s automate all sorts of things that don’t actually need it Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s Operator a solution in search of a problem Opinion The “agentic era," as Nvidia’s Jim Fan and others have referred to the current evolutionary state of generative artificial intelligence (AI), is…
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Slashdot: DeepSeek Rattles Wall Street With Claims of Cheaper AI Breakthroughs
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/27/142255/deepseek-rattles-wall-street-with-claims-of-cheaper-ai-breakthroughs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepSeek Rattles Wall Street With Claims of Cheaper AI Breakthroughs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, claims to deliver high-performance AI models at significantly lower costs than established U.S. tech giants. This assertion has raised concerns among analysts regarding the sustainability of…
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Hacker News: Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger"
Source URL: https://hntrbrk.com/schrodinger/ Source: Hacker News Title: Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger" Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: Schrödinger, a company utilizing quantum mechanics and AI for drug and material discovery, faces challenges in market valuation as it operates in both biotech and software domains. Despite…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Operator
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/introducing-operator/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Operator Feedly Summary: Introducing Operator OpenAI released their “research preview" today of Operator, a cloud-based browser automation platform rolling out today to $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscribers. They’re calling this their first "agent". In the Operator announcement video Sam Altman defined that notoriously vague term like this:…
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The Register: Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/business_value_genai_elusive/ Source: The Register Title: Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom Feedly Summary: The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects…