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  • The Register: AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ai_bots_use_emotional_manipulation/ Source: The Register Title: AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage Feedly Summary: Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize as a dark pattern.… AI…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic and IBM Announce Strategic Partnership

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2050249/anthropic-and-ibm-announce-strategic-partnership?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic and IBM Announce Strategic Partnership Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: IBM’s collaboration with AI research lab Anthropic to integrate the Claude large language model into its software signifies a strategic move to enhance AI capabilities in enterprise solutions. This partnership also yields a guide for…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/1848254/chatgpt-now-has-800-million-weekly-active-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, indicating significant adoption across various sectors, including consumers and enterprises. This growth underscores the rising demand for AI infrastructure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Four new releases from Qwen

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/qwen/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Four new releases from Qwen Feedly Summary: It’s been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 – official FP8 quantized versions of their Qwen3-Next models.…

  • Slashdot: Reddit Wants ‘Deeper Integration’ with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/0313234/reddit-wants-deeper-integration-with-google-in-exchange-for-licensed-ai-training-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reddit Wants ‘Deeper Integration’ with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Reddit’s ongoing negotiations with Google for a new deal that involves deeper integration with AI products and a dynamic pricing structure for licensing its data.…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s First Study On ChatGPT Usage

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2151235/openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s First Study On ChatGPT Usage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights from a groundbreaking National Bureau of Economic Research working paper that analyzes usage data for ChatGPT, revealing significant demographic trends and behavioral patterns among users. This data is particularly relevant for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

  • The Register: Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/firefox_142/ Source: The Register Title: Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links Feedly Summary: CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla’s browser now makes even more extensive use of AI, providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/14/gemma-3-270m/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI Feedly Summary: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI New from Google: Gemma 3 270M, a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring…