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  • The Register: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/github_deepens_ties_with_elon/ Source: The Register Title: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Feedly Summary: Platform’s staffer complains security review was ‘rushed’ Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing early access to the company’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into…

  • Slashdot: California AI Policy Report Warns of ‘Irreversible Harms’

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/214215/california-ai-policy-report-warns-of-irreversible-harms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: California AI Policy Report Warns of ‘Irreversible Harms’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report commissioned by California Governor Gavin Newsom highlights the urgent need for effective AI governance frameworks to mitigate potential nuclear and biological threats posed by advanced AI systems. It stresses the importance…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Feedly Summary: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic’s CDN because they don’t appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic’s system cards are always worth…

  • Slashdot: Facebook Whistleblower Alleges Meta’s AI Model Llama Was Used to Help DeepSeek

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/067219/facebook-whistleblower-alleges-metas-ai-model-llama-was-used-to-help-deepseek?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Facebook Whistleblower Alleges Meta’s AI Model Llama Was Used to Help DeepSeek Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses allegations made by former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams regarding Meta’s AI model Llama and its potential use in aiding Chinese technology efforts. She testified that Meta…

  • The Register: US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/us_defense_contractor/ Source: The Register Title: US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle Feedly Summary: MORSE to pay — .. .-.. .-.. .. — -. … for failing to meet cyber-grade A US defense contractor will cough up $4.6 million to settle complaints it failed to meet cybersecurity…