Tag: writing
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/prompt-injection-design-patterns/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections Feedly Summary: This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM security. In this work, we describe…
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Cloud Blog: Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark: high-performance, unified with BigQuery
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-google-cloud-serverless-for-apache-spark-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark: high-performance, unified with BigQuery Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the most streamlined, powerful, and cost-effective production- and enterprise-ready serverless Spark experience. To that end, we’re thrilled to announce a significant evolution for Apache Spark on Google Cloud, with…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/10/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI Feedly Summary: Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI Mistral’s first reasoning model is out today, in two sizes. There’s a 24B Apache 2 licensed open-weights model called Magistral Small (actually Magistral-Small-2506), and a larger API-only…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/9/david-crawshaw/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: The process of learning and experimenting with LLM-derived technology has been an exercise in humility. In general I love learning new things when the art of programming changes […] But LLMs, and more specifically Agents, affect the process of writing programs in…
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Slashdot: After ‘AI-First’ Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits ‘I Did Not Expect the Blowback’
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/08/185209/after-ai-first-promise-duolingo-ceo-admits-i-did-not-expect-the-blowback?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: After ‘AI-First’ Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits ‘I Did Not Expect the Blowback’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Duolingo’s CEO, Luis von Ahn, emphasizes a shift towards an “AI-first” strategy amid concerns about job replacement by technology. He reassures that this approach focuses on automating repetitive tasks,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles Feedly Summary: I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event – here’s my talks from October 2023 and…
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Cloud Blog: Announcing new MCP integrations to Google Cloud Databases to enable AI-assisted development
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/new-mcp-integrations-to-google-cloud-databases/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing new MCP integrations to Google Cloud Databases to enable AI-assisted development Feedly Summary: Last month at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we announced MCP Toolbox for Databases to make it easier to connect generative AI agents to databases, and automate core enterprise workflows. MCP Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox)…
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Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets. But what about the…
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The Register: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated Feedly Summary: Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM
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…