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  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: [Microsoft] said it plans in 2025 “to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” For comparison, the James Webb telescope cost $10bn, so Microsoft is spending eight…

  • Hacker News: DeepSeek-R1

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    Source URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 Source: Hacker News Title: DeepSeek-R1 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents advancements in AI reasoning models, specifically DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1, emphasizing the unique approach of training solely through large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without initial supervised fine-tuning. These models demonstrate significant reasoning capabilities and highlight breakthroughs in…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI funded FrontierMath Benchmarks and had access to the set

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    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu2E8wgmbdZbqeWqb/meemi-s-shortform Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI funded FrontierMath Benchmarks and had access to the set Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses concerns regarding non-transparency in the funding and communication between OpenAI and Epoch AI related to the FrontierMath project. It highlights potential privacy and security implications for…

  • Hacker News: Philosophy Eats AI

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    Source URL: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/philosophy-eats-ai/ Source: Hacker News Title: Philosophy Eats AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the evolution of software and AI, emphasizing the need for a philosophical approach in leveraging AI technologies for strategic advantage. It outlines how philosophy can influence the development, implementation, and ethical considerations of…

  • Hacker News: Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen

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    Source URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ai-meta-pirated-library-zuckerberg-1235235394/ Source: Hacker News Title: Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The unsealed internal communications at Meta reveal its questionable practices in using pirated text from Library Genesis for training its AI model, Llama. This raises significant legal concerns about copyright infringement…

  • 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…

  • The Register: CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump’s Homeland Sec pick: And that’s none of your concern

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/18/cisa_election_security_isnt_political/ Source: The Register Title: CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump’s Homeland Sec pick: And that’s none of your concern Feedly Summary: Cyber agency too ‘far off mission,’ says incoming boss Kristi Noem America’s lead cybersecurity agency on Friday made one final scream into the impending truth void…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-talk-cyber-in-business-terms-to-win-allies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2025. We’re starting off the year at the top with boards of directors, and how talking about cybersecurity in business terms can help us better convey…

  • 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…